Posted on 08/15/2017 1:45:02 PM PDT by cotton1706
All fingers point to the puffy-faced bespectacled establishmentarian Mitch McConnell. And Trump let his unhappiness with the Senate leader be known late last week through his favorite communications medium, Twitter.
Louis Nelson of Politico reported, “President Donald Trump continued his Twitter campaign against Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Thursday morning, complaining online that the Kentucky Republican ‘couldn’t get it done’ on repealing and replacing Obamacare…
“It was the second consecutive day that Trump lashed out against the majority leader over the GOP’s failure last month to advance legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare, a promise that Republican Congressional candidates across the country have run on for more than seven years and one that Trump made a major part of his own presidential campaign.”
Nelson also reported McConnell had indicated earlier in the week that Trump had “excessive expectations” about the pace of legislation. Meanwhile, establishment spokesmen maintain the president and McConnell continue to have a very good working relationship.
There’s little reason to doubt the two Republicans have a hospitable working coexistence. McConnell certainly must be grateful to Trump for saving his skin with the conservative base last November when by all appearances it looked like he was going to be demoted to Minority Leader again when the Democrats took over everything after the election.
Thankfully it didn’t happen that way. McConnell retained the seat of power due to Trump’s electoral strength in a number of key states. The only question remaining at that point was whether the establishment figurehead from Kentucky would be able to deliver on promises he’d made for years – not only concerning Obamacare repeal but also in advancing the conservative agenda.
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Chickens? More like city pigeons “roosting” on all of the statues to our great forbears.
Athrosclerotic, Befuddled, Swamp Turtle.
Yeah, like Jeb!'s "conservative agenda."
So then Trump goes on to endorse Ditch’s slave boy, Strange?
Hey, patriots. Call me paranoid and consider the following.
Instead of scapegoating Sen. McConnell for the Senate’s “no” vote on Obamacare repeal, I’m thinking that both uniparty Houses rigged the “no” vote, all members of Congress possibly relieved not only that they were able to protect their voting records, but also that the repeal failed.
More specifically, since it is possible for all RINO members of the House to lose their seats in the 2018 elections if they didn’t pass the repeal bill, RINOs probably relied on the Senate to kill the repeal bill for them. (Because of constitutionally set term limits for senators, it’s harder to vote senators out of office.)
I suspect that RINO senators were likewise relieved to not only protect their voting records as evidenced by the one vote loss, but were also happy to see the bill killed.
"Smart crooks long ago figured out that getting themselves elected to federal office to make unconstitutional tax laws to fill their pockets is a much easier way to make a living than robbing banks." —me
Although Trump is accomplishing a LOT as president, it remains that since the uniparty Congress wants to get rid of him that his first two years in office are arguably just practice. That being said ...
Drain the swamp sewer! Drain the sewer!
Remember in November 2018 !
Since corrupt Congress is the biggest part of the sewer (imo) that Trump wants to drain, it is actually up to patriots to drain the sewer in the 2018 elections, patriots supporting Trump by electing as many new members of Congress as they can who will support Trump.
In the meanwhile, patriots need to make sure that there are plenty of Trump-supporting candidates on the primary ballots.
Patriots need to qualify candidates by asking them why the Founding States made the Constitution’s Section 8 of Article I; to limit (cripple) the federal government’s powers.
Patriots also need to make sure that candidates are knowledgeable of the Supreme Court's clarifications of the federal government’s limited powers listed here.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added]." —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Also, unlike incumbent members of Congress who wrongly remained silent while misguided state officials abridged the constitutionally enumerated rights of citizens during the lawless Obama Administration, patriots need to make sure that candidates on the 2018 primary ballots commit to the following.
Candidates need to commit to making and enforcing 14th Amendment-related laws to prosecute misguided state officials who use state powers to abridge constitutionally enumerated protections, 1st Amendment-protected religious expression and free speech for example, such actions prohibited by Section 1 of the 14th Amendment.
”14th Amendment, Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States [emphasis added]; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
Again, drain the sewer! Drain the sewer!
Trump should fire his wife and send DOJ investigators to Kentucky to find out what felonies Mitch has committed.
Congress and DC are a RICO rackett....
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