Monday, October 17, 2011

Democratic Blog Critiqued

Democrats will rally with public employees to push job bills is a blog posted by political writer, Joan McCarter on Daily Kos. McCarter blogs that President Obama’s $35 billion response to the threat of teacher, police and firefighter layoffs is “very smart positioning for the Democrats.”
These civil servants stand to be cut back due to lack of state funds. McCarter suggests that “Democrats are going all in behind the public employees who have been so vilified by Republicans throughout the country.” These workers have been invited to D.C. and a rally is currently underway. An obvious political writer for the Democratic Party, Joan McCarter blogs to her followers about the injustice of these employees and her distaste for Republicans concerning this issue is made very apparent.
McCarter’s argument is clear and sound, as well as justified. However, looking at this blog with a critical eye it is apparent that this piece lacks evidentiary support. We aren’t presented with much more than a small blurb about President Obama’s monetary proposition and some choice words about Republicans. This is a feel-good piece that is based off of Democratic emotion rather than hard supporting evidence. In the end however; I concur with McCarter in her conclusion that the funding to prevent these layoffs is a necessary expense. I would have liked to have more information about the history of this issue from both the Republican and Democratic perspective; however, she has portrayed herself as that “freedom fighter” type of woman, not someone I would be interested in following as I prefer to be educated and then have the argument unfold where I am allowed to either agree or disagree.

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