Newt Gingrich Quotes

Harriman was the senior Democratic leader of the era. Every aspiring Democratic politician would make it his business to get to meet Harriman and try and get his endorsement. However, Carter was not a typical politician and when he decided to run for the Presidency, he had not even met many of the leading Democratic Party leaders. Harriman, a man of the old school, could not believe that anyone in the party who he did not know could possibly have the connections and the sophistication to win the presidency. However, Watergate had seared the American political soul and voters were not looking for a veteran, sophisticated politician. Nixon had been that.

This appears to be the first time in American history where the losing opposition did not at least claim that they wanted to work with the elected president to better the country. In this case, the partisanship was so bad that the major goal of the Republicans was to do what they could to have the president fail in his first term. To achieve their objective, the Republicans opposed almost every presidential legislative initiative of Obama’s including those that they had supported in previous ones. In several cases, the President proposed to accept previous Republican programs and ideas, and must Republicans then voted against the proposal so that they could deny the president any legislative success even if it moved the Republican programmatic agenda ahead. The Strategy worked in the sense that that Congress passed fewer bills that any in history, but failed to keep Obama from a second term. While the voters were not happy that the President was not able to persuade the Republicans to compromise and pass needed legislation, enough of them realized that the Republicans were more responsible, and reelected the President. The constant opposition to anything Obama advocated and the drumbeat of accusations against him drove his public approval numbers way down. In the process the Republicans drove their own approval percentage under 10 percent. The Republicans followed McConnell’s leadership, hurt the President badly, hurt themselves worse, and hurt the country.

In reality, Donald Trump won despite the opoposition of the leaderships of both political parties. In the Republican Primary elections he defeated the condidates preferred by the Republican leaders and elected officials accross the country. However, once he won the promaries, most--many reluctantly--supported him rather than the Democrat. Then Tump, to almsot everyone's surprise, bested Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Candidate and became President.

On that date, a few days before the election the FBI Director publicly announced that he was reopening the Investigation into possible wrongdoing of Ms. Clinon's use of provate emails. He had earlier cleared her of all criminal wrongdoing and and he claimed that they had found a new computer that had some e-mails that they had not not yet examined for possible criminal activity. In addition WikiLeaks published on the Internet thousands of private e-mails that the Russians had hacked from her campaign chairman and her comittee. The two things started moving her trend down so that she only one the popular vote by almsot 3 million votes and she needed more to overcome the electoral collage gave to rural and small states. Ironically, the FBI went throught the contents of the computer and after the election announced that there was nothing there that incriminated Ms. Clinton, and there was no criminal activity found in all the hacked e-mails. And the FBI Director was chastized by the Republican Justice Department after Donald Trump took office for improperly making pubic investigation details before there were any findings. The FBI Director was subsequently fired but this and otehr reasons were given as the reason.