Hysterical Headlines (Funny or Absurd) for January 10th:
Bottom Line: These are your daily doses of nonsense from the (often GSS) media and my hot takes...
McConnell, a Swamp Creature Trump Can Count On Charles Hurt, Washington Times
Excerpt: Mr. McConnell’s steadfast opposition preserved the opening for President Trump to fill with Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, a true constitutionalist. In addition, by keeping that high court seat open, Mr. McConnell gave conservatives a big reason to vote in the 2016 election, undoubtedly helping Mr. Trump win.
Another, earlier, accomplishment that went largely unnoticed was his success at keeping every Senate Republican in line against Obamacare — leaving the disaster a partisan government overreach owned 100 percent by Democrats.
Then, for the past year we have been hearing from the salivating jackals in the media how Mr. Trump’s legislative agenda was doomed after Republicans failed to repeal Obamacare. His entire presidency was headed for the trash heap. Even worse, Republicans in Congress started going wobbly. But throughout, Mr. McConnell proved to be a savvy purveyor of Mr. Trump’s agenda.
In the end, he not only delivered on Mr. Trump’s tax cut package, but also managed to insert (on his own) a repeal of the Obamacare mandate, which effectively guts the whole health care Ponzi boondoggle.
To be sure, Mr. McConnell remains a swamp creature. But that swamp creature has been turning out concrete achievements that have been daring, ambitious, principled and supremely conservative.
Hot Take: This one makes the Hysterical Headlines today only because the idea of Mitch McConnell as a swamp creative is freaking funny. Otherwise, as Charles Hurt is inclined to do, it's a fairly brilliant piece. Consider the 2017 that McConnell had:
Broke the SCOTUS filibuster rule to confirm Neil Gorsuch
Engineered the confirmation of the largest number of federal justices in a single year in US history
Passed the most comprehensive tax reform since Reagan
Insisted on the tax reform including the end of the Individual ACA mandate
Id have to admit that after McConnell allowed the repeal and replacing of Obamacare to fail multiple times I was as ready as the next fiscal conservative to throw him overboard, back into the mysterious swamp from which he evidently derived from in the hills of Kentucky. In the end though - he came through in a major way. He even backed the candidate who would have won in Alabama (Luther Strange) over the man who managed to lose in the fifth most conservative state in the country (Roy Moore). Not a bad year for someone most Republicans outside of Washington love to hate.
Now here's the thing. Show of hands...How many people think that H&M really set out to exploit a black child to perpetuate racism? But here's the thing. Doesn't matter that not everyone thinks through racist prisms. The irony is if you don't view the world through the prism of bad stereo-types or awful sayings of the past you too are guilty of racism (as many media outlets including the AP, New York Times and CNN all asserted here). Isn't that special.
Oprah Would Make an Exceptional President Sally Kohn, CNN
This is CNN.
Until tomorrow...