Posted on 04/27/2017 5:13:13 PM PDT by HarleyLady27
Perhaps it is valuable to reset the larger frames of reference and provide clarity.
Many, heck, most people think when they vote for a federal politician -a representative- they are voting for a person who will go to Washington DC and write or enact legislation. This is the old-fashioned “schoolhouse rock” perspective based on decades past.
Sundance is talking to those of us that read on Treehouse but I thought it was excellent information on how bills are made, written, sold, and passed...and why President Trump hasn't had any bills to sign as yet... There is not a single congress person who writes legislation or laws.
In 2017 not a single member of the House of Representatives or Senator writes a law, or puts pen to paper to write out a legislative construct. This simply doesn’t happen.
Recap: Corporations (special interest group) writes the law. Lobbyists take the law and go find politician(s) to support it. Politicians get support from their peers using tenure and status etc. Eventually, if things go according to norm, the legislation gets a vote.
Within every step of the process there are expense account lunches, dinners, trips, venue tickets and a host of other customary way-points to generate/leverage a successful outcome.
But the important part to remember is that the origination of the entire system is EXTERNAL to congress.
Congress does not write laws or legislation, special interest groups do. Lobbyists are paid, some very well paid, to get politicians to go along with the need of the legislative group.
(Excerpt) Read more at theconservativetreehouse.com ...
Ping...
I think Jim Robinson ought to make this essay required reading for further posting on FR.
...and after you read this article from Sundance, read this article and you can see who is lying and who isn’t:
RINO RYAN isn’t worth the bread the butter is spread upon...and if Wisconsin re elected this POS they deserve everything he gives them, we just need to get him out of the Speaker position!!!
Incredibly informative
GREAT post! HOORAY Sundance. BTTT!
Great info. Thank you for posting.
The Uniparty eunuchs want to blunt as much of President Trump’s agenda as possible and make him a one term President so they can get back to business as usual, importing cheap labor and selling out America.
To get re-elected he needs the deplorables to stick with him.
Get the wall built by whatever it takes.
End DACA.
Vigorously enforce the laws and remove ALL illegal aliens, not just those already caught and convicted of other crimes.
So then, for a group of congressmen to call themselves “the freedom caucus” really is nothing but a sham.
So, given the above, if there were a “government shut-down,” how could they tell?
Yep that’s the plan...that’s why no matter what the media, talking heads and radio show hosts tell us, we have to stand with President Trump or after he is gone, it will go back to the same old same old...
Very informative. I have learn a lot reading his articles.
It’s a two-way street, he has to stand with us.
End DACA, he’s getting no goodwill credit for it.
Vigorous enforcement, cut off employment and benefits to illegal aliens to encourage them to leave.
ALL illegal aliens encountered by ICE must be removed, not just those already convicted of other crimes.
I think pretty soon your going to see President Trump go Andrew Jackson and then all hell is going to break loose and then and only then will the ‘Swamp be drained’...
I am represented by Dave Brat.
Head and shoulders better than Eric Cantor ever was.
Maybe you like the Uniparty eunuchs, but if there is ever to be any change in the District of Corruption, we need more Freedom Caucus types and less Uniparty eunuchs.
The swamp draining is really up to us, WE have to stop voting for weasels.
CANTORIZE YOUR WEASELS, AMERICA!
The head of the Border Patrol said that if there wasn't a wall built, all they are doing is wasting time and money...
We have to let people know about what is going on...President Trump is working with what he has, and we have to work also, he can't do it without any help and it's obvious that he isn't going to get Congress to do anything...
So lets start building the wall ourselves...we have masons, carpenters, builders...
Absolutely right. “Sundance” believes the Freedom Caucus is the problem. Politicians will always have self interests invested in their office, but the Freedom Caucus is as good as it will ever get.
What does Mr. Brat have to say about the points of this article?
President Trump could end DACA tomorrow, it was invented by Obama through an Executive Order. That is how it must be ended.
He should have already done it. Continuing to protect illegal aliens from our laws undermines his argument against sanctuary cities doing the same thing.
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