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DC Press Corps & Sunday Show Hosts: Do Your Damn Job!
Washington is overrun with reporters, pundits and political opinion writers (I lived there and was one of them for 7 years during Obama’s presidency). Their job, particularly for the reporters, includes asking politicians questions on issues of importance.
And they’ve been doing a great job following Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema around asking them why they’re sabotaging their own President’s agenda and, in the case of Sinema, why she would sabotage voting rights by refusing to consider filibuster carve-outs.
But here’s a important NEWS FLASH FOR THE DC MEDIA: Democrats aren’t the only politicians in Washington, DC!
And those two particular Democrats aren’t even running for reelection.
How about checking in with the politicians who must soon answer to their voters in primaries and the midterm election in November?
Why, for example, has no reporter stuck a microphone in Florida Republican Marco Rubio’s face and asked, “Why don’t you want Florida’s seniors to have dental care included in Medicare?”
Why has no reporter asked Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski what she has against young Alaskan families getting the child tax credit?
Why has no reporter asked Republican John Boozman what he hates about Arkansas’ working people who struggle daily for giant corporations having paid sick time or paid family leave?
