Thursday, May 11, 2017

BloggeRhythms

While Comey’s firing occupies the minds of the mainstream media and others intent on doing their damnedest to remove the new POTUS from office, his supporters are likely unconcerned. Because they’re getting what they really wanted as he keeps fulfilling campaign promises.

According to a Reuters report his morning: “The U.S. government had a $182 billion budget surplus in April, confounding market expectations for a deficit, according to Treasury Department data released on Wednesday. 

“The budget surplus was $106 billion in April 2016, according to Treasury's monthly budget statement. 

“The fiscal 2017 year-to-date deficit was $344 billion compared with $353 billion in the same period of fiscal 2016. 

“Receipts last month totaled $456 billion, up 4 percent from April 2016, while outlays stood at $273 billion, a decrease of 18 percent from the same month a year earlier.” 

karenkelliher62 summed up the majority of reader’s opinions, commenting: “I love my President, VP and the whole lot, investment companies coming into USA❤ Job growth, illegal immigration down 71% & this is just the beginning. MAGA” 

In the same vein, Patricia Cohen wrote @nytimes.com that: “Across the steel industry, stock prices — and spirits — have been on the rise, lifted by President Trump’s vow to protect American manufacturers against cheaper imports and invest as much as $1 trillion in infrastructure over the next decade. 

“Mr. Trump’s attention to trade and manufacturing — which helped him gain the White House — means more here than any of the stumbles and missteps that feed late-night television comics.”

Steelworker Chris St. Amand said: “My confidence hasn’t been shaken at all. Trump is good for business.” That opinion was repeated “by 20 other employees interviewed — including a handful who voted for his opponent. (Mr. Trump won 56 percent of the county’s votes, to Hillary Clinton’s 39 percent.)”

Then, on the other side of the equation, Democrats led by Schumer having nothing much left in their arsenal seem to be following Obama by applying activist and writer Saul Alinsky’s Rules For Radicals as a blueprint. 

Rule 5 says: "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon." There is no defense. It's irrational. It's infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions.”

Rule 8 says: "Keep the pressure on. Never let up." Keep trying new things to keep the opposition off balance. As the opposition masters one approach, hit them from the flank with something new.” 

Rule 9 says:  "The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself." Imagination and ego can dream up many more consequences than any activist.” 

Rule 11 says: "If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive." Violence from the other side can win the public to your side because the public sympathizes with the underdog.” 

And then, there’s Schumer’s favorite. Rule 12 says: “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it." Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions.” 

While the parallels between Alinsky's advice and Schumer’s constant hammering about Trump and Russia are certainly obvious, show host Mark Levin “dismissed comparisons between Comey's dismissal and the infamous "Saturday Night Massacre" perpetrated by Richard Nixon at the height of the Watergate scandal,” according to FoxNews.com today. 

Levin told Sean Hannity: “We have a lot of legal and historical illiterates posing as TV hosts and commentators. It has nothing to do with Watergate, but of course, the media and the Democrats – one and the same – want it to deal with Watergate." 

Levin’s analysis has considerable value because he himself was a former chief of staff to Attorney General Edwin Meese under Reagan. 

Levin went on to point out that Trump had not ordered "in any respect" an end to the FBI investigation of possible connections between Trump's campaign and Russian officials. After which he turned his attention to Schumer, whom he called "the leading demagogue in all of this." 

"Tell me something, Mr. Schumer," Levin asked rhetorically, "can you name a single Russian, just one, who colluded with Donald Trump and his campaign? Just give us one. One. 

"You’ve got intelligence committees who’ve been investigating. You’ve had this interminable federal investigation that’s gone on. Let’s have it." 

While Levin’s logic speaks for itself, Schumer became entangled in another case of purely political double-talk. As reported by Lucas Nolan @breitbart.com: “Schumer told Bloomberg in November that he no longer had confidence in the abilities of former FBI Director James Comey following his decision to reopen an investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails.“I do not have confidence in him any longer,” said Schumer adding, “to restore my faith, I am going to have to sit down and talk to him and get an explanation for why he did this.” 

“In stark contrast to this, Schumer posted two tweets questioning the firing of Comey and calling for a special prosecutor to investigate relations between President Trump and Russia.

Today’s tweet one: “First Pres Trump fired Sally Yates, then Preet Bharara. Now #Comey. Doesn't seem like an accident. We must have a special prosecutor.” 

Tweet two: “If we don't get a special prosecutor, every American will rightfully suspect that the decision to fire #Comey was part of a cover-up.” 

Schumer was not alone however, as Nancy Pelosi also reversed herself on the issue: “Pelosi also previously opposed Comey, telling CNN in November that he was no longer suited to the position of FBI Director. “Maybe he’s not in the right job,” said Pelosi following Comey’s reopening of the Clinton email investigation, “I think that we have to just get through this election and just see what the casualties are along the way.” 

“However, Tuesday, Pelosi tweeted a link to her full statement on the firing of Comey saying that Comey’s departure “raises the ghosts of some of the worst Executive Branch abuses.”

Joining the top-level Democrat turnaround: “Bernie Sanders told ABC’s This Week in January that James Comey should consider resigning having acted in an “outrageous way” during the presidential election. “I think he should take a hard look at what he has done. And I think it would not be a bad thing for the American people if he did step down,” said Sanders, “I think that Comey acted in an outrageous way during the campaign and, you know, no one can say that this was decisive and this was what elected Trump, but clearly his behavior during the campaign in terms of what he said in the week or two before the election was unacceptable.”

Then on Tuesday, “Sanders posted multiple tweets relating to the firing of James Comey, claiming that his dismissal implied that the Trump administration was attempting to hide something.” 

His tweet said: “Donald Trump’s decision to fire FBI Director James Comey raises serious questions about what his administration is hiding.” 

The Democrat theme also seems to have been implemented party-wide whereas: “In an op-ed for the Hill published last November, Democratic Congressman, Steve Cohen wrote “For the sake of the FBI, Comey should resign.” Discussing Comey’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails, Cohen wrote that Comey’s “actions over the past several days have not only weakened his ability to do his job, but they have severely jeopardized the integrity of the FBI and its duties.” 

“However, shortly after the firing of James Comey by President Trump, Cohen tweeted a picture of former president Richard Nixon and called for President Trump to resign.” 

All of which serves to suggest that if the Democrats bought multiple copies of Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals for distribution to party members, they might consider a class-action suit against the publisher to get their money back. 

Because while they’re out there picking the target, freezing it, personalizing it, and polarizing it, Trump’s turning the nation’s economy totally around, developing jobs and keeping voters minds on their work. Which means they don’t have the time nor the inclination to worry about why Comey’s presently unemployed nor what Democrats think about it.

That’s it for today folks. 

Adios

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