{"id":1312790,"date":"2019-07-24T22:28:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T04:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/reagan-column-watching-the-democrats-shoot-themselves\/"},"modified":"2019-07-24T22:28:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T04:28:00","slug":"reagan-column-watching-the-democrats-shoot-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/reagan-column-watching-the-democrats-shoot-themselves\/","title":{"rendered":"Reagan column: Watching the Democrats shoot themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Michael Reagan<\/strong>
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Thank God for the British Open.<\/p>\n

For four days I watched the best professional golfers in the world playing on TV instead of watching the Democrats playing their political games in Washington.<\/p>\n

It was a crazy week of controversial presidential tweets, rabid accusations of racism by the liberal media and parliamentary turmoil in the House of Representatives, but Democrats worked extra hard each day to prove that they are still deranged.<\/p>\n

For instance, a hundred House Democrats defied the wishes of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and made fools of themselves by trying \u2013 and failing \u2013 to pass a resolution to impeach President Trump over allegedly racist comments he made about Democratic congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley and Ilhan Omar.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, liberal, moderate and socialist Democrats in Washington were shooting at each other in a circular firing squad that made their party look even more inept, confused and lost.<\/p>\n

Pelosi, a lifelong lefty, continued to be upstaged, disrespected and made to seem like a moderate Democrat by AOC and her wrecking crew.<\/p>\n

The four rookie representatives \u2013 who in six months have made it clear they prefer socialism over capitalism, Palestine over Israel and open borders over immigration reform \u2013 like to call themselves \u201cprogressive women of color.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Pelosi has a less exalted opinion of them, especially after their leader, AOC, appeared to play the race card when she hinted the speaker was singling them out for criticism because they were women of color.<\/p>\n

Nancy Pelosi a racist too? Who\u2019s next? Oh, I forgot. Everyone\u2019s a racist now.<\/p>\n

House Mother Pelosi retaliated for the socialist foursome\u2019s trouble-making by dubbing them \u201cThe Squad\u201d and reminding them that despite the six months of slobbering attention they\u2019ve gotten from the liberal media, they were \u201conly four people.\u201d<\/p>\n

President Trump, who has cleverly made AOC and her gang into the politically unattractive face of the Democrat Party for 2020, stirred the pot by calling them out as \u201chate-filled extremists who are constantly trying to tear our country down.\u201d<\/p>\n

He was right.<\/p>\n

Of course, everyone on CNN and MSNBC was certain Trump picked on the Squad because of their color, or because they were women, but as usual they were totally wrong.<\/p>\n

Trump doesn\u2019t care what color or sex the Squad members are.<\/p>\n

He picked on them because they keep saying the same stupid socialist stuff, keep stirring up trouble in the media by misrepresenting conditions at the southern border and keep charging anyone who disagrees with them as being a racist or a bigot.<\/p>\n

The president made a rare political mistake earlier this week by uniting the bickering Democrats with a tweet storm that implied that House members leveling nonstop criticism at America should first \u201cgo back\u201d to \u201chelp fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump didn\u2019t name the Squad members, but everyone knew whom he was referring to. He was predictably called a racist by Democrats and just about everyone with a laptop in the liberal media.<\/p>\n

But he was right to bash the Squad for their radical views. They are not just dumb, they\u2019re dangerous.<\/p>\n

Their presence in Congress reminds me of that famous but unverified quote that Nikita Khrushchev reportedly said in 1956 about how the USSR would eventually defeat America: \u201cWe do not have to invade the United States, we will destroy you from within.\u201d<\/p>\n

So let me get this straight.<\/p>\n

While I have to watch Democrats in Congress waste time hating and sanctioning the president and trashing America as a racist country after it twice elected a black president, I still have an invasion of illegal immigrants on my southern border.<\/p>\n

And while I watch Democrats \u2014 and Republicans \u2014 in Washington spend another year kicking the healthcare-reform can down the road, I have a daughter-in-law and son in Los Angeles who suddenly had their private health insurance cancelled and must now sign up with the state\u2019s system because there\u2019s no competition in California.<\/p>\n

Both Republican and Democrats are at fault for our healthcare and immigration messes.<\/p>\n

Both parties have recently held total control of Congress and the White House at the same time, yet neither one honestly tried solve the country\u2019s two most important problems.<\/p>\n

If they can\u2019t get find the political courage to fix healthcare or immigration by next fall, we shouldn\u2019t give one member of Congress from either party a single vote.<\/p>\n

At this point, the only person I think who deserves to be reelected in 2020 is the Republican who\u2019s repeatedly proved he has the will and the cajones to stand up to the Democrats and the liberal media \u2014 Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

Send comments to Reagan@caglecartoons.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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