Veteran US anchor guns for GOP defeat in November

Old guard national evening news anchor Dan Rather spent much of his career being careful about not adopting opinions — but he’s most definitely taken a hard stance against the modern Republican Party and its fawning support of President Donald Trump.

Basically, he wants them beaten.

“It is becoming increasingly clear even among Republicans that the president has lost interest in anything that doesn’t make him and his family richer or inflate his ego,” wrote Rather, a decades-long veteran of nightly news, stretching back to the Vietnam War. “The Republican Party abandoned hope months ago that Trump would tout ‘affordability’ as the party’s message ahead of the midterms. His economic message was a non-starter after he dropped the first bomb on Iran.”

Since then, prices consumer prices in fuel and at the grocery store are heading in the opposite direction of his popularity, said Rather. So, now Trump “spends his time and our money on retribution campaigns and glorification projects.”

“All of this is terrible for Trump’s party, but it could be good for the country if his irresponsibility can be checked. In the meantime, my Steady friends, it’s incredibly difficult to watch this never-ending train wreck,” said Rather, adding that “the words ‘criminal enterprise’ have crept into the presidential conversation for the first time since I covered Richard Nixon.”

The absurdity of Trump giving himself a free pass from investigation by any federal agency should not be ignored or minimized, said Rather. But Trump’s corruption should not go unchecked. But he says “no one in the current White House has the power or the guts to restrain their boss.”

Trump is writing checks for himself with taxpayer money. He’s got lieutenants absolving himself of responsibility for his corruption. Meanwhile, an arch that “no one wants is inching closer to reality” as the Trump-packed Commission of Fine Arts voted to approve the 250-foot structure that will block the intentionally unobstructed view of Arlington National Cemetery from the Lincoln Memorial.

“The courts, especially the Supreme Court, and both Houses of Congress have the power to at least slow him, if not stop him. But only if they have the courage to do so. Down the road, impeachment and conviction could become a factor, but we’re a long way from that. All of which brings us to the fact that the final deciders are we the people and our votes,” said Rather, in an unmistakable battle cry for the November midterms.

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