President Trump's Address To The U.S. Congress

President Trump's Tuesday night address before a joint session of Congress demonstrated how the President is in-between a rock and a hard place with his Presidency floundering due to his own self pronouncements and lies.  He now wants the democrats in congress to work with him and the republicans  to pass health care legislature and immigration reform.

What a hypocrite.  For the past year Trump has told his supporters he would repeal Obamacare and replace it with his own health care plan and that Obamacare is a disaster and tried to undermine the ACA.  The republicans in congress have been doing the same thing but over the past 7 years.  Now Trump and his party's health care replacement has proved to be only hot air so he wants the democratic party to bail him and his party out.  

Trump's immigration reform has taken the same turn.  His executive order and immigration ban was stayed by two courts and Trump announced twice he would present a new plan only to be delayed again both times.  Now he wants the democrats to work with him after trying to undermine President Obama's immigration plans.

The American people, regardless who they voted for know where the democrats stand on both those issues because they passed the ACA and the democratic controlled Senate actually passed immigration reform over two years ago only to be killed in the U.S. House controlled by the republican party at the time.  

The republican party controlled both houses of congress during the Presidential campaign and Trump asked them not to take up immigration reform just like he asked them not to take up and act on President Obama's Supreme Court nominee.  Now he is in trouble and he needs democrats to help bail him out of his own lies and dis-honesty with the voters.  

The President's address to congress and the nation changed nothing of importance.   What a shame.

This commentary written by Joe Lorio

U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders Is Wrong On What The Democratic Party Needs To Do

Former democratic Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders in a story published in the Huffington Post of 2/27 said the democratic party must be overhauled, a total transformation, attack big business and rein them in.  This writer disagrees and thinks the facts say so.  Sanders ran on that same theme during the primaries and lost his party's nomination.  The Senator seems to have a short memory.

Donald Trump is part of big business and Corporate America and even added during the republican debates he gives campaign contributions to elected officials for favors when he needs them.  Yet he not only won the election, as President he has appointed top wall street bankers to important jobs in his cabinet and administration.  Voters don't really care as a whole.  They knew Trump represented the wealthy.

Trump won the "rust belt" and their electoral vote because of the false propaganda that their manufacturing economy lost jobs to foreign sources.  The fact is many of those jobs moved to other states in the United States because of cheaper labor.  Trump's campaign thrived on fear and also profited from the false propaganda against President Obama, Hillary Clinton and the ACA.

Hillary Clinton's lop sided victory in the popular vote is proof that the democratic party is on the right side of the issues facing the country and its people.  Just look what is taking place now in Washington.  The republicans have made the ACA a major issue but don't know what to do about it.  Health care is a democratic issue and is a people issue and the democrats did something about it.

The best way to bring big business under control is to take away their special tax breaks, exemptions and loop holes and treat them like every one else.  And the democratic party is the best party to accomplish that.  Anyone who pays attention to politics should know the issues that the people care about today are not and will not be addressed by the republican party or the Trump administration.  And yes my friends it is always a democratic administration that picks us up after a republican administration lets us down.  And the same will be true when Donald Trump leaves office.


This commentary written by Joe Lorio