Use the Jersey enforcers on Lindsey Graham.
Posted on 12/21/2016 8:45:00 PM PST by DeathBeforeDishonor1
Lawmakers are loath to say anything remotely critical, fearful they might set off the president-elect or his horde of enforcers.
"People are naturally reticent to be the first out of the block for fear of Sean Hannity, for fear of Breitbart, for fear of local folks," Rep. Mark Sanford said.
In early December, Rep. Bill Flores made what seemed like an obvious observation to a roomful of conservatives at a conference in Washington. Some of Donald Trump’s proposals, the Texas Republican cautioned, “are not going to line up very well with our conservative policies," though he quickly added that there was plenty the incoming president and GOP Congress could accomplish together.
Little did Flores realize the hell that would soon rain down from Trump's throng of enforcers.
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When democrat activists gang up on a politician pushing their commie agenda, then it is a fine example of good old democracy in action. When conservatives do it, it’s “browbeating”. I HATE the so-called media.
“for fear of local folks”
McCain is a big brow to beat.
“Nobody wants to go first,” said Rep. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.), who received nasty phone calls, letters and tweets after he penned an August op-ed in The New York Times, calling on Trump to release his tax returns.”
Those calls, letters and tweets were well justified. He was a traitor to his own party jumping on the lefts narrative. Hell, check his phone records and you’ll probably find he was the phone making death threats to electors if they didn’t go against Trump.
Congratulations Mark Sanford, you just made the list.
I guess they didn’t watch the primaries and then the general election.
Trump likes to win and I think he has no problem sliming those that get in his way.
It’s not that congress hasn’t had the first opportunity to lead. Now they better fall in line as we have a leader.
String a few of them up ,castrate them publicly and make examples of them then watch the rest fall into place.
For those who forget . . . google Mark Sanford and Argentina
Use the Jersey enforcers on Lindsey Graham.
Granted, the Obama proposal to restore the economy along with the infrastructure by funding "shovel ready jobs" was a flat-out lie, the bulk of the money went to support voter ready Democrat infrastructure, as Obama was later ruefully to admit when he said that the shovel ready jobs were not so shovel ready. But Republicans who initially opposed Obama's proposal could not then have been aware of the corruption that was subsequently occur, only that they were dealing with Democrats and that was to be expected. The same people will now argue that Donald Trump is a builder by profession who has a stellar record of bringing projects in under cost and we can expect better from him. We shall see.
Those who oppose these kinds of projects as job creators are mindful of Milton Friedman's reference to the shopkeeper's broken window hypothetical in which the cost to repair a vandalized window was said to ripple through the economy enriching everyone from glass manufacturers to carpenters etc. But the conservative points out that the money used to replace the broken window was money that the shopkeeper did not now have to enlarge his business and perhaps hire new employees, causing his own ripple effect.
The argument is that when the government takes money out of the economy, even to improve infrastructure, it is taking money that the marketplace knows better where to invest for greater return.
There are two counterarguments to this: first, the infrastructure needs to be fixed anyway and that is certainly true in America now; second, the money taken out of the economy by the government to fund infrastructure repair is borrowed money and therefore the reduction of available money to the private sector to invest is minimized and or postponed. Anyway, there is disagreement about whether government borrowing diminishes the funds available in the private sector because there is so much foreign money coming into the United States. In rebuttal, it is noted that our income tax rates are so high that much money he staying out of the United States.
My view is that there are arguments on both sides. This is in the nature of American government and it is quite proper that these arguments be waged from both sides. On one hand, every president to be effective must be feared by Congress. On the other hand, any president who operates unfettered by Congress, is liable to overreach and even become tyrannical as we have seen with Franklin Roosevelt and Barack Obama.
It is unfortunate that those who speak on behalf of Congress are the likes of Mark Sanford who hardly lends credibility to any issue.
I would still love it if Trump would hold a meeting with congress and tell them that his FBI will be investigating every member. If any are engaged in any illegal activity, they will be prosecuted. Or they can step down now and avoid the embarrassment.
"We won, get in the back seat."
2) Such federal investment is at least Constitutional.
3) There will be accountability for those companies doing the work.
I'm reminded of Donald Trump's redevelopment of the Old Post Office in Washington, D.C., and how it was accomplished both ahead of schedule and under budget. If America's infrastructure spending can be accomplished under those conditions, it bodes well in a way that differs significantly from other federal "infrastucture" (corporate welfare) programs.
Where did 0bama's ridiculous Solyndra racket fit in? Was that swindle passed off as "infrastructure spending"?
The greatest danger in this government expenditure is that Congress will turn it from fiscally productive to ‘politically productive’.
It seems at this point that Trump isn’t as likely to do that.
But, indeed, we shall see.
Where was the Republican Congress on that issue, the same place, obviously, where they were on virtually every other issue. Solyndra , of course, was not the only solar company involved in that play for campaign contribution pay scam.
My recollection is hazy but I think this was another, "you have to pass the bill to find out what is in it" landmark legislative achievements of the Obama administration and Democratic Congress of the first two years.
Would these be the ‘conservative’ Congressmen and Senators who cowtowed to Obama for 8 years ? THOSE Congressmen and Senators?
“’People are naturally reticent to be the first out of the block for fear of Sean Hannity, for fear of Breitbart, for fear of local folks,’ Rep. Mark Sanford said.”
Tell Sanford to go take a hike!
Lawmakers SHOULD fear We the People, and not the other way around!!
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