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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJason Chaffetz Called Out by Salt Lake City Tribune For Refusing to Investigate Trump
From the article:
Chaffetz should realize soon, if he hasnt already, that the president hasnt just plowed this ground, he has already salted the fields for anyone who may come after. This crew dubbed the Prevarication Administration by Washington Post columnist Margaret Sullivan has helped to cure the national media of any hesitation it may have had and to start calling out untruths told by high government officials.
The GOP is increasingly being put on the spot by actual voters. Rather than attempting to discredit the questioners, the GOP must choose between being a real political party or being a lobbying group.
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/02/15/jason-chaffetz-called-salt-lake-city-tribune-refusing-investigate-trump.html
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Voters, or his contributors?
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)He thinks he can remain relevant by checking the political winds, so I would say, he could be vulnerable to lose his seat if we get smart and go after him. He is trying to placate both.
frankieallen
(583 posts)BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)anything.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)No real principles, just looking for money and power.
Welcome to DU.
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)Thanks for the welcome.
sheshe2
(83,708 posts)Bravo, great post...thank you.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)The GOP has been framing the narrative for so long that it is good to see the Democrats taking a page from Occupy and channeling their anger.
sheshe2
(83,708 posts)After the women's march and the immigration marches. We are not just angry, we are getting even.
Rise Release Dance
Insist Persist Resist Exist
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)And there are more of us then them. The reason that voter suppression is so important for the GOP.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)marybourg
(12,606 posts)George Orwell's essays.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)more so than the Bush Administration.
marybourg
(12,606 posts)fresh expression in political writing.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)If you can provide a link I would appreciate it. And I will try looking also.
Orwellian to me is the way that totalitarians love to manipulate the language until it is meaningless. Just as Trump and Co. are attempting to erase the distinction between fact and opinion.
marybourg
(12,606 posts)his fiction comes from his love of language. you'll see in his essay the relationship to the fiction. enjoy!
ornotna
(10,797 posts)marybourg
(12,606 posts)university. That was the very first link that came up. interesting. I believe the Russians are great admirers of Orwell. Try this (NPR):
http://www.npr.org/blogs/ombudsman/Politics_and_the_English_Language-1.pdf
lastlib
(23,191 posts)One of my PoliSci profs in college required it in a course I took on political parties & interest groups. VERY GOOD, IMPORTANT reading!
ornotna
(10,797 posts)I try not to click on Russian sites if I can help it.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Amaryllis
(9,524 posts)This crew dubbed the Prevarication Administration by Washington Post columnist Margaret Sullivan has helped to cure the national media of any hesitation it may have had and to start calling out untruths told by high government officials.
Only wish they'd started a whole lot earlier. But it is heartening they are doing it now.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)The media has confused being objective with being mere transcribers for too long. A lie is not simply another opinion to be presented in a debate format. A lie is a lie.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,837 posts)An island of tolerance in a sea of bigotry.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)the GOP politicians will be put in a spotlight. And with luck Trump's attacks on the media will encourage the media to also spotlight what the GOP plans to do.
We know that Trump serves as a distraction for corporate shills like Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell, but the distraction may serve to convince the corporate media to act like a real media.