Posted on 12/29/2015 12:58:32 PM PST by Sybeck1
By now almost everyone has acknowledged that Donald Trump has ripped the masks from most of the modern professional punditry who espoused to be conservatives yet showed their hidden ideological colors as elite globalists.
Most notably this was evidenced in June as millions of Fox News viewers saw FOX’s entire line-up of professional pundits proclaim borders shouldn’t matter; border walls won’t work; illegal alien amnesty was the only viable solution to decades of unenforced immigration law; and, heck, this was only in week #1 of Donald Trump’s campaign
Since June ’15, on almost every issue those same pundits have now openly aligned themselves with GOPe agenda items like global trade, tax policy, big government spending, and advocacy to including advancement of Speaker Paul ‘Omnibus’ Ryan.
However, a sharp reader, DrudgeAddict, smartly points out these same voices were the exact group who gathered together in an exclusive meeting with President Obama in 2009 to sing his praises after the ’08 election. Including : ◾George Will ◾Michael Barone ◾David Brooks ◾Charles Krauthammer ◾Bill Kristol ◾Lawrence Kudlow ◾Rich Lowry ◾Peggy Noonan
(Excerpt) Read more at theconservativetreehouse.com ...
I’ve looked a little more into that tweet, and it may be genuine, and then again, it may not be. So I won’t use it again unless there is further verification. Even so, there is plenty in Trump’s past—and present—to distrust him.
This deleted tweet is this supposed to mean that Donald Trump voted for Barack? Wrong. It’s called irony...which apparently is lost on some.
Well, I think you call that a constitutional crisis. Impeachment is the remedy.
I will give a Maybe to your post that Trump still has lots to distrust about him.
However I would contend that this is also the case for the others. It is part of being a political being.
But I do not hold comments in the past that are designed to gain favor with others in the business or political field. This is similar to a company sending support to every side in a political race. It may simply be meant to curry favor from whoever wins. Does it make sense that Trump would do this? Of course it does.
Pay attention to what he says and ask whether his track record of getting things done will apply? We know he will not get everything just the way he says it, but if he gets some of it, he is my guy. Oh, and I have already said that Cruz is OK too, only Cruz has not been the first with these ideas, he has waited for Trump to show the way.
Not true. The pseudocons who supported 0bama in 2008 are a different breed of cat from the principled conservative critics of Trump today.
Trump is no conservative — he’s a progressive populist.
NOTE: The illiterate headline is not at the linked source.
What are their FR nicks? Thanks Sybeck1.
...but not Trump right?
Will a hostile Congress impeach the officials or sit idly by?
The US is in the midst of a constitutional crisis right now. The executive is basically ruling by fiat. The supreme court is making it up as it goes along. The congress has abdicated its responsibilities as the individual members are more concerned with enriching themselves.
The country can go into one of two different directions. It either goes back towards constitutional government or further away. Personally, I think it will move further and further away. That is not a real good direction but it is what it is.
Good one!
Reluctantly, I agree with your assessment. There is a faint hope that when people have nothing left to lose, they will act like they have nothing left to lose.
Cabinet members serve at the pleasure of the President, as do the many thousands of appointees created by law. They can all be fired summarily. If they try to continue to work at their position, they can be escorted out of the building by security. That is not an issue. RINOs refusing to confirm appointees and otherwise obstructing a President Trump or Cruz is, however, a very real concern. When Reagan won, the RINOs did not like it, and were derisive. However, his landslide gave them the Senate and his popularity scared them, and they pretended to go along. When things weren’t going as well, they jumped ship quickly. When the economy came roaring back, and Reagan showed he was right, they hid their disdain. But they never fully joined his side, and plotted for the day when the old man would be gone. Those guys came back with GHW Bush, and have never again given up control.
Trump voted for Romney and donated to the Romney campaign in 2012.
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