John Nichols at The Nation writes—A Local Newspaper Just Put a Vile President in His Place:
The Baltimore Sun has faced all the challenges that have plagued urban dailies in recent decades. Its staff is not what it once was. Nor is its circulation. Like many metropolitan dailies with limited resources, it struggles to strike a proper balance when covering a city, its suburbs, and the state; and it does not always succeed.
Yet, while other papers have dialed down their editorializing, and in some cases abandoned historic commitments to present robust opinions, the Sun has battled the odds in order to maintain its distinctive voice.
After the president attacked the city, the Sun raised that voice as powerfully as a great American newspaper should. “It’s not hard to see what’s going on here,” the paper declared in an editorial published just hours after the president started tweeting his attacks on Cummings. “The congressman has been a thorn in this president’s side, and Mr. Trump sees attacking African American members of Congress as good politics, as it both warms the cockles of the white supremacists who love him and causes so many of the thoughtful people who don’t to scream.”
True. But truer still was the editorial’s concluding observation that
while we would not sink to name-calling in the Trumpian manner—or ruefully point out that he failed to spell the congressman’s name correctly (it’s Cummings, not Cumming)—we would tell the most dishonest man to ever occupy the Oval Office, the mocker of war heroes, the gleeful grabber of women’s private parts, the serial bankrupter of businesses, the useful idiot of Vladimir Putin and the guy who insisted there are ‘good people’ among murderous neo-Nazis that he’s still not fooling most Americans into believing he’s even slightly competent in his current post. Or that he possesses a scintilla of integrity. Better to have some vermin living in your neighborhood than to be one.
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“All political ideas cannot and should not be channeled into the programs of our two major political parties. History has amply proved the virtue of political activity by minority, dissident groups, who innumerable times have been the vanguard of democratic thought and whose programs were ultimately accepted. Mere unorthodoxy or dissent from the prevailing mores is not to be condemned. The absence of such voices would be a symptom of grave illness in our society.” ~~Chief Justice Earl Warren, Sweezey v. New Hampshire (1957)
xFrom a local reporter in Gilroy, CA, trying to cover the aftermath of the shooting as national news crowded in: pic.twitter.com/C0gQE4DZHV
— Elizabeth Flock (@lizflock) July 29, 2019On this date at Daily Kos in 2009—TX-Sen, Gov: Hutchison will step down in Fall, special in May 2010:
U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison on Wednesday told WBAP's Mark Davis she plans to officially launch her bid for Texas governor in August. She added that she will step down from the U.S. Senate sometime in October or November to battle incumbent fellow Republican Governor Rick Perry. Had Hutchison pulled a Palin this summer, Republicans would've been forced into a November special election, so she's giving them at least a seven-month respite. A fall resignation means the special election will take place in May 2010.
Hutchison claims she's sticking around through the fall to fight against Obama's health care and cap and trade plans, and to vote against Sonia Sotomayor. She needs to be the Queen of No in DC to try and appease the angry Right enraptured by Perry's secession talk. Good luck with that. She'd be better off coming home earlier to try and stem Perry's momentum. Instead, she just gifted him another four months in his head start.
On today’s Kagro in the Morning show: We are once again under the cloud of a mass shooting. Trump spends the weekend wallowing in racism, then threatens national security by "nominating" another sycophant moron as DNI. Yes, there was a time when Republicans worried about Russia.
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