Posted on 03/25/2018 5:45:16 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)
While so many Trump supporters have spent the last couple of days tossing tantrums about the President’s decision to sign the horrible Omnibus spending bill, some good things have been happening without getting much notice from the fake news media.
Tired of all this Winning yet? – Just a few days after the mass school shooting in Parkland, Florida, I wrote a piece that laid much of the blame at the feet of an insane Obama-era policy that rewarded school administrators and law enforcement officials for refusing to enforce the law against students who engage in criminal activity. In the ensuing weeks since, more and more people in the news media have begun to report on the scam. Better late than never.
This growing attention level has now led to a positive outcome: The Trump Administration announced on Friday that it will eliminate the Obama policy. Just one more element of the insane, un-American Obama legacy falls by the wayside.
The fake news media really hasn’t paid much attention to this reality yet – it’s been too busy trying to whip the public into a gun-grabbing frenzy and reporting on a porn startlet – but with his staff moves over the last month, President Donald Trump has basically purged his team of senior advisors of globalists.
Senior Economic Advisor Gary Cohn – gone. Replaced with the Reaganite Larry Kudlow. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson – gone. Replaced – if he can be confirmed – by CIA Director Mike Pompeo. National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster – gone. Replaced by John Bolton. Assuming Pompeo is ultimately confirmed, the Trump Cabinet and team of senior advisors will basically be devoid of the open borders/new world order internationalist influence. While it is true that Bolton is an interventionist who favors aggressive U.S. military involvement in civil wars all around the world, he is very much on board with the Trump plan to dramatically increase border security.
Bolton also promises to “clean house” once ensconced in the job, eliminating dozens of Obama holdovers and other internationalists who are not loyal to President Trump, according to a report at Foreign Policy on Saturday. Taking this action will almost certainly eliminate many, if not most of the leaks coming from the White House, some of which have been criminal in nature.
Bottom line, 14 months into his first term, Trump is finally putting together the team of leaders he should have had in the first place. Again, better late than never.
Early this morning, President Trump issued the following two tweets:
Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump Because of the $700 & $716 Billion Dollars gotten to rebuild our Military, many jobs are created and our Military is again rich. Building a great Border Wall, with drugs (poison) and enemy combatants pouring into our Country, is all about National Defense. Build WALL through M!
5:33 AM - Mar 25, 2018 20.5K 12.4K people are talking about this Twitter Ads info and privacy
Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump Much can be done with the $1.6 Billion given to building and fixing the border wall. It is just a down payment. Work will start immediately. The rest of the money will come - and remember DACA, the Democrats abandoned you (but we will not)!
5:42 AM - Mar 25, 2018 17.1K 13K people are talking about this Twitter Ads info and privacy These tweets are potentially very important, particularly the last sentence in the first one: “Build wall through M!”, the “M” standing for “Military.”
The federal budgeting process is very complex and arcane, and one thing to remember in this current situation is that this “Omnibus” spending bill is just that: A spending bill, not a formal budget. It is a compilation of suggested spending levels for each executive branch department and the military, along with an array of restrictions that dictate how some, but not all of that money can be spent.
It’s important to also remember in this context that, on December 21, the President took the step of declaring a national human rights emergency related to child-trafficking, a declaration that would allow Mr. Trump broad discretion in taking action to crack down on those who participate in such human rights abuses. It’s key to note that much such child trafficking involves moving kidnapped children in and out of the United States of America.
A second point to note is that, on Friday, the President notified congress that, in signing the Omnibus, he is accepting the funds under the provisions of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. This law also gives the President broad discretion in making decisions to refuse to spend funds that have been authorized by congress, as well as allowing him to reallocate spending priorities within the budgets of individual executive branch departments.
Finally, lets also note that, last October, the President declared a national emergency related to opioid abuse.
Now, read the text of that first tweet again, in the context of what is laid out above. “Building a great border wall, with drugs (poison) and enemy combatants pouring into our Country, is all about National Defense.” Combine that with “”Build wall through M!” and, it’s not unreasonable to think that Mr. Trump is at least considering the possibility of reallocating some portion of the beefed-up military budget to pay for building the wall along the southern border.
Doing that would of course create a media firestorm, but hell, what else is new? And such a decision would also inevitably lead to a raft of lawsuits filed by leftwing activist groups before carefully-selected Obama-appointed federal judges, and possibly even a lawsuit from congress challenging the action. But at the end of the day, such cases would have to go before the Supreme Court, where the President would most likely prevail, given the constitutional separation of powers.
As I’ve repeatedly pointed out, contrary to what the fake news media wants you to think, President Trump doesn’t just belch stuff out onto his twitter feed at random. His tweets almost always have a purpose. Often that purpose is to elicit a specific reaction from the fake news media. Sometimes the purpose is to send up a trial balloon to gauge how the public would respond if he took a specific action.
I think the latter is what Mr. Trump was doing with those two tweets.
Just another day in there really is good news out there if you look for it America. That is all.
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LS, Is this of any count, or just more bloviating?
And, oddly, zero tweets about Stormy Daniels!
Bottom line, 14 months into his first term, Trump is finally putting together the team of leaders he should have had in the first place. Again, better late than never.
As I have said from the beginning, since he won the nomination, that Trump seems to have a singular talent for picking exceptional people and letting them do the job with minimal input or supervision. That's real leadership, instead of the usual micromanagers we get, or the cowards who blame their hirelings instead of taking responsibility themselves (The Buck Stops Here). I was hoping to watch this skill in action from Day One under Trump... and I've been shell-shocked at how many bad picks he made for the first year. Maybe he has finally remembered one of his best talents, and is finally putting it to good use... but I really wish he had been at his best in this regard from the beginning. Let's hope this trend only continues to accelerate.
Another strong signal that Omnibus bill money will be used for the wall, much to the chagrin of Amanda Carpenter and the Cruzettes.
>>>he is accepting the funds under the provisions of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. This law also gives the President broad discretion in making decisions to refuse to spend funds that have been authorized by congress, as well as allowing him to reallocate spending priorities within the budgets of individual executive branch departments.
So if NPR is broadcasting on Monday morning and the NEA is open, then we can assume the President supports this spending?
All the liberal judges in the country are already crafting their decisions and awaiting the lawsuits.
I wish people would get off of this. The "Budget" is not something that Congress passes. It is the proposed spending by each agency, congressioal control line by congressional control line. The budget is then marked by the appropriations subcommittees - and that happened a long time ago.
Then an appropriation is passed - in normal order, which we haven't seen in a long time - in some eleven separate appropriations bills. An omnibus bills takes those 11 and staples them together and passes them all at once. It's a budget and it's legal and I wish folks would get way over the notion that there are "no controls" or the laws are not being followed or some such.
There is a budget, the Congress has appropriated money agains that budget (with some puts and takes that they put into law) and passed it and the President signed it.
Nothing is missing except care and wisdom, but that's a moral issue, not a legal one.
“And, oddly, zero tweets about Stormy Daniels!”
Why is that odd? She irrelevant. Did he tweet about you? No? I guess you are too.
Why hasn't he been using that talent more effectively?
His administration has been rife with disloyalists who had to be fired.
You quoted someone else, not me, but be patient, I hear John Kasich will make a primary run.
Yes, seize the DACA. I can live with 800,000 to 1million of these young people! Seize the issue! Solve it! Isolate it! Seize it! Make it ours!
I am sure those who were against Trump upon signing of the omnibeast were Russian bots!
Trump did not promise to veto the crapulous bill. He said he was considering it
You’re reading a lot of stuff into the piece that I didn’t say.
Yes, the Omnibus takes language from all of those discarded appropriations bills. But that is not at all the same thing as passing formal appropriations, nor does it have the same legal effect.
And I said the President has “broad discretion” not “total discretion” as I’ve seen many people stating. Again, not at all the same thing.
I also pointed out the legal restrictions the Omnibus bill places on the President’s discretion, while also correctly pointing out that those restrictions are trumped by a national emergency, two of which have already been declared by the POTUS without a peep of objection from anyone in congress.
I personally doubt the President will ultimately take the steps he’s hinting about in this tweets, but I sure wish he would. There is little doubt he has the authority to do so, and the supreme court would rule in his favor, possibly with a unanimous decision.
You are an idiot. An Omnibus Appropirations Bills is a formal appropriations bill, and has the same legal effect. It is the law that allows the expenditure of funds from the Treasury, which is what an appropriations is.
Berate Congress all you want for this disaster of an outcome, but stop complaining about changing the color of ink on the box of Wheaties or putting two boxes into one box. It's still a barrel of pork, and its a legal barrel of pork, just as legal as any other barrels of pork ever produced under "normal order."
Make the DACA people vote Republican. Ha that scares the crap out of the dems.
But that is not at all the same thing as passing formal appropriations, nor does it have the same legal effect.
You are an idiot. An Omnibus Appropirations Bills is a formal appropriations bill, and has the same legal effect. It is the law that allows the expenditure of funds from the Treasury, which is what an appropriations is.
Berate Congress all you want for this disaster of an outcome, but stop complaining about changing the color of ink on the box of Wheaties or putting two boxes into one box. It's still a barrel of pork, and its a legal barrel of pork, just as legal as any other barrels of pork ever produced under "normal order."
He’s not tweeting about me because I am not accusing him of anything. I do think it’s odd that of all the accusations leveled against him, this is the only one he isn’t fighting publicly.
If you think anything is going to make the DACA low-lifes vote GOP, you are incredibly deluded!
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