Sorry, George W. Bush - the Supreme Court shows you’re wrong about Trump

Trump was worth it for this

Here is a lesson to George W. Bush and all the rest of the “never Trumpers” in the Republican Party.

If Donald Trump had not run, there would have been 16 candidates. One would have won the primary.

None would have beaten Hillary Clinton.

Today we would have two new liberal judges on the Supreme Court.

Let that sink in.

Democrats’ strategy isn’t working

You’d think that losing more than 1,000 seats nationally would convince Democrats they are doing something wrong.

But rather than change course, Democrats refuse to acknowledge that the corporatist rot within their ranks is the single reason unmotivated voters won’t turn out. They keep losing, and their leaders sit in a boardroom with their corporate donors and can’t figure out why.

Democrats are disjointed and only run “against” things. Like anti-Donald Trump. Ask Hillary Clinton how that worked out.

Democrats are serving two masters: their corporate donors and the working people they claim to represent. A house divided against itself cannot stand.

The corporations have another party they own. Democrats will always be second best to the Republicans on selling their souls (even though they’ve been giving it a good shot since Bill Clinton).

The only way to motivate voters is for the Democrats to find their inner Bernie Sanders again.

One voice we need to hear

Fort Worth should have rejected the Trinity Mud Puddle — the Panther Island project — when the bond election gave us the chance.

Now that President Donald Trump’s minions have delayed it, it will slowly starve. (Oct. 7, 1A, “Panther Island is now in long queue for federal funding”)

When the feds canceled the Superconducting Super Collider in 1993, it left huge holes in the countryside near Waxahachie. When they canceled the the McDonnell Douglas/General Dynamics A-12 Avenger II in 1991, it left a vacant building on Fort Worth’s west side and put a lot of locals out of work.

What will this delay mean? Will we complete the bridges over dry land?

Will the area north of downtown become a patchwork of half-completed earthworks?

Will our city be permanently deformed by this ill-conceived, unnecessary boondoggle — ironically ended by the president Fort Worth helped elect?

I’d like Rep. Kay Granger’s son to explain what our exit strategy is.

While watching and reading several stories about the sudden delay in federal funding for the Panther Island project on NBC5i and the Star-Telegram, I couldn’t help but notice the conspicuous absence of any interviews or statements by J.D. Granger, executive director of the Trinity River Vision Authority overseeing the $1.16 billion as project and son of our very own Rep. Kay Granger, a member of the House Appropriations Committee.

What’s really behind the suit?

Is it malicious to suspect that Dr. Steven Hotze is motivated less by his religious rights than by a desire to save money by offering a cheaper insurance plan for his employees? (Oct. 8, 1A, “Suit: Birth control coverage mandate ignores religious rights”)