This is just a rant by me after listening to Chuck Todd attempting to corner Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) while pretending to be not only objective, but ‘fair and balanced’.
What isn’t available to post on-line is the segment directly following this with a round table discussion including guests WaPo’s Anne Gearan, former RNC chair Michael Steele and DTN progressive Farmer’s Chris Clayton, where they work pretty hard at putting the burden and the liability on Dems who deign to block a corporate Federalist Society approved Trump nominee in Neil Gorsuch for a lifetime seat on the highest court in the land — the supreme court.
So not much of a Diary. More a rant, a de-bunking of Chuck Todd and his both-sides-do-it spin job, and a cheer for all of the Dems who are not intimidated into backing down
..never mind that Mitch McConnell, then minority leader of the senate led a racially tainted 8 year campaign of obstruction that began the night of President Obama’s inauguration. And lied about it, as Chuck Todd is doing today, March 29, 2017
Joan Walsh | March 27th, 2017:
The modern Republican Party is not a governing party. It is a collection of grievances, a noisy minority of the country held together by anger, frustration, anti-government ire, and for some, a bonding epoxy of racism.
The Freedom Caucus, which came in during the anti-Obama Tea Party wave, represents a permanent resistance movement; they are guerrillas, subversives; they don’t want to be part of government, they want to blow it up.
Many of them, and their voters, marinated in Obama-hatred for eight years – and party leaders coddled them. The fateful decision by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, as well as former Speaker John Boehner, to block everything Obama did for two terms kept the party free of the messy job of governing. Now that they control the House, the Senate, and the White House, they have no clue how to govern.
Democrats should not help them. Americans need to see how the modern GOP’s solution-free, grievance fueled anti-Obama politics gave rise to Trump – and how dangerous Trump and his party is to the country.
I was going to provide excerpts from the video clip of Chuck Todd’s performance this morning and post links from a supply of thousands of options documenting the republican obstruction of President Obama on everything from legislation, to judicial nominations, to his legitimacy as President and even as an American citizen, but what is the point (?)
This morning on the purportedly ‘liberal’ MSNBC, Chuck Todd has proven any point I could have made.
Besides, one really has to see & hear the way corporate spin is done to get the full effect of it.
So let me shout this back at Chuck;
And he has done it in the most flagrantly biased yet damn near universally accepted method, now so normalized, even required in today’s main stream media, that any chance of the blatant false equivalency getting noticed and reported as a form of propaganda is not only nil, but not calling it out is now considered proof of the msm’s ‘balanced reporting’
So now, the reporting is that it is Dems that are “being ugly”.
Dems “forcing” senate majority leader Mitch McConnell into the so-called ‘nuclear option’. Now it is Dems that are “doing exactly what they accused the republicans of doing”.
That Dems should be willing to work with republicans.
Republicans that are striving to abolish the Environmental protection Agency, close down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, outlaw a women’s right to choose, Ban Muslims from America, Break up and deport millions of immigrant families, gut Public Education.. And that is just a slight taste of the GOP criminal syndicates to-do-list.
The best thing Dems could do, the only fair, moral, safe, reasonable, honorable response to the republican party led by an illegal, illegitimate, un-Constitutional crime ridden regime is to say no.
No to everything the GOP has planned for this country.
So if Chuck Todd wants to accuse Dems of ruining the “cooling saucer of the senate”, just as WaPo’s Anne Gearan, former RNC chair Michael Steele and DTN progressive Farmer’s Chris Clayton discussed as a follow-up analysis spin-job of the posted video clip of Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) then so be it.
Yes, Dems should obstruct.
Yes Dems should filibuster.
Yes Dems should do everything to protect this country, the land and its people.
To do that we Dems must block the republican (Federalsit Society, Birchers, the racist Hertiage Foundation/Richard Spencer/ Jim DeMint. Alt-right) from placing Neil Gorsuch or any republican on the highest court in the land.
Chuck Todd seems to have forgotten to mention the purpose of the republican intransigence, and now falsely accuses Dems of doing the same.
Absolute Intransigence by the republican that if left un-checked by Harry Reid, and Dems, would have denied President Obama any of his nominations — just exactly as Mitch McConnell and the republicans behind him not only promised on day one, but were so proud of accomplishing.
So proud of their blockage were republicans, and all of the ugliness that cradled it, that many a republican made their absolute obstruction the central theme of their racist campaigns — ‘block the black man in our White House’
Any republican that denies this was going on — is lying
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The GOP should receive nothing from Dems.
Ever.
Not in 2 months. Not in a year. Not in 2 years.
Not until Trump is out and there is a Dem in the white House. Preferably a woman for the first time in history. And a minority.
Yes — the Dems should stand in solidarity blocking the republican party and everything it represents
Yes — It would be stupendous..awesome, wondrous, and deeply satisfying, not to mention completely justified to hear future reports from Chuck Todd’s ilk, accusing Dems of obstruction — especially if he was angry that Dems did not heed his admonitions; were not intimidated by his and the many other beltway pundits and prognosticators, and did exactly what is badly needed in our government — top to bottom
— fighting back is also one of the things that will really fire up Dem voter participation to know that their representatives in both chambers of congress are putting it all on the line for the people they are elected to represent
— imo