Posted on 01/01/2024 6:16:59 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
Democrats-they could hold all their remaining seats, lose the presidency, but flip either Florida or Texas
(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...
Think of the Trump election as the field goal kicker at the end of a championship game. He either makes it or he doesn’t. Then there’s the house/senate. They get to fight in the trenches for 58 minutes just to stay in the game and set it up. Rinos will give up the big play from time to time even when they’re ‘good’.
So the championship game is won and the right to deal with foreign policy on the super bowl stage comes with it. Somebody will fail big time. Do those in the trenches think about it? Just look at the back stabbers who worked for Trump.
Btw-Happy New Year everyone. It’s gonna be awesome.
Happy New Year!!!!
My knee jerk reaction to this is, bull shiite, but then again republitards could screw up a free lunch.
Until mail in voting disappears, I don’t have a tremendous amount of hope, regardless of economic pain being felt out there.
I hope I’m wrong!
If Trump should win, the confirmations for Cabinet posts and elsewhere are critical.
Last time he was new and some agreed to serve who won’t have counterparts now.
Last time he had to pick conventional appointments and he may have a more sympathetic Senate to Trump-style appointees.
We have now seen how costly the retribution is and some will not serve out of reasonable fear.
His election is tricky enough, putting an administration in place will be very interesting.
The source is Yahoo, which in turn cites CNN. In other words, this is disinformation to boost the liberals who are the readers of Yahoo and CNN, and to dishearten those moderates and conservatives who may still read or view MSM.
The first Trump decision on Cabinet posts should be, “Is this position needed? Or, is America better off with an empty chair?” Making government smaller starts in the kitchen.
I'm looking at Linda graham to sandbag the election.
Again.
However, to dismantle an overgrown or poisonous department you need a surgeon at the top. Otherwise the employment rules just leave the most entrenched remaining after a big budget cut.
“My knee jerk reaction to this is, bull shiite, but then again republitards could screw up a free lunch.”
I agree, fully.
‘Flipping’ to a person who campaigns and talks like a Conservative but is, at heart (when it counts), a screaming Liberal of the deepest dye.
Change my mind ... if you can honestly whitewash guys like Romney, Christie (sp), McCain, Chaney and Co., etc. It’s a long list that is too depressing to think about.
This is how Trump needs to do it. Acting appointments are good for six months and Judases like McConnell can pound sand. After six months appoint another acting head.
“Donald Trump has appointed the US ambassador to Germany, a combative loyalist, to his administration’s most senior intelligence post, in his continuing effort to wield personal control over the spy agencies, according to multiple US reports.
By making Richard Grenell acting director of national intelligence (DNI), rather than nominating him for the permanent position, Trump has sidestepped the need for Senate confirmation, a loophole the president has increasingly exploited as he has moved to replace career officials with those chosen for their personal loyalty.”
Guardian
“I’m looking at Linda graham to sandbag the election.
Again.”
As you should
* is America better off with an empty chair?” Making government smaller starts in the kitchen.*
Simplistic, but very good. Reminds me of the commercial way back: “When we talk to you like adults you don’t listen”.
*if you can honestly whitewash guys like Romney, Christie (sp), McCain, Chaney and Co., etc.*
I’ve got good news. All are gone or soon will be.
*“I’m looking at Linda graham to sandbag the election. Again.” As you should*
Answer-Trump hires him(cabinet). Then fires him.
I like that. 😁
The article bandies the issue of whether the top of the ticket matters more or the individual candidates. The answer to me is obvious based on recent history: Senate races require strong candidates to beat the Dems on merit. Running untested ideologues with weak name recognition, no track records, and novel oddities for the news media to attack pleases the MAGA base but loses the general election. Running retired Navy Seals, daytime tv celebrities, et al, tends to give seats to Dems.
Senators should be people with extensive experience and connections throughout their state (serving it in its legislature, representing it in Congress, holding various state offices, knowing the state’s business community and economy, etc.). They need to be broadly educated and well connected with national figures and issues.
The ideal candidates are developed over decades of paying their dues. Of course many/most of the clowns in the Senate fall short of that ideal, and the ideal I’ve outlined favors lifetime politicians — opposite to what many of us prefer. Newcomers on the scene will be held up to higher standards, and Outsiders will get no love from GOP central. It’s all about running strong, qualified, candidates.
If the writer thinks Florida is going to flip, he is dreaming. The Democrats in Florida doesn’t have any statewide office holders. If you name the average Floridian about the person they said is running, they’d say never heard of her.
Re: 15 - good post, thanks.
BUT, putting somebody in charge of something that does not deserve to continue just perpetuates the waste and regulation issuance. If (as an example), the Department of Education does not serve a purpose, making it 10% smaller does not do the job.
After seeing what this regime has brought us, a voter would have to be a real idiot to vote for ANY democrat! But then again there are those who are family members, those who are being fed by the communists, and those with rings in their noses who can be classed as idiot who will still vote for the hand that feeds them......
If the Senate refuses to confirm a particular appointment who runs that department?
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