THE DEM PLAYBOOK – AT 12:18 P.M. ET:   What we are seeing in Washington, as we approach inauguration, is chilling.  The Democratic Party has gone into full obstruction mode.  Having learned nothing from the election, the party that has forgotten who Roosevelt, Truman and Kennedy were, is now attempting to prevent Donald Trump from governing.  We have never seen this before.  From the brilliant Michael Goodwin at the New York Post: 

This is a first: Donald Trump is guilty of an understatement, of making a molehill out of a mountain. He called the Washington furor over Russian hacking a “witch hunt” when it is actually far more sinister and dangerous.

Witch hunts end. The Washington mob aims to make sure the election never ends and that Trump can never govern.

There are no modern precedents to the scandalous attempts to smear and undermine the president-elect. Nearly nine weeks after his victory and less than two weeks before he takes the oath, the voter-nullification plot is growing more vile.

It began when the Clinton campaign and her donors tried to overturn results in key states, then tried to steal the election outright by intimidating electors of the Electoral College.

When all that failed, the establishment forces that opposed Trump all along — the Obama White House, members of both parties, the Democratic media and Big Government activists — switched their goal to thwarting his presidency. One example: They aim to deny confirmation to as many as eight Cabinet picks.

This is not mere politics. This is half the country going rogue in a fit of madness.

COMMENT:  Read the entire thing.  It's a superb summation of what the Democrats, and a small number of Republicans, are doing.

Trump should be planning a strategy right now to get around these obstructionists.  He will get no help from the press, but can get considerable help from the American people.  Trump must be prepared to go to the people with very specific plans, and show how the Democrats are obstructing them.  Public pressure is a powerful tool.  Reagan used it.  He learned it from Roosevelt, one of his idols.  Let Trump propose a tax cut for the middle class.  Let him propose an economic plan for inner cities.  Then let the Democrats try to obstruct. 

January 8, 2016