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Chomsky sure puts it together well. The political pretense (he stresses) of the GOP in throwing aside the pro-choice abortion position
of Reagan and GHWB (George W Bush's father) to go after the Democrat-tending voters of the Catholic north, and the evangelical vote.

On the other hand the stuff they actually pass, the tax bill (the only major one of the Trump/GOP period) and all
the deregulation stuff to cater to their primary constituency, those of "extreme wealth and corporate power."

That married with Trump's skillful use of emotional rhetoric to grab the working class which Democrats
have virtually abandoned all added up to top political strategy, at least for a short short term.

Chomsky mentioned Norman Ornstein and Thomas Mann of the American Enterprise Institute. Though the December 3, 2015 header is arguable

The GOP on the Eve of Destruction

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Like the pronouncement of the Ministry of Truth in Orwell’s 1984, ignorance is strength, whether it’s casting paranoid fantasies about thousands of Muslims in New Jersey cheering 9/11, or warning about terrorists in refugees’ ragged clothing and Mexican rapists slithering across the border.

Just four-and-a-half years ago, Washington mainstays Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein shocked the inside-the-Beltway establishment (especially the press, with its silent pact to speak no evil of wrongdoers lest they deny you an interview) when they published their book, It’s Even Worse than It Looks. The two esteemed political scientists wrote, “The Republican Party has become an insurgent outlier – ideologically extreme; contemptuous of the inherited social and economic policy regime; scornful of compromise; unpersuaded by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.”

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Mike Challenger, of Bothell, Wash., applauds a speaker as he stands dressed in Revolutionary-period wear at a tax day
tea party rally of about a hundred protesters Friday, April 15, 2011, in Bellevue, Wash. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

In the years since, an ugly situation has only gotten increasingly dire, with right-wing radicals whipped into a frenzy by a Republican establishment that thought it could use their rage, only to find it running amok and beyond their control. In a recent interview with Francis Wilkinson of Bloomberg View .. http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-10-14/thomas-mann-and-norman-ornstein-on-republicans-gone-wild , Norman Ornstein said, “The future still looks pretty grim.” And Thomas Mann noted, “The burden is on the GOP because they are currently the major source of our political dysfunction. No happy talk about bipartisanship can obscure that reality. Unless other voices and movements arise within the Republican Party to changes its character and course, our dysfunctional politics will continue.”

The fever is pandemic not only among the party’s presidential candidates but throughout the House and Senate right down to our state governments. Witness erstwhile GOP presidential candidate and current Wisconsin governor Scott Walker cutting off food stamps for the hungry and possibly bankrupting food pantries in his state just in time for Christmas – because many of those on the lowest rung of the ladder haven’t yet found a job.

And here’s multimillionaire Bruce Rauner winning the governorship of Illinois after spending some $65 million — half of which came from himself and nine other individuals, families or the companies they control. Now he’s calling once again on his wealthy friends and allies around the country who, The New York Times reports .. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/30/us/politics/illinois-campaign-money-bruce-rauner.html?r=0 , “are rallying behind Mr. Rauner’s agenda: to cut spending and overhaul the state’s pension system, impose term limits and weaken public employee unions”– even though a majority of ordinary citizens in Illinois are opposed.
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The rest is relevant. In fact Hillary was pilloried by the left of the Democrats for, in the practice of political
pragmatism, understanding the political necessity in not simply pillorying the wealthy and the corporate class.

Balance, Trump and Lies
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The Times has also published critical pieces about Hillary Clinton, a candidate mistrusted by many voters. This has aroused plenty of ire, including from the prominent political scientist Norman Ornstein, who sees an anti-Hillary pattern, or a sexist pattern, or glaring “false equivalence.”
P - I had a vigorous Twitter exchange with Ornstein over a recent page one Times story that chronicled how Clinton spent much of the summer at fund-raisers with the rich. At one, children were permitted to ask a question if their parents would pony up $2,700. He thought it had no place on page one. I disagreed. The Clintons’ coziness with the hedge fund crowd is an issue in an election where Bernie Sanders made rising inequality matter. A recent front-page look at how Clinton responded to her husband’s infidelities has also prompted anger. I thought it provided a compelling portrait of the resolve and resilience — as the well as the capacity for forgiveness — of the woman who may soon be president.
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There are a number featuring Ornstein and/or Mann on the board. This one could be the most relevant to your Chomsky analysis video

Flashback: Seven Years Late, Media Elites Finally Acknowledge GOP's Radical Ways

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Quite predictably, that problem has only worsened since 2012, which is what Mann and Ornstein address in their latest offering, "It's Even Worse Than It Was .. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465096204?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0465096204&linkCode=xm2&tag=thewaspos09-20 ."

"It is the radicalization of the Republican party," they recently wrote .. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-theory/wp/2016/03/08/republicans-created-dysfunction-now-theyre-paying-for-it/ , "that has been the most significant and consequential change in American politics in recent decades."
P - "The radicalization of the Republican party" -- talk about the topic the Beltway press simply doesn't want to dwell on, let alone acknowledge. Instead, the press has clung to its preferred narrative .. https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2013/10/11/why-wont-the-press-police-radical-republicans/196406 .. about how the GOP is filled with honest brokers who are waiting to work .. http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/111th-senate-breaks-a-filibuster-record .. in good faith with the White House. Eager to maintain a political symmetry in which both sides are responsible for sparking conflict (i.e. center-right Republicans vs. center-left Democrats), the press effectively gave Republicans a pass .. https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2013/10/01/how-the-press-helped-cause-the-gop-shutdown/196187 .. and pretended their radical, obstructionist ways represented normal partisan pursuits. (They didn't .. https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2010/02/18/flashback-when-dems-delivered-bipartisan-votes/160508 .)

[The MSM's touchdown pass to the GOP]

Today's Republican Party is acting in a way that defies all historic norms .. http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/08/yes-republicans-really-are-unprecedented-their-obstructionism . We saw it with the GOP's gun law obstruction .. https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2013/04/10/on-cue-the-press-blames-obama-for-gops-radical/193556 ,
the Violence Against Women Act obstruction .. http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/03/republicans-violence-against-women-act ,
the sequester obstruction .. https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2013/03/05/sequestration-and-how-the-liberal-media-keep-bl/192907 ,
Supreme Court obstruction .. http://www.latimes.com/la-ol-opinion-newsletter-html-20160319-htmlstory.html ,
minimum wage obstruction .. http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/250382-gop-blocks-minimum-wage-sick-leave-proposals ,
9/11 first responder obstruction .. http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/9-11-first-responders-sen-mcconnell-stop-blocking-bill-n473071 ,
government shutdown obstruction .. https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2013/10/01/how-the-press-helped-cause-the-gop-shutdown/196187 ,
immigration reform obstruction .. http://www.nj.com/opinion/index.ssf/2015/02/on_immigration_gop_will_pay_for_obstruction_editor.html ,
Chuck Hagel's confirmation obstruction .. https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2013/02/13/the-press-yawns-while-partisan-republicans-shre/192643&ei=JqJ2UbOcC6SU0QGxvoHgBw&usg=AFQjCNEFwMGpaIEPRAQFsk3-makzcCT2pg&bvm=bv.45512109,d.dmQ ,
Susan Rice secretary of state obstruction .. https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2012/11/29/susan-rice-and-how-the-press-keeps-ignoring-rep/191568 ,
paid leave obstruction .. http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/250382-gop-blocks-minimum-wage-sick-leave-proposals ,
Hurricane Sandy emergency relief obstruction .. http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/277141-house-committee-blocks-most-gop-attempts-to-trim-sandy-relief-bill ,
the Clay Hunt Suicide Prevention for American Veterans Act obstruction .. https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2014/12/17/2014s-final-act-of-republican-obstruction-and-h/201918 ,
and the consistent obstruction .. https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2013/02/14/here-we-go-again-right-wing-media-goad-gop-to-e/192665 .. of judicial nominees.
P - [ Merrick Garland
Neil Gorsuch And The Deconstruction Of The Administrative State
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P - The 2014 obstruction of the Clay Hunt Suicide Prevention for American Veterans Act was
especially galling, as a single Republican senator blocked a vote on the crucial veterans bill.
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Just two of the others gleaned from an Ornstein search

The recurring GOP myth about John McCain’s ‘no’ on Obamacare repeal
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Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) offered a plan to repeal Obamacare and then delay implementation for two years while lawmakers worked out the details. That would have only needed 51 votes for passage, but it was rejected, 45 to 55 .. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/politics/health-care-senate-amendment-votes/?utm_term=.3027a003a6d2#clean-repeal , with seven Republicans (including McCain) voting against it.
P - Finally, there was a vote on “skinny repeal.” This would have repealed the individual and employer mandates but it would have left much of the rest of the law intact, including Medicaid expansion. In other words, this would not have put any cap on Medicaid spending. This is the bill that McCain, Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) voted against, along with all Democrats, so it only had 49 votes .. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/politics/health-care-senate-amendment-votes/?utm_term=.3027a003a6d2#skinny-repeal .
P - Even if it had passed, the differences between the AHCA and the skinny repeal would have been stark and perhaps insurmountable. Given the votes on the floor, Senate negotiators would not have been empowered to accept a major cap on Medicaid spending — and if the bill included that, it probably would have gone down in defeat in the Senate. (Similarly, a bill without a cap on Medicaid spending might have lost conservative votes in the House.) McCain had said he voted against the skinny repeal because he wanted the legislation to go through a regular committee process, so a jammed-together conference process might not have won him over.
P - “One reality about conference committees is that, technical restrictions aside, they can accept or reject almost any provision. So it is at least possible that if the bill had gone to conference, they might’ve been able to add that provision,” said Norman Ornstein .. http://www.aei.org/scholar/norman-j-ornstein/ , congressional expert at the American Enterprise Institute. “I would be dubious that the Senate conferees, knowing the unpopularity of the provision, would have gone along.”
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shermann7, mostly just more angry right-wing nonsense. You obviously didn't fact check that Dr. David Janda effort.
Dr. David Janda says Obamacare was written by health insurance companies. That's, being nice, one example of his misleading over-hyped right-wing hyperbole.
See - The Real Story of Obamacare's Birth
One reason for the continued resistance to the Affordable Care Act is a badly distorted narrative of how it became law.
Norm Ornstein Jul 6, 2015
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