The unseemly sight of nearly the entire Democratic congressional delegation sitting on their hands and clinging to their chairs throughout President Trump’s State of the Union speech makes one wonder whether they want America to succeed on Mr. Trump’s watch.
Hundreds of American companies are bringing jobs to America and paying American workers bonuses. Democrats sat stone-faced. The lowest black unemployment rate in 40 years. Democrats smirked. We are defeating ISIS in the Middle East. Ho hum. They acted like petulant 12-year olds who fold their arms in defiance and pout miserably when things don’t go their way.
It’s one thing to root against Mr. Trump and his policies and tweets when you’re in the opposition party. But in watching their behavior and listening to their whining, it is hard not to believe that to bring Mr. Trump down, they are rooting against American workers, our safety, security and general prosperity.
Many on the left are suffering from a severe case of anti-Trump derangement syndrome. ATDS sufferers crave bad news. In a bright sunny economic sky, they point to the single cloud. This is why Nancy Pelosi could only sniff that the bonuses workers are getting from the tax cut are “crumbs.”
The other day I was on CNN and I was sparring with April Ryan of the American Urban Radio Networks — who is to say the least not friendly to Mr. Trump. When I mentioned all of the companies that are hiring more workers and paying bonuses or raises to their employees, including as many as one million Wal-Mart employees, I thought this might elicit some positive reaction.
Instead, she rolled her eyes. “Look at all the stores they are closing and all the layoffs,” she complained. Yes 5,000 Wal-Mart workers will be mostly reassigned, while about 200 times that number will get raises.
Liberals have been protesting Wal-Mart pay scales for years agitating for higher wages, and now Wal-Mart is raising their minimum wage by $2 an hour. But the left still is unhappier than ever.
For at least two weeks the TV networks on the left praised to the hilt Michael Wolff’s book “Fire and Fury.” They obsessed over the charge of whether Mr. Trump was mentally competent to hold office, and even called for his ouster under the 25th Amendment based purely on unsubstantiated charges in a book that has now been exposed as mostly a work of fiction, not fact.
Almost all honest scholars are admitting that the book has zero credibility and is packed with false and made-up accusations with no sources. Many of the Never-Trumpers don’t even care whether the information is true or false. They still act as if it is their Bible. They are the “Birthers” on the left.
Mr. Trump’s successes one year into office are now dismissed as a result of Obama policies, which is rich since Mr. Trump has one-by-one reversed Obama economic policies. If the economy and stock market had tanked in 2017 rather than shifted into a higher gear, liberals would have seized upon the bad news as evidence that his policies are backward failures.
But now that the policies have worked beyond even optimists’ expectations, Mr. Obama gets the credit. They are so blinded by ATDS, they can’t even acknowledge the double standard.
I remember at a Wall Street Journal editorial meeting when Barack Obama was first elected president and he was rolling out Obamacare, the stimulus plan, tax increases, a regulatory assault, and a litany of other dimwitted economic policies, one of the writers said what we were all thinking: If this program works, everything we believe on the economy is wrong.
We opposed the policies, not the man, and in the end the Keynesian big government policies were indeed a failure. We ended up with the weakest recovery from a recession since the Great Depression.
It is true opposition to Mr. Obama on the right prompted some conservatives to similarly root against American success on his watch. When the International Olympics Committee snubbed Mr. Obama’s hometown of Chicago, there were videos of conservatives celebrating the bad news. The cascade of disappointing economic data on Mr. Obama’s watch was too-often cheered by Republicans.
“Some of these people on the right are starting to put politics first and country second,” observed Rep. Chris Van Hollen, Maryland Democrat, who is now a senator. “The American people are starting to wonder if they are rooting against America,” he charged. He had a point back in 2009. But, Senator, look in the mirror.
The problem for the left is the obsession with destroying Mr. Trump and standing against everything he is for, leaves them with a vacuous agenda of their own. How do you run in steadfast opposition to an economic agenda that is working?
Most Americans are not especially ideological. Americans are for what works. The United States is on a roll right now that is so economically powerful there’s no point in debating the wisdom of Mr. Trump’s policies. Their success speaks for itself and transcends political spin.
Tens of millions of Americans are starting to see the benefits in their paychecks of the tax cuts that Democrats lied would raise people’s taxes. If Trump haters continue to sit on their hands and oppose America’s comeback, they are shamefully putting political ideology over patriotism. And they are in for a long and miserable seven years.
• Stephen Moore, associate opinion editor at The Washington Times, is a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation and an economic consultant with FreedomWorks.
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They acted like petulant 12-year olds who fold their arms in defiance and pout miserably when things don’t go their way.
Perfectly stated, and an accurate assessment of their mental ages.
And of COURSE THEY do not wish Americans to succeed.. The Smarter successful people, are all Conservatives..
Not quite — even petulant 3-years-olds have more maturity than the Dhimmicruds at SOTU.
The DemoRAT communists at their best, sitting on their hands and pouting!
– “Tens of millions of Americans are starting to see the benefits in their paychecks of the tax cuts that Democrats lied would raise people’s taxes. ”
Well, I got a net raise for the year of 3,131.04. A raise that I was not expecting. Gee and this piece of crumb will surely help me out.
That must have been one large as heck, loaf of bread, to make THAT many crumbs!! 🙂 🙂
they make me sick to my stomach.
Pelosi sat and sucked her teeth!
They will ALL likely LOSE THEIR SEATS, unless they: 1)lie [A Democratic ‘strong suit’] 2) deceive the electorate into forgetting they VOTED AGAINST them getting a tax cut and/or a job [deception is a Politicians ‘strong suit’].
With how locked in they all seem to have the votes in their home state, we can only DREAM of all those dimbocracks losing their seats..
“They are the “Birthers” on the left.”
You make it sound like the Birthers are out of touch with reality.
Fact: Obama claimed in his book he was born in Kenya.
Fact: Kenya claims he was born there.
LINK
Fact: Obama’s brother claims he was born there.
Fact: Obama never once revealed his Birth Certificate.
Fact: Obama claimed repeatedly (lied) that he did indeed release his Birth Certificate.
LINK
Fact: Obama instead released a Certificate Of Live Birth, which is a different document.
LINK
Fact: Finding a Lib who can understand that a BC and a COLB are two different documents is like trying to find a Lib who understands the Laffer Curve, or who understands America is not a Democracy.
Fact: Snopes says it’s real, so take that with salt grain.
LINK
Fact: Libs are known for forging documents but aren’t good at it (remember GWB’s 1972 military memo done in Word for Windows?)
Fact: Several document experts have pointed out many irregularities in the COLB, as if it was photoshopped.
Fact: The document posted at whitehouse.gov had multiple photoshop (.pdf) layers.
LINK
Fact: Team Obama claimed the FAX machine they used caused the photoshop layers.
Fact: No existing or previous FAX machines have ever used photoshop layers to transmit images.
Why would anyone ever believe Obama?
Link to the forged 1972 George W. Bush documents
LINK
I couldn’t find a snopes.com page saying whether these documents were fake or real. I take this as them admitting they were fake. It was yet another case of Libs forging documents to make their then-most-hated Republican look like an untrustworthy weasel.
Dan Rather famously bet his career on using these obvious forgeries to take down GWB. He failed. He only destroyed his own career and outed himself as an uber-biased ultra-liberal Media elite pushing the anti-Bush Narrative.
“The unseemly sight of nearly the entire Dem congressional delegation sitting on their hands & clinging to their chairs throughout President Trump’s SOTU speech makes one wonder whether they want America to succeed on Mr. Trump’s watch.”
Wrong. It doesn’t make me wonder; it makes me certain they want America to fail on Trump’s watch. It’s to be expected though . . . . liberals traffic in misery & failure.
Nancy Piglosi was suffering for a severe case of constipation that night.
S that explains her ugly appearance and the mouth movements. If she had stood up, she would have probably bombed her companions seated around her…
[Wrong. It doesn’t make me wonder; it makes me certain they want America to fail on Trump’s watch. It’s to be expected though . . . . liberals traffic in misery & failure.]
Me too. A strong america means LESS chance they can shrik us up and install their commie loving one world government.
liberals want America to fail regardless of who’s watch it is on. They are communists.