President Donald Trump celebrated House Republicans’ allegiance in a tweet on Tuesday evening, after his party voted nearly unanimously against a resolution that condemned him for making racist remarks to four congresswomen of color.
I’ve got to figure that at least half of those Republicans voting against the resolution had to hold their noses while they voted. I’m sure they weren’t happy to have this guy celebrating their vote. He doesn’t know when to leave well enough alone.
I don’t know anymore. The GOP has gotten pretty rabid over the past 10 years. I tend to think the 4 + Amash are as good as it gets. At first, I thought that maybe McCarthy gave the 4 repubs permission to vote this way because they were in vulnerable districts, but I discounted that because the GOP would want a solid front in this instance. In any case, I think you might be optimistic.
Not sure it made any difference. Not as though it’s news that Republicans are craven.
It’s not as though the passage of the resolution is really being covered, instead the hoopla about Pelosi’s speech and Trump’s response to the resolution are the story.
And the resolution itself was so long and unspecific to the vile “go back home” language that it hardly had meaning and was long enough I even had a hard time caring to finish it, and I’m a political junky.
They see their “jobs” as selling advertising, with the goal of getting promoted and making more money, not informing the citizens so they can make rational decisions about the direction of the country.
There is no more “Journalism” in the MSM, just “Info-Tainment”.
Thus the “TMZ-ization” of News is glaringly evident to the even the most casual observer and is the reason so many have attempted to get information from “other” sources; Facebook, Google, News Sites.
Unfortunately, these “silos” of Internet-curated information are in the business of exploiting their users (YOU are the Product), so all they get is whatever the site is being paid to provide, and they fall further into ignorance and confusion.