Trump's Troubles
The Liar-In-Chief endorsed Luther Strange in the Republican primary runoff in Alabama's special election to choose a United States Senator. Mr. Strange was appointed to the seat vacated by Jeff Sessions after he resigned to become the nation's Attorney General.
Mr. Trump went to Alabama to campaign for Mr. Strange, but Roy Moore won easily with a margin of nine percentage points. Ordinarily, a victory in a Republican primary in Alabama in a U.S. Senate race is victory in the general election. In fact, when Jeff Sessions sought reelection to his Senate seat in 2014, he ran unopposed. Consider the fact that Alabama's delegation in the U.S. House of Representatives is seven seats and six of them are held by Republicans.
And yet, there may be a glimmer of hope that Democrats might pull a rabbit out of the hat in the December special election. Mr. Moore will face Doug Jones, a former U.S. Attorney in Northern Alabama. The election will be held on December 12th, a factor that may well cause voter turnout to be lower than the already low projections.
Analysts believe that if Mr. Strange had won the runoff, the DNC would have paid little to no attention to the special election in December. But the controversial views of Roy Moore; which have twice led to his being removed from the Alabama State Supreme Court, create liabilities. At least that is what some believe. I suspect this is just wishful thinking. His extreme opposition to same-sex marriage is controversial around the nation but in Alabama, many share his views.
When the results are in, it may be coal in the stocking of Donald Trump for Christmas. The last thing he needs in the Senate is a senator who got there by basically running against Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
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Agent Orange is also frustrated because the effort to repeal and replace Obamacare is once again dead in the water. Needing 50 Republican votes to allow Vice-President Pence to cast a tie-breaking vote for the travesty of a bill known as Graham Cassidy, four of the Senate's 52 Republican members said they would vote no.
Another campaign promise that will go unfulfilled. More political capital wasted.
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The fact that there were two other natural disasters in the U.S. (Hurricanes Harvey and Irma) prior to the devastation of Puerto Rico by Hurricane Maria is not an excuse for the completely inadequate response to the plight of Puerto Ricans by the Trump Administration. It may be a mitigating factor, but there is no question that there were and are additional resources that could be brought to bear to aid the more than 3.4 million people who are without power. Running low on supplies.
With all of this going on, the leader of the Morons (who) Are Governing America are focused on the symbolic protest of some NFL players by taking a knee during the playing of the national anthem.
Let's go back and examine what Colin Kaepernick said when he began these protests all by himself:
"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color."
This isn't about slavery. It is about the fact that more than five decades after passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, people of color in this nation continue to be oppressed.
Much was made about a study published last summer by Harvard economist Roland G. Fryer, Jr. claimed that while blacks are more likely to be pushed, shoved, handcuffed and so on by the police, there is no racial bias in the police shootings of blacks.
Considering that this study was released in a month where 23 of the 72 people shot by police (according to the Washington Post), it was controversial. Then another study was published, this one by a professor of health management and policy at Drexel University. James Buehler's work demonstrated that black men are 2.8 more times likely to die during encounters with police than whites.
The Moron-in-Chief is trying to frame these protests as being disrespectful to the flag and the military, when in fact, they are trying to highlight the disparate treatment of people of color at the hands of law enforcement.
This is also almost certainly related to Donald Trump's obsession with and failure to become the owner of an NFL team. Look at this letter penned by the late John Bassett to his fellow USFL team owner, Donald Trump:
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To summarize, we are at a moment in time where North Korea is threatening to shoot down our aircraft, even outside of their own airspace; where millions are dealing with a natural disaster where they have no electricity and rapidly dwindling supplies of food and water; where our nation's labor participation rate remains unchanged; where the gap of income and wealth inequality is rapidly expanding and where the legislative agenda of Donald Trump is floundering - and he's tweeting about #TakeAKnee.
Could it be that he's trying to distract us from all those other things with these tweets?
Mr. Trump went to Alabama to campaign for Mr. Strange, but Roy Moore won easily with a margin of nine percentage points. Ordinarily, a victory in a Republican primary in Alabama in a U.S. Senate race is victory in the general election. In fact, when Jeff Sessions sought reelection to his Senate seat in 2014, he ran unopposed. Consider the fact that Alabama's delegation in the U.S. House of Representatives is seven seats and six of them are held by Republicans.
And yet, there may be a glimmer of hope that Democrats might pull a rabbit out of the hat in the December special election. Mr. Moore will face Doug Jones, a former U.S. Attorney in Northern Alabama. The election will be held on December 12th, a factor that may well cause voter turnout to be lower than the already low projections.
Analysts believe that if Mr. Strange had won the runoff, the DNC would have paid little to no attention to the special election in December. But the controversial views of Roy Moore; which have twice led to his being removed from the Alabama State Supreme Court, create liabilities. At least that is what some believe. I suspect this is just wishful thinking. His extreme opposition to same-sex marriage is controversial around the nation but in Alabama, many share his views.
When the results are in, it may be coal in the stocking of Donald Trump for Christmas. The last thing he needs in the Senate is a senator who got there by basically running against Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
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Agent Orange is also frustrated because the effort to repeal and replace Obamacare is once again dead in the water. Needing 50 Republican votes to allow Vice-President Pence to cast a tie-breaking vote for the travesty of a bill known as Graham Cassidy, four of the Senate's 52 Republican members said they would vote no.
Another campaign promise that will go unfulfilled. More political capital wasted.
* * *
The fact that there were two other natural disasters in the U.S. (Hurricanes Harvey and Irma) prior to the devastation of Puerto Rico by Hurricane Maria is not an excuse for the completely inadequate response to the plight of Puerto Ricans by the Trump Administration. It may be a mitigating factor, but there is no question that there were and are additional resources that could be brought to bear to aid the more than 3.4 million people who are without power. Running low on supplies.
With all of this going on, the leader of the Morons (who) Are Governing America are focused on the symbolic protest of some NFL players by taking a knee during the playing of the national anthem.
Let's go back and examine what Colin Kaepernick said when he began these protests all by himself:
"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color."
This isn't about slavery. It is about the fact that more than five decades after passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, people of color in this nation continue to be oppressed.
Much was made about a study published last summer by Harvard economist Roland G. Fryer, Jr. claimed that while blacks are more likely to be pushed, shoved, handcuffed and so on by the police, there is no racial bias in the police shootings of blacks.
Considering that this study was released in a month where 23 of the 72 people shot by police (according to the Washington Post), it was controversial. Then another study was published, this one by a professor of health management and policy at Drexel University. James Buehler's work demonstrated that black men are 2.8 more times likely to die during encounters with police than whites.
The Moron-in-Chief is trying to frame these protests as being disrespectful to the flag and the military, when in fact, they are trying to highlight the disparate treatment of people of color at the hands of law enforcement.
This is also almost certainly related to Donald Trump's obsession with and failure to become the owner of an NFL team. Look at this letter penned by the late John Bassett to his fellow USFL team owner, Donald Trump:
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To summarize, we are at a moment in time where North Korea is threatening to shoot down our aircraft, even outside of their own airspace; where millions are dealing with a natural disaster where they have no electricity and rapidly dwindling supplies of food and water; where our nation's labor participation rate remains unchanged; where the gap of income and wealth inequality is rapidly expanding and where the legislative agenda of Donald Trump is floundering - and he's tweeting about #TakeAKnee.
Could it be that he's trying to distract us from all those other things with these tweets?
posted by me at 8:11 AM
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