Muriel Bowser is squeezed between her duty to DC – Latest News
Squeezed between what works and what Democrats demand — pity DC Mayor Muriel Bowser.
Washington is unquestionably benefiting from President Donald Trump’s policing intervention, Bowser admitted Wednesday: carjackings down 87% and violent crime dropping 45% within the three weeks for the reason that prez despatched within the National Guard and took over town’s police division.
DC residents see the distinction too — even when, as loyal Democrats who’ll by no means say a good phrase about Trump, they inform pollsters how terrible it is.
“We greatly appreciate the surge of officers that enhance what [DC’s own PD] has been able to do in this city,” Bowser kindly mentioned this week.
Hmm: Two weeks earlier, she was slamming the federal takeover as an “authoritarian push” and supporting DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb as he sued to stop it.
Even although at first she’d welcomed the National Guard deployment and vowed to collaborate with the Trump administration.
It’s a powerful squeeze: District voters will oust her on the subsequent election if she doesn’t defend “home rule,” however Congress might additionally oust her (together with the dreadful DC City Council and all the remainder of home rule) if she will get in the way in which of making town protected.
No self-respecting nation ought to settle for runaway crime in its own capital, however someplace alongside the way in which standard knowledge in our nation determined in any other case; Trump’s opted for common sense, and Bowser plainly realizes she will’t stop it; we suspect she doesn’t even need to, even when politics forces her to say the alternative.
