Posted on 04/06/2017 8:47:52 AM PDT by Jumper
Would the good people at FR please have a little patience. I am so tired of people here proving the Democrats have a winning hand in Obstructionism. The fact that every single Trump agenda and personal activity is met with complete contempt by the Left only proves that it will be S-l-o-w going getting an agenda thru both personally and politically for the President, and the Republicans.
So much whinning about inaction here in the comments; relax and get off the 24/7 political hamster-wheel - patience my FR-iends! So much contempt for everyone, both right and left. Patience is a hard to learn behavior, but let me remind everyone here on one simple fact, "Rome was not built in a day."
Relax and let matters run there course, we all know the Federal Government was designed to achive very little at a slow pace. Two hundred fourty years ago, the pace of government was efficient but produced no result any quicker than does it today with 24/7 news. Have some patience, give the RNC and Trump a break. We won.
It almost sounds on FR like everyone demands Trump's campaign slogans be effected in the first 100 days.... If he accomplishes half of it that would be enough.
SCOTUS on Friday will be the first step forward from the obstructionism of the Left. It will be a long hard series of battles, but the courts are now our friend - Trump will rule Supreme. Have patience.
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Agreed, but I don’t think your post will make much difference.
We’ll find out all we need to know with the nuclear option.
I agree.
“Rome was not built in a day.”
But Little Shop o Horrors was filmed in two days.
Agreed, glad you stepped back from the ledge.
I couldn’t agree more. We all slogged through eight miserable, dark years of the Obama era; undoing that darkness, especially with blood enemies on the dem side and rampant timidity among Republicans, the going will be frustratingly slow. But at least, the death march toward national oblivion has been halted and in some cases, reversed.
Gotta give it time, folks... gotta give it time.
I agree somewhat with what you are saying but I have two points of concern.
Some of Trump's closet advisers seem to be on the left and they may move Trump left on some key issues.
The Republican Congress is being lead by cowards who will fold to the left on key issues.
Agree totally and remember DJT said he’s not going to advertising all his moves in advance in order to keep the enemy and DNC-asses at bay and surprises !!!
The only reason the left can obstruct is because the right lets them. The republicans are the majority, they make the rules, they are the ones who work only a few days a week and short hours at that. Every day you lose is one day closer to 2018 and nothing gets done in an election year.
It took the Left 20 years to build zero’s administration. It’s not coming down in mere weeks. One step at a time, and scroll past the incessant shriekers, numbering in the hundreds now as they do.
Or ask for a special designation for certain threads: No Wailing.
Patients wears thin when republicans save dems by bowing down and recusing themselves over and over because dems demand it and have our own rinos out day after day bashing Trump over Russia when there is not a shred of evidence. Sorry, we are losing the tide quickly because rinos are so weak and compromised and the rinos around Trump are giving him horrible advice. When I see Trump betraying the people who got him there for the compromised and weak rinos that are betraying him daily, I have to think the game is almost up and the deep state is going to win.
I am rooting for Trump but I think this is getting harder and harder battle with the wrong warriors on the field. Trump can only do so much, he needs stronger people behind him and I do not think Jarred and Ivanka would allow that.
We have been dealing with a party of puppies fighting an army of bulldogs and the spineless puppies don't even know when they are at war in politics.
How many times have we been told that if only we get more Republicans so much would be different? Then we get them and they want little change compared to the President.
So many have been lied to by Republicans for decades, I'm not twenty anymore and refuse to not complain as I spend most of my life watching bait and switch politics and globalization.
Asians killing off our oceans fish supply, nothing done.
Liberals causing starvation around the world by sending our crops to make bio-fuel...RETARDED.
Get walls up fast, because we feed ourselves and most of the world does not.
I’m with you. I like the cute stories about 100 or 200 illegals deported from a three-state sweep over a week or two, and the IRS orders regarding Obamacare penalties, but those are nowhere near enough.
I want to average 1,000 deportations per week, per state. We can’t go from a handful to the rate I want overnight. President Trump has to make sure his people have the process down and then ramp up the rate. I’m okay with him keeping his pledge eventually instead of demanding 11 million in the first 11 weeks.
I want Obamacare repealed. We see now that the RINO Congress won’t do that. If it takes President Trump a year to kill that terrible law, I’m okay with that as long as Obamacare is really repealed (at least 95% gone). It’s a bad law, and keeping it longer will hurt people, but there are limits to what one man can do against the swamp.
I’ll give President Trump (oh, I love writing those words!) time. I’ll give him all the support I can. I was patient for eight years under the most evil person ever to set foot in our White House, I can wait patiently under a man I hope will become one of the best presidents we’ve had.
Was there a part in there based on Jaime Gorelick ;-)
Trump has just changed our country for decades to come with the Supreme Court. Almost nothing else he could have done, tops that. God Bless this great man. I don’t care about the day to day missteps. So the Obamacare law is taking a turn here and a turn there, big deal. It will turn out acceptable. I am sick and tired of the nastiness about Trump around here. He is the best thing to ever happen to America. You all should be more grateful. Oh well he will continue on doing great things while some of you complain endless as you always do.
Jumper,
Most of the nattering nabobs of negativism here are former die-hard nevertrumper trolls who were banned a few months ago, and then unfortunately were unbanned.
These trolls have never really stopped attacking Trump, but have simply down-shifted into concern-troll mode.
Thomas Jefferson's 1801 First Inaugural laid out what he considered to be the principles of his Administration. Mr. Trump may find that Jefferson's listing agrees with most of what he ran on as a candidate.
Note the important warning contained in Jefferson's last paragraph--that if "we" strayed from those principles, the nation should return to "the only road which alone leads peace, liberty and safety."
We are just beginning that "road" back. Determination of "We, the People," combined with diligence and patience will be required against those "progressive" paths which have led us away from the principles of Jefferson and the Framers of our Constiution of government.
(Excerpt, "Our Ageless Constitution," p. xiv, reformatted)
"Let us, then, with courage and confidence pursue our own Federal and Republican principles, our attachment to union and representative government. Kindly separated by nature and a wide ocean from the exterminating havoc of one quarter of the globe; too high-minded to endure the degradations of the others; possessing a chosen country, with room enough for our descendants to the thousandth and thousandth generation;- entertaining a due sense of our equal right to the use of our own faculties, to the acquisitions of our own industry, to honor and confidence from our fellow-citizens, resulting not from birth, but from our actions and their sense of them;
- enlightened by a benign religion, professed, indeed, and practiced in various forms, yet all of them inculcating honesty, truth, temperance, gratitude, and the love of man;
- acknowledging and adoring an overruling Providence, which by all its dispensations proves that it delights in the happiness of man here and his greater happiness hereafter
—with all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and a prosperous people?
- Still one thing more, fellow-citizens—a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
- This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.
"About to enter, fellow-citizens, on the exercise of duties which comprehend everything dear and valuable to you,
- it is proper you should understand what I deem the essential principles of our Government, and consequently those which ought to shape its Administration. I will compress them within the narrowest compass they will bear, stating the general principle, but not all its limitations.
- Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political;
- peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none;
- the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies;
- the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad;
- a jealous care of the right of election by the people—a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution where peaceable remedies are unprovided;
- absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principle of republics, from which is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism;
- a well disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them;
- the supremacy of the civil over the military authority;
- economy in the public expense, that labor may be lightly burthened;
- the honest payment of our debts and sacred preservation of the public faith;
- encouragement of agriculture, and of commerce as its handmaid;
- the diffusion of information and arraignment of all abuses at the bar of the public reason;
- freedom of religion; freedom of the press, and freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus, and trial by juries impartially selected.
These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment. They should be the creed of our political faith, the text of civic instruction, the touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust; and should we wander from them in moments of error or of alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps and to regain the road which alone leads to peace, liberty, and safety."
Thank you. The problem I run into is the speed the old administration used to ram through anything they wanted. Laws or the Constitution were mere hurdles until they bought the results they needed. Now we supposedly have control, and everything is blocked, challenged, lied about - and our side doesn’t seem to have the spine to stand up and say “there is nothing you can do, it’s procedure and or established law”.
President stompy foot had a pen and a phone - we have obstructionist judges. Something has to break pretty soon.
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