Talk about a "Dream Ticket" : Pelosi for Pres and Schumer for VP. LMAO
On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 11:11 PM, Hot4azintop via PoliticalForum < politicalforum@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Common on folks.....Pelosi and Schumer are the best friends the GOP could > have at this time they bring in the vote......not for Democrats but for the > GOP. We owe them..... > > In a message dated 6/23/2017 5:53:43 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, > micha...@america.net writes: > > > June 23, 2017 > > *The Passing of the Pelosi Era*By Patrick J. Buchanan > > In the first round of the special election for the House seat in Georgia’s > Sixth District, 30-year-old Jon Ossoff swept 48 percent. He more than > doubled the vote of his closest GOP rival, Karen Handel. > > A Peach State pickup for the Democrats and a huge humiliation for > President Trump seemed at hand. > > But in Tuesday’s final round, Ossoff, after the most costly House race in > history, got 48 percent again, and lost. If Democratic donors are grabbing > pitchforks, who can blame them? > > And what was Karen Handel’s cutting issue? > > Ossoff lived two miles outside the district and represented the values of > the Democratic minority leader, whom he would vote to make the speaker of > the house, Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco. > > The Pelosi factor has been a drag on Democrats in all four of the special > elections the party has lost since Trump’s November triumph. > > Prediction: Democrats will not go into the 2018 Congressional elections > with San Fran Nan as the party’s face and future. No way. As President > Kennedy said, “Sometimes party loyalty asks too much.” > > Post-Trump, it is hard to see Republicans returning to NAFTA-GATT > free-trade globalism, open borders, mass immigration or Bushite crusades > for democracy. A cold realism about America’s limited power and potential > to change the world has settled in. > > And just as Trump put Bush-Romney Republicanism into the dumpster in the > 2016 primaries, Hillary Clinton’s defeat, followed by losses in four > straight special elections, portend a passing of the guard in the > Democratic Party. > > So where is the party going? > > Clearly, the energy and fire are on the Bernie Sanders-Elizabeth Warren > left. Moreover, the crudity of party chair Tom Perez’s attacks on Trump and > the GOP, being echoed now by Democratic members of Congress, suggest that > the new stridency to rally the angry left is gaining converts. > > Trump’s rough rhetoric, which brought out the alienated working class in > the ten of thousands to his rallies, is being emulated by “progressives” > imitation being the sincerest form of flattery. > > Nor is this unusual. After narrow presidential defeats, major parties have > often taken a hard turn back toward their base. > > After Richard Nixon lost narrowly to JFK in 1960, the Republican right > blamed his “me-too” campaign, rose up and nominated Barry Goldwater in > 1964. A choice, not an echo. > > After Hubert Humphrey lost narrowly to Nixon in 1968, the Democratic Party > took a sharp turn to the left in 1972 and nominated George McGovern. > > A 21st-century variant of McGovernism seems be in the cards for Democrats > today. The salient positions of the party have less to do with > bread-and-butter issues than identity politics, issues of race, gender, > morality, culture, ethnicity and class. > > Same-sex marriage, abortion rights, sanctuary cities, Black Lives Matter, > racist cops, La Raza, bathroom rights, tearing down Confederate statues, > renaming streets, buildings and bridges to remove any association with > slave-owners or segregationists, putting sacred tribal lands ahead of > pipelines, and erasing the name of the Washington Redskins. > > The Democrats’ economic agenda? > > Free tuition for college kids, forgiveness of student loan debt, sticking > it to Wall Street and the 1 percent, and bailing out Puerto Rico. > > And impeachment though a yearlong FBI investigation has failed to find > any Trump-Kremlin collusion to dethrone Debbie Wasserman Schultz or expose > the debate-question shenanigans of Donna Brazile. > > And where are the Democratic successes since Obamacare? > > The cities where crime is surging, Baltimore and Chicago, have been run > for decades by Democrats. The worst-run state in the nation, Illinois, has > long been dominated by Democratic legislators. > > The crisis of the old order is apparent as well across the pond. > > Jeremy Corbyn, a Bernie Sanders radical socialist, led his party to major > gains in the recent parliamentary elections, as Conservative Prime Minister > Theresa May saw her majority wiped out and faces the same seditionist > grumbling as Nancy Pelosi. > > Western elites are celebrating the victory of Emmanuel Macron, the > “youngest French President since Napoleon,” who defeated Marine Le Pen by a > ratio of almost 2-to-1 and whose new party, En Marche! (In Motion!), > captured the Assembly. But the celebrating seems premature. > > For the first time in the history of De Gaulle’s Fifth Republic, neither > the center-left Socialists nor center-right Republicans, the parties that > have ruled France for 60 years, made it into the finals in a presidential > election. > > And while the first round of that election saw the ruling Socialist > Party’s candidate run fifth, with 6 percent, the votes of the rightist Le > Pen and far left-Communist Jean-Luc Melenchon together topped 40 percent. > It is the flanks of European politics that seem still to be hard and > growing, and the center that seems shaky and imperiled. > > Moreover, Macron faces daunting problems. Unemployment is nearly 10 > percent, with youth unemployment twice that. Terrorist attacks from within > Muslim communities continue to rise, as do the number of boats of Third > Worlders migrating from across the Med. > > Can anyone believe that, as these trends continue, Europeans will continue > to back centrist policies and moderate politicians to deal with them? > > Dream on. That is not the history of Europe. > > > http://buchanan.org/blog/passing-pelosi-era-127255 > > -- > -- > Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. > For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum > > * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ > <http://www.politicalforum.com/> > * It's active and moderated. 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