At issue are public statements that play to the anti-police audience, that is, those who buy the message. He plays to them, reinforcing that narrative.
The police assn. president asked:
How the hell did we ever become the bad guys in this country? I can not imagine how we got here. It is the irresponsible reporting of the media and irresponsible statements from people who are credible – like the president, like celebrities.
Be of good cheer, Trumpsters.
Just days before the Republican National Convention is expected to formally nominate him for president, Donald Trump has taken his largest lead yet over Hillary Clinton.
I find a lot to like in this by Newt G.:
“Sharia is incompatible with Western civilization. Modern Muslims who have given up Sharia, glad to have them as citizens. Perfectly happy to have them next door.
Source: Gingrich, Obama social media fight over Gingrich plan for Muslims
Getting us talking (and ultimately doing something) about two biggies: security and the economy.
Donald Trump hit two home runs this week. The first, immediately following the horrific terrorist truck attack in Nice, was his statement in a media interview that if elected he would ask Congress for a declaration of war to combat global terrorism
Source: Trump-Pence Would Send A Clear Signal on War And Also the Economy – The New York Sun
Very interesting stuff here from NY Sun.
Obama’s proposed “authorization” limits U.S. involvement, whereas now it’s not limited.
Declaration of War, as Trump intends, puts us on a war-to-victory footing. None of the live-with-terrorism motif as announced by the French premier post-Nice — and I’d say lurking in the background of our “new normal” president as in the matter of slow economic growth and hard economic times.
Neither America nor France has to learn to live with terror. Nor does anyone have to accommodate it.
This was one of the points that Ariel Sharon used to make in the years leading up to — and during — his passage as prime minister of Israel. “Fight terror,” was his mantra. He said it to us and thousands of others at every turn.
All Americans are with France, and all Americans know that our country is every bit as much of a target as the land that gave us Lafayette. It’s not a fight from which any country can shrink.
It’s early and a poll’s a poll’s a poll. And Rasmussen’s an outlier in this. But like all lives, Rasmussen matters.
It was the third straight week Trump led the Rasmussen poll.
Source: Trump leads Clinton by 7 points: Rasmussen poll | TheHill
At the Oak Park library, July 17, 2013 — from Illinois Blues: How the Ruling Party Talks to Voters — “some dramatic government failures”
The CPA who had urged Sen. Harmon to “do something about corruption” continued.
“To say the pension situation is complicated is a classic delaying tactic. We are spending way more than we are taking in. People leave Illinois [in large numbers]. . . . Taxes are huge, hit even homeless people, some of whom I help. You are part of the problem. not the solution.”
Not even the voluble Rep. Lilly directly engaged him. Harmon did not. Nobody in the audience picked up on his complaints. In the ensuing lull, someone asked about taxing retirement income.
It’s “on the table of [sic] discussion,” Lilly said.
Another man said he was “embarrassed by Illinois.” He cited National Public Radio, Wall Street Journal, and other outlets. “It’s the worst state . . . “
Lilly denied it. “I have an opinion. The media doesn’t represent the facts accurately. The facts don’t state that. . . . I’m very proud to live in Illinois . . . Look at your [sic] history . . . We must come together . . . I celebrate that. . . . This is a great state [in which] to raise your family!”
Harmon conceded “some dramatic government failures,” naming none. “We are climbing out of the hole.”
The Chicago Tribune, he said, “has bashed the heart out of us.”
Illinois Blues is available in paperback, epub and Amazon Kindle formats.
Swing-state blues no more — at this point.
Republican hopes to hold the Senate are being bolstered by a Quinnipiac University poll showing GOP incumbents leading in Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania, three critical swing states.
“The numbers seem to be breaking the Republican way in the battle for control of the U.S. Senate, at least when it comes to the critical swing states of Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania,” said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll.
Getting used to Trump.
By James Taranto, who is catching up with my thinking before I had even revealed it:
Longtime readers know this column does not [approve of “fact check” journalism].
Some good work is done under the rubric of “fact checking,” but the label is deceptive.
Calling it “fact checking” is meant to convey an extra degree of objective authority, but “fact check” journalists do not limit themselves to questions of verifiable objective fact.
They present themselves naively and deceptively as above the fray.
Frequently they accuse politicians of dishonesty interpreting facts that are not in dispute. Sometimes their “rulings” are mere opinions on matters about which they do not know the facts, or that are not factual questions at all.
Read JT further on: How to Destroy Journalism – WSJ
. . . He’d be a fool not to, of course.
“This has to be dealt with very harshly,” he said. “I’d be making it very, very hard for people to come into our country from terrorist countries.”
Source: Trump on ‘horrific’ France attack: ‘Here we go again’ | TheHill
Blithe Spirit 