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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumUSA Today: "Forecast of distrust with a chance of revolution"
link; excerpt:According to a recent Associated Press poll, the public lacks confidence in government. And by lacks confidence, I mean really lacks confidence. Specifically, More than 6 in 10 respondents expressed only slight confidence or none at all that the federal government can make progress on the problems facing the nation in 2016.
And this isnt just Republicans in a sour mood after seven years of Obama. As the AP noted, Perhaps most vexing for the dozen or so candidates vying to succeed President Barack Obama, the poll indicates widespread skepticism about the government's ability to solve problems, with no significant difference in the outlook between Republicans and Democrats....The Middle East is on fire; Putin is running rampant in eastern Europe and Syria; Saudi Arabia is probably looking to get an atomic bomb to balance the one that Iran is expected to get in spite of (because of?) the recent U.S./Iran nuclear deal; and Europe is flooded with migrants who dont look likely to integrate well. The latter is of course a result of the Middle East problems and of the overthrow of Libyas dictator, Col. Moammar Gadhafi, in a war-of-choice launched without congressional approval at the behest of Hillary Clinton, then-United Nations ambassador Susan Rice and then-National Security Council senior aide Samantha Power.
Meanwhile, at home, the economy limps along despite seven years of recovery and record deficits. Among the Democratic political candidates, only Bernie Sanders seems to make a big deal of real unemployment (including underemployment and people who have given up looking for jobs) being much higher than the rosy official unemployment numbers. ... Then theres the official lawlessness. The IRS, hiding from investigations that it targeted Tea Party groups, keeps "accidentally" destroying hard drives. Hillarys emails also keep mysteriously disappearing, and now the State Department has used the blizzard as an excuse for not producing court-ordered emails, though its known about the order for months. Writing in The Wall Street Journal, former attorney general Michael Mukasey says that Hillary should face criminal charges, but who really expects that? Shes politically untouchable, which says bad things about the rule of law.
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USA Today: "Forecast of distrust with a chance of revolution" (Original Post)
Attorney in Texas
Jan 2016
OP
I can only remember the look of shock on Karl Rove's face at his demand that Meghan Kelly
libdem4life
Jan 2016
#3
Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)1. She is seen as too big to fail.
"Writing in The Wall Street Journal, former attorney general Michael Mukasey says that Hillary should face criminal charges, but who really expects that? Shes politically untouchable, which says bad things about the rule of law."
jeff47
(26,549 posts)2. Clearly the winning strategy in November
Is to go after those 4-in-10 voters. There's no way a candidate could possibly fail with that strategy!!
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)3. I can only remember the look of shock on Karl Rove's face at his demand that Meghan Kelly
go back to straighten out things in the back room the way he planned it. It was a moment I'll never forget.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)4. Carson polling at only 7% today.
He may be hibernating.