Posted on 09/12/2017 1:29:47 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
President Trump is looking for a congressional leader he likes. Mitch McConnell has been found wanting, so now the president is flirting with Chuck Schumer.
Trump sided with Schumer and Nancy Pelosi last week on an agreement to extend the debt ceiling for three months. The Republican leadership in Congress wanted a longer extension, worried that a short-term measure would give Democrats more leverage when it expires at the end of the year.
The agreement — plus Trump’s warm words about “Chuck and Nancy” and his reported delight over the positive press coverage of the deal — has driven speculation that Trump will turn to the Democrats in a bipartisan “pivot.”
If a partnership with Schumer is indeed Trump’s plan for a new phase in his presidency, he should think again.
It makes sense that Trump is tempted. His frustration with congressional leadership is, from his perspective, understandable. These are the pros who told him when he showed up in Washington that they had a plan and that he needn’t worry. So far there’s nothing to show for it.
Trump feels some freedom to maneuver. He has a firmer grasp on Republican voters than anyone in Congress. If Republicans didn’t hate their own leaders, Trump never would’ve won the nomination or become president in the first place.
Personal affinity surely plays a role. Trump speaks the language of his fellow outer-borough New Yorker Schumer more than Paul Ryan, the earnest policy wonk, or McConnell, the masterly tactician.
Finally, Trump might believe he can boost his sagging poll numbers by reminding people he’s a nonideological deal-maker and by getting things — anything — done.
A Schumer alliance is, nonetheless, a siren song. The debt deal wasn’t really a deal.
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NeverTrump, and thus, anti-flyover-republican. (Anti-for)
I suspect President Trump is motivating the RINOs. They can follow his agenda, which they have so far ignored, or he will work with the democrats. I hope they learn their lesson.
“I hope they learn their lesson.”
No chance. El Tortuga has already said no tax reform this year.
THE NEXT FEDERAL “ERECTION” PROMISES TO BE INTERESTING.
What a crock. The swamp leadership has been trying to undermine Trump since the primaries, and never stopped. Trump has done everything a president could do to carry out his promises, despite both parties. Now he's responisbile for "not helping" them?
Hey Richie you lost America won, live with it.
As if Trump doesn’t know enough not to trust Schumer! These swamp-rats are the dumb ones, not Trump.
Really? What BS. Trump is a Nationalist which to my thinking makes him VERY ideological.
McConnell is a Master tactician like Pelosi is a Master legislator. Which basically means they are good at figuring out the arcane rules of the Congress and finding ways to further entrench themselves in the bureaucracy. Doing good for the voters and the country is far down their to-do list.
The President’s biggest mistake so far is not realizing that neither wing of the democrat party was going to cooperate with him. Mitch, Paul and the rest of the DIRCS (democrats in republican clothing) remain bitter that Trump dared to “steal” the nomination.
Trump should have hit the ground knowing he needed a far and wide slate of like minded candidates to replace the moderate democrats or DIRCS in the primaries. Now he is stuck. He doesn’t want the liberal wing of the democrat party to take over congress or he will be impeached for no reason whatsoever.
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