Posted on 11/17/2016 6:59:39 PM PST by DeathBeforeDishonor1
Democrat Sens. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (R.I.) took to the Senate floor Thursday to charge that President-elect Donald Trump is already walking back his pledge to "drain the swamp."
Warren said that roughly a week after the presidential election, Trump is "inviting the biggest, ugliest swamp monsters in the front door."
"We've heard reports that Vice President-elect Mike Pence has now decided to remove all the lobbyist from the transition team," she said from the Senate floor. "Yeah, I'll believe it when I see it. ...Trump promised to drain the swamp, and after one week we've seen what Donald Trump's promise means. Nothing." NBC News reported Wednesday that Pence has ordered that all lobbyists be removed from the transition team.
Trump, during a CBS News interview earlier in the week, acknowledged his team contains lobbyists but argued that Washington is all "one big lobbyist" and promised his administration would "phase that out."
Whitehouse said Trump's campaign pledge to "drain the swamp" could be an area where Democrats are able to work with his administration.
"There are a lot of very powerful creatures in the swamp," he said. "It's one thing to say you're going to drain it. It's another thing to actually take them on."
Warren and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) both questioned Trump's transition team on Tuesday.
Apart from the issue of lobbyists on the team, Democrats have also honed in on Trump's decision to make Breitbart News’ Stephen Bannon his chief strategist and senior counselor.
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“11. “The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.” Never let the enemy score points because you’re caught without a solution to the problem.”
It would appear that number 11 on Alinsky’s tasks was not only absent, but to the extent it was, it was ineffective.
Think healthcare, or more precisely, Obamacare and Classified information.
The democrats do not have a solution to their quagmire, on either count.
Epic fail.
The establishment folks won't know what hit them.
I don’t give a damn what any democrat has to say about Trump - - and that includes the ones in the MSM...
None of us care...
Elizabeth when he said drain the swamp - he was not referring to congress critters- for you and your ilk - he will just flush the toilet
Ed
Sweet irony - when their part of the swamp starts swirling they will then berate him for draining the swamp....
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