I would like to know if I may pass this along to our local newspaper, the Natchitoches Crimes, to see if it could be published. They will want a bit more info for contact and verification however.
Or, I could send it with my contact info quoting you at length.
Our little rural town has a university, to its credit, but the wider part of upstate Louisiana has prolonged the tea party constipation, and, perhaps such a letter to the editor will begin a healthy bowel movement.
And a heartfelt thank you for taking the time and harnessing the energy to put that together.
Thank you for the compliment, and yes, I will be happy to cooperate with your local newspaper if they choose to run my letter. If they have questions or need to contact me directly, you may feel free to contact me by private messaging via this site. Just click on my name or avatar and you will see a tab that you can click on to send me a private message.
Thatās not the 21st century norm. āSplit ticketā voting is less common. So I am hoping that Trump will bring an attitude of ānot worth going to vote at allā.
Plus, remember that the extreme gerrymandering the GOP did to get its out-sized majority was based on a lot of districts that were āsafeā GOP by only a few points. So a landslide for Dems puts a lot of districts into play.
Excellent. Thanks. Many people should get to see this - maybe in 2 parts? Itās long - especially for those
used to sound bites and commercial interruptions.
I agree on the ticket-splitting thing. And I cannot imagine the thinking that goes, āI canā't vote for Trump, but I will give him a Republican Congress to work with.ā
Thatās true. However, most polling bears out what @dickweed is putting forth. Hillary is out performing the Senate candidates in every state. Thatās a pretty good sign that people are planning on voting Hillary (or not vote Trump) and still voting republican down ticket. I think there is a very good probability that we will see that happening this year contrary to the ānormā.
I agree, and I did struggle with the length when I wrote it over the weekend.
One part that I left out, but which compelled me to write this, was something I saw on TV Thursday night. On August 24, ultra-conservative broadcaster Glenn Beck shared his fear of a Trump presidency with MSNBC commentator Lawrence OāDonnell and expressed his hope that conservatives and liberals could get together to stave off this horrifying prospect.
Consider that Glenn Beck ā a man who served as a shock troop to galvanize the reactionary Tea Party movement ā who traced modern Democratic policies to eugenicists and ācultural Marxistsā and who said that President Obama hates white people, white culture ā now recoils in horror over the prospect of its latest iteration, its culmination.
Glenn Beck is the canary in the coal mine. Because something has gone terribly wrong for the reactionary far-rightās most ardent cheerleader to now recoil in horror at its latest embodiment and plead to make common cause with liberals.
ā¦its not covering the much closer problem Ryan faces as Speaker. Namely, that he has to get a budget passed in the next 2 months. And has be unable to pass any of the various budgets that were required under the framework agreed to last year. So, assuming that āOh, there is a framework in placeā is ludicrous.
Furthermore, Ryan gave away all of the tools that a Speaker can use to whip up the votes to pass anything, in his first weeks. He no longer controls who gets on what committee, he no longer controls whose bills get heard on the floor, he isnāt even the kingpin of fundraising, so he doesnāt control who gets what money for their campaigns as effectively as it has always been done.
And its coming up in the heat of the election cycle.
We have a great big shutdown problem barreling along at us full speed, and nobody seems to be looking up from election coverage to notice it.
Consider that certain Republicans urging the Hillary vote are doing so precisely to attempt to stanch the wound among Republicans to prevent downticket losses on their side of the ballot.
A huge Democratic turnout will sour that hopeā¦
D president and R everthing else just occurred to me today as I was typing that comment. As Davey says it might not be the norm, but Trump aināt a normal R candidate so who knows?
I could never understand how Ryan became to be known as a policy wonk. He is a fraud that fell into that proverbial pile of feces and emerged to smell like a rose. With luck, there will be a giant GOP circular firing squad in Congress and Ryan will get the beat-down he deserves for being feckless.
Good. Remember the last government shutdown? I do. It was a disaster for the GOTP, and it happened far enough out from the election that all the mouth breathers had managed to forget about it by the time the election had rolled around.
