Posted on 04/25/2017 9:44:08 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Approaching the vaunted one hundred day benchmark, it's clear the Republicans, not the Democrats or their faithful media allies, are the biggest threat to Donald Trumps's presidency.
Lost in various ego and ideology-driven agendas, the GOP legislators are doing their best to elect Elizabeth Warren president in 2020. Perhaps they should turn over their donor lists to the Massachusetts senator and make things easier and more direct.
This may or may not speak poorly for Trump's managerial skills. And it doesn't account entirely for his poor poll numbers. But if there is a cancer on his presidency, it is coming largely from his own party's inability to enact legislation when they have undisputed control of Congress and the executive branch.
It's almost as if the Republicans have a death wish and don't really want to govern, subconsciously preferring to be an opposition party that doesn't have to take responsibility for their actions, only for criticism.
Beyond that, a number of the GOP congresspeople are cowardly, cowering before the overwrought hot heads who almost always populate town hall meetings or declining to align with Trump because of his poll numbers.
Worth noting, however, is that buried in those latest "record low" polls being trumpeted on the Sunday shows is the fascinating fact that Trump would now beat Hillary Clinton in the popular vote (43-40) as well as the Electoral College were the election to be held today. Does anyone doubt that his other "underwater" poll numbers would start turning around were tax and/or healthcare reform to pass Congress?
Ironically, this self-destructive behavior on the part of congressional Republicans is occurring at a time when Democrats are exceptionally weak. They have little or no strategy and almost no policies to offer the public. Shopworn liberal-progressive ideologies have less appeal than ever.
This leaves the Democrats and the media relying on such propagandistic nonsense as the president's supposed collusion with Putin, which is nothing more than projection.
Further, the media's endless nattering about internal bickering inside the administration, real and/or imagined, is of marginal import. Most people realize power struggles are normal. They experience them in their own lives.
Making matters worse for the Democrats and their media allies are the noxious "antifa" (actually pro-fa) anarchists in the streets acting like violent children on steroids.
With all this in their favor, it's evident the Republicans can't stand prosperity. More even then Trump and his administration, the victims of the GOP fecklessness are the American people who, as usual, are left out in the cold as those inside the Beltway indulge in their usual self-preservationist tap dance to nowhere.
Unless the GOP gets its act together, what we are looking at is one of the greatest squandered opportunities in American history. It could almost be read as a criticism of the democratic system itself -- the ratification of E. M. Forster's famous caveat "Two Cheers for Democracy."
This time one might rephrase it as "two cheers for ideology" because a large part of the problem for the Republican Party is that some of its political leaders have become "drunk on ideology." Having theoretical underpinnings is a good thing, but as we all know, there is a price to pay for "too much of a good thing." In this case, it makes people intransigeant.
Again ironically, this resistance to compromise impedes these same people from eventually getting what they want. Short-sighted, they forget how incremental gains are useful too if they leave you free to continue to fight for your ultimate objectives over time. These same people seem to think that everything is permanently foreclosed if they make accommodations now.
It's time for them to consider the wise words of the great Victorian designer William Morris, even though he was (eek!) a socialist:
"... men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name...."
-- Roger L. Simon is an award-winning novelist, Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and co-founder of PJ Media. His latest book is "I Know Best: How Moral Narcissism Is Destroying Our Republic, If It Hasn't Already."
Paul Ryan has got to go.
CANTORIZE YOUR WEASELS, AMERICA!
Re the comments about polls:
Donald Trump says all negative polls about him are fake news | The ...
www.independent.co.uk › News › World › Americas
Feb 6, 2017 - Donald Trump has hit out at recent polls suggesting he has one of the ... Mr Trump wrote on Twitter: “Any negative polls are fake news, just like the CNN, ABC, NBC polls in the election. ... cent after his first 14 days in charge – the highest of any recent president ... When we’re doing well, I talk about the polls.
Did any so called major polls in 2016 predict the Trump would win the popular vote in November?
If you are not part of the solution ...
That’s for sure and these republicans are going to lose the Congress.
Yep. It looks like Trump is knuckling-under to the GOPe.
When one of theirs is being beaten up, they just watch, they do not defend each other. I have never seen anything like it.
Along with Mitch McConnell!
The usual BS: RINOcare didn't fail because it sucked and was not repeal, it failed because of those nasty conservatives.
Mr. Simon is 100% on the mark. It’s shocking how truly pathetic both House and Senate Republicans are although the House has been worse in some respects.
1. repeal Obamacare
2. substantially lower and simplify income taxes as a first step to their long-overdue, total elimination
3. repatriate/deport all Moslem terroristas back to their own StinkOStans
4. then build wall or otherwise provide for proper border defense
5. retire McCain, Lindsay, and the lady from Maine
You can’t change Washington D.C. if you let Ryan and McConnell lead.
AGREE!!!
Ryan passed worthless on the way down a long time ago.
That "Bait and Switch" Obamacare repeal bill he pulled on President Trump last month was the final straw!
We also have a lot of concern trolls doing their best to undermine President Trump right here on FR.
GOP Congressmen and Senators represent the donor base - Wall Street, multinational corporations, and a few billionaires like the Koch brothers. They do not represent the voter base to whom they give lip service at election time but ignore otherwise.
Voting for Republicans as the “alternative” to the leftist socialist Democrat party has proven to be a failed strategy for conservative voters. GOP leaders are more interested in pandering to Democrat constituencies - minorities, LGBT, and “moderate” Democrats than the conservatives who loyally vote for GOP candidates year after year.
The only way to get the attention of Mr. Ryan, Mr. McConnell and your GOP Congresscritter is to stop voting and let them know why you are staying away with the polls. Once they lose two or three elections they will realize the Hispanics, the young naive women obsessed with abortion, intellectuals, journalists, and moderate Democrats are not going to change parties they will offer up a real alternative to socialism or they will go the way of the Whigs.
GOP Congressmen and Senators represent the donor base - Wall Street, multinational corporations, and a few billionaires like the Koch brothers. They do not represent the voter base to whom they give lip service at election time but ignore otherwise.
Voting for Republicans as the “alternative” to the leftist socialist Democrat party has proven to be a failed strategy for conservative voters. GOP leaders are more interested in pandering to Democrat constituencies - minorities, LGBT, and “moderate” Democrats than the conservatives who loyally vote for GOP candidates year after year.
The only way to get the attention of Mr. Ryan, Mr. McConnell and your GOP Congresscritter is to stop voting and let them know why you are staying away with the polls. Once they lose two or three elections they will realize the Hispanics, the young naive women obsessed with abortion, intellectuals, journalists, and moderate Democrats are not going to change parties they will offer up a real alternative to socialism or they will go the way of the Whigs.
Ryan the RINO
Yes! -- Do these idiots think that the rest of us are going to just forget that they've been promising repeal for years now, always to give us the excuse that they don't have the house/senate/presidency/next-election-thing? Are they so insulated politically that they can't see Trump's election as a major Screw this!
to the status quo and business as usual
?
2. substantially lower and simplify income taxes as a first step to their long-overdue, total elimination
This will, IMO, require a Constitutional amendment — and the only way to make such an amendment effective would be to give it teeth
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This, I think, does a good job of reforming taxes and eliminating deficit-spending.
3. repatriate/deport all Moslem terroristas back to their own StinkOStans
No — We should execute them.
Repatriate the non-terrorists, as the existence of taqiyya precludes the good-faith/validity of an oath of citizenship.
4. then build wall or otherwise provide for proper border defense
We've been trying to get border-security for decades. There are ways to get it, but they involve rocking the boat
and being 'undiplomatic' and would likely result in some turmoil. (Though I personally think it would be illuminating and show some deep, deep corruption.)
5. retire McCain, Lindsay, and the lady from Maine
Retire?
It would be better to give the traitors the traditional parting gift of a tie.
306 electoral wins and Congress is still screwing the voters. That should be a problem for Congress, and not the constituents.
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