Posted on 09/08/2017 6:34:42 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Only one poll number to remember this week: WSJ/NBC finds that Trump has 98% approval with Republicans who voted for him in both the primary and the general.
Be smart: Don't underestimate Trump's power to do whatever the hell he wants and still keep his base voters. If they stayed with him through Charlottesville and "Access Hollywood," they're not going anywhere over a Beltway deal.
Trump has an almost magical hold on his voters. He makes regular deposits in the Bank of Base, and has a nice balance.
We should be grateful that Trump willingly endures the inane and irrational persecutions of the Left while he slowly and methodically exposes the Republican hypocrites to us!
You are reading my thoughts. I could have written your post.
I am in total agreement with you. I am even reserving an opinion on his supposed agreement with Pelosi/Schumer as he is playing 4D chess and plans ahead. There are many great things he could be setting up that will bee seen in the long run. If not then I will be the first one to say I was wrong.
Right now I think he is doing this to put Ryan, McConnell, and the other RINOs so far out on a limb that it will break and take them out.
I just got a survey from some group called “Open California” asking about how I voted and how I view the political landscape now.
Interestingly, my answers matched those of other survey participants very closely.
We all seem to think that President Trump is doing a great job.
We also all seem to think that Congressional Republicans are doing a horrible job.
Maybe if Congress would have presented Trump with that bill to get rid of Obamacare like they kept doing every year after Obama crammed it down our throats, we’d have a better opinion of them. Perhaps they could try funding the wall and making a lot of noise about doing so, and we would look upon them a little more kindly. But these are two large signature issues that they have dug in their heels to oppose. It’s no wonder their approval is in the tank.
I don’t see grand strategy in the debt ceiling deal, I just see Trump putting Ryan and McConnell on notice that they’re not the master of him, and I see him wanting to make certain that Harvey relief funds were available ASAP. I image he’s seeing the whole thing as keeping the door open for a number of things as well as keeping the pressure on some of the more recalcitrant Republicans as far as funding a number of things, as opposed to dragging it out for, what, 18 months and giving them cover for more obstructionism. That’s how it appears to me, with the added benefit of undermining the Democrat talking points painting him as some sort of ogre. They’re dealing with him, not an ogre. No policy shift, no finger in the wind, just the expedient of the moment that gets him closer to where he wants to be.
Maxine made some sort of statement about Republicans wanting her dead. Not me. I want her running for President in 2020.
Worse. Ryan and McConnell tried to play games with Trump over Harvey relief funds. What kind of dolts are these two lame-brains?
They're hostile to their own President and seek to derail and obstruct no matter how blatantly anti-Republican voter or even the public at large that it might appear. They're becoming their own worst enemies but still see themselves as in control and power brokers. We shall see.
“Really looking forward to mid term primary season.”
So am I.
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Although Pres. Trump is getting a LOT done, his first two years in office are arguably for practice since he doesn’t have a Congress that supports him. Patriots need to give Trump as much of a new, Trump-supporting Congress as they can in 2018 so that he can go full-throttle with MAGA.
Bwah hah hah, the Rats and RINOS have done everything possible to separate DJT from his base, and they’ve failed miserably. May they all have chronic poopy pants.
Coupled with 4 or 5 % of Democrats deeply embarrassed by their party and Trump is unbeatable.
Pres Trump is not giving amnesty to anyone. He merely ended DACA with a six month grace period to allow illegals a chance to self deport, allow congress to write responsible immigration law, show both parties to be members who speak out of both sides of their elitist mouths, set the stage for primaricide for incumbents who won’t support the Pres on behalf of the nation, and drain the swamp while maintaining a majority in both houses that will work with him. The Trump Train is out of the station, congress needs to get on board or be left behind. Go Donald!
And, I would add, that 98% of the people who voted for Trump are livid with the GOP-controlled congress. Hoping and praying for a blood-bath of RINOs in 2018.
Cutting a deal with Pelosi/Schumer was not only a bell ringer to the RINO leadership, but also Trump’s way to fully moon ALL RINO donors as well, who are propping these enemy combatants up, promising them a successful coup.
Jamie Dimon included.
Pretty darned fun to watch these guys get what they have so richly deserved, for years, right in the chops.
By the way...politicians who think they can beat practicing Catholics up into pledging allegiance to the Dems...um, NO...,
If all the whining concern trolls would actually take positive action, we might get somewhere - but alas! They are good at whining but not much else.
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