{"id":2857,"date":"2020-04-05T09:50:03","date_gmt":"2020-04-05T13:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/?p=2857"},"modified":"2020-04-05T09:50:08","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T13:50:08","slug":"the-political-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2020\/04\/05\/the-political-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"The Political Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Our Finest Hour<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s the spring of the corona-virus.&nbsp;&nbsp;We will remember this as a checkmark in history.&nbsp;&nbsp;Where were you on 9-11, and when did you find out about the Challenger disaster?&nbsp;&nbsp;And now what did you do during the Corona-Virus, and inevitably, who did you lose.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Queen is speaking to the United Kingdom tonight, probably paraphrasing Winston Churchill:&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201c\u2026 Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves, that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth<\/em><em><sup>&nbsp;<\/sup><\/em><em>last for a thousand years, men will still say, \u2018<\/em><em>This was their finest hour\u2019<\/em><em>\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The United Kingdom, the United States, and much of the rest of the world, are facing the existential crisis that we always feared.\u00a0\u00a0We are challenged by an easily spread disease that will kill a large number of people.\u00a0\u00a0It has shut our economies down, and is overwhelming our healthcare systems.\u00a0\u00a0Some nations are dealing with it better than others, but every nation is faced with fear; fear of a hidden threat that cannot be seen, heard, or cured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Politics as Usual<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>But here in the United States, the political agenda continues despite the disease.&nbsp;&nbsp;It might seem like a time to let other controversies go by, to unite against the common, as the President says, \u201cinvisible enemy\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;Here in Ohio, we\u2019ve found a way to do so, uniting around a Governor and a Health Director who are solely focused on \u201cflattening the curve\u201d. Governor DeWine he has largely set his political agenda aside.&nbsp;&nbsp;He is working to be Governor of all Ohioans, not just Republican Ohioans.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The same cannot be said about President Trump.&nbsp;&nbsp;This week, while we have struggled to watch the daily press briefing, wondering whether to wear facemasks like Dr. Fauci said, or ignore the need like the President; the Trump Administration has continued to pursue their unique political agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Revenge Campaign<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The next victim of the Impeachment \u201crevenge\u201d campaign fell on Friday.&nbsp;&nbsp;Michael Atkinson, the Intelligence Inspector General who notified Congress of the \u201cWhistleblower\u2019s Complaint\u201d that triggered the impeachment inquiry was told that his \u201cservices\u201d were no longer required.&nbsp;&nbsp;Atkinson followed the letter of the Whistleblower Law, but was still sacked.&nbsp;&nbsp;He joins several other members of the Intelligence Community, including the acting Director of National Intelligence, to be removed because the Trump Administration suspects them of \u201cdisloyal\u201d actions toward the President.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s not just about the spectacle of \u201crevenge\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s also the loss of the \u201cbest and brightest\u201d, the non-partisan government workers who have the \u201cknowledge\u201d to guide our foreign actions.\u00a0\u00a0They\u2019re being weeded out, and not surprisingly, some of them are the foremost experts on Ukraine and Russia.\u00a0\u00a0But the didn\u2019t pass the Presidential \u201cloyalty\u201d test, so they\u2019re gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">More Pollution<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The Administration also pushed ahead with their plans to allow\u00a0<strong>increase<\/strong>, yes you read that correctly,\u00a0<strong>increase\u00a0<\/strong>polluting emissions for cars.\u00a0\u00a0They claim it will make cars cheaper so more Americans can buy new vehicles, stimulating the economy, but, it is a direct contradiction of past Presidents\u2019 policies.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/usenvironmentalprotectionagency.cmail19.com\/t\/d-l-mjuuhz-alyjhldkj-r\/__;!!Iwwt!BbhdQP81iXSy3wlOz5t_VmDILrpj9gb4T_tM8UEk3H-xBbTJLLCJLUsbUdi7$\">Safer Affordable Fuel-Efficient (SAFE) Vehicles Rule<\/a>&nbsp;will increase carbon dioxide emissions standards for the nation&#8217;s automakers by 1.5% a year through model year 2026\u201d. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, wife to Senator Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, stated:&nbsp;\u201cBy making newer, safer, and cleaner vehicles more accessible for American families, more lives will be saved and more jobs will be created\u201d&nbsp;(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/03\/31\/824431240\/trump-administration-weakens-auto-emissions-rolling-back-key-climate-policy\">NPR<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Closing The Border<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile the President\u2019s Acting Homeland Security Secretary has stopped processing immigrants at the Southern border.&nbsp;&nbsp;Illegal immigrants can no longer claim \u201casylum\u201d and gain their legal rights, they are simply shipped back to wherever they came from.&nbsp;&nbsp;While this violates a previous Federal Court order, Secretary Wolf claims this is in response to directives from the Centers for Disease Control.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is occurring, even though there is no evidence that corona-virus infection is occurring among illegal immigrants.&nbsp;&nbsp;In fact, Mexico, where the immigrants are coming from to cross the border, has only 1890 confirmed cases of corona-virus, versus the United States with 311637 (as of 4\/5\/20).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Restricting the Vote<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>And in our \u201cnew world\u201d of corona-virus, the President and many other Republicans continue to demand that elections go on like \u201cnormal\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0In fact, the President himself spoke out against voting by mail, stating that people need to \u201cline up\u201d and vote in person, with photo ID\u2019s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Democratic Governor of Wisconsin, Tony Evers, asked the Wisconsin state legislature to allow voters extended time to get and return absentee ballots, but the Republican controlled body refused to do so.\u00a0 Currently Wisconsin intends to continue to vote on April 7<sup>th<\/sup>, with open polling stations in violation of the Governor\u2019s own current &#8220;shelter in place&#8221; order.\u00a0\u00a0Many stations have lost their poll workers, unwilling to risk the exposure, so what will actually happen is still unknown.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But in general, the President and the Republican Party (with some notable exceptions) have firmly stood against expanded mail voting, claiming election security concerns. This is despite the fact that it was the&nbsp;Republican&nbsp;Party in North Carolina who committed the biggest absentee fraud of the past several years.&nbsp;&nbsp;But since mail voting tends to increase voter turnout, and the Republican Party takes the stand the increased voting is \u201cbad\u201d for their Party, they continue to impede voter rights, even in this corona-virus environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The biggest threat to the Trump Presidency is voter turnout in November.&nbsp;&nbsp;Whatever restricts the ability of people to cast their vote, whether it is the corona-virus restrictions, or onerous voter identification laws, the campaign sees them as helping Mr. Trump win in 2020.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So while we are all focused on the world pandemic, the Trump agenda is still moving forward.&nbsp;&nbsp;Don\u2019t miss it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Finest Hour It\u2019s the spring of the corona-virus.&nbsp;&nbsp;We will remember this as a checkmark in history.&nbsp;&nbsp;Where were you on 9-11, and when did you find out about the Challenger disaster?&nbsp;&nbsp;And now what did you do during the Corona-Virus, and inevitably, who did you lose.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Queen is speaking to the United Kingdom tonight, probably paraphrasing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2020\/04\/05\/the-political-agenda\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Political Agenda&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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