Dems, still no platform, still no positive message.

DEMS AND ASSAD UNIFY REPUBLICANS

MEDIA DESCENDS INTO SPECULATION, GOSSIP AND RUMORS

 

 

The Democrat's partisan opposition to the nomination of Neal Gorsuch  and the stupidity of Syria's Assad has unified the Republican party in ways that Trump could not. The Dems used the excuse of retaliation for the Republicans not allowing a vote on Obama's pick for the court and just plain partisan opposition, demanded by the ever moving to the left base of the party, to not allow a vote on Trump's supreme court nomination. They have done Trump a great favor, as now future nominations by Trump will be much easier to pass. Can the 60 vote threshold for legislation last much longer? I think its days are also numbered, as it is clear the Dems will not support any initiatives by the Trump administration. While there is much weeping and gnashing of teeth by the Democrats they have yet to form any credible platform, or positive proposals. They are placing all their hopes on diminishing Trump and his administration in any way possible. This is the same strategy that contributed to their loss in November, if you don't have any original ideas, just stay with the same course and go down with the ship.

 

The media seems to have the same goal as the Dems. I guess they really are on the same ship. They continually attempt to force their ideas of correct policy by criticizing and diminishing every proposal, all the while Trump is rolling back years of regulation and orders by the previous administration. There are real changes being made. White house press conference are now not viewed as a way to recieve information on the days events, but an opportunity for the media to attempt to find a contradiction, a verbal error or anything to make a story negative to the white house. I watch most all of them, the white house should limit these events, and refuse to answer the same question more than once. The media has descended into having panels that continuously speculate on rumors, gossip and unfounded claims. Unnamed sources say this and that. The Trump administration is rife with infighting, they have no stated policy, Bannon is trying to overshadow Trump. Spicer should resign because he did not clearly state chemical weapons used in combat. It is all a bunch of catty bullshit without any substance. I guess it is cheaper and less risky to hire a bunch of young Journalist majors and former partisan operatives to serve on panels rather than go about the business of real reporting. I guess the drudgery, time consuming and unglamorous business of real reporting is now just too much like work. The so called establishment media is now so biased and ineffective that it needs some serious reform from the top down, or it will be regarded in the same league as the National Inquirer.

 

I remember when CNN, in the lead up to the gulf war, was in Iraq interviewing Saddam Hussein and others in his administration. They were focused on news, the facts, real stories. This was the role that the media played for years. I suspect that world leaders will no longer talk to them, as they are now considered to be untrustworthy to give an accurate accounting.Yes, there always was a little bias, but generally they stayed with the facts. Now it is no holds barred partisan propaganda. This can only be corrected by the citizens themselves demanding a better account of the media. There are big stories at work all around the world and all they can do is obsess on Trump. They no longer can blame Trump for their failures, they have spent two years ragging on Trump with little to show for it, if they spend three more years with same goals, they will deserve their reward of complete irrelevance.