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”.
I think he’s working on that...I’ll have to go back in his research and see if I can pick up any hints...
When we start naming names, the K-Street sleeper trolls on FR will come out howling and shrieking. That’s how we’ll know we’re over target.
Nothing so far, but as hard as he hit Cruz during the election, I would believe that would be one...but not sure now...have to wait and see, he’ll let something drop...
McCaul is at the top of of my suspect list.. and about 4 other TX RINOs.
Progressives only take from the highest bidding lobbyist’s.
This is like those people who say, "I don't believe in heaven or hell, so I'm not going there!" —as if they are in charge of what happens after they die. Right.
Critics apply their timeline to Trump's way of operating, which is Trump's way, not their way. They look at thirty or forty years of liberal destruction and think he should approach the problem with an 100-day deadline? No, children. He is doing what he does best: prioritizing realistically. He has done amazing things in the past 100 days. He will continue to hammer away while snowflakes, conmen and criminal embezzlers on the left and on the right sulk, taunt and moan.
I agree. Things would have gone WAY smoother if Hillary had been elected.
Given Trump’s “poor performance”, I’m sure you’ll be voting for Hillary II in four years. In the mean time, you’ll have an opportunity to vote Democrat in the mid-terms in less than two years. Democrats DO know how to get things done, right? So if you can help get a few more Democrats elected, Paul Ryan will no longer have to worry about the handful of actual conservative Pubs in the House thwarting Hillary’s and Paul’s agenda, and will be able to push Hillary’s agenda through just the same as if she had been elected in the first place.
I was quite afraid of a Trump candidacy; the man had over the years seemed like more the Democrat type. But. He promised to fill the Scalia seat with someone from a well-reviewed list, and that was enough for a great many conservative voters. He has delivered.He has put a conservative tax reform proposal on the table. Congressional Republicrats will have to be quite creative to sabotage that; it is so very fundamental to the Republican brand.
Beyond peradventure, the process of nomination of candidates for Republican congress critters will be interesting.
I hope you mean that the replacement for the next retiree should be completely conservative.The next retiree, if any, will presumably not be Justice Thomas or Justice Alito, nor even Justice Roberts. Among the rest, who would you classify as “completely conservative?"
My concern is the RINOs will want to “be fair” and nominate a liberal justice.
This is all uniparty. On both sides of the aisle.
Uniparty needs to be utterly destroyed.
I wouldn’t include Senators like Ted Cruz or Mike Lee, but I agree 90% of the Republican party are like the Washington Generals were to the Globetrotters. it looked like a basketball game but the Generals never won a game.
It’s hard for anyone to criticize DJT. The man is a phenomenon and very, very intelligent. If he has anything to learn is it is the Art of the (Political) Deal. Paul Ryan is a grand mater that that chess game, and double dealing. BUT, President Trump is a fast learner. No doubt the progressives were not ready for this president, but progressives have all their oars in the water trying to pull Trump in the opposite direction. At some point I hope that the President will decide to start playing tough. It is virtually impossible to be “nice” to a progressive and expect to get their support. I was disappointed that the President did not insist on a few million dollars as a token of support for building the wall, but as he might say “the wall will be built, it’s going to be built don’t worry. B’leaveMe!”
I’m defiantly not blaming the President for inaction. He is doing all he can do. I’m encouraged by your belief that republicans will enact a tax reform that lowers taxes for everyone, especially manufacturers. That’s where the real jobs are and the President knows it and wants it.
We worked on the Trump team and if the President wants us to join a primary fight to unseat RINOS we are ready willing and able.
I don’t believe that most people “hate” this president. I believe that at lest 30 million evangelicals still love him and the other 30 million who voted for him still stand shoulder to shoulder as an army of workers to eject RINOS from congress if and when the President calls us into service
“He needs a new Congress.” amen brother, let’s keep Ted Cruz and Mike Lee for starters and go from there.
No one knows that better than The Donald, as he amply demonstrated from the Day One of his campaign.
The thread linked above at post 13 explains the depths of this situation and one of the four installments in that excellent series (all linked on the thread) definitely predicts he will lower the boom in due time.
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