"The Democratic Party and the media are not concerned with having a fascistic-minded president and an administration packed with corporate CEOs and generals dedicated to waging war, tearing up social programs and organizing a further redistribution of wealth to the rich. On such matters, there is far more that unites the ruling class than divides it."
“Barack Obama and his henchmen would not have been
emboldened in their ostensible machinations to undermine an
election and then a presidency if it were not for the fecklessness
of the Republican Party and the blind eye as well as the tacit
support of the mainstream media.”
Washington Post and New York Times urge pullback on calls for
Trump impeachment
22 May 2017
In editorials published simultaneously
for their Sunday editions, the New York Times and the Washington
Post called for caution in the anti-Trump campaign they have been
spearheading with claims of nefarious connections between the Trump
presidential campaign and the Russian government.
The Times editorial,
headlined “Watergate? We’re Not There Yet,” cites comparisons between the
crisis of the Trump administration and the scandal that brought down President
Richard Nixon 43 years ago, only to suggest that impeachment or forced
resignation is not yet the order of the day.
After repeatedly slamming Trump as a
stooge of Russian President Vladimir Putin and a threat to US national
security, including the publication last week of an editorial with comparisons
to Watergate, the Times now counsels the Democrats to proceed
cautiously and avoid “distraction.” It advises leveraging the official
investigations into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia,
along with the continuing decline in Trump’s poll numbers, to “win back a
majority next year in at least one house of Congress” in the 2018 mid-term
elections.
The Washington Post editorial
similarly suggests that the anti-Trump campaign “will require time,” both for
newly appointed special counsel Robert Mueller, the former FBI director, and
for the various House and Senate committees investigating alleged Russian
intervention into the 2016 election.
The Post editorial,
under the headline “It’s time to focus—finally—on running the country,” demands
that the Democrats “talk about something other than impeachment in the coming
weeks,” and that Republicans “face the task at which they have so far failed:
governing responsibly.”
The Post is more
explicit about the social and class policies underlying the campaign over
alleged Trump-Russia connections. It demands action on health care to reduce
“uncertainty among the insurers upon which the system relies.” In other words,
the two big-business parties must contain their mutual mudslinging and get on
with the pro-corporate austerity measures demanded by the financial elite.
Similarly, Congress must “pass a new budget and raise the
debt ceiling.” It must carry through “tax reform,” which means cutting taxes
for the wealthy and for corporations, while making sure that such actions
“cannot result in higher deficits.” In other words, tax cuts for the rich must
be paid for by slashing social programs for working people.
Last but by no means least, the editorial cites concerns
about Trump’s foreign policy in relation to North Korea, Syria, the Islamic
State, Iran, Russia and “other hostile powers.”
Neither newspaper attempts to square the intensity of their
onslaught against the Trump administration, particularly over the past two
weeks, with their current declarations in favor of caution and biding one’s
time.
The situation could shift quickly, but
the editorials from the Times and the Post reflect
a broader pullback from immediate calls for impeachment and references to
Watergate from within the media and political establishment. In recent days,
prominent congressional Democrats such as Adam Schiff, the ranking member of
the House Intelligence Committee, and Elijah Cummings, the ranking Democrat on
the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, have called talk of
impeachment premature.
These developments underscore the fact that there is no
democratic or progressive content to the opposition to Trump from within the
political establishment and the capitalist state. The Democratic Party and the
media are
not concerned with having a fascistic-minded
president and an
administration packed with
corporate CEOs and generals dedicated to
waging war,
tearing up social programs and
organizing a further redistribution of wealth
to
the rich. On such matters, there is far more
that unites the ruling class than
divides it.
What are the considerations driving the warnings about
proceeding too rashly on the question of impeachment?
First, the central concern of Trump’s opponents within the
ruling class since his inauguration has always been to force a shift in policy,
particularly foreign policy. On the US war in Syria, the maintenance of the
NATO alliance and, above all, aggression toward Russia, Trump was deemed to be
not on message by the dominant factions of the military and intelligence
apparatus.
The president has already sought to appease such concerns by
ordering a missile strike on Syria, followed last week by a US bombing raid on
a pro-Syrian government militia and approval of a Pentagon plan to escalate the
US intervention in Syria, Iraq and northern Africa.
There are related concerns that a perpetual crisis at the
center of the American state and a protracted impeachment process pose a threat
to the international standing of the United States and the overall interests of
American imperialism.
Second, there are the concerns outlined
by the Post that a full-scale impeachment crisis will derail
the administration’s program of corporate tax cuts, deregulation and the
gutting of social programs upon which Wall Street has been banking and is
determined to see pushed through. This was the message sent by the financial
markets in last week’s huge one-day selloff. That the message was received was
indicated by the announcement the same day of the appointment of a special
counsel to take the political faction fight in hand.
Third, there are fears that a full-scale constitutional
crisis and fratricidal struggle within the ruling class can create an opening
for an independent intervention by the working class. Under conditions of mass
disaffection from both political parties, rising social anger and a general
discrediting of all official institutions of power, the destabilization of the
political system has potentially revolutionary implications.
The appointment of Mueller, who headed
the FBI for 12 years, under both Bush and Obama, puts the Trump administration
under the effective receivership of the intelligence agencies, with the
constant threat that if he steps too far out of line, he could quickly be faced
with criminal charges. References to the formation of some sort of caretaker
regime have begun appearing in the press. A Post op-ed column
by Dana Millbank devoted to celebrating the anti-Russian campaign as a heroic
journalistic exploit, while acknowledging that it was made possible by
systematic leaking from the military-intelligence apparatus, concludes by
describing Mueller as “a regent, if you will, to protect against future
abuses.”
All of this underscores the completely reactionary character
of both factions of the ruling class, whatever turn the crisis might take in
the days and weeks to come. It demonstrates the political dead end of
subordinating the struggle against the Trump administration to the Democrats,
whose opposition to Trump is entirely different from and hostile to the
concerns and interests of millions of workers. They must intervene on the basis
of their own, socialist, program and perspective.
Patrick Martin
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THE SINS OF THEIR FATHERS:
THEIR GLOBAL LOOTING of the POOR
THE OPEN BORDERS PARTY of GEORGE SOROS, HILLARY & BILLARY CLINTON, BARACK OBAMA and DONALD TRUMP
DONALD TRUMP, HIS PARASITIC FAMILY,
HIS GOLDMAN SACHS REGIME and GOD
FATHER, GEORGE SOROS… .global looters of
the poor!
HIS GOLDMAN SACHS REGIME and GOD
FATHER, GEORGE SOROS… .global looters of
the poor!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/05/the-jared-kushner-donald-trump-george.html
THE OBAMA DOCTRINE:
DESTROY AMERICA TO BUILD A MUSLIM-STYLE
DICTATORSHIP WHERE LA RAZA
MEXICANS VOTE HIM
PRESIDENT FOR LIFE
"He is intent on maximizing the damage he inflicted on
the country during the two terms of his faux presidency, having now
set up shop in Washington to pursue a post-presidency agenda advancing a
left-wing insurgency, civil unrest, racial conflict and the destabilizing activities of a shadow."
BARACK OBAMA: BUILDING HIS RETURN TO POWER PARTY WITH
ILLEGALS!
FUNDER AND LEADER OF THE MEXICAN FASCIST
PARTY of LA RAZA “The Race”
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2016/10/the-racist-mexican-fascist-party-of-la.html
During Obama’s 8 year bankster
regime, he openly operated and funded the Mexican fascist racist party of LA
RAZA “The Race” from the White House under La Raza VP Cecilia Munoz…. Google
Obama and LA RAZA!
BARACK OBAMA PLANS A THIRD TERM: HIS CRONY BANKSTERS, LA RAZA, MUSLIMS
AND THOSE MUSLIM DICTATORSHIPS HE FUNDED ARE BEHIND HIM…. Along with George
Soros!
THE OBAMA COUP TO BE DICTATOR:
THE ARMY OF ILLEGALS TO BRING
AMERICA DOWN AND FORM THE OBAMA MUSLIM-STYLE DICTATORSHIP THAT WILL BE OPEN
BORDERS AND PRO LA RAZA FASCIST SUPREMACY.
Daniel Greenfield, the award-winning Shillman
Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, believes (OBAMA'S POLITICAL PARTY)
“OFA will be far more dangerous in the wild than the Clinton Foundation ever
was.”
“Barack
Obama and his henchmen would not have been
emboldened in their ostensible
machinations to undermine an
election and then a presidency if it were
not for the fecklessness of
the Republican Party and the blind eye as
well as the
tacit
support of the mainstream media.”
Under the Obama administration, more Americans have found themselves consigned to economic ghettos, living in neighborhoods where more than 40 percent subsist below the poverty level.
THE LEGACY OF
BARACK OBAMA:
Final Death of the American White Middle Class
Under the Obama administration, more Americans have found themselves consigned to economic ghettos, living in neighborhoods where more than 40 percent subsist below the poverty level.
*
Millions more now live in “high poverty” districts
of 20-40 percent poverty, according to recently released report by the
Brookings Institution.
THE OBAMA BOOK DEAL: Sixty-five million dollars—or even $267.5
million—is a small price to pay for the contribution the former president made
to enriching the already fabulously rich, defending the American ruling elite’s
geopolitical interests around the world and continuing the assault on the
wages, benefits and living standards of the working class.
THE
SWAMP DWELLERS:
GLOBAL
LOOTING of the POOR
TRUMP,
KUSHNER and FAMILY, BILL, HILLARY &
CHELSEA CLINTON, MICHELLE AND “HOPE & CHANGE” PSYCHOPATH MUSLIM BARACK
OBAMA!
Will
they finish off America as they serve themselves and the super rich???
HOW
TO DESTROY AMERICA:
THE
OBAMA DOCTRINE OF UNLEASHING MEXICAN CRIMINALS ACROSS AMERICA FROM BORDER to
OPEN BORDER
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