Progressive Democrats are tired of being disrespected by a Northam campaign that can’t seem to find its footing.

Virginia's Public Square
Virginia's Public Square
Progressive Democrats are tired of being disrespected by a Northam campaign that can’t seem to find its footing.
If politics had a TKO? Miller put on a clinic against CNN’s Jim Acosta, whose moral preening was on full display during this exchange.
Effectively, Acosta — supposedly a journalist and not a columnist — engaged in a tit-for-tat with White House aide Stephen Miller regarding the proposed immigration bill.
Let’s leave aside for a second who is right and who is wrong in this exchange. The difference is here: Acosta hijacked the exchange in order to score political points in an effort to make himself the story, and Miller adroitly (and to his credit) refused to fall into the trap of taking the hit as others at the podium during the Trump administration have done.
Miller fought his way out of the ambush, just like you’re supposed to do.
The entire six minute exchange is worth your time. Regardless as to where you stand on immigration policy or the particulars of this bill (we have our reservations), Acosta’s verbal sparring with Miller was the sort of exchange one expects from a journalist who is there to create the news, not report it.
It is the precise reason why Americans don’t trust the mainstream media, and despite reservations about the Trump presidency, have no stomach for returning to the media-driven Obama-era fawning over every progressive policy as a positive good.
Such are the times, folks.
Offshore drilling and energy alternatives are in the absolute best interest of Virginia Beach, even if they aren’t in the private interests of one businessman.
Hard up for cash and hitting the panic button, Northam decides to lap up the blood money from Planned Parenthood — $3 million in fact.
McAuliffe is using the Office of the Governor to help promote the next generation of Democratic leadership.
Looks that way.
Stonewalling on debates only proves the worn narrative that the Democrats don’t have a positive agenda, either for America or for Virginia.
Pipeline opponents are having a hard time getting a hearing. That’s because the sharp pencils over within Northam’s campaign have calculated they don’t need the environmentalist left.
Trump has a big heart for DACA. Does it expand into a comprehensive schematic for immigration reform?
We cannot deny a predestination of the negative, that is, our actions are predetermined to remain within the finite permutations of what we can do, not the infinitude of what we wish to do.