A great speech! https://t.co/ubFyhjNxVD via @Scantojr— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) March 1, 2017
Europe and the challenges for President Trump with Michael Prada..........Listen in now at https://t.co/w9ABgOCcqh. #BlogTalkRadio— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) February 28, 2017
Schumer in a mess https://t.co/tHhIWLLATy via @Scantojr— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) February 28, 2017
It will thus be very difficult for anyone capable of critical thinking to believe these very same “news” outlets when they report that a law whose approval numbers have been underwater by double digits for more than six years has suddenly become as popular as Adele.It will be likewise difficult for anyone with an IQ exceeding single digits to believe a Democrat polling firm like Public Policy Polling (PPP) when they claim to discover a sudden increase in public esteem for a Democrat-sponsored health “reform” law that has historically been reviled by the electorate.
Sunday Feb 26: The week in review with Bill Katz, the editor of Urgent Agenda......click to listen..... https://t.co/cWLsPPJDlQ— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) February 26, 2017
NO Oscars for me.......sick of stupid political speeches......so I am watching "The Thin Man" on TCM...... pic.twitter.com/K5Ed3JgNCF— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) February 27, 2017
A few thoughts about the political scene plus Lincoln 1861... on Silvio Canto Jr will air 02/23. https://t.co/CcYvcL4um5 #BlogTalkRadio— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) February 23, 2017
ICE and immigration, Trump vs media and George Washington 1732.....Listen in now at https://t.co/b9YP6ziZ7w. #BlogTalkRadio— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) February 23, 2017
Nixon in China 1972 & other stories of the first month of President Trump...Listen in now at https://t.co/WhlvZCF4B8. #BlogTalkRadio— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) February 21, 2017
Obama Care 2017 and beyond with Dr. Ileana Johnson, author & economist.....Listen in now at https://t.co/ssdAXxY4Gt. #BlogTalkRadio— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) February 20, 2017
“We’re not experiencing the best of times,” Ginsburg said Thursday on BBC’s “Newsnight,” though she did not comment directly about the president.But, the 83-year-old jurist said the public’s resistance to the new administration — on full display at last month’s Women’s March protests — has given her “reason to hope that we will see a better day.”“A great man once said that the true symbol of the United States is not the bald eagle; it is the pendulum, and when the pendulum swings too far in one direction, it will go back,” she told BBC.“Some terrible things have happened in the United States, but one can only hope that we learn from those bad things,” she added, citing the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II as an example.
Saturday Feb 25: Justice Ginsberg, the immigration debate and a few other thoughts.....click to listen...... https://t.co/UF9ogkQHJP— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) February 25, 2017
On paper, this election should be a golden opportunity for Democrats to make political inroads.The district is filled with the type of college-educated voters who have gravitated away from Trump—including independents who don’t have strong partisan loyalties but tend to vote Republican.Eleven Republicans will be fighting against each other on an all-party primary ballot, making it likely the eventual GOP standard-bearer will be wounded heading into an expected runoff. Trump’s presidency has gotten off to a rocky start, giving any Democrat plenty of material to work with.But the early Democratic favorite in the race is about as awkward a fit for this particular district as Democrats could find. Jon Ossoff, a self-described investigative filmmaker, is a 29-year-old Bernie Sanders backer and a former national security staffer for liberal Rep. Hank Johnson…Ossoff fills the confrontational role to a tee.In case his campaign message wasn’t clear, his website is emblazoned with the headline: “Georgia: Stand Up To Trump.”Making the race about Trump is helping him raise his profile and bringing in loads of campaign cash.But money isn’t a substitute for a message that can win over Republicans who will find Ossoff’s down-the-line liberal views as problematic as Trump’s populism.Democratic activists may be energized by Ossoff’s broadsides against the president, but they will end up disappointed if he doesn’t meld them with a centrist message designed to attract disaffected Republicans…If Democrats can even run competitively in this district, it would be a sign that an unadulterated anti-Trump message can pay dividends.But if the next Republican nominee performs like Price—who never won less than 62 percent of the vote in his seven campaigns—it will send a signal that simply being the opposition isn’t enough to win back control of Congress.“If you have an old white guy who’s hard right-wing, pro-Trump, anti-Muslim, and anti-gay marriage running against a woman who comes across like Michelle Nunn, that’s the dynamic that could be a problem for us,” said one GOP strategist tracking the race.“But you’re not going to have that dynamic.”
Politics today and we remember Lincoln 1861 & the Marines Iwo Jima 1945.....Listen in now at https://t.co/CcYvcL4um5. #BlogTalkRadio— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) February 23, 2017
Team Trump’s newest immigration orders definitely toughen enforcement, but they’re a far cry from mass roundups.If the administration sticks to this approach — prioritizing the serious criminals for apprehension and deportation, while also making it harder to succeed at immigrating illegally — it’ll have broad public support.Over-the-top approaches (deporting law-abiding moms) will mean big trouble.In that regard, it’s worth noting that President Trump still hasn’t touched former President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which gives safe harbor and work permits to those brought here illegally as young children, a k a “the dreamers.”The Department of Homeland Security also sought to provide instant clarity this time ’round, with background briefings even as DHS chief John Kelly issued his latest orders.In a conference call with reporters, one official noted, “We do not have the personnel, time or resources to go into communities and round up people and do all kinds of mass throwing folks on buses. That’s entirely a figment of folks’ imagination.”Yet Trump is moving to actually enforce US law, reversing the across-the-board Obama-era slowdown of enforcement actions. Violent criminals remain the top priority, but are no longer the only priority.Now plea-bargaining a felony down to a misdemeanor won’t leave you automatically exempt from immigration enforcement, nor will DHS officials wink at an illegal immigrants’ fraudulent filing for welfare benefits.Overall, DHS is pledging to “treat everyone humanely and with dignity” — while making clear its determination to “execute the laws of the United States” and that everything in Trump’s order “is consistent with what Congress put into law.”In short, it’s a promise of vigorous but rationally targeted enforcement, which is what most Americans have long wanted. As long as that’s what it proves in practice, it should be a big political win for Trump.
Wednesday Feb 22: ICE, Trump & media plus we remember George Washington 1732....click to listen.... ... https://t.co/oeRD6AKQ4B— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) February 23, 2017
As in Argentina, Venezuela and Brazil, the social programs in Ecuador that lifted millions out of poverty were underwritten by a commodities boom that sputtered out years ago.Government revenue, around $25 billion a year when oil prices spiked, has now shrunk to less than half that, $11 billion, mainly because of the declining price of oil.That has left the country heavily indebted to China.Ecuador’s economy ground to a halt last year after growing, on average, 4 percent or more from 2006 to 2014.“The model has reached its end because the money has run out,” said César Robalino, a conservative banker at the Pichincha College of Economists in Quito.Mr. Robalino said Ecuador’s next president, regardless of political affiliation, would need to take a tougher line on spending, reduce the number of government workers and cut subsidies like the ones used to reduce gas prices for all Ecuadoreans.
“It’s an anti-status-quo sentiment, just like Brexit and Trump,” Aragão said, “but I don’t think it’s about ideology as much as a lack of results.”
The real chaos in the capital is in minds of those who oppose him — the same folks who determined he would fail even before he began. The establishment media is in a fury because he won’t recognize them at press conferences, even though they blithely ignored the fact that his predecessor ignored the conservative media for eight years.
Many Democratic disagreements with Trump’s executive orders are valid and there is a clear opportunity for opposition to Trump on the basis of their faults and flaws.However, if Democrats want to win back power they cannot do so by moving further left, resisting Trump at every move, and taking to the streets.Put simply, the Democratic Party is on life support and there is a quiet, but ruthless, war being fought over its future.While the Democratic Party is driven left by anti-Trump activists, protestors, and Senators such as Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, America itself remains a fundamentally center-right nation.
Fox News Channel's Brenda Buttner Passes Away https://t.co/FbphAIjz1x— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) February 21, 2017
192-182? Was that a basketball game? I guess they lost me after the 2nd quarter......way too easy to score! pic.twitter.com/7SPnAbhbQN— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) February 20, 2017
You ask me how much I need you, must I explain?
I need you, oh my darling, like roses need rain
You ask how long I’ll love you, I’ll tell you true
Until the Twelfth of Never, I’ll still be loving you…
For example, he ranks third in “Pursued Equal Justice For All,” ahead of Grant (reconstruction and the Civil Rights Act of 1875), Coolidge (gave Indians citizenship), Eisenhower (sent the 101st to enforce school desegregation and the Civil Rights Act of 1957), and Truman (desegregated the military). Frankly, I can find nothing in Obama’s portfolio that speaks to equal justice for all. The court legalized gay marriage without him. A gentleman’s C puts him at 22.Eighth in economic management? He added $9 trillion to the national debt and we never recovered from the recession he inherited. Bottom 10 in that category.Twenty-fourth in international relations? He bombed countries without provocation, armed the Islamic State, and let Iran develop nuclear weapons. Bottom 10 in that category.His domestic policy consisted of Obamacare, which elected a Republican House in 2010, a Republican Senate in 2014, and a Republican president in 2016.Obama leaves the White House having achieved nothing positive on the economic front, nothing positive on the international front, and nothing positive on the domestic front.
The week in review with Bill Katz, the editor of Urgent Agenda.........Listen in now at tobtr.com/s/9827891. #BlogTalkRadio
