CPAC, President Trump and His Top Appointees Meet

The Conservative Political Action Conference held its annual convention this week in National Harbor, Md.  President Trump, his Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and his Chief Strategist Steve Bannon all addressed the convention.  It was a great opportunity for the President and his appointees to articulate a policy position on matters  important to the country and especially to the attendees at the convention who make up some of Trumps and the party's staunch supporters.

But Trump, Priebus and Bannon held out true to form with their "ditto head" comments.  Their supporters and the country would not hear anything positive about the future.  Instead, all three lashed out at the news media and blamed them for "fake news."  The media was also called the enemy and Trump once again tried to cast blame on Hillary Clinton with his own brand of "fake news."  Bannon spoke about Trump shaping a new political order in America which sounded anti-American to this writer.

Besides bashing the media, Trump sang his same worn out song, he was going to make America great again.  No one would mess with us with our military buildup, etc, etc, etc.  And sadly, repeated his lies concerning how many people were covered by the ACA and the latest round up of undocumented immigrants which was carried by the Times Picayune.

The President and his top two appointees failed big time to articulate a positive agenda for the future of the country and its people.  The ring master is still leading the republican circus and the big tent continues to collapse while the people look for leadership.


This commentary written by Joe Lorio

Louisiana's U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy's Town Hall Meeting In Jefferson Parish Did Not Go Very Well.

Senator Cassidy held a meeting with his supporters Wednesday at the Jefferson Parish East Bank Regional Library and the conversation did not go very well.  Cassidy was late to arrive for the meeting and everything went down hill from there.  The meeting followed a nation wide trend taking place between republican members of congress and their supporters.

The Senator was met with boos from his audience.  They did not attend the meeting for information, they wanted an answer to their questions because the Trump administration and congress have been sending out dis-information on replacing the ACA, immigration and a host of other issues.

Its starting to hit the fan for the President and his party and now some of their supporters are making their dis-satisfaction know.  Political "fake news" by the administration has started to open some people's mind.  Unfortunately, conservative opinion writers are still backing the "fake news" that republicans have added to their ideology.  Times Picayune opinion writer Tim Morris covered Cassidy's meeting with a column dated 2/24/17 and the title of his column was, WOW, THEY BOOED THE NAME OF JESUS."  That really was not the subject of the meeting but leave it to conservatives to use religion to try and change the subject.

The bottom line for the people of Louisiana is former U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu's service is missed on just about every issue facing Louisiana.  The republicans have controlled both houses of congress for over two years and Cassidy has failed to fill the void.  The people at that Wednesday meeting came face to face with the person most of them probably voted for and in all probability left with out having their questions answered.

And if the Obamacare was the real issue the people wanted to hear answers on the republican party and Trump failed them long ago.  The time for clarification was before the election.  But there is hope because the Affordable Care Act (the real name) is working despite the republican's "fake news" machine.  Just ask the 20 million people who are covered and Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards.

On another related note another one of Louisiana's reps in congress, Steve Scalise held a town hall meeting by phone on Friday.  He was aware of the problem other republicans like Cassidy faced and chickened out.  Scalise is also another example of poor representation in congress for the people of Louisiana and the State and has no accomplishments.


This commentary written by Joe Lorio