Posted on 04/30/2017 7:00:41 AM PDT by street_lawyer
Republican opposition to the Trump doctrine is still in full force, log-jamming Trump’s critical first 100 days. For the second time congress has shelved repealing and replacing Obamacare. Progressive republicans, who are in the majority, are now holding conservatives hostage by refusing to agree to small changes of Obamacare so as to reduce the debt and lower premiums.
Progressives in both parties continue to prove that they do not want border enforcement. Incredibly they refuse to fund one-cent for the construction of a wall along the southern border. This is in spite of the fact that a large majority of republican voters want the wall built.
About eight-in-ten Trump supporters who cast ballots or were planning to in the days leading up to the election (79%) said illegal immigration was a “very big” problem in the U.S., according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted just before Election Day. Even more (86%) said the immigration situation in the U.S. has “gotten worse” since 2008. Pew Research Center
Progressives in both parties have no problem adding trillions of dollars to the already unsustainable national debt, but have already expressed their opposition to elements of the Trump tax reduction plan claiming that it would increase the national debt.
The national press continues to blame conservatives for the delay, delay, delay. But it is increasingly obvious that progressives in both democrat and republican parties do not want to implement the Trump doctrine. The battle is over insuring people with pre-existing conditions who contracted an illness or suffered an injury while uninsured. It wouldn’t take a psychologist or economic expert to realize that if pre-existing conditions were not covered by a new policy that it would behoove everyone to purchase insurance so that their pre-existing condition would be covered should they choose to switch insurers. The real problem with insurance coverage is that there are no really high paying jobs, say in heavy manufacturing, where employers could afford to provide insurance coverage or workers could afford to purchase their own coverage. But the media will not address this issue because to do so would encourage an industry that they blame causes global warming.
Progressive Republicans offer the lamest excuses for not holding the line on increasing the national debt. They allow deficit spending and when money runs out they vote to increase the national debt saying that for them to shut the government down would cost republican votes in the next election. The fact is that there is no actual proof that such would be the case, but many intelligent voters seem to accept that preposterous proposition. Don’t expect progressives in either party to get behind Trump’s agenda to cut government spending, reduce onerous job-killing regulations, build a wall, approve fracking and offshore drilling, or to bring back heavy industry to America. Progressives in both parties have consistently shown that they are opposed to an America-First policy and will continue to delay, delay, delay, until President Trump is either voted out of office or is so damaged by inaction that he becomes the feckless president that progressives would like him to be.
In the end, being successful in the real world does not mean that Trump can be successful as president, especially when he is dealing with politicians like Paul Ryan who is very capable of writing his own book on the “Art of the Political Deal”.
The media treats this “100 days” thing like it was in the Constitution. Sheesh. Just another shibboleth.
DJT solved this problem during the primaries at this rallies. He knew RINOs would block him, so he met with their replacers - those who will primary them - in each city.
It’s been 100 days and the RINOs have played their K-Street hand. Time to announce their opponents and rally behind THEM, and storm the RINOs’ townhalls and phone lines. We’re past the warning stage, the first 100 days was their chance.
We just need the names.
This is one of the dumbest and uninformed opinion speeches I’ve ever read here. You should go back to lurking before everybody realizes how ignorant you are.”
I’ll talk that under advisement Sam
Maybe the republican congress will show up and support Trump in the next 1000 days. Maybe...
” but he will need a new offensive if he intends to get congressional support for his policies.”
Maybe the people in the peanut gallery need to actually get in the face of the retards they voted for.
These people didn’t just show up there, and the voters are not going to be let off the hook to just sit back and expect Trump to do all of the work.
Sam
I would really appreciate hearing your opinion how Congress is doing, please take the time to inform me so I’m not so ignorant as you suspect.
You chose the wrong audience to which address. Return to Sender, Address Unknown.
I posted here, on January 20, that Trump had “only a few months, six at most” to decide whether or not to run his own candidates for 435 House seats and the 34 Senate seats up for election in 2018.
The GOP as a national party has died - it just hasn’t fallen over yet. If Trump doesn’t want to fall with it, it’s time to get moving on the replacement.
Wrong.
He needs a new Congress.
Amen
Your very personalized comment to this poster who shares his thoughts is low, base, inappropriate and hurtful.
You should be ashamed
I think primary support from Trump for more conservative candidates is a great idea. I have not lost respect for Trump. I think he is going to take off the training wheels soon. He’s very intelligent.
Oh. No big deal. Just a FR norm to add (vanity) to the end of the post title when you are posting your own composition.
...and yes congress is slow walking Trumps agenda. That will change in 2018 when the slow walkers get walked out of congress. It’s a long war we are in.
It’s a race and we can’t decide the winner until both have crossed the finish line.
I am ashamed. I’m ashamed to see anti-Trump propaganda posted to this site.
He had to give the obstructists time to prove they were playing for K-Street, and not the People. If they don’t figure it out in the next 100 days, they’re out.
But we need to know exactly which RINOs to start attacking, and soon, to get set up for the mass replacement. We can handle fending off the Left and our RINOs concurrently; they’re pretty much the same vermin, anyway.
I think I could have express my thoughts more clearly. I suspect that Sam is as frustrated with the RINO’s as I am. He came to Trump’s defense. I didn’t take his comment personally. We are all probably on the same page. Brothers united against RINO’s.
We worked on the Trump campaign team, and we will work just as hard to get rid of the progressives in the republican party. I met the President on two occasions there is no finer person I know than President Trump.
“He had to give the obstructists time to prove they were playing for K-Street, and not the People” good point! hadn’t thought of it that way. I’m feeling much better now after reading all the cogent comments
I’m glad you identify the problem as progressives in the Repubican party. That really is the biggest problem. Progressives are more in agreement with each other than with any party. Republicans progressives are just a wing of the Democrat party, they just call themselves Republican because of where they come from or what they were during Reagan or for family or historical reasons. They disagree with Democrats on some things—the tax rate or military spending, and so they politely argue with them.
They oppose with all their heart conservatism, nationalism, American culture, freedom of religion, morality, strict construction of the constitution and the rule of law, and in general, protection of our common heritage as Americans. They want to create some kind of hodge podge of the globalist agenda on our land that they believe will lead to a global unification under their leadership and Americans, those who are descended from the founders or who came later and assimilated, are a problem for them. They are deluded.
People like Ryan go to DC as conservatives and become progressives in order to advance. When they get to the top, they are part of the system and fight to retain it.
I just finished reading the Amity Shlaes biography of Coolidge, and it is striking how similar the political situation faced by Coolidge was to that faced by Trump. Senators described in that book could be identical to those today. Coolidge faced the original progressives, people who were Republicans who bought into progressive ideas about technocracy, big government, management of the people, public works, education. He had a big majority, but had to maneuver around the progressives in his own party as much as the Democrats. It even talks about how only a couple decades earlier, Cleveland had been a fiscal hawk for the Democrats, and now Coolidge had to convince Republicans that lower taxes was good for the economy. I highly recommend the book to anyone who wants to see how another president worked through a similar situation.
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