Here are a few interesting post-election news items that you may have missed.
THE GOP REPLACEMENT FOR OBAMACARE was always going to include the popular coverage for pre-existing conditions and 25-year-old dependents, but now the media would have us believe it came from Donald Trump’s meeting with President Obama. Balderdash! Heaven forbid that they should take the time to read the GOP’s “A Better Way to Fix Health Care;” both are included. It’s been on the Internet for some time. Did anyone think to read the repeal bill sent to the president for signature in January 2016?
LOOK FOR a number of establishment types in the Trump administration even though he was an anti-establishment candidate. He is an excellent judge of people. I expect they won’t be around long if they don’t live up to his expectations. The media is already in a frenzy over some of the names surfacing and his first 100-day priorities.
Oprah Winfrey speaks out. (aceshowbiz.com)
BLACKS COME DOWN ON OPRAH – “Everybody take a deep breath! Hope lives,“ said Oprah Winfrey in an Associated Press interview following the president-elect’s meeting with President Obama, “I could sense, maybe I’m wrong, but I could sense from Donald Trump’s body language even when he came out of the acceptance speech, that brotha has been humbled by this world thing.” Her comments didn’t go down very well with her followers.
BEYONCE’, LE BRON JAMES, and a few others in between, drew crowds for Hillary Clinton when she couldn’t do it on her own, but it didn’t bring the black vote to the Clinton candidacy. While she reminded blacks that “the choice is clear … the stakes couldn’t be higher” and warned that a Trump presidency could set black America back decades, they didn’t respond to her call.
TRUMP ASKED BLACKS, WHAT HAVE YOU GOT TO LOSE? There wasn’t a ground swell for him, but he did better than expected with blacks. Even the left-leaning Washington Post quoted some disillusioned blacks who felt that Obama’s election hadn’t noticeably improved their lives. “What’s the point?” asked a grocery store clerk, “we made history, but I don’t see change.” Another interviewee remarked, “We’ve been snake-bitten too many times before.”
Portrait of a loser, Hillary Clinton. (REUTERS/Carlos Barria photo)
HILLARY BLAMES FBI DIRECTOR COMEY for her loss to Donald Trump, according to participants in a Saturday conference call with her top campaign funders. She told donors that Trump was able to seize on both of Comey’s announcements to attack her. She will never admit that it was the private server she installed to keep us from the inner-workings of her operation. She should be happy she only lost the presidency, not her freedom.
UNIONS AND TRUMP – You may recall that I recently wrote that union members were rumored to be planning to vote for Trump despite Clinton signs in union meeting halls. On Friday, United Auto Workers President Dennis Williams indicated his organization can work with the president elect, and wants to meet with him.
“WHITE WORKNG-CLASS MEN AND WOMEN vented their frustrations at global elites, well-education liberals, a condescending media and a capable but sometimes dissembling Democrat candidate in a pantsuit,” wrote Michael Kazin about the Rust Belt support of Trump, according to piece “Labor’s Long Fall,” in Saturday’s Wall Street Journal. He wrote of Trump’s promise to revive the coal industry and scrap or renegotiate trade deals. “Ironically, for many of them,” Kazin wrote, “the America that they hope the president-elect can make great again is one from an era in which unions were strong and incomes more equal.”
DEMOCRAT REP. DEBBIE DINGELL of Michigan warned the Clinton campaign that Michigan could go for Trump, but they said she was hyperbolic, nuts, crazy.
JEB BUSH, JOHN KASICH and both Presidents Bush called Trump to congratulate him and the president-elect called Mitt Romney in a push for party unity.
THERE ARE NOW 37 STATES WITH GOP GOVERNORS in addition to holding the majority in the U.S. House and Senate. Look for Trump to return more decisions to the states, especially education.
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