1/21/18: As breakfast time approaches in Washington D.C., Trump can take solace knowing all Americans and all peoples round the globe love him.
He knows this to be true because he binge-watches Fox News. Did you realize that Brad Blakeman gave the president excellent marks for his first year on the throne? Well, the president believes we all should know. “Thank you to Brad Blakeman on @FoxNews for grading year one of my presidency with an ‘A’ - and likewise to Doug Schoen for the very good grade and statements,” he tweets.
“A message for Cadet Bone Spurs.”
Year Two begins with Congress unable to pass a budget. There are warnings that the deficit for 2018 may surpass $1 trillion. The U.S. Treasury reports it will borrow $441 billion during the first quarter of this year. This kind of deficit spending used to bother GOP “fiscal hawks.”
Now Paul Ryan pecks for corn and clucks like a hen.
Meanwhile, the reputation of the United States has suffered grievously in a year under Trump. To be more precise: It has reached the lowest level ever recorded. According to Gallup, respect for America was 48 percent during President Obama’s final year in office. Under Trump it stands at 30 percent.
Respect has fallen by at least 10 percentage points in
countries normally our allies. These include Australia, Canada, France,
Germany, Great Britain, Japan, and South Korea. And approval fell by 40 points in Norway. That’s the place where the
president says all the best potential immigrants live! (See: 1/11/18.)
With the government shut down, all the White House toadies are making the cable news rounds, blaming Democrats. According to Kellyanne Conway, Democrats hate the U.S. military.
Senator Tammy Duckworth of Illinois hits back. (Duckworth lost both legs in 2004, when the helicopter she was piloting was shot down near Taji, Iraq.) In a speech on the Senate floor, she responds to the president’s claims that Democrats hate the military:
I will not be lectured about
what our military needs by a five deferment draft-dodger. And I have a message
for Cadet Bone Spurs: If you cared about our military, you’d stop baiting Kim
Jong-un into a war that could put 85,000 American troops and millions of
innocent civilians in danger.
Now we wait. Will Trump offer up some furious tweet-insult in response? Perhaps he’ll howl: “Duckworth is no hero. I like people who don’t get shot down and lose both legs.” The man has no class.
You know he might.
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Sen. Tammy Duckworth |
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