Skeletor speaks.
Posted on 03/04/2017 9:52:03 AM PST by John Semmens
President Donald Trump's speech to Congress this week rankled key Democrats. While some, including CNN's Van Jones saw it as "presidential" in tone, others, including Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) insisted it was "detached from reality. The real Trump is a snarling, mean-spirited hater. This speech was an attempt to conceal that reality behind a tired call for the country to unite behind a common goal to make America great."
"He says he wants to work with Democrats, but he hasn't reached out to us," Schumer complained. "Everything is about his promises to the American people. Well, more than half the American voters favored his opponent. Until he recognizes and accommodates this reality we will have to try to block him every step of the way."
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) took a similar stance. "The notion that Trump can make America great by reversing the policies of President Obama is ludicrous," she asserted. "Promising to put people back to work may serve the interests of the rednecks who voted for Trump, but it has got to be scary for the tens of millions relieved of this onus by the increased government benefits the Democratic Administration gave them. When the government gives you a place to live and food to eat do you still really want to be put to work at some soul-numbing job?"
Pelosi praised "the courage of my fellow Democrats who vocally expressed their displeasure with Trump's new Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement proposal. Now is not the time for initiating a new entitlement for what has got to be a tiny minority, especially when the immigrants who will have to bear the brunt of his deportation scheme are far more numerous. Even worse, his proposed 'merit-based' approach to immigration would block the most needy while selfishly allowing a preferential treatment to the smaller self-sustaining and productive fraction of those wanting to come to our country."
In related news, Trump's preference for having his steak well-done and eating it with ketchup repulsed gourmets around the globe. "Putting ketchup on a steak is something a child would do," Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-SC) observed. "Can we really abide having a person of such inappropriate tastes as the leader of the free world? When we add his reluctance to go to war with Russia, I think we must seriously reconsider his fitness to lead."
if you missed any of this week's other semi-news/semi-satire posts you can find them at...
http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php?topic=252182.0
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Skeletor speaks.
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