They STILL DON'T Get It...The Ben Sasse Edition...

Ben Sasse (R-NE)

The other day, Senator Ben Sasse (R-NE) posted an open letter to Trump supporters on Facebook. (https://www.facebook.com/sassefornebraska/posts/561073597391141)

He ended by writing, “I genuinely appreciate how much many of you care about this country, and that you are demanding something different from Washington. I’m going to keep doing the same thing.” (Senator Ben Sasse R-NE)

Enough said and THAT is the problem - Republican “establishment” myopia.

Senator Sasse says, “I’m not for open borders. (The very first official trip I took in the Senate was to observe and condemn how laughably porous the Texas/Mexican border is...”

But STILL, NOTHING has been done to end the In-Sourcing of cheap foreign labor...and it ISN’T “the Democrats’ fault.” The GOP “establishment” supports In-Sourcing cheap foreign labor and that amounts to treason against American workers. There has been nothing more damaging to the American economy over the past half century than cheap foreign/migrant labor. It lowers the wage floor for ALL American workers.

The good Senator also calls “stopping Obamacare,” one of the GOP’s core principles. By his own cohorts' words, THAT is a lie. Boehner and McConnell BOTH surrendered on that score in the wake of the 2012 election, declaring Obamacare, “The law of the land.”

That same year NBC gleefully reported, “Republicans' efforts to undo President Barack Obama's health care reform law appear to have come to an end, as House Speaker John Boehner described it Thursday as the "law of the land."

In an interview with ABC News, the nation's top elected Republican seemed to indicate that Congress wouldn't engage in the type of repeated repeal votes the way it had in the past two years. Boehner's office provided a transcript of the exchange:
(http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/…/15029606-boehner-obamacare…)

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A couple of other questions about the agenda now. You have said next year that you would repeal the healthcare vote. That's still your mission?

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Well, I think the election changes that. It's pretty clear that the president was reelected, Obamacare is the law of the land. I think there are parts of the healthcare law that are gonna be very difficult to implement. And very expensive. And as the time when we're tryin' to find a way to create a path toward a balanced budget everything has to be on the table."
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Like it or not, agree with it, or not the Republican “establishment” has “shit the proverbial bed.”

FACT is, the support for Donald Trump has been well earned by the likes of John Boehner, Ben Sasse, Lindsey Graham, John McCain, the Bush's, the Dole’s and other Country Club Republicans who’ve steadfastly fought against the Tea Party and worse yet, tried to take a "mature and reasonable approach in dealing with the Democrats." In a bygone era that "mature and reasonable stance" may have been applauded....but NOT today. What's more, we cannot go back to those days. This "new consciousness" is part and parcel of the world we now live in.

Personally, I revile the GOP "establishment" precisely because they’ve tried to reach "reasonable accommodations" with a hostile Democratic Party. That amounts to trying to “reason with” a spoiled, petulant child. YES, I'd have much preferred loud, boorish, even obnoxious confrontation, despite the fact that a pro-Democratic media would've savaged Republicans for doing that. There’s always a price to be paid for principle.

There's also a way around that "stacked media" and that is to have wealthy Conservatives buy up a lot of it.

The problem the Republican "establishment" NOW faces is that their enemies (and the Democrats ARE their enemies...NOT "fellow Americans") have no respect for them and the base of their Party - Southern whites and northern ethnic Catholics, as well as Tea Party Conservatives no longer have any use for them. They not only feel "betrayed," but "managed" and kept on a GOP Reservation, the same way blacks are kept on the Democratic Plantation.

I'm from NYC, so Trump, despite his many flaws, and his "New York values" don't vex me so much. Then again, I'm from an old Tammany family and desperately WANT to see a reconfiguring of BOTH political Parties, one that'll return the Conservatives control over their original Party...the Democratic Party and let the Leftist "Progressives" and Corporatists keep the GOP.

At the very least, the GOP “establishment” should be aware of the sentiments out there among the electorate.

Trump is NOT seen as a savior, but as a giant middle finger to the Republican "establishment," even more so, it is the Republican base telling the Corporatist GOP “establishment” that “This ISN’T your Party anymore.”

Hey! A LOT of the GOP base have been told, "This isn't your country anymore," so the "go along, to get along GOP "establishment" pretty much had this coming.

So where are all these Country Club Republicans going to go?

Over to the Democrats? Or will they try and set up their own tiny “Corporatist Party”? HIGHLY unlikely.

OR will they try and set up a new “Northern strategy” seeking to consolidate the Leftist Progressive Democrats and Country Club Corporatists within the GOP, leaving the Democratic Party to founder along with its original base? Good luck with that one.

Melissa Harris-Hypocrite

Melissa Harris-Perry (MHP to her followers) is the wrong person to take on the issue of "privilege." Her father was a first-dean of African-American Affairs at the University of Virginia, while her mother, Diana Gray, taught at a community college.

You don't get much more comfortable and 'privileged" than that.

She grew up in the affluent suburban Chesterfield County which has a median family income of $65,058, well above the national average.

Now, as ratings-challenged MSNBC tries to appeal to a broader audience by moving slightly toward the center, MHP has sought to make it "all about her."

I wish I could say that sympathize in some way, but....nope.
(http://injo.com/…/548585-melissa-harris-perry-just-got-so…/…)

Yikes! Turns Out That David Duke Really HASN'T Endorsed Donald Trump!

In a video from his own website below David Duke makes clear that he has never endorsed Donald Trump (http://davidduke.com/david-duke-responds-cnn-speaks-trump-…/)...so where did this come from?

It DID NOT come from CNN on-air personalities like Jake Tapper, nor even the suits at CNN....NOR did it come from those dopes over at the ADL! They too are Corporately controlled and managed.

No, this is yet another example of their Corporate masters giving marching orders to their media lackeys.

It goes like this...like feces literally running down hill. First some nebulous Corporatists in the offices of GE, Goldman-Sachs, GM, etc. come up with an accepted worldview.

That worldview or "vision" is passed onto the heads of the major networks, who are also Corporate leaders. They impress this "vision" onto the program directors and decision-makers at places like CNN...and finally that "vision" is regurgitated by the on-air "talent."

America's national news media (ALL of it) is a sham. It's prepackaged, highly filtered "news candy," fluff...much of it inane and much of the "vision" presented skewed entirely by the whims and dictates of various Corporations.

THIS is why I've always laughed at people who deride others as "fascists."

To paraphrase the late Richard Nixon, "We're all fascists, at least Corporatists (the economic system of fascism) now." And Corporatism and our multi-national Corporations HAVE delivered, not only the products we all use and even depend upon, but they'be also delivered increasing prosperity without the booms and busts of the Free Market. Corporatism, like all human constructs, has been abused, but it is not, in and of itself evil.

But, hey, what can you expect from such English majors who don't even understand what "socialism" actually is.

HINT: Sweden is NOT a "socialist" country...NEVER has been. It too is Corporatist! Ericsson, Volvo, Skype, AstraZeneca to name but a few, are all privately held, publicly traded Swedish Corporations. Sweden, like the USA, England and Japan has a Corporatist economy...with a slightly more generous welfare state than here in the U.S.

Socialism DOESN'T have privately held Corporations because socialism bars the private ownership of property. Under a truly socialist system, the state, or government would own and manage those Corporations under what is called a "Command Economy."

You know why socialism NEVER works?

Because the Command Economy DOESN'T work...anywhere, anytime...EVER.

At any rate, someone...NOT at CNN and certainly NOT at the headquarters of the ADL either...probably in the corporate suites of Goldman-Sachs, or GE, etc. must watch a LOT of David Duke's stuff. (I can guess, it'll be the, "It's my job" excuse). Worse still they've engaged in either willfully LYING to the American people through their corporately owned media, OR (and this is certainly possible) maybe they honestly didn't understand the words, "I've said clearly at every place I've been that I AM NOT endorsing Donald Trump."

That might be hard for someone in the offices at Goldman-Sachs or GE to follow...I could see that.

Now, I hope you see all this a little clearer too.

What's an Election, But a Beauty Contest Absent a Talent Portion?

Seriously, what IS an election, other than a Beauty Pageant without a talent portion?

Seriously, WHAT have most successful "career politicians" ever done to ACHIEVE anything...other than win a few popularity contests?

That's why, for me, Dr. Ben Carson, Carly Fiorina and Donald Trump were ALL among the better choices over any career political politicians - they've all actually DONE THINGS.

Look, it appears that ANYONE can run a government. After all we've elected the likes of Carolyn McCarthy (whose sole claim to fitness for office was her being an LIRR widow)...and all these folks (https://en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_American_federal_politic…).

Without question there are many decent politicians. There'very also been many poor ones and one of the reasons for that our political system has been dominated by lawyer/legislators with a HUGE and innate conflict of interest.

Politics is the ONE area in which there are absolutely no qualifications needed, no basic standards enforced. In fact, we've conveniently ignored (at our own peril) Alexander Hamilton's prescient exhortation that, "There is no great conflict of interest than that of the lawyer/legislator."

So, it's refreshing to see some people running for office, who've actually done some things that weren't connected with government and political connections.

The HARDER They TRY...The BIGGER They FAIL...

David Duke

The corporate media lapdogs keep shilling for the corporate political managers...which is their job, BUT this time they aren't doing very well.

I've long been an outlier. I've never much much liked the professional political class. I voted for Diane McGrath against Ed Koch (and I LIKED Ed Koch) back in 1985!

Now that view seems to be en vogue...and I'm GLAD!

The latest is the feeble attempt by English Lit ("journalism") majors to try and link Donald Trump to David Duke.

David Duke has NOT resided in the USA since 2000!

He's a big deal in the Ukraine.

So was Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

Of course Solzhenitsyn was also feted here in the U.S. despite his penchant for speaking about, "The world's greatest Holocaust," that of the Reds exterminating 60+ MILLION White Russians in what Solzhenitsyn called, "A Jewish led Holocaust."

Neither Solzhenitsyn, nor Duke are considered "liars," nor "revisionists" in that part of the world, because their worldview on that era is so different from that of the West's. Solzhenitsyn's claims have never effectively been opposed, let alone "debunked" and it's more likely than not that a person of Russian descent would know more about that era, from the Russian viewpoint.

There's nothing damning in Solzhenitsyn's analysis. It merely proves that there are no "good groups" or "bad groups," we all suffer the same pangs of human nature, which can rise to great heights and sink to the lowest depths, often within a very tight time frame.

For his part, David Duke has not been a player in America since before 2000. WHY would Trump recall a guy who was a cipher in American politics?

Earlier today on CNN's State of the Union with Jake Tapper, Trump said, "I don't know anything about David Duke, OK? I don't know anything about what you're even talking about with white supremacy or white supremacists. So, I don't know."

According to David M Jackson of USA Today, "This is somewhat in contrast to his stance in 2000, the year Trump declined a presidential bid for the Reform Party. As Buzzfeed noted, Trump sent out a statement that year that “the Reform Party now includes a Klansman, Mr. Duke, a neo-Nazi, Mr. (Pat) Buchanan, and a communist, Ms. (Lenora) Fulani. This is not company I wish to keep.”

So, apparently, Trump disavowed such people way back then. That should count as "carried forward today."

After all, he disavowed David Duke recently - after accepting Chris Christie's endorsement lat Friday!

It was reported that Duke, on a radio show, made these remarks, "Voting for these people, voting against Donald Trump at this point is really treason to your heritage," the former KKK Grand Wizard said on his radio program Wednesday. "I'm not saying I endorse everything about Trump, in fact I haven't formally endorsed him. But I do support his candidacy, and I support voting for him as a strategic action. I hope he does everything we hope he will do."

"Duke also exhorted his followers to volunteer for Trump and suggested that his campaign was already staffed with racists.

"And I am telling you that it is your job now to get active. Get off your duff. Get off your rear end that's getting fatter and fatter for many of you every day on your chairs. When this show's over, go out, call the Republican party, but call Donald Trump's headquarters, volunteer," he said. "They're screaming for volunteers. Go in there, you're gonna meet people who are going to have the same kind of mind-set that you have."

Trump responded to being asked about the comments by telling the press, "I didn't even know he endorsed me. David Duke he endorsed me, OK? I disavow. OK?" " (http://www.weeklystandard.com/trump-disavows-endo…/…/2001301) Apparently Trump didn't know that Duke endorsed him....because Duke DIDN'T endorse him!

For the record, David Duke, has claimed he has "Never been a white supremacist, but instead a "white separatist," and a "race realist." Certainly, his views, like those of black separatists like Farrakhan and others, are primarily anti-semetic.

Back in 2000 David Duke was part of a Reform Party platform that included the likes of Lenora Fulani (a Farrakhan supporter). New York City's far-Left media was mostly silent on that group. Many, no doubt secretly hoped that they could unseat then sitting Mayor, Mike Bloomberg. IF you support, or even have no problem with Lenora Fulani or Louis Farrakhan, then you've really got no issues with David Duke either....they are one in the same.

At any rate, WHY do the media folks think THIS will get any traction when nothing else has?

It won't.

Trump isn't seen as a savior...quite the reverse.

He really is a GIANT middle finger by Conservative voters to the GOP and the RNC.

And the GOP has brought this on themselves.

THIS is WHY so Many Conservatives HATE "Establishment" Republicans

After Jeb Bush's unceremonious exit, Marco Rubio is the ONLY remaining "Establishment" Republican left in the race. John Kasich, at 7%,doesn't really count...and he's really not all that "establishment" either.

Marco Rubio is wearing that as a badge of honor....to court the BIG donors.

It seems to be anything but that, in the eyes of the voters, in this election cycle.

If anyone needs reminding as to why the Republican "Establishment" SHOULD BE reviled by ALL working Americans, consider Rubio's anti-worker stance on H-1B Visas, the ones Disney abused in forcing American IT workers to train their cheaper foreign replacements (http://www.theatlantic.com/…/disney-h1b-visas-immig…/396149/).

Contrary to The Atlantic's headline, "America’s Mixed Feelings About Immigrant Labor," there are no "mixed feelings" among American workers. Cheap labor harms Americans...and America Well paid American labor is critical to our economic recovery.

Remember that Marco Rubio was part of "The Gang of Eight" tasked with pushing for MORE In-Sourcing cheap foreign labor with its "Immigration Reforms."

That is what illegal immigration and migrant workers amount to, In-Sourcing! The "In-Sourcing" of cheap labor to undercut American labor and lower the wage floor for ALL American workers.

Where is Senator Rubio on the issue? He's, in fact, "doubled down" on the often abused H-1B Visas (http://drudgetoday.com/v2/r…)

It's no wonder Trump's numbers are swelling and it's little wonder that with stands like this, Rubio has been unable to pull away from the personality-challenged Ted Cruz.

Donald Trump is the bastard child of Pat Buchanan, the first anti-establishment Republican renegade of a bygone era. Apparently all Buchanan needed was some more name recognition among low-information voters...maybe a Reality TV show...or two

Like the media, mainstream politicians don't get Trump's "appeal." They seem to think it's all about "celebrity," or "bold (politically incorrect) speech", but neither one of those fits the bill.

Trump's a VERY flawed candidate, but fortunately for him, more and more people are seeing that folks like him, flawed as they may be, are still LESS flawed than are the likes of career politicians like Jeb Bush, Hillary Clinton and Paul Ryan.

So, right now, Trump's candidacy is a way for voters in the GOP Primaries to tell the Republican "Establishment" that, "This ain't YOUR Party any more."

And so far...they're doing just that!

SHORT and SWEET: What Can the GOP "Establishment" do to REALLY Hurt Donald Trump?

What can the GOP do to hurt Trump?

Embrace him!

Seriously, the ONLY thing that Reince Priebus and the RNC can possibly do to harm Donald Trump is to embrace him.

That's how little faith Conservative and Independent Americans have in that Party.

Sad...but true.