The Democratic Blue Wave Voters Rolls Again In Georgia and Gives The Democratic Party Control Of The U.S. Senate.

Democratic U.S. Senate candidates Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock defeated republican incumbents David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler for Georgia's two U.S. Senate seats with another democratic blue wave vote turn out. The victory added to President elect Joe Biden's victory on November 3 and added more democratic blue to the once all red state of Georgia.

Biden's win coupled with the democratic victory for Georgia's two U.S. Senate seats was a complete rejection of the Trump  administration and his party's failure to lead at a time of an economic recession and virus pandemic that has savaged the economy and the job market.  And to make matters worse, Trump and his party were still trying to over turn the election of Joe Biden instead of doing their job of addressing the real issues and problems.

So when Biden takes office on January 20 the democratic party will control the Presidency and both houses of congress.  The republicans will continue to try and obstruct because that is all they have and a part of their ideology.  Democratic administrations have a record of better leadership and governing and President Biden and the democratic controlled congress will engage the real issues that the country and its people face after 4 dark years of Trump and his party's failures.  The country and its people will do better, precedent and past performance tells us so.  And it has all been written down in PolitiDose commentary the past 9 years.

The democratic party had a very good election year.  They won the Presidency, retained controlled of the U.S. House and regained control of the U.S. Senate.  And hopefully there will be many more Stacy Abrams for years to come to continue to roll out the blue wave democratic vote on a sustained level.

This commentary written by Joe Lorio

 

The New Orleans Saints are Playoff Bound

Another NFL regular season comes to an end and the New Orleans Saints are once again in the play offs for the fourth straight year.  But very little has changed for the NFL or the Saints.  The regular season ends with only 13 teams with a winning record out of the 32 total teams.  The NFL is still the non-competitive league year in and year out. Two of the playoff teams, Washington and Chicago do not have winning records.  In fact no team in Washington's division has a winning record.  

The Saints during the regular season beat only one team with a winning record, Tampa Bay.  So no one really knows how good the Saints really are despite the hype of the sports media, especially the local sports media.  The sports page in Mondays New Orleans Advocate after the game with Carolina read, "PICKED APART" like the Saints beat a really good team.  But Carolina won a total of only 5 games this season and are a poor team who  are poorly coached.  

But people who  are objective know that the good teams who know how to play good defense and not allow Saint receivers to run wild unprotected, expose the Saints weakness.  That is one reason why the Saints have been eliminated from the last three playoffs.  So now the Saints have another opportunity to show how good they really are.  Their first opponent is Chicago who finished the season at 8-8.  Just another opponent without a winning record.

This  commentary written by Joe Lorio

Food for thought:  There are too many teams in the NFL and too little talent to go around player wise and coaching wise.  The result, few teams with winning records, too many with losing records.  A competitive league would be around 20-24 teams at the most.  

 

President Trump Commits Another Impeachable Act.

The impeachment of President Donald Trump in December 2019 by the U.S. House of Representatives was justified by the evidence given under sworn testimony by qualified witnesses.  The House performed its sworn duty to uphold the constitution and the rule of law that holds the President accountable for impeachable acts.  During the impeachment procedure democratic representative Adam Schiff noted the President must be held accountable in the Senate trial or he would continue to lie, obstruct and repeat his impeachable acts.  The republican controlled Senate made up its mind weeks before the evidence was presented they would vote to acquit Trump and did so.

Now, a year later, once again Trump has committed an impeachable act by asking Georgia's Secretary of State to find enough votes to over turn the November 3 election that Joe Biden won.  He did so even though there were three recounts of the votes and all three confirmed Biden's win.  The pressure by Trump on the Secretary of State to change the outcome of the election and the will of the people is a flagrant violation of the law and a impeachable act.  Trump's attempt to reverse the outcome of a democratic election is more than just a traitorous act against America and its people.  Trump's phone conversation with the Secretary of State was taped and made public, so Trump's impeachable act has been confirmed.  Federal and state laws may also have been violated.

The republicans in congress knew Adam Schiff was right about what Trump would do again but it did not matter to them because they and Trump are one and the same.  The latest Trump impeachable act will be brushed off by the GOP like they have done for the past four years concerning Trump's flaunting the laws.  And the GOP still plan to try and over turn the election when the electoral college meet to confirm Biden's vote on January 6.  

Forty six percent of the American people in 2016 elected the most corrupt, traitorous, disrespectful, dishonest and Un-American President in memory.  Coupled with the most "do nothing" republican controlled Senate resulted in a disaster of four years for the country and its people.  The GOP's embrace of Trump's violations as President should be unacceptable by all Americans who believe in the constitution, the rule of law and democracy itself.  

On January 20, this dark four year chapter in American history will come to an end.  The darkness of Trump with the GOP's support should never be repeated again.  The future of America and its people are bright, but can only take place if the future is not like the failed past.

This commentary written by Joe Lorio

 

The Ending Of A Dark Presidency

President Trump brought the darkest days to our country as his term in office comes to an end on January 20, 2021.  And in doing so reverses the long time democratic principals that has made the Presidency the greatest office in the land.  At a time of transition to a new administration, a pandemic running wild and growing, an economic recession and millions of jobs that have yet to return to the economy, citizens depending on food banks for nutrition, business operating at minimum levels and just last week the discovery that Russia is at it again with cyber attacks against federal agencies, the President is AWOL.

Instead of having a plan and answer for those issues, Trump spends his time trying to over turn an election he lost big time simply because it was a free democratic election.  His lies and misinformation about the election being rigged and being a fraud and his misuse of the courts to challenge the results has consumed all his time.  As an American President who swears to uphold the rule of law and the constitution failed his duty to do so and inflicted damage to the country's democratic institutions.

Trump's willingness to obstruct the orderly transfer of power to a new administration and his attempt to make it difficult for the new administration to operate is more than a traitorous act.  In denying the transition timely access to critical information simply to damage the new President-elect is deplorable and a disgrace to the Presidency.

America has suffered over 300,000 deaths from the virus pandemic and at its darkest time of spreading in Trump's final months in office, the President has turned his back, looked away and devoted his time to try and undermine and overturn a democratic Presidential election just because his bid for a second term was rejected.  No living American can remember such a disaster and ending of a Presidency or a President who cared so little for his fellow man, his country, the Presidency and the constitution of American freedom.

What a shame, 46% of the voting public gave Trump a chance to be an American President during the 2016 election.  But instead, he decided to bring his corrupt business persona to Washington and ended up failing his country and its people and violating his oath of office.  The Trump Presidency was one of total corruption from beginning to end and the darkest part of it came as his time to depart the White House is at hand.  The only thing left is his pardoning of his close friends who committed crimes that were confirmed in a court of law.  The corruption is to its core as this writer has said on many previous occasions.  

This commentary written by Joe Lorio

 

LSU's 2020 Football Season.

The LSU Tigers of 2020 did not do a good job defending their National Championship title that went 15-0.   And although they finished the season defeating Ole Miss and a 5-5 break even season it was not very pretty.  In fact it was a great disappointment for a National Championship team to fall down so hard, looked so confused and poorly coached too often.  Coach "0" had no replacement (experience wise) for passing coordinator Joe Brady or defensive coordinator David Aranda's proven ability and it showed.

So  now we learn coach "0" is cleaning house on his coaching staff.  Steve Ensminger  and Bo Pelini's coordinators position will have to be filled because of their departure.  Both positions are so very important, coach "0" has no room for error.  The sports media and coach "0" tried to make a big deal when Pelini was hired this year as LSU's defensive coordinator.  They talked about Pelini's 4-3 defensive alignment and that it would be an "attacking defense" like those two words were "magic."  Well, Pelini's defense showed up for the games but there was no "magic."

This writer wrote commentary here in PolitiDose after LSU won the national championship in January and pointed out that the 15-0 team was past history and questioned if LSU's future would be one of a consistent winning record.  This season was the start of that future and the answer is still questionable and remains to be seen.  Every year LSU's recruiting ends up in the top 10 and many times in the top 5.  Yet the Tigers are no where close to being a consistent winner like Clemson and Alabama.  

The question is why?  The answer is coaching.  The many coaching changes being announced now tells this writer not all is well in Tiger land.

This commentary written by Joe Lorio

Kansas City Chiefs 32 --- New Orleans Saints 29

The Kansas City Chiefs put a crimp in the Saints desire to have home field advantage through out the play offs and in the process defeated the Saints 32-29.  The game was not as close as the score would indicate.  The Chiefs offense and defense lived up to its record as the current World Champions and exposed the Saints weakness on both sides of the football. 

The sports media failed to grasp the fact that the Saints have beaten only one team with a winning record this season and both of their next two opponents also have losing records.  The media's rating of the Saint's defense was never objective because their analysis was based on the Saint's performance against some very bad teams.  The Chiefs, a very good team, exposed that weakness, gained 179 yards rushing and 232 yards passing.  And in the third and fourth quarter when it counted, the Saint's defense could not stop the Chief's third down conversions.

The sports media still don't understand the sub-par game Brees had against the Chiefs, blaming it on Brees being rusty.  But the fact is the Chief's defense played the Saint's receivers tight, some thing all those losing teams to the Saints never did because they do not play good defense.  The Chiefs knew a good defense never leave the receivers run loose and therefore easy targets for the quarterback to complete the pass.  (Its noticeable the Saints receivers do not like being covered tight by the defense.)

As of this writing, only 14of the 32 teams in the NFL have a winning record.  It is nothing unusual but it does tell the story that overall, the NFL has too many poor teams year in and year out.  And playing those poor teams and making a judgement with objectivity just how good a team really is (like the Saints) needs to be taken into consideration.  The East Division of the National Conference will not have one single team with a winning record this year, yet the division champion will make the playoffs.  What a shame on competitive sports or what use to be considered competitive.

The bottom line is the Saint's offense and defense is over rated by the sports media and when they play the teams that are well coached and know how to play offense and defense, the Saints do not live up to the sports media's ratings.

Note:  The Saints will make the playoffs so they still have a chance to prove how good they really are.  And that is what counts.

This commentary written by Joe Lorio

  

  

The Jobs Report and Unemployment For November 2020.

 The U.S. Labor Department reported 245,000 jobs returned to the economy in November and that the unemployment rate came in at 6.7%.  It was the fifth straight month the job numbers were down and there are still over 9 million jobs that have not returned since the economic recession and pandemic.  Unemployment was down from 6.9% in October but the Labor Department cautioned that the rate is actually higher because it does not count unemployed of those who have stopped looking for work.

So as of November 30, counting new jobs created prior to the recession and pandemic, the job loses that followed and those jobs that have since returned to the economy, job creation is at a minus 2.5 million jobs.  If those 2.5 million jobs do not return to the economy by the time Trump leaves office his administration will have the worse job creation record since the great depression of 1928-29,  Trump said his administration would create 25 million new jobs but never had a chance because he had no economic policy or plans.

And once again it is a republican administration that has failed to keep up with job creation that took place under democratic administrations.  The unemployment rate when Trump took office was 4.7%.  November's rate was 6.7%, 2% points higher.  That indicates Trump is on the verge of leaving office with a higher unemployment rate than when he took office.  Every republican administration in the last 72 years with the exception or Reagan left office with a higher unemployment rate than when they took office.  It is just another sad record for republican administrations on the U.S. economy.  But the Reagan administration holds the record of the highest sustained unemployment rate during that same 72 year period when unemployment stood at over 10% for ten straight months from September 1982 to June 1983.  The Trump administration has the highest unemployment rate since the great depression when it hit 14.7% in April 2020.

The facts tell the story that what took place during republican administrations over the last 60 plus years, nothing was learned from the failed past of republican administrations and there fore for them, the future was like the failed past and repeated itself.  Fortunately, democratic administrations that followed those failed republican administrations had policy and plans to deal with the disaster they inherited.  Democratic administrations have a better understanding of governing because they know it takes plans and policy to address the issues.  And President elect Joe Biden is displaying that leadership at the present time in transition.

This commentary written by Joe Lorio

What Will The New Year Bring Politically? The United States: Past, Present and Future.

 A triple history will play out before our very eyes at a time of great challenges.  The Trump administration is coming to an end, a New Year is dawning and a new administration will begin to govern America.  The challenge will be great, an economic recession, a virus pandemic, deficit spending once again out of control on the republican watch and the country's institutions under attack by a leaderless American President and his republican enablers who condone his traitorous acts.

What took place in the past four years, took place in every republican administration in the last 100 years, an economic recession.  And it took place even though Reagan, Bush 43 and Trump cut taxes that favored corporate America and the wealthy during their time in office.  For republican administrations, the future looks like their failed past.  Trump learned nothing from the failures of the Bush administration and leaves President elect Joe Biden with an economic recession that began in February, millions of lost jobs, an economy in trouble and a virus pandemic out of control.  Bush left the country in the same sad shape that the Obama administration inherited and had to deal with. (Except for a pandemic)

To add to the republican failures, no republican administration in the last 60 years left office with a lower deficit than when he took office and no republican administration has balanced the federal budget since 1960.  Republican administrations hold the record of having the highest unemployment numbers in the past 60 years and contrary to their propaganda, republican administrations have the largest percentage increase in federal spending and the national debt.

But America can be confident that the future under the administration of President Joe Biden will be successful in restoring the nation's economic health, jobs, fiscal stability, moral values and leadership that embraces America's institutions, the rule of law and the constitution.  And most of all, will be ACTIVE to bring the pandemic under control  and administer the vaccine.  

This writer is certain of that because of precedent of the past 80 years when democrats governed with success to reverse the failures inherited from previous republican administrations.  The Roosevelt/Truman administration guided the U.S. out of the great republican depression of 1928-29 and WWII.  The Kennedy/Johnson administration guided the U.S. out of the economic recession that took place on President Eisenhower's watch.  The Carter administration that guided the U.S. out of the economic recession that took place under the Nixon/Ford administration.  The Clinton administration that guided the U.S. out of the economic recession of the Bush 41 administration( remember it was the economy stupid)  The Obama/Biden administration that guided the U.S. out of the great economic recession of 2008 under President George W. Bush.  And now, the republican administration of Donald Trump leaves the Biden administration with the same kinds of economic problems, debt and a virus pandemic that is out of control.

Republican administrations have a consistent record of failure because they are married to a doctrine of ideology which disregards facts.  Therefore the problems of an issue are never addressed.  The democratic party governs by and with plans and policy that address the issues involved and therefore results are obtained.  Its no coincidence that every republican administration in the last 100 years has presided over an economic recession that began on their watch.

And so my fellow Americans, on January 20 democratic President Joe Biden will inherit another great failure from another republican administration, this time from Donald Trump.  Biden's task will not be easy by any measure because of the severity of problems waiting.  It will take time and at times seem slow, but the President will have plans and policy to deal with the issues at hand. The democratic party understands that if we do not understand the failures of the past, it will result in a future that will be like the failed past.  

This writer has no doubt that the democratic administration of President Biden with his plans and policy will reverse the failed past of the last four years and once again put America and its people on a path to restore our country and its citizens quest for a better life.  And when it takes place you will have read it here first in PolitiDose, your daily dose of political commentary.

And once again, what the Sumerians knew 5 thousand years ago will be alive and will play out another time in our history.  UNDERSTANDING THE FAILED PAST IS STILL THE KEY TO A BETTER FUTURE to the people on earth.

This commentary written by Joe Lorio

 

 

Another Huge First For PolitiDose As The Outcome Of The Trump Presidency Was Predicted In Past Commentary.

 This writer in two commentaries  titled, "Will The Failure Under A Trump Administration Be Like The Failed Past of Previous Republican Administrations" dated 12/9/16 and "What Will The New Year Bring Politically: A Continuing Story" dated 12/24/16 told the story in advance how precedent could be used to judge the future of Trump's four years in office and his administrations failures.  It was all preordained in those two commentaries.

The regular news media never saw it coming because they pay no attention to an administrations record even though the record and failures keep repeating itself.  For the past nine years PolitiDose has laid the facts out on the republicans failures on a host of issues that keep repeating themselves but the regular news media keeps reporting the republican talking points and their fairy tales as if they have great accomplishments.  

Trump's background, his rhetoric during the 2016 campaign and the republican party's record over the past 80 years was enough to understand that the failure of past republican administrations would take place again in a future Trump administration.  And with less than two months to go in office, the failure that was predicted in 2016 came front and center to repeat the cycle.  

Yes, my fellow Americans, the very first civilization on earth, that of the Sumerians said they were taught six thousand years ago that the key to a better future was to understand the mistakes of the failed past.  Otherwise, the future would be like the failed past.  It is a piece of wisdom that is alive and well after all those years.

Note:  To read this writers two commentaries noted above log onto politidose.blogspot.com 

Note:  Stay tuned for the wrap up  of the Trump administration and what to expect from the Biden administration which will becoming soon.

This commentary written by Joe Lorio

President-Elect Joe Biden's Win Has The So Called Conservative Republican Opinion Writers In La-La Land.

Those who follow PolitiDose and political reality understand the recent commentary by so called conservative republican writers mark the start of the never ending negative voices that will continue through out the Biden administration.  It will be the usual drumbeat against democratic administrations that began with the Reagan and Gingrich years because conservatives and republicans have no record to run on.

Recent articles published in the New Orleans Advocate by Michael Gerson, Rich Lowry and Garey Forster are good examples.  Gerson in his article titled, "The democrats have reason to be unhappy in victory" was the usual propaganda by conservatives who try their best at division.  President elect Biden won the election with a record democratic blue wave vote that overwhelmed a sitting President by almost 6 million votes.  The democratic party maintained control of the U.S. House and as of this writing, gained one net seat in the U.S. Senate.  One can see that democrats are not ditto heads like republicans and express their own political attitudes about their own party which Gerson makes himself believe that means un-happiness.  Gerson, being a so called conservative will continue to divide the country with a democrat in the White House once Trump leaves office.

Rich Lowry's article in the New Orleans Advocate titled, "Ungracious exit damages Trump" said he knew in advance how Trump would handle a defeat but all through the Trump years Lowry was a Trump ditto head who supported him and a democratic basher even though Trump and the republicans were running the country.  Lowry also said Trump's handling of the election has been a runaway success and gave the excuse that republicans should give Trump backing to pursue voter fraud in the courts because of some close votes in the battleground states.  The article seems to be an apology for Trump as he leaves office but four years of being a Trump ditto head says it all.

And then there was Garey Forster's article in the New Orleans Advocate titled, Biden's energy policy would drive Louisiana workers into unemployment."  Forster, a local and what appears now to be a regular opinion writer for the Advocate is all over the place in his article.  The article actually talks very little about unemployment.  Its more of a tribute to Trump winning the debate with Biden (he actually lost), the taxes the oil industry pays in Louisiana, unkind words for Governor John B. Edwards and ends with the prediction that Trump will win re-election on November 3.  Being a Trump ditto head, Forster forgot to mention that the oil industry in Louisiana had its best years on the democratic watch and its worst years on the republican watch and that more than 7200 oil field workers lost their jobs in Louisiana in the last year on Trump's watch.  The largest job loses came during the administrations of Nixon and Reagan.  And of course as all knows the oil and gas industry has been in recession for over a year on Trump's watch.

Forster also failed to mention that the Oil industry became the worlds largest producers on the Obama-Biden watch and it was that same democratic administration that held BP accountable for their rig explosion that killed 11 rig workers and cost billions of dollars of damages to Louisiana's environment.  The bottom line is democratic administrations always do a better job at creating new net jobs and a Biden administration will continue that record with the economy.  And Donald Trump will leave office on  January 20 with the worst job creation record since the great depression.  And that really says it all.

This commentary written by Joe Lorio