A Presidential Speech Is Always

One Of The Things That Always Drives Any Practitioner Of Journalism Crazy Is You'll Run It People Who Say Why Doesn't The Media Cover This Or That? Well Of Course The Media Covered It. Why Didn't You Read About It? And, You Know, It's, You Know, There You Are, It's Not The Journalist's Job To Knock Down Your Door, You Know, Punch The Url Into Your Computer And Force You To Stop Watching The Kardashians And To Read, You Know, A Report On Integrity In Government Instead, It's Your Job.

The Five Million People Who Watch Cable News Are The Political Nation, The People Who Really Care.

Normally What Happens In A New Presidency Is The President Has A Big Agenda, And Congress Is Full Of People With Human Weaknesses. And So The President Indulges The Human Weaknesses Of Members Of Congress In Order To Pass His Agenda. This Time It's The Other Way Around. Donald Trump Does Not Have Much Of An Agenda. Congress Burns With This Intense Republican Agenda And So Does Congress That Has To Put Up With The Human Weaknesses Of The President In Order To Get A Signature On The Things It Desperately Wants To Pass.

One Of The Things You Can Learn From A Figure Like Venezuela's Hugo Chavez Is That If You Take All The Resources Of The State For Yourself, You Don't Build Much Of A Constituency And You Have To Rely On Repression, And Repression Is Difficult In The Modern World.

The Big Winners Under The American Fiscal System Are The Rich, Who Pay Some Of The Lowest Taxes Anywhere In The World; The Old, Who Are The Main Beneficiaries Of The American Social Service State; Farmers, Rural People. These Are Republican Constituencies.