President Trump Is 'Absolutely' Considering Breaking Up the Ninth Circuit Court

I think you are confusing our prior discussion with one you more recently had with Central_VA in your first paragraphs, but most of the rest of your post is properly referring to our exchange. However, I can address and correct your comments to Central_VA.

Ted Cruz did much more than “suggest” a 500% increase in H1-Bs—he submitted a formal bill to expand H1-Bs by 500%. He made an impassioned plea with it that was quoted on his Senate website, and I often linked to that bill through the primaries, here of FR.

A 180-day moratorium for program review does not mean he doesn't still want a 500% increase. I don't see how one can't have both expectations at the same time. That's like saying a waiting period on gun purchases means no guns will be bought.

I do want DACA stopped, but 99 days into his presidency, I don't expect everything to be made perfect. Also, it's not “deception” when everything you want out of someone isn't fixed in your time frame, and most adults can understand this. Ted Cruz would have been collectively worse, I believe, in his presidential endeavors, in his first 99 days (and my wife and I gave him a nice sum of money (many hundreds of dollars) when he announced).

As for the Goldman Sachs connections, yes, I would want fewer or none in his Administration, but he started with Steve Bannon as his source on who to selectively pull in. I have seen Steve's impact, and it is collectively positive. Mnuchin seems to be towing the line so far, but I can only speak to Bannon’s perspective. As for Ted Cruz's wife, we all know what she stands for, as she helped write a Council of Foreign Relations white paper while at Goldman Sachs on the need to have a completely free flow of labor from Canada and Mexico into the US. This was also a paper I constantly linked to during the primaries. Now, is that a sane position when we have 95 million out of the labor market, many mooching off of relatives or the government, with others taking early retirement to get out of the negative influence of 0bama’s policies (as with many doctors)?

As for H1-Bs being “temporary,” that is the theory, but not the practice. H1-B visas are normally maxed out at six years, but if the employing company like you, they can file a Form I-140 to get you permanent residence. If they were getting your talent for a lower price than a US worker, they can contract with you for years after that at a permanently reduced price to contract end. Once you are a permanent resident, it's easy to become a citizen. So, these people very often “stay” and depress wages for others who are staying in the US (think: “citizens”).

As for the impact of new DACA kids—we are approaching a 90% reduction in border crossings, so it's not like it was under 0bama just four months ago. Additionally, DACA status can be retroactively revoked. For the time being, it is a bargaining chip with Congress through ongoing negotiations.

Relax, Nathan.

Thank you for your forbearance while my computer was down, it is now partially up and full of glitches but I am able to get on the forum. Thank you also for pointing out my misstatement concerning the Obama administration when I meant the Trump administration. Finally, thank you for your kind words.

Rather than re-plow ground that we have gone over, I would like to observe that my point in criticizing Trump as deviating from either a conservative standard or from his own campaign promises, is not to denigrate Trump for its own sake or because of sour grapes but to further an awakening which has already begun in this forum of restoring conservatism rather than hero worship as the gold standard.

The election is over, Trump won, he is our president and as such deserves our support when he is true to conservatism but our self-respect deserves that we fully express our disapproval when he departs from his promises or goes off the reservation. Trump cannot be above criticism if we are to have an operating representative democracy, much less an effective forum to preserve and advance that representative democracy or even if we are to recover an understanding of what it means to be a conservative.

We have seen the consequences of presidents who promised to govern as conservatively as Ronald Reagan, who told us to “watch my lips, no new taxes” and betray us as surely as did Richard Nixon. We have seen George W. Bush in his attempt at Supreme Court appointment, in his open border policy, in his education policy, in his phobia against the veto as a means of restraining spending distort the meaning of “conservative” until it opened the path for Barack Obama to advance by light years many of the policies of George Bush, all to our national sorrow.

Donald Trump needs to be praised when warranted and criticized when necessary. If he has appointing five Goldman Sachs executives to the inner circle, that is a betrayal of his campaign position and a warning flag about his real economic compass. If he is temporizing on building the wall or financing the wall, that is a signal for us to be watchful. If he is reneging on his campaign position concerning DACA that might tell us something about his fidelity to other promises or is readiness to accede to political pressure. If Trump supports a health reform bill which is short on reform and utterly absent on repeal, that is something we conservatives are entitled to remark.

We are entitled to remark not from sour grapes but for the good of the country because we believe our governing philosophy is correct, because we believe it could pass the test of open debate, because we believe in the constitutional system rather than in the charisma of one man.

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