In their internal strategic sessions, Democrats clearly tell each other that they can close the federal government with the confidence that the national media will blame the Republicans, no matter what. You could imagine that the Republicans are internally afraid of a government closure, knowing that the media will blame them.
This is the pattern with the temporary employment networks since Bill Clinton vs. Newt Gingrich three decades ago.
When senate -remedy leader Chuck Schumer, DN.Y., voted to prevent a closure in March, the base of the party was furious. PBS anchor Geoff Bennett was taken by the taxpayer to the task in an interview: “There are Democrats who say that, if the government had closed, you forced the republicans to possess. All the pain that you just described would have republyins to pay the political prizeins.”
Journalists reward “tactically ruthless” Democrats and punish those bending. They will not spend time thinking about how Democrats currently have terrible survey reviews, and Schumer is afraid to be challenged in a primary campaign by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, DN.Y. Democrats are always supposed to be noble in their resistance, not selfish.
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Bennett interviewed Schumer again on 24 September and they were more aligned. But the PBS gastheer still pushed ruthlessness: “Democrats are indignant about what they see as abuse of power of President Trump. But has the way he has exercised power, you reconsider how Democrats should rule if you regain the White House, given the tools, the extensive executive authority and the approach he has left behind?”
ABC reporter Rachel Scott used the term “Democrats say” three times in her evening story before the closure on 26 September. There was no “republicans saying” sense. Three days later, Scott repeated the DNC points: “Democrats refuse to withdraw and say that they will not vote to finance the government, unless republicans are reversing a cut in Medicaid and prevent healthcare premiums from rising for around 20 million Americans.”
Scott held the Republican reaction to Trump “Mocking Democratic Leadership with an AI -generated video on social media, with manufactured and false audio. The video shows an AI version of house mowerness leader Hakeem Jeffries, D.Y., with a Sombrero Minderheider, with a Senate Snor, a Nep Snorr, a Nep Snorr, a Nep Snorr, Schumer. ” In other words, don’t laugh. They are bad and intolerant people.
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The networks always drag out the SOB stories for their debt republican spider. Scott explained the consequences: “If the government is closed, no less than four million federal employees could go without a salary. Two million troops could be forced to work without wages, so that military families are left in Limbo. Heather Campbell’s husband is a major in the Air Force in Alabama. She is worried about making edges.”
ABC’s Jack Smith pushed this tactic during a closure in December 1995: “And the Shutdown now has a human face. Joe Skattleberry and his wife Lisa both work for the government. Both are redeemed. They can’t afford a Christmas tree.” The following month, CBS reporter Scott Pelley was worse: “In April, terrorists tried to kill them. Nowadays politicians stopped their salary. In the social security office of Oklahoma City they are ordered to work for nothing.”
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Democrats and Republicans are confronted with enormous different interviews on employment networks. Exhibition A was ABC -morning host George Stephanopoulos, the former secretary of Clinton Press. Speaker Mike Johnson was confronted with hardball questions from Stephanopoulos: “The democratic proposal is designed to prevent millions of Americans from losing their health insurance, losing medicoid coverage or paying higher healthcare premiums. Why are you against it?”
Speaker Johnson replied: “That is an absurd explanation what you said there. Let’s be clear about what happened last night, George.” Stephanopoulos shot back: “It is a factual explanation.”
Subsequently, ABC switched to Democrat leader Hakeem Jeffries, who put a series of “your answer, SIR” questions from Stephanopoulos: “You also heard the speaker say that the Democrats wanted a Health Care Fund for illegal aliens and immigrants who tried to reverse the interior Payment of the President?
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Nevertheless, every aggregator places ABC News on the internet in the “reliable source” category, while conservative sources are considered unreliable. It all depends on how you define “reliably”. ABC News was also “reliable” for Democrats on their program “The View”. Moderator Whoopi Goldberg Read Democrat Talking Points of a notepivity card.
When CBS Morning-Gastheer Tony Dokoupil tried to underline a reality in Democrats who support the financing of health care for illegal immigrants, Senator Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. Practically shouted against him because he was disobedient. “It’s a flat lie. It’s a flat lie! … There is nothing in Medicaid, nothing in Medicare, which allows one immigrant without papers to get one dollar help. None.” That is incorrect. Blue states such as New York openly advertise their Medicaid -benefits for illegal migrants.
Dokoupil did not go back. “Sorry, in the Democratic counter-offer, the proposal for financing, there is a recovery of medicaid benefits for certain non-citizens who were taken away in the ‘large, beautiful account’, as Republicans expressed it.”
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Just as most political observers are not optimistic that the closure will end quickly, we must, based on decades of evidence, assume that there is no reason for the temporary employment networks to be less part -time for the rest of this closure.
The solution is always inside. The game is always rigged.
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