I'm still playing catch up from not posting for a couple of weeks. Here's a great summary of the Democrats' nationally fatal proclamations on climate change from the equally insane CNN 7 hour town hall on climate change.
Obviously the proposals are insane. They are a form of national suicide by economic hemorrhage. But CNN uses it's platform for a 7 hour climate change discussion, gets terrible ratings. You compound that with two years of never letting up on hammering president Trump on everything, being proven wrong time and again and losing viewership month after month you can only surmise 1 of 2 things is true about CNN.
Either CNN is so blindly anti-Trump they don't care if they eventually die in the process of their ongoing hatred, OR, maybe they are secretly in the tank for president Trump. Perhaps they want to be his foil. They want him to succeed and they are playing the villain and losing on purpose.
It sounds crazy but is it any less crazy than the first proposition? I know it gets into conspiracy theory territory but there are a couple reasons they might want to support the president by being deliberately stupid. Their ratings clearly are not one of them because the other mainstream media anti-Trump entities, particularly MSNBC are outperforming CNN. Continuing to chase that same market segment is not working. So why support Trump? They could feel that anti-Trumpism is all they have left and without it, and therefore without him, they have nothing left. So they could feel they are in this symbiotic relationship with their arch enemy and it is keeping them on life support - the alternative is complete ratings death.
The other reason, even more cynical, is that those behind the far left liberal progressivism that CNN spouts are the same as a lot of other rich liberals - they are secretly greedy crony capitalists and they like the tax breaks. It's not as likely as them being just blindly anti-Trump liberal elite, or them wanting to continue to produce goods in China and American workers and America be damned.
Is CNN in the tank for Trump? It's highly unlikely, but it is possible. Their actions have been so inexpiable for the past few years, that anything is possible.
I'd love to embed the video, but alas, C-SPAN doesn't allow much embedding. Nevertheless, Newt Gingrich held a town hall meting with Iowa voters at Southbridge Mall in Mason City, Iowa.
Go here to check it out, it's a solid Gingrich performance. Watch it and I defy you to find anything he said that wasn't conservative, or a solid performance.
It seems that despite the fact that there are more conservatives in most every state than there are liberals, it's small consolation. Many liberals call themselves moderates and the numbers might not be as good as indicated for conservatives. Even though independents are turning against Obama, it's small consolation; self-identified Democrats outnumber self-identified Republicans.
That the silent majority has finally spoken up, is wonderful. But it's small consolation because they weren't there back in November. That they have caught the attention of the political elite, and scared them into paying attention is fantastic. But it's small consolation. Drudge is reporting that the Democrats may ram the health care bill through anyway. If they do that, cap and trade will follow suit and there will be no end of a stream of ultra liberal bills that sail through unopposed in any meaningful way. The GOP doesn't have the votes to stop anything anymore.
This could very well be THE tipping point of this session of Congress and the Presidency itself. This could be Obama's Waterloo. But it's small consolation, because the Democrats may not care. They are not acting as James Carville said, based on a 40 year majority, but based on a 2 year majority. Such an approach is dangerous. In order to prevent it conservatives and moderates need to keep up, and intensify their opposition. They know they can protest - they've done it effectively now. But it's small consolation, because protests may end up being irrelevant.
The only way a steamroller of socialist legislation can be avoided, is to keep up the pressure at town halls, on TV, on the radio and in Washington D.C. Your country is calling upon you. This is the test of this generation. If the last great generation that defeated the Nazis could answer the call, this generation can do the same. In fact it's a far less dangerous task. You need to rally, you need to march and you need to keep your voices heard, as long as is needed.
Failure to do so will be no consolation whatsoever to future generations deprived of liberty by this generations inaction. Don't let it happen.
Senator Dick Durbin under fire for not holding a town hall on health care reform. You won't believe your eyes.
That's mainly because you were told they were all vicious anti-American Nazis. They're not. What's anti-American is an elite bunch of elected officials ignoring public opinion because obviously they know better than everyone else, what's best fro everyone else.