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March 22, 2017

Has Trump Hit the Wall Over the GOP Health Care Bill?

Liz Peek Articles BORDER WALL, CONGRESS, GOP, HEALTH CARE

One big take-away from James Comey’s testimony before the House Intelligence Committee is that the FBI is investigating whether members of the Trump campaign colluded with Russia. The other? That Americans no longer trust America’s political leaders or intelligence organizations. As the FBI Director answered questions about Russia’s interference in our election and President Trump’s claims that he was wiretapped by President Obama, angry viewers across the political spectrum vented on Twitter and Facebook, charging Comey with lying and retracing the unresolved arguments of last year’s campaign.

For instance: “Hey Comey, Trump Doesn’t Know Putin, but Hillary Sold the Russians Uranium for millions. She is the real Friend of Putin.” Or, “The #ComeyHearing was a game-changer in how 2016 is perceived. Had the fact below been known, Hillary would likely be president.” Not much listening; minds made up.

Those on the right doubt there is “no evidence” that the Obama White House conducted surveillance on the Trump campaign. They point to The New York Times’ piece on January 20 claiming that “American law enforcement and intelligence agencies are examining intercepted communications and financial transactions as part of a broad investigation into links between Russian officials and associates of President-elect Trump….”

That story ran with this headline: “Wiretapped Data Used in Inquiry of Trump Aides.” Given Donald Trump’s propensity for sloppiness, many supporters interpret his accusations as based on this report of eavesdropping and surveillance. Note: The original headline appeared only in the print edition of The New York Times.

Meanwhile, Hillary supporters can’t imagine there’s “no evidence” of collusion, as any number of intelligence chiefs have claimed, between people in Donald Trump’s camp and Moscow. After all, there are numerous reported links between Russians and various people circling Trump Tower, and several instances of people like Michael Flynn and Attorney General Jeff Sessions seemingly lying about those contacts.

Sadly, neither side of the political spectrum believes FBI Director James Comey, and neither right nor left is confident in the integrity of the Congressional committee conducting the inquiry. As one person tweeted: “This will be marked in American history as a sad period of time where the NSA, FBI and CIA simply can no longer be trusted.” This is a disaster for our country.

How did we get here?

Baby Boomers learned to be skeptical of our elected officials early on when they listened to preposterous and false accounts of victories during the Vietnam War. So outlandish were the nightly claims of progress by our leaders – thousands of the enemy killed each night while all our troops were safe and sound – that they and those promulgating them in the major news networks became objects of ridicule.

But what about young people, a majority of whom, we are told, don’t think Donald Trump is the legitimate president? How did they become so cynical?

The exposed lies of recent years – revelations that have often come through email hacks or WikiLeaks – hasn’t helped. Finding that the Bush administration misled the public about WMD in Iraq or that James Clapper lied about widespread NSA spying or that iPhones aren’t secure or that the DNC conspired against Bernie Sanders or that you can’t really keep your doctor – these discoveries, and the fact that last year’s campaign featured two candidates with record low trustworthiness, have soured millennials. You can’t blame them.

America is hurting, divided and angry. This is not “fake news”; the polarization in Congress is real, as is the consequent inability to come together and solve our nation’s challenges. The media is part of the problem. A recent CBS News poll indicated that 60 percent of the country views the mainstream news media as inaccurate. Not just wrong-headed, but wrong. That’s new.

Distrust of the mainstream media has driven millions of jaded Americans to Facebook and Twitter for information, exacerbating the problem. Clicking on such sites allows a retreat to our ideological comfort zones, reading only what we agree with and accepting only those facts that fit our perspective.

Social media is not only lopsided but full of misinformation. This is a serious issue; educators are so concerned about the impact of news gathered from social media sites that they are teaching sixth-graders in Coney Island how to distinguish “fake” news from the real thing.  College students are being tutored on the topic as well. Merrimack College associate professor Melissa Zimdars compiled a list of “fake news sites”, which was then picked up and recommended to Harvard students as part of a library guide on “Fake News, Misinformation, and Propaganda.”

The only problem? The list included many right-leaning but respected conservative news organizations including The Daily Caller, The Washington Examiner, and The Weekly Standard. Left-leaning groups like Salon or Vox were not included. Ms. Zimdars was immediately accused of generating – you guessed it – fake news, and took the list down.

Where do we go from here? President Trump needs to step up his game – he must set the tone and demand that others respond in kind. He must swear off issuing incredible charges and claims. He doesn’t need hyperbole; his message is strong and appeals to millions. He is new to public office, and as such not yet convinced that his every utterance will be taken at face value. It will, and he needs to rein in his asides and one-liners that he considers clever but that others use to eviscerate him. And he needs to curb the tweeting. A recent CBS survey showed that most damaging to his support today is not his healthcare bill or even his suspected ties to Russia; rather, it is his tweeting.

And the media should declare a cease-fire. Of course, they should criticize Trump when appropriate, but more balanced coverage might lower the nation’s temperature. Last weekend the Financial Times wrote a favorable editorial commending President Trump for raising optimism and “animal spirits”; it was, perhaps, the first liberal newspaper to acknowledge any single positive outcome of Trump’s 50 days in office. A welcome start.

 

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Are you better off than you were 2 years ago?
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Inflation already hurting Americans, and Biden's Build Back Better will make things even worse

Are you better off than you were two years ago? That’s what Republicans will ask voters a year from now.

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Inflation is worldwide and COVID induced.

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Peek's article posted today on the Fox News website did not mention one word about President Trump's accomplishment of not only leading the way to American Energy Independence but for the country to become net exporters of the energy we and our allies could really use now.

Under President Trump, oil was in the low 40s (while on the same page, oil traders are now predicting as high as $200/barrel this month!), gas in our tanks cost below two bucks, inflation was under two percent and gas station attendant Putin with an economy about the size of Italy's and who is totally dependent on the price of energy was placed in an economic cage… by President Trump.

Instead Peek gives credit to media Saint Obama for his "all the above" strategy which consistent with how he operated was all campaign talk with ZERO follow through.

Does Peek not remember that Saint Obama's response to Putin invading Crimea was to send blankets.

If you want a quick read on Swamp Think, check in with Fox News.

From the Murdoch boys and Paul Ryan on down, no one is pushing the self-serving, elite globalists agenda of running the world as their personal piggy bank harder than Fox News.

And how are the globalists doing at managing world affairs?

No Trump, No Trump Doctrine

There's a growing rumble, by the minute, from people all over the planet who are suddenly missing Trump's policies, not necessarily Trump.

First, Trump's policies, domestic and foreign, were clear and common-sense driven which is anathema to the Swamp control freaks who thrive on complication and confusion to mask their real agendas and who they're really working for.

Second, the hypocrites who are now lamenting Trump's policies are the same, domestic and foreign, who fought Trump every inch of the way to prevent the implementation of policies that clearly worked.

Third, without Trump the fighter, no Trump policies would have ever seen the light of day.

And without what is now collectively the Trump Doctrine, what clear metric would we have to truly understand the depth and devastation of the Biden/Swamp debacle?

Don't you know that the global supply chain story is done on purpose for there to be empty shelves at the grocery stores and what not to screw with the public. This is done by the world economic Forum with the likes of Klaus Schwab Bill Gates and George Soros and their ilk

YOU are the delusional personality, dear. Sticking it against the US to please 🖕trump and putin. Disgusting anti American.

Maybe Liz you would support some immigration reform , you bitch about not having enough servers in your entitled selfish world , oh and you are against mask wearing too , how trumpian of you, the pandemic is all a hoax to you , just dont get sick out there might not be any hospital beds for you . The drs and nurses are sick and tired of taking care of anti mask anti vax selfish repubs Go claim your Darwin Award .

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Progressives got hammered on Election Day- but that was only the latest big defeat. What does this mean for Dems? Can Joe pivot? (spoiler-probably not)
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They may not know it yet, but the ultra-liberal cabal that has choked Democrat politics and humiliated spineless party leaders like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has lost its mojo.

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Liz have you not heard latest on the “russia collusion” “steele dossier” Fiona Hill???
Or are you a typical msm reporter?

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Joe Biden wanted to be an historic president- and he has done that. Worst ratings slide of any president since WWII.
He (or whoever is running WH) doesn’t care about voters’ top issues – instead Team Biden obsessing about climate change, gender and race.
No wonder he’s in trouble!
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Voters are worried about inflation, jobs, crime, education and our open border, while the Biden White House is laser-focused on climate change, transgender rights, racism and reducing inequality.

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The great days turned to very bad days in less than a year.
Congress needs a flip to GOP next year to stop the craziness

Climate change is important.
The GOP may not care about it now, but their children will.
He is trying to get an infrastructure bill through.
He has had issues with Afghanistan, but what else could he do
The people who are taking over Afghanistan were released by the previous administration.
I am sure that Biden is not perfect but he is better than Trump.

Your bias is ridiculous. Makes you a bad writer. Btw avg teacher pay is way above 31000. Sensationalize much?

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worst ratings only from a side thats ignorant to the truth. the effects of coming off a pandemic with oil companies profitting off the pumps in order to pay their shareholders back from profits lost. inflation effects the entire world but of course your base doesnt pull their heads out their asses for one second to look around and use common sense. keep spreading bullshit and weakening our country til it no longer functions as a democracy….bc i see through your fake Christian patriotic pow wows. you are the opposite of ehat you claim and you are the definition of what you claim your rivals are. deflection, projection, hypocrisy. 3 words that sum you up

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