SDDP vice-chair Joe Lowe weighs in from Rapid City with his plea that Republicans stop blowing smoke up our skirts about the incompetent in the White House.
Oh Please Stop the Manure Spreader
By Joe Lowe
Vice Chairman South Dakota Democratic Party
It is amazing to me to see how the GOP defends this maniacal President. They continue to make excuses for the poor decisions he makes and his aberrant behavior. He is the leader of the Republican Party, so I guess by the silence of most members of Congress the Presidents actions and values are the new GOP values.
According to a Washington Post article (January 10th 2018), this President has told more than 2000 lies and misleading claims since his January 20, 2018, election. So what does that mean for our country? First we lose credibility with our allies. According to an August 16, 2017 article in the UK Telegraph (“US allies ‘trust Vladimir Putin more than Donald Trump’“), our allies, including Japan, South Korea, and seven European NATO members, trust Vladimir Putin more the Donald Trump.
Besides trust issues, let’s look at other issues facing America as a result of this president.
1. $7.8 million was spent on the Benghazi hearings. Part of that expense was to investigate Hillary Clinton’s use of a private e-mail server, which the Republicans claimed may have led to improper handling of classified information.
According to a February 15, 2018 article by NBC News (“Scores of top White House officials lack permanent security clearances“), more than 130 political appointees working in the Executive Branch of the Office of the President did not have permanent security clearances as of November 2017. Many have access to to top secret materials.
So we spent part of the $7.8 million on investigating the former Secretary of State’s use of a private e-mail server. Yet we have 130 Presidential Appointees in the Executive Office of the President with access to top secret information with no permanent security clearance. Voters, isn’t something wrong here?
2. According to a Forbes Magazine article on February 9th 2018 (“Trump’s Federal Budget Deficit: $1 Trillion And Beyond“), the US Federal deficit was $587 billion in President Obama’s last year, and it grew to $666 billion in President Trump’s first year in office. A US treasury report shows the US Federal deficit will probably increase to close to $1 trillion in 2019. So, GOP, what happened to the mantra,“We can’t leave that kind of debt to our children,” that you used when President Obama was in office? Looks to me as if the new GOP is the spending party.
3. DACA is the Democrats’ fault. Really, Mr. President, what reality do you live in? May I remind you that you ended DACA. In September, Republican and Democratic leaders came close to a DACA deal for you. You, Mr. President, ended the deal a week later. And the Democrats offered you $25 million to fund your border wall. So stop the rhetoric about how much you care. You have the ability to put a DACA deal together.
4. Let’s start a trade war with China – another great President Trump idea. Trump imposed tariffs on China, and China retaliated and imposed new tariffs on the US, and the stock market plunged. US consumers will now pay more for imported goods. For South Dakota, this will hit our agriculture industry. Our state is ranked 8th in the US in soybean production and 13th in pork production. China has imposed tariffs on both. In addition, Trump cut 15.5% in the US budget for agriculture. So, all you agriculture producers in this state, are you happy with this seat-of-the-pants trade war your President has started on top of the budget cuts to agriculture?
We could go on and talk about chaos in the White House, firings, alleged affairs with women, etc.; however we will surely have an opportunity to do so in the future.
It is time to stop the manure spreading and call this deeply flawed President on his poor policies, lies and misleading claims. I hope that our members of Congress will stand up to him and that the citizens of this state will vote him out of office.
I also call on our South Dakota Democratic Party to hit the streets and work to get Democrats elected in 2018. We need everyone’s time, donations and talents. It is your choice about the future of the United States. Engage and let’s start the Big Blue Wave.
—Joe Lowe, Rapid City, 2018.04.05
It should also be of great concern to all Democrats that Trumps relentless and dangerous attacks on the media shows his weakness for the 1st Amendment.
Just a few weeks ago a gunman attempted to gain access to the CNN studios. The gunman was fueled by Trump’s unjustified rants about the “fake media” and provided the gunman with an inspiration to kill reporters.
One typo to correct: it was $25 billion rather than $25 million that was offered by the Democrats for the wall in order to facilitate a DACA deal.
Joe, Cory, Roger, & Darin,
What was the Federal debt when Obama became President and what was it when he left office?
Another typo:
“since his January 20, 2018, election.” This should be, “since his January 20, 2017 inauguration.” Does nobody proofread these things?
Still, the point is that the GOP Party put its crazy uncle in charge. Now they have a conspiracy to remain silent each and every day, each and every time their crazy uncle pops off. All for the sake of family unity. And he pops off all the time.
Actually, the lazy fat guy in the white house is a lot like the lazy fat guy running North Korea. neither one cares about their citizens, and they both feed propaganda machines with lies, and both are all-consumed with lining their own pockets and spending lavishly on luxuries. The only difference I can see is that Kim murders his family members, and Trump throws away his wives.
The “family values” party is rendered mute while all of this goes on.
It seems to me that anybody who votes for an egomaniac of bad character and no principles is getting exactly what they deserve. Trump gave himself the multi-million dollar Corker/Trump Kickback real estate tax breaks, and he’s giving his supporters in farm country the finger. Stew on that while he spends taxpayer money on his weekly Florida golf trip.
Wasting your time on Trump when we should be focusing on 2 big monumental races in SD. Governor and US Congress seat this Nov.
Jason falls in line with the regular GOP modus operandi. When they can’t defend the CURRENT person sitting in the oval office- the one that is in charge right now, they have to throw up the “but Obama” – “but Hillary” b.s. to see if it sticks. Sigh
Good write up by Mr Lowe. He not only makes great points, he puts data behind his arguments.
Jason, what was the federal debt when Bill Clinton left office and George W Bush became president? And what was the federal debt when Bush left office and Obana took over?
Iowa voting republican bully lederman bashes Dems and progressives running in the building wave, babbling about quality vs. quantity, pantomime pretending (forgetting EB5, MCEC GearUp frauds which republicans didn’t notice as they were too busy scrambling for crony money) in RCJ. https://dakotafreepress.com/2018/02/18/gop-leaders-spew-elitist-hogwash-in-campaign-against-dennerts-indy-primary-vote-bill/
https://www.yankton.net/community/article_ac28ecac-9d0a-11e3-9404-001a4bcf887a.html
Dan wanted his waterfront property flooded on the muddy mo paid for by taxpayers, (using Iowa, not SD lawyers ’cause that’s where he voted), but lost. Quality, not quantity. Sure Dan. Tell it to the river, and democratic voters (51% is all that matters). :)
Rich,
You didn’t know Obama added more debt than all of the previous Presidents?
I don’t know what to say to you other than you should research more and read and listen less to your liberal news.
Seriously off topic, but for your information Jason is now saying he is waiting for Lalley to come on DFP and invite him to debate Cory.
My apologies.
Jason,
Sorry it does not appear that Republican Presidents are better for the economy. This quote came from a Money Magazine article published on September 26th of 2016. It is entitled “Are Democrats or Republicans Better for the Economy?” Please feel free go on the web to view the article or other on the web. Bud – you are entitled to your own opinions but not your own facts. You are starting to sound like the President.
Here is the quote -“A new study from WalletHub analyzed economic indicators such as GDP growth and annual poverty rate change under each presidential administration from 1950 and 2015. In another vote for the importance of bipartisanship, WalletHub determined that the economy has performed best overall with a Democratic president and a Republican Congress.”
Joe Lowe
Joe,
Here is a fact.
Data released by the Department of Agriculture show that the number of participants in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), otherwise known as food stamps, dropped to 42,182,443 for fiscal 2017 – a decline of 2,036,920 from the fiscal 2016 total of 44,219,363.
USDA figures since show that the program has gone from costing taxpayers about $250 million for about 2.8 million recipients in 1969, under President Richard Nixon, to a peak of costing nearly $80 billion for nearly 48 million recipients in 2013, under President Barack Obama.
The numbers have declined since then, in part because of the booming economy and because some states have restored work requirements needed to qualify for SNAP, Fox News reported. In many cases the work requirements had been waived because of the recession of 2007-09.
The 2017 figure of 42.1 million people assisted is the lowest figure since 2010, when the program assisted 40.3 million people at a cost to taxpayers of $68.2 billion.
Do you dispute the fact that Obama added more debt than all of the Presidents before him?
“You didn’t know Obama added more debt than all of the previous Presidents?
I don’t know what to say to you other than you should research more and read and listen less to your liberal news.”
You’re afraid to answer the question. The proof: you deflect. And where did I state I listen to “liberal news”? Please point to that statement. Oh, wait, never mind. You can’t. LOL
Where did Joe mention anything about SNAP?
That comment was another attempt to deflect from Joe’s data.
Just for you, Jason. Read the author’s bio, it’s impressive and makes his opinions credible. Opinions that he backs up with facts.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2018/01/15/obamas-federal-debt-grew-at-a-slower-rate-than-reagan-h-w-bush-or-w-bush/#6aaae5f31917
Following up on my earlier comment expressing my concern for Trump’s attacks on the free press, yesterday Trump’s Homeland Security NPPD, (National Protections and Programs Directorate) announced that it will now be collecting data on American journalist and bloggers.
We can only guess why Trump wants information on journalists and bloggers.