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Lets face it: The past 100 days have been a disaster for Democrats.

While much ink has been spilled in the past week assessing President Trumps first 100 days in office, the Democrats abysmal performance has largely escaped scrutiny. So lets review their record.

Democrats spent much of Trumps first months in office pushing their unfounded narrative of his alleged collusion with Vladimir Putin.

But that narrative went up in smoke when Trump launched missile strikes against Putins Syrian ally, Bashar al-Assad. Then came UN Ambassador Nikki Haleys blistering speech before the Security Council laying the blame on Russia for failing to stop Syrias use of chemical weapons and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis charge that Russia is arming the Taliban.

Suddenly, were in a new Cold War with Moscow which pours cold water on Democrats case for Trump-Putin collusion. All that effort at character assassination down the drain.

Most damaging has been Democrats seemingly nonstop efforts to further alienate the millions of Americans who twice voted for Barack Obama but switched to Trump last year. Some point to a Post-ABC News poll that showed that Trump hadnt expanded his base of support since he took office. Well, he didnt need to: He won. (And the poll suggested that if the election were held again, hed not only defeat Hillary Clinton again but win the popular vote this time.)

The ones who need to expand their base are Democrats, and they utterly failed to do so. According to that poll, only 2 percent of Americans who voted for Trump regret their votes, while fully 96 percent say it was the right thing to do.

Today just 28 percent of Americans say that the Democratic Party is in touch with the concerns of most Americans today 10 points behind Trump.

Democrats have made clear their deep-seated contempt for the values of working-class, socially conservative Democrats who left their party in droves last year. The new chairman, Thomas Perez, has announced that pro-life candidates are no longer welcome in the party: Every Democrat, like every American, should support a womans right to make her own choices about her body and her health. That is not negotiable.

Democrats are completely focused on placating their frothing, left-wing, anti-Trump base and the American heartland thinks these people are insane.

They see women marching in anti-Trump rallies wearing pussy hats. They see left-wing mobs attacking Charles Murray at Middlebury College and trying to stop Ann Coulter from speaking at the UC Berkeley.

They see Bill Nye the Liberal Guy (honorary co-chair of the March for Science) asking whether people should be punished for having extra kids. (Which kid is the extra one?)

They see a horrible feedback loop of left-wing intolerance for their beliefs and way of life. And they see Democrats pandering to these people.

They also see that Democrats have not even made a pretense of cooperation with the candidate they elected. The Democratic Party is no longer the opposition; it is The Resistance.

These voters rightly ask: Resistance to what? The answer, they conclude, is resistance to ideas that are not their own. Resistance to the values of Middle America. Resistance to the candidate who promised to fight for them the forgotten Americans the Democratic Party abandoned.

The Democrats unrelenting, hyperventilating obstruction of Trump has sent a crystal-clear message to Obama-Trump voters: We dont hear you. We loathe your president and all of you who put him into office. And were going to show you what you can do with your Trump vote, by doing everything in our power to undermine the man you elected.

Cranking out the liberal base while alienating working-class, traditionally Democratic voters didnt work in 2016. It cost Democrats not only the presidency but the chance to take control of the Senate in a year when the playing field was tilted against the GOP.

Yet for some inexplicable reason, Democrats seem hellbent on doubling down on this failed strategy.

Trouble is, in 2018 Republicans are defending only eight Senate seats, while Democrats are defending 25 including 10 in red states that Trump won. And working-class voters in those states see that Democrats have utter contempt for their choice of president, and thus utter contempt for them.

A hundred days in, these voters remain loyal to Trump. Thats good news for the president. But for Democrats, its a disaster.

Special to the Washington Post

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USA TODAY 4:49 p.m. ET May 2, 2017

At the Democratic National Committee Winter Meeting in Atlanta.(Photo: Erik S. Lesser, epa)

Letter to the editor:

While Republicans are trying to fight terrorism and create jobs, Democrats are protesting for mens rights to use the womens restroom. Democrats are also burning American flags and waving the Mexican flag, marching with racist groups like Black Lives Matter and rioting to keep conservatives from being heard on college campuses. Democratic congressmen even placed a painting in the halls of Congress that depicts police as pigs. And how many of you got sick of hearing Democrats support the anti-American NFL player Colin Kaepernick while he refused to stand for the national anthem?

The modern-day Democrat is someone who supports abortion, yet calls our military torturers for running a little water up the noses of known terrorists. He is also someone who supports the Palestinian terrorists over the good people of Israel, and has more harsh words for Christianity than for Islamic terrorism.

The Democratic Party has been running without a moral compass for the last 30 years, but its all-out assault on Christianity in recent years is at a point of no return. If you are a Democrat, and call yourself a Christian, please explain to the rest of us how you make that work.

Mike Cloud; Lubbock, Texas

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Democrats are doing exactly what they need to sweep the midterm elections. They should keep it up! Actually, double down and maybe even lurch a little more left. Perhaps nominate a leading septuagenarian? Lean in, Democrats, your message is resonating.

Ken E. Consaul

I think there are many positive messages for Democrats after the presidential election. People have become engaged, including many in the fly-over states. We want our country back and want to see it move into a brighter future.

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Lifezette Editor-in-Chief Laura Ingraham blasted congressional Republicans for their contribution to the $1.07 trillion spending package, telling Fox News' "Hannity" that they were "cowering over a government shutdown."

Ingraham told host Sean Hannity that if she was advising Trump, she would tell him to veto the bill and "make them own it."

"Some of these Republicans, Sean, and you know who they are, are resisting Trump as fiercely in their own way as the Democrats are," said Ingraham. "I think Mitch McConnell said right off the bat that we are not going to shut down the government. Now, what does that tell the Democrats? Go for broke."

The radio host and Fox News contributor was harshly critical of the GOP for allowing the bill to maintain funding for Planned Parenthood.

"To fund that monstrosity of killing," Ingraham said. "I would have said [as Trump], Look, you own it, thats your priority, you want to die on the hill of Planned Parenthood, you go right ahead, but Im going to veto that."

Ingraham also blamed House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., for House Republicans' halting effort to vote on repealing and replacing ObamaCare.

"Trump won in November on his agenda," she said. "People wanted change. They didnt want Paul Ryan ...They voted for Donald Trumps populist agenda.

"If you cant put points on the board, you cant be the quarterback. Thats it."

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By Pete Schroeder | WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives opposed to Republican legislation that would repeal major sections of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law on Tuesday made multiple efforts to delay the bill.

The House Financial Services Committee was due to consider Representative Jeb Hensarling's sweeping bill to rework the 2010 law. In addition to eliminating large portions of Dodd-Frank - enacted in the wake of the global financial crisis - it would put new handcuffs on regulators charged with writing and enforcing its rules.

The partisan maneuvering to slow work on the bill demonstrated how divided the two parties are regarding rules for the financial sector, casting doubt on Congress's ability to revisit them significantly despite Republican President Donald Trump's vow to "do a number" on existing regulations.

First, Democrats ordered a vote on whether the committee even wanted to actually consider the bill. That amendment passed with support from only the Republican majority.

Then, Democrats ordered that all 589 pages of the law be read out loud by the committee clerk. The reading of legislative language is almost always waived by committee members when considering a bill.

After about 3-1/2 hours of the bill being read to a largely empty committee room, Democrats agreed to shelve that request and proceed to the amendments they wanted to offer. Democrats had drawn up roughly 140 amendments they wanted to offer to change the bill, according to a House aide. But that number is expected to shrink as the two parties work out a path forward.

Hensarling announced on Tuesday that despite earlier plans to vote on amendments to the bill throughout the day, no votes would be held on the bill until Wednesday morning at the earliest.

The procedural obstacles were all aimed at a bill that is not expected to actually become law, as the sweeping rewrite of Dodd-Frank is not expected to garner enough support in the Senate, which the Republicans hold by a slim majority.

But it is expected to pass the Republican-led House, and the skirmish over it was a clear indication of how much Democrats are willing to dig in on measures that would make life easier for the financial sector.

"This is one of the worst bills I've seen in my time in Congress," said Representative Maxine Waters, the committee's top Democrat, as the committee began debate on the measure. "The bill is rotten to the core, and simply carries water for Trump and his buddies on Wall Street."

Hensarling's bill would allow large banks to avoid most Dodd-Frank rules if they agree to establish a 10 percent capital ratio, and also scraps several powers given to regulators after the financial crisis to more closely scrutinize some of the nation's largest institutions.

It also makes several changes to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, severely limiting its power and giving Congress and the White House more direct control over its operations and funding.

(Reporting by Pete Schroeder; Editing by Jonathan Oatis)

WASHINGTON The U.S. National Security Agency collected more than 151 million records of Americans' phone calls last year, even after Congress limited its ability to collect bulk phone records, according to an annual report issued on Tuesday by the top U.S. intelligence officer.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Russia succeeded in its goals of sowing discord in U.S. politics by meddling in the 2016 presidential election, which will likely inspire similar future efforts, two top former U.S. voices on intelligence said on Tuesday.

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KREM 2's Amanda Roley reports from downtown Spokane on May Day, where protesters took to the streets to argue for immigration reform. The march remained peaceful. (5-1-17)

Amanda Roley , KREM 5:33 PM. PDT May 01, 2017

SPOKANE, Wash. --- Protesters took to the streets of Downtown Spokane on Monday to march for immigration reform.

The Eastern Washington University student club MEChA planned the protest. MEChA is an acronym for Movimiento Estudiantil Chicana/o de Aztlan and is part of a larger national student organization.

Spokane Falls Boulevard, Stevens and Main Street were all blocked off for the march, which started at the clock tower in Riverfront Park.

Two, four, six, eight, Spokane is too great to hate, chanted demonstrators.

The March for immigration reform is being put on by the EWU student club MEChA. They'll be passing out signs soon. @KREM2 #MayDay2017 pic.twitter.com/hYlZivSt6x

The demonstrations on May Day, celebrated as International Workers' Day, follow similar actions worldwide in which protesters from the Philippines to Paris demanded better working conditions, the Associated Press reported. But the widespread protests in the United States were aimed directly at the new Republican president, who has followed aggressive anti-immigrant rhetoric on the campaign trail with aggressive action in the White House.

One protester told KREM 2 he is undocumented, along with his family, after overstaying their visas when he was very young.

Im here to say deportations are no longer an acceptable form of dealing with immigration issues in this country, he said when asked why he was attending the protest. Everyone is needed and all of us are contributing to the economy and to our community.

Whether you agree or disagree with how 11 million people became undocumented, the point is that we all depend on each other, he said. If Im being deported, if millions of people are going to be deported as President Trump has suggested, thats going to be millions of people and taxpayers that wont be able to contribute to our community.

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