Posted on 11/28/2016 9:35:18 AM PST by Kaslin
You would think that some senators like Tester (D-Montana) would switch parties.
Back in 1994-96, you still had Conservative-voting Democrats in Congress, however tiny. There’s no right-of-center Democrats left.
He’d never survive renomination. Tester is a far-left Democrat, earning a 92% leftist rating from the ACU in 2015.
Trump is changing by the dynamic, suddenly it's these guys who desperately need to look like they're supporting Trumps agenda. Trump is in a position of strength, he has his favorite thing: leverage! He will use it to get what he wants, not the other way around.
Just a comment: saying those red states are “up for grabs” in 2017 is more than a little specious: There is absolutely zero chance a Dimocrat could be elected to the Senate from Texas, for example - I doubt they’ll even manage to find a sacrificial candidate - and I imagine Tennessee and Mississippi are similar.
And I think the odds are good that waffling Liberals like Heidi Heitkamp and several others are at risk of having to find a real job.
Trump is changing by the dynamic, suddenly it's these guys who desperately need to look like they're supporting Trumps agenda. Trump is in a position of strength, he has his favorite thing: leverage! He will use it to get what he wants, not the other way around.
I think this is where Trump’s dealmaking skill will come into play. He will find ways to neutralize/co-opt some Dems, and some RINOs. As long as he sticks to his agenda, I have no problem with that.
Our job as Trump’s citizen bosses is to make sure - insofar as we can - that Trump fulfills the most important elements of his (our) agenda: secure the border, stop terrorist immigration, dump CommieCare, cut taxes and regulations, appoint constitutionalist justices.
When your opponent's idea of winning is to give you nothing then there are few, if any, deals to be made. This isn't the business world where both sides want to come out of it with something. This is politics. Deals here aren't the same. And if Trump thinks that they are then he will soon be disappointed.
8-10 term limited gop governors will be available to run for the senate.
You failed to include deport in your rant, why?
Most Thugs are willing to co-operate when you wrest their gun from them. How co-operative they really are is how they acted when they were pointing it between your eyes.
8 years of closed door committee meetings with no Republicans allowed tells me to pull the trigger.
Thread winner. Excellent Strategic Thinking.
How about the blue states being up for grabs?
What a coincidence! All these Democrat Senators are from “Red” States.
I think Trump probably has a good idea of how deals are made in the Swamp. Newt Gingrich said he is the fastest learner he has ever met.
Winners tell jokes. Losers say, “Deal!”
Did not realize I was ranting.
And you’re right - deport criminal aliens is another of his high priorities.
I just forgot to include it.
He may think he does. But he's facing opponents, on both sides of the aisle, whose goal is to see him fail, completely and totally. How do you work a deal when faced with that?
I’d be inclined to change the title from:
Unexpectedly some Senate Dems are ready to work with Trump and the GOP
to:
Unsurprisingly some Senate Dems are ready to suck up to Trump and the GOP until it is no longer profitable for them at which time they will revert to their normal backstabbing
Yep too strong a word.
rant:fulminate, go on, hold forth, vociferate, sound off, spout, pontificate, bluster, declaim; shout, yell, bellow; informal mouth off.
List would have been strong enough, I surely did not mean anything negative and rant is definitely more negative than positive. Sorry for that.
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