A QUESTION FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES: Does the word “Caucasity” — used in the NYT today — express the idea of whiteness as a problem? Here’s the passage in question: “The audience begins to clap as well as its overwhelming Caucasity will allow.”
You want more Trump? Because this is how you get more Trump.
HILLARY CLINTON’S 1,500 WORD NEWS DUMP: “I’m not even mad. I’m impressed. It takes some guts to publish a 1,500-word Facebook post 20 minutes before the State of the Union explaining why you, Hillary Clinton, feminist hero, didn’t fire a dude for sexually harassing one of your young female staffers despite the fact that everyone in your campaign told you to get rid of him ASAP.”
IT ISN’T ALWAYS NICE TO MAKE TWITCHY: Washington Post changes front page after complaints it was too pro-Trump.
BUREAUCRATS GET A LIFELINE: The DC Circuit has upheld the constitutionality of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, reversing an earlier decision by a 3 judge panel. I’ll have more to say elsewhere (and will link it here) but this question will probably go to SCOTUS. With any luck, this will be the zenith of the regulatory state’s protection from constitutional checks and balances.
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ROGER SIMON: Sourpuss Democrats Self-Immolate at State of the Union.
Read the whole thing.
TOP HOUSE DEM: Trump ‘Would be Mussolini and Putin Would be Hitler.’
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I’D LIKE TO SEE JOHN HEILEMANN TRY TO RUN A FARM: MSNBC Analyst Mocks Devin Nunes for Being Former Dairy Farmer: ‘He Has No Idea What’s Going On.’
MEDIA PRAISED THE PRESIDENT THEY LOATH, AT LEAST FOR ONE NIGHT: You know Trump hit the mark when CBS finds 75-25 approval for his State of the Union address and CNN’s Jake Tapper heard “beautiful prose.”
AS KURT SCHLICHTER SAYS, LEFTIES ARE GOING TO HATE THE NEW RULES: Conservative students work to defund biased school paper.
LIZ SHELD’S MORNING BRIEF: SOTU Reviews, Dems Deliver Funeral Vision of America and Much, Much More. “The President’s guests at the speech were a great way to tell the story he wanted to tell. The Democrats looked like sour pusses and bitchy babies but that’s no surprise since their political position is to sell misery and discord.”
But after that speech, there may be fewer people buying.
BYRON YORK: On immigration, Trump goes for it all.
Back in 2015, before the presidential primaries began, a voter asked candidate Donald Trump if he believed compromise should be part of politics.
“Compromise is not a bad word to me,” Trump answered. “But if you are going to compromise, ask for about three times more than you want. You understand? So when you compromise, you get what you want.”
Now, President Trump is engaged in delicate negotiations with Congress over immigration. And he has come up with a deal. On one hand, he’s making a big offer to Democrats: legal status for 1.8 million people in the country illegally, which is more than the 800,000 or so covered by former President Barack Obama’s old Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA — plus a path to citizenship for all of them.
In return, Trump is making a big ask: A fully-funded border wall, strong limits on chain migration, and an end to the visa lottery.
The questions for Democrats: Is Trump asking for three times more than he wants? Can his position be negotiated down? Or is this the deal they should take?
This stuff can be a real art.
WAS DONALD TRUMP CHANNELING BILL CLINTON’S 1995 SOTU? Brendan Kirby at LifeZette checked the clips and found some uncanny similarities between Trump’s statements on immigration issues and those made by Slick Willie to the first Republican Congress in 40 years.
FASTER, PLEASE: Trump on #ReleaseTheMemo: ‘Don’t worry… 100 percent.’
SALENA ZITO on blue-collar reactions to Trump’s speech.
A BAD NIGHT FOR THE DEMOCRATS: “Steny Hoyer and Nancy Pelosi watching Trump’s speech looked like a pair of sullen six-year olds on a sugar crash the day after Halloween. Bernie Sanders looked mummified. Schumer was slumped so deeply in his chair he was almost falling through the crack. Other Democrats, even ones who should have known better or secretly felt otherwise, sat on their hands. You could see them glancing at each other, wondering whether they were allowed to applaud or stand up.”
WELL, YOU CAN SEE WHY THAT WOULD THROW THEM: Media confused after Trump pushes agenda he was elected to enact.
LATE-STAGE SOCIALISM: Venezuelans Are So Hungry ‘They Have to Loot to Eat.’
Sporadic looting, food riots and protests driven by the hungry poor have surged in Venezuela, a country that’s no stranger to unrest. But the uprisings playing out recently have a different face than the mostly middle-class protesters who took to the streets for months last year in political demonstrations trying to oust President Nicolas Maduro.
“These protests are coming from people of the lower classes who simply cannot get enough to eat,” said David Smilde, a senior fellow at the Washington Office on Latin America, who has spent decades researching Venezuela. “They want relief, not necessarily to force Maduro from power.”
They’re going to find they can’t get the former before they get the latter.
ANN ALTHOUSE CORRECTS THE NYT: Was Trump’s SOTU theme “nationalism”? Was it devoid of values? Freedom, individualism, and self-government are all values, she points out. Well, but not values that are recognized at the NYT. Plus: “Barbaro/Landler seemed critical of Trump’s minimizing himself, as if that’s a tricky device, but Trump — who is so often denounced as narcissistic — should get at least some credit for performing the absence of narcissism.”
Meanwhile, Joy Reid sees values, hates them.
Yes, the Democrats should absolutely run foursquare against all of these things, this year and in 2020.
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