The speech by US Representative Joseph Kennedy III was remarkably divisive and partisan. Rep. Kennedy misrepresented the President's comments while excluding the interests of a number of groups. The irony is the goal of his speech was to say Democrats are uniters while it is Donald Trump and Republicans who are the divisive ones. Let's go down some of the points in Rep. Kennedy's speech. He started by reflecting on some things that happened in the past year. "A government that struggles to keep itself open." Passage of a budget lies with Congress not with the Executive branch of government. Furthermore, Democrats were equally to blame for the brief shutdown, providing no votes in the Senate initially to overcome the filibuster and pass a short term budget. "Russia, knee deep in our democracy." Wait - didn't the Russian interference in our election happen during President Obama's Administration? In fact, the Obama Administration had ha