Posted on 06/16/2017 10:38:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I’m going to give those claiming they want to save President Trump from a potential impeachment the benefit of the doubt, although at times like these I seriously wonder whether such benefit should be extended.
I mean, when someone like myself, who didn’t even vote for Trump, seems more earnest in salvaging his presidency than those who shill for him, I have to wonder if some of these people really care about the country. Or do they just want the show (see that as clicks)?
Because advising Trump to fire independent counsel Robert Mueller is arguably the single dumbest strategic advice I’ve ever heard. Beyond it dragging Trump into a credibility war he cannot possibly win versus a man with an impeccable service record (whom the Trump administration appointed in the first place), it also incentivizes Trump to do more of why he has a historically low approval rating.
It’s the political equivalent of telling a friend trying to kick a meth habit, and struggling through withdrawal, to just take a little tweak to tide him over. (When that “little tweak” is what led him to being a junkie in the first place.)
But there is something Trump can absolutely do to make this all go away — at least in the minds of anyone who would even entertain ever voting for him. And he can do it right now, before Mueller issues a single subpoena or conducts a single deposition.
Trump can take a page out of the playbook of his old friends, the Clintons, when they were besieged by scandal, and simply govern well.
Back then, we caught a president committing a crime on tape. Yet most Americans simply shrugged and said, “Why should I care more than his wife does?” They did so because we were in the midst of a robust economic recovery, primarily fueled by the dot.com boom, when the economy was growing three times the current rate.
In other words, the people didn’t want to rock the boat while things were going well. That is especially so since that Al Gore guy would then take over, and he actually believes that crazy economy-killing environmentalist wacko stuff Bubba only paid lip service to.
Since then, the American people’s overall disdain for their political class has only grown. And their expectations for their politicians have eroded all the more as a result — to the point the character of our leaders is largely irrelevant now. Not even those supposedly Sola Scriptura fundamentalist Christians believe character counts anymore.
I don’t approve of that, and I wish that wasn’t the case. But I also wish I had six-pack abs, too. If there’s one thing I’ve learned in politics, it’s that you can’t change an environment any more than you change the weather forecast. So when the meteorologist tells you winter is coming, you can either howl at the monitor or equip yourself to thrive in that environment.
Instead of encouraging Trump to pursue a course of action that will likely end with him before Speaker Pelosi’s Congress pressing impeachment in 2019, supporters of the president should be urging him to use this cynical environment to his advantage. See, the vast majority of those who voted for Trump knew he wasn’t Mr. Virtue. They did so because the other damaged option, Hillary Clinton, would use government as the means to damage them as well.
This is the reason so many Trump voters aren’t moved by his alleged misbehavior. Most who voted for Trump aren’t in this because of his notorious cult of personality, but “because Hillary.” And when your primary investment in a politician is who they aren’t rather than whom they are, you didn’t really have expectations to begin with.
Thus, if Trump just does what he promised to do – repeal Obamacare, cut taxes, protect the border, and kill lots of terrorists – names like Comey and Mueller will simply pass into the Netherrealm of the comments sections of the lefty blogosphere. The rest of America will simply shrug their shoulders and say, “They’re all crooks anyway, but this one at least leaves me alone and kills the bad guys before they kill us.”
I want Trump’s presidency to be successful, regardless of my reservations, for he makes decisions each day that could determine our kids’ futures. If I wanted my previous NeverTrump stance vindicated, I’d just sit by and say nothing while he chose the road to political perdition, and then pridefully utter, “I told you so.”
However, Trump has done some good things when it comes to judicial appointments (I hope), the regulatory state, and foreign policy I’d like him to continue doing. But the odds he’ll get to do so decline every day his focus isn’t on good governing.
The Gop would have to impeach. Sad they are still a party in the US. They offer nothing. A lot of the things the democrats say about them are true, unfortunately. Many in the Gop, are democrats anyway. Paul Ryan , McCain, the Bushes the list goes on. One party system.
If Trump is impeached, millions of voters will see it as illegitimate overturning of a legal election. The thing is, the creatures in Washington don’t care about legitimacy, or even the appearance of it.
Having seen the Gop up close. I can say that govt workers are sent into the local Gop in order to push everything to the left. The jump on a couple got button issues like guns. But aren’t conservatives. When they get into office they go left wing.
Fire Mueller immediately.
Then make the following statement.
And keep repeating it.
The Democrat Party offers the American people nothing.
It really is that simple.
After Clinton impeachment has become perfunctory. Mr. Trump should halt all investigations and demand impeachment. Put up or shut up.
Mueller should(but does not) have the integrity to recuse himself due to his bromance with Leaker Comey. At a very minimum Trump and all supporters need to loudly and frequently point out Mueller’s total lack of honesty and integrity.
Under Obama, he placed black DOJ’s a man and then a woman. By doing this- it scared the Repubs into daring to bring charges against them. The most that happened was Holder was charged with contemp. No investigations into Lynch, Bill meetings.
They were worried if they dared to start investigations before a Presidential election they would lose.
So they win Presidential election and decide to allow investigations into their President because 63 million people wanted Hillary so they will put on the dog and pony show so they can win their own elections.
It’s too far gone now- the investigations are turning into more investigations after each person testifies. Presidents people are having to lawyer up.
Sessions speech could have included CROWDSOURCE and the fact it was owned by a Russia I believe; he could have mentioned the sale of Uranium to Russians via donation to CF. He could have mentioned the 500K donation Bill received by Russians. He could have mentioned the Pakistanis who hacked and stole info under Congress people, especially Wasserman.
Someone who testifies needs to mention the Russian connection back to Hillary and they better do it fast.
I don’t understand why every Constitutional militia in the country has not publicly announced that it is prepared to protect the Trump presidency. That would put the fear of God into them.
As has been stated in many articles by legal scholars, Trump has the power to pardon Gen. Flynn, which would effectively stop the FBI investigation (unless they wanted to publish a report - which Trump could classify as Eyes Only and bury).
So, he cannot obstruct justice in this case.
The article on Steve Bannon’s “Flood the Zone” strategy is the most logical response to all of this. Simply initiate so many EO’s and regulation cancellations and legislative ideas that the press cannot cover them all in 30 minutes.
Also, I think the Clinton Foundation is going to come back into focus now that Huma has turned state’s evidence and the lost emails have been found in Dearborn, MI.
Steve Deace is awfully, terribly concerned.
Evidence doesn’t matter in politics.
So, this guy's entire thesis is based on the assumption that the Repubs loose the House in 2018? Not sure taking advice from a pessimist is a good idea.
LOL. Yes. Deace is still butthurt Cruz got smacked, as per his Sola Scriptura line.
How long have they been investigating this Russia garbage, including the spying by Obama? A year? They still don’t have substantive evidence, and now they have this special counsel that can go on and on and on. I think a time line makes sense too. Give Mueller a few months, and then he’s done.
He admits he did not vote for Trump.
If he was not smart enough to see that Trump was a better choice than Hillary or the failure in life socialist, I doubt his advice is worth much.
This hinges on Ryan and McConnell passing laws. Ain’t happening
“The author is mostly correct.”
Correct. But to the unthinking Trump cultists who increasingly populate FR these will be wasted thoughts. I’m a Trump skeptic who was glad he was elected and wish his Administration would grow up and quit being a dumpster fire. Pursue a conservative agenda and quit Tweeting. It makes the Trump Admin look like a clown show. Govern like a grownup, not someone with the impulse control of a pubescent. Some of what Trump is doing makes me smile, more makes me grimace. My own judgement is that his erratic behavior, dearth of knowledge, and absence of philosophical principle will ultimately inflict generations worth of damage to whatever is left of the Conservative Movement.
Trump’s greatest strength is that he has all the right enemies on the left and squishy middle. But that alone does not make a good presidency. To be a great President would require two things, which he will not. 1) he needs to realize it is not all about his brand. 2) he needs to become (or at least pretend) he is a Conservative. Neither is likely.
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