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Better to have a few rats than to be one
By BALTIMORE SUN EDITORIAL BOARD
JUL 27, 2019 | 6:36 PM
In case anyone missed it, the president of the United States had some choice words to describe Marylands 7th congressional district on Saturday morning. Here are the key phrases: no human being would want to live there, it is a very dangerous & filthy place, Worst in the USA and, our personal favorite: It is a rat and rodent infested mess. He wasnt really speaking of the 7th as a whole. He failed to mention Ellicott City, for example, or Baldwin or Monkton or Prettyboy, all of which are contained in the sprawling yet oddly-shaped district that runs from western Howard County to southern Harford County. No, Donald Trumps wrath was directed at Baltimore and specifically at Rep. Elijah Cummings, the 68-year-old son of a former South Carolina sharecropper who has represented the district in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1996.
Its not hard to see whats going on here. The congressman has been a thorn in this presidents side, and Mr. Trump sees attacking African American members of Congress as good politics, as it both warms the cockles of the white supremacists who love him and causes so many of the thoughtful people who dont to scream. President Trump bad-mouthed Baltimore in order to make a point that the border camps are clean, efficient & well run," which, of course, they are not unless you are fine with all the overcrowding, squalor, cages and deprivation to be found in what the Department of Homeland Securitys own inspector-general recently called a ticking time bomb."...
As heartening as it has been to witness public figures rise to Charm Citys defense on Saturday, from native daughter House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Mayor Bernard C. Jack Young, we would above all remind Mr. Trump that the 7th District, Baltimore included, is part of the United States that he is supposedly governing. The White House has far more power to affect change in this city, for good or ill, than any single member of Congress including Mr. Cummings. If there are problems here, rodents included, they are as much his responsibility as anyones, perhaps more because he holds the most powerful office in the land.
Finally, while we would not sink to name-calling in the Trumpian manner or ruefully point out that he failed to spell the congressmans name correctly (its Cummings, not Cumming) we would tell the most dishonest man to ever occupy the Oval Office, the mocker of war heroes, the gleeful grabber of womens private parts, the serial bankrupter of businesses, the useful idiot of Vladimir Putin and the guy who insisted there are good people among murderous neo-Nazis that hes still not fooling most Americans into believing hes even slightly competent in his current post. Or that he possesses a scintilla of integrity. Better to have some vermin living in your neighborhood than to be one.
https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/editorial/bs-ed-0728-trump-baltimore-20190727-k6ac4yvnpvcczlaexdfglifada-story.html
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Dorian Gray
(13,491 posts)that'll leave a mark.
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(81,451 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,328 posts)That's gotta leave a mark even on the pile of animated cat shit occupying our White House.