Posted on 05/05/2017 5:45:24 AM PDT by luke1825
Drain the swamp?
Don't be ridiculous.
The swamp in Washington (Swamp City) will drain President Donald Trump before he drains it. On that you can rely.
The number of lobbyists and special interests in Swamp City under Trump has gotten larger, not smaller.
(Excerpt) Read more at lowellsun.com ...
I think he plugged the drains with concrete.
Lowell Sun: Commie Rag from the Great Socialist State of Massachusetts.
The problem Trump faces is WHO are the ones he can actually trust since there are so damn few honest people to chose from.
Good point. However, I think he loves a good fight and will eventually find the right people to bring the fight to the left.
Yawn, I am getting tired of the constant accusations and spoiled BS coming from our side.
They want it all right this minute and there seems to be very little “thanks” for the good things Trump has done.
Just imagine how miserable it would be with the old hag in the WH.
If one cared to read the article the author does make those ties. I’m not saying any of it is authentic I’m just saying he spells it out. Just because an article that isn’t favorable or cast an angelic light on our President that may be true doesn’t make it fake news. Some folks around here just bark fake news without ever reading or investigating the claims which is as bad as fake news itself. The folks that do this hold their ears and tell lalalalalalala I can’t hear you
From article:
“One of them is Lowell native Corey Lewandowski, Trump’s initial campaign manager. Lewandowski started the lobbying firm Avenue Strategies and stocked it with other Trump campaign officials.
While Lewandowski is not a registered federal lobbyist, others in the firm are, and they are seeking to represent corporations and foreign countries.
Another newcomer to Swamp City is Ballard Partners, a high-powered Florida lobbying firm, headed by Brian Ballard. Ballard was a Florida supporter as well as a fundraiser for Trump’s campaign and his inauguration.
According to USA Today, Ballard Partners has signed up 20 clients earning more than $1.1 million in a three-month period.
Two of the foreign clients Ballard has signed are the Dominican Republic, which is paying Ballard $900,00 for a one-year contract, and the tiny country of Albania.
Rama, a longtime admirer of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, was one of Trump’s loudest European critics during the campaign, gratuitously claiming that Trump was unfit to hold office.
Rama, who is fluent in English, said that Trump was “a threat” to both the U.S. and Albania. “May God not allow he is elected president,” Rama said.
Now Rama, being challenged for re-election by Tirana Mayor Lulzim Basha of the center-right Democratic Party, is paying Ballard $20,000 a month to make nice with Trump. Like others critical of Trump, Rama is now making amends.
A third Albanian political party — the Socialist Movement for Integration — hired the well-connected McKeon Group to make inroads into Trump’s administration. It also scored tickets for the party to Trump’s inauguration.
This lobby firm is headed by former U.S. Rep. Buck McKeon, a Republican from California, a former chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. The third Albanian party is headed by Ilir Meta, the former speaker of the Albanian Parliament who is now president. It is paying McKeon $15,000 a month.”
Sir, the Revoloutionary War officially commenced at Concord & Lexington on April 19, 1775 and finished at Yorktown April 19, 1781.
The Civil War commenced on April 12, 1861 at Fort Sumter and concluded at Appomattox on April 9, 1865.
WWII started Dec. 7, 1941 and ended September 2, 1945.
Trumps been in office 106 days.
Some think “Draining the Swamp” is every bit as Colossal a task as any of the wars aforementioned and indeed that it is a War albeit without shooting.
So, let’s give our man Trump a chance to Win the War!
Trump promised a health care bill and he is doing it. All the complaining is coming from losers. People who did not get what they want. Trump did not create health care lobbyists. They were there. And there are not more now.
The reality is that this version of health care is dead on arrival. The senate will create a new version. Then the real fight occurs between the two versions of the bill.
But everybody needs to remember. Trump ran on providing health care. He did not say that he was going to get rid of health care, just Obamacare. He said he was still going to provide the same level of care. If you did not want Healthcare you should have voted for someone else. There is no conservative position here.
We had bad health care before Obamacare. We have extremely expensive healthcare now. The best solution is to bring down the costs of healthcare with the same care. All the lobbyists hate this concept. But that is what we need. Same healthcare at a much lower cost. And that means lots of lobbyists are going to complain at the best bill. If people like the bill, you can bet its a bad bill.
It occurred to me the other day that since the Left failed in its various attempts to prevent Trump from taking office before the election, and have (temporarily) given up on immediately impeaching him for “treason” with Russia, that their next tactic is to try to separate him from his base by an endless series of accusations that he’s not keeping his promises.
“He’s never going to build the wall!”
“He’s not draining the swamp—he’s filling it!”
“He’s not going to ‘fix’ healthcare!” (that one might be true, but who can ‘fix” it to anyone’s satisfaction?)
And on and on. This is just one more of those attempts. It doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t keep him accountable to his promises—far from it—but we need to recognize where the attacks are coming from.
Takes a particularly impressive set of balls to post anti-Trump propaganda on Free Republic, then blog pimp on top of it.
Peter Lucas ? Lowell Sun ?
Moronic and obscure comments.
This
Can you imagine how much better off we would have been with Hillary?
Amen! Please check my tagline:
Great point!
What utter nonsense
Looks cherry picked and no actual numbers of increased lobbyists. When 97% of Trump coverage as documented it is pretty easy to assume this is Fake.
What are there around 100,000 lobbyists in DC and he talks about some firm hiring 20 as his proof.
This is what happens when an entire news organization is on Crack.
There are at least a dozen that need orange jumpsuits ... if you aren’t following the Clinton e:mail story you need to... it’s YUGE ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=357OdU0aICc
More red meat for the concern trolls - posting w/o comment makes one think you might agree with this crap.
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