However, while suggesting that the POTUS is "nuts,” Dowd writes:”Democrats are going to have to come up with something for people to be for, rather than just counting on Trump to implode. (Which he will.) The party still seems flummoxed that there are big swaths of the country where Democrats once roamed that now regard the Democratic brand as garbage and its long-in-the-tooth leadership as overstaying its welcome. The vibe is suffocating. Where’s the fresh talent? “
Conceding that the Democrat brand is “garbage” and realizing that they have no “fresh talent,” Dowd writes “We congenitally believe that our motives are pure and our goals are right,” Rahm Emanuel, the mayor of Chicago, told me. “Therefore, we should win by default.”
But, he added dryly: “You’ve got to run a good campaign. In elections, politics matter. Oooh, what a surprise.”
Thus in this case, Dowd and Chicago’s Mayor Emanuel believe that what’s most important in elections are a good campaign and good politics. However, the truth about leftist beliefs shows something else completely. Because their policies are unsustainable as a practical matter, and as proven over time, do not work at all.
As reported by Sara Burnett @hosted2.ap.org: “Illinois is on track to become the first U.S. state to have its credit rating downgraded to "junk" status, which would deepen its multibillion-dollar deficit and cost taxpayers more for years to come.
Ratings agencies are "concerned about Illinois' massive pension debt, as well as a $15 billion backlog of unpaid bills and the drop in revenue that occurred when lawmakers in 2015 allowed a temporary income tax increase to expire.”
The subject was analyzed further by Elliott Hamilton @dailywire.com who wrote: “Gov. Bruce Rauner (R) of Illinois believes that his state is on the verge of "banana republic territory" because the state faces an imminent financial crisis.
Quoting from The Fiscal Times on June 12:
- 60% of state pensioners retired in their 50's, many with full pension benefits.
- Over half of state pensioners will receive $1 million or more in pension benefits over the course of their retirements. Nearly 1 in 5 will receive over $2 million in benefits.
- Almost 60% of all current state pensioners can expect to spend 25 or more years collecting benefits, based on approximate actuarial life expectancies. Due to automatic, 3% compounded COLA benefits, those pensioners can expect to see their annual pension benefits double in size.
- The average career pensioner — retired after Jan. 1, 2013, with 30 years of service or more — receives $66,800 in annual pension benefits and will collect over $2 million in total benefits over the course of retirement.
- The average career pensioner will get back his or her employee contributions after just two years in retirement. In all, pensioners’ direct employee contributions will only equal 6% of what they will receive in benefits over the course of their retirements.
Which means that while critics like Dowd, who is certain that Trump will “implode” and that his “fatal flaw is that he cannot drag himself away from the mirror,” she also acknowledges that “Democrats are stuck in loser gear.“
And then she concludes with the thought that “Trump may be nuts enough to blow up the world. But the Democrats are nuts if they think [he's] crazy enough to save them.”
While Dowd is one of a very small group who realizes that despite how much she despises Trump, Democrats are actually far worse, Mike Lillis wrote @ thehill.com yesterday: “Frustrated Democrats hoping to elevate their election fortunes have a resounding message for party leaders: Stop talking so much about Russia.”
According to Lillis, while Democratic leaders have been beating the drum this year over the ongoing probes into the Trump administration’s potential ties to Moscow, “rank-and-file Democrats say the Russia-Trump narrative is simply a non-issue with district voters, who are much more worried about bread-and-butter economic concerns like jobs, wages and the cost of education and healthcare.”
Citing the string of special-election defeats, “an increasing number of Democrats are calling for an adjustment in party messaging, one that swings the focus from Russia to the economy. The outcome of the 2018 elections, they say, hinges on how well the Democrats manage that shift.
“We can't just talk about Russia because people back in Ohio aren't really talking that much about Russia, about Putin, about Michael Flynn,” Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) told MSNBC Thursday. “They're trying to figure out how they're going to make the mortgage payment, how they're going to pay for their kids to go to college, what their energy bill looks like.
“And if we don't talk more about their interest than we do about how we're so angry with Donald Trump and everything that's going on,” he added, “then we're never going to be able to win elections.”
A reader, Devin, commented: “Democrats want to drop the Russian story because its starting to lead back to the obama administration."
SG, responded: “Bingo !!”
Dems_Sharia_MS13 followed with: “1200 Dem seats lost plus the special elections.
“Keep going with the Russia collusion hoax, progs. It is all working so well for you.”
And then, in a typical knee-jerk reaction, CNN published an unconfirmed anti-Trump story Thursday evening which led to a complete retraction.
Staff Writer Rob Tornoe reported @philly.com/philly/news/politics that “On Thursday evening, CNN investigative reporter Thomas Frank published a potentially explosive report involving an investigation of a Russian investment fund with potential ties to several associates of President Donald Trump.
“But by Friday night, the story was removed from CNN’s website and all links were scrubbed from the network’s social media accounts.
“That story did not meet CNN’s editorial standards and has been retracted,” CNN said in an editors note posted in place of the story. “Links to the story have been disabled.”
In addition to retracting its story, “CNN also apologized to Anthony Scaramucci, an adviser to Trump during the presidential campaign and a member of his transition team’s executive committee, who was mentioned in the story as having met Kirill Dmitriev, the head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) that the network said is overseen by Vnesheconombank, a state-run bank that is currently under U.S. sanctions.
“According to the report, the meeting between Scarmucci and Dmitriev could have included the issue of sanctions being lifted, but a spokesperson for the RDIF told Sputnik News, a state-run Russian news channel, that the fund is not a part of Vnesheconombank.
“RDIF always operates in full compliance with relevant regulations and legislation and its operations do not violate sanctions,” the spokesperson said.
In terms of public opinion regarding story’s such as the preceding one erroneously thought by CNN to be an expose of Trump, Tony Lee published some statistics about media bias @breitbart.com today.
“According to recent YouGov polling, 70% of Americans “agree that news organizations report stories in a light that’s partial to who owns them.” In addition, while 52% of Democrats agree with this sentiment, a whopping 85% of Republicans do. When YouGov then asked “whether or not one would trust a news source if its track record proved objectivity,” 83% of Democrats said they would compared to 58% Republicans.
“The percentage point difference in the two surveys reveals that the general public sides more with Republicans than it does with Democrats on the topic of media bias,” YouGov noted.
And then, another report regarding the Sanders’ is more than likely true. This one coming from John Bat @cbsnews.com, who writes:
“Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and his wife, Jane Sanders have hired prominent defense attorneys amid an FBI investigation into a loan Jane Sanders obtained to expand Burlington College while she was its president, CBS News confirms.
“Politico Magazine first reported the Sanders had hired lawyers to defend them in the probe. Sanders' top adviser Jeff Weaver told CBS News the couple has sought legal protection over federal agents' allegations from a January 2016 complaint accusing then-President of Burlington College, Ms. Sanders, of distorting donor levels in a 2010 loan application for $10 million from People's United Bank to purchase 33 acres of land for the institution.
“According to Politico, prosecutors might also be looking into allegations that Sen. Sanders' office inappropriately urged the bank to approve the loan.”
All of which serves to reinforce the opening subject today, wherin Maureen Dowd rightfully proposed that “there are big swaths of the country where Democrats once roamed that now regard the Democratic brand as garbage and its long-in-the-tooth leadership as overstaying its welcome. The vibe is suffocating. Where’s the fresh talent? “
And if Sanders is ultimately found guilty of inappropriately urging a bank to approve a business loan, Democrat leadership will not only be proven “stale,” one of them might wind up using campaign funds to cover he and his wife's bail.
That’s it for today folks.
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