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Predicting the Headlines of How It is ALL Our Fault if There Is No Speaker Elected. [1]
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Date: 2023-01-05
Let’s get right to it. We all know that few people on this planet, and presumably any other planet with lifeforms, are as eye-roll inducing as most of the mainstream media. But perhaps eye-roll is not the word. Perhaps agenda is the right word. By and large elitist Libertarians, mainstream reporters bend over backwards to make equivocate on every subject.
The following is only a slight exaggeration.
MAGA Invades Capitol..We Look At What Democrats Did to Enrage Them.
Trump Drops Ball on Covid Response-How Democrats Failed to Work With the administration.
Trump Caught With Secret Documents-Why Democrats Refused to Advise on Archives Rules.
Joe Biden Saves Bus Full of Children While Riding on Bike-Why Republicans Would Have Saved the Driver Too!
So how, pray tell, might the media portray this subject, if it drags on through the weekend? Keep in mind, this is just half parody half prediction.
NY Times: Democrats Need to Buckle to Reality.
WAPO: Nation Waits to See if Democrats Compromise on Speaker Vote.
LA Times: Bipartisanship Gene Missing in Democrats.
Houston Chronicle: Intransigent Democrats Hamstring McCarthy’s Bid to Be Speaker
The point is, there is nothing here to suggest that the media is holding the Republican feet to the political fire.
All day I am hearing about Democrats cutting a deal with McCarthy, uh, excuse me, Hakeem Jeffries is closer to victory than Trump’s butler.
What I really love is that these people are so out of touch that their own hubris bubbles up in making assumptions about what Americans think. They don’t have a clue what Americans think. Now it might seem that those above predicted headlines are satirical.
Well let’s take a look at The Daily Beast-
Republicans and Democrats Quietly Consider a Speaker Deal
The idea has been circulating around the U.S. Capitol this week like a hopelessly lost tour group: If Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) fails to win enough Republican votes to become speaker, Democrats could bail him out—or help elect a compromise candidate to the post. Both Republicans and Democrats have dismissed the proposal as either an Aaron Sorkin-esque fantasy or a deliberate ploy from pro-McCarthy forces to scare the GOP holdouts into getting behind the California Republican. But with the speakership still in limbo after six roll call votes in two days, the House still paralyzed, and McCarthy’s path to the gavel still very much in doubt, the once far-fetched idea is starting to sound downright reasonable.
It doesn’t matter how clear Democrats are on the matter, the press will continue to push the “It’s their place to bail Republicans out of their own mess” line.
Such is American media today.
Listen carefully and you can hear the fine tuned, decades-long honed rhythms of “It’s both sides.”
It is not. One side was elected to operate the House, and is not proving itself capable of doing that.
One side is completely united while sporting a history of getting things done. But not enough people know that, and rely on bothsiderism equivocations coming from a lapdog press.
Woof.
and Barf.
-ROC
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-ROC
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