Posted on 03/17/2017 8:46:52 AM PDT by PK1991
” Reaching across the aisle” is not possible in the present climate except as abject surrender.The Democrats won’t accept any half surrenders or even any nine tenths surrenders. It is a total surrender or no deal.The Democrats think they still run the OCngress and, unfortunately, the Republicans think so, too.
Peggy Noonan aka Blanche DuBlois seems to forget Trump doesn’t need the Dems to pass a healthcare bill.
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That’s not true, when you consider the 60 vote rule and all that.
That’s not even true when you consider Trump needs every last Repub vote as well.
Which he won’t get. And which is a good thing.
“In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.”
- Ayn Rand
These people haven’t learned anything from the election. It’s disappointing that McConnell and Ryan have so much power. I don’t understand it.
Ah yes. Recall the hype about Geo Bush being the ‘across the aisle’ candidate and how he could and did work with dims in Texas. He could do the same in Washington.
Big revelation, the Washington dims weren’t interested in working with him. They wanted him to work with the dims.
And with that giant of strategists, Karl Rove, they snookered him at every turn.
How did that work out?
Noonan is wrong.
It is best to do it within the Republican Party.
A large portion of Trump’s base also identify with many of the more conservative members who have issues with the current version of the House plan.
A turn to the democrats would be a turn to the moderate and liberal republicans who were for the most part #nevertrump and anti-trump.
Noonan gives terrible advice.
Oh, now we are going to get the ‘reach across the aisle’ crap again.
When was the last time we heard that?? When Bush was president.
Leftists are much too cunning to just come out and say, “Surrender to us”; instead, they say things like, “Reach across the aisle.” The old let’s hug so I can stick a knife in your back trick.
And I say GFY Peggy.
I never remember them reaching across the aisle when they were shoving their plan down our throats.
Whenever I see the name Peggy Noonan, I immediately turn on my internal ignore button.
Dear Peggy,
One speech. That’s all you’re really famous for. One. Speech.
Your Warholian 15 minutes of fame is long, long gone. Wrap it up honey, you are useless and cannot contribute anything worthwhile to politics ever again.
Now you want Trump to “reach across the aisle”, no doubt snatching loss from the jaws of winning.
I would personally much rather see Melania or Ivanka snatch you bald.
Yet, having assisted Reagan in the writing of his speeches, and being exposed to his commitment to principle, not political compromise on issues such as whether government's role was to impose collectivist notions on individuals "for their own good," she comes up with a suggestion that Trump use Roosevelt as his model for action today!
What a waste of her time with Reagan, whose advice to Trump would be quite different than hers.
Just retire from your newly-adopted role as "advisor," Peggy!
Bless her heart.....she thinks she matters.
We elected a leader not a congressional organizer.
“And I say GFY Peggy.”
I hope you don’t mean good for you. /sarc
Is she not getting invited to the DC cocktail parties now that she is identified as belonging to the same party as Pres. Trump?
The answer to her questions about building etc., is that democrats have no interest in doing any such thing as long as they get their way from aisle crossers like her and mccain. They need to be forced, and budgets like Trump’s are a good first step to introducing democrats to the word “no.”
With all due respect to Ms Noonan, low-information Noonan has probably never been taught the following about the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers.
Not only have the states never expressly constitutionally delegated to the feds the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for INTRAstate healthcare purposes, but the states have always had the 10th Amendment-protected power to establish their own individual healthcare programs, regardless that the feds have no constitutional authority to do so.
"Our citizens have wisely formed themselves into one nation as to others and several States as among themselves. To the united nation belong our external and mutual relations; to each State, severally, the care of our persons [emphasis added], our property, our reputation and religious freedom.” —Thomas Jefferson: To Rhode Island Assembly, 1801.
"State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added]." -Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Ms Noonan probably doesn’t understand that the corrupt feds stole state powers and state revenues to establish unconstitutional Obamacare imo, and that patriots must support Pres. Trump in peacefully “forcing” the corrupt feds to surrender those powers back to the states.
Drain the swamp! Drain the swamp!
Remember in November ’18 !
Since Trump entered the ’16 presidential race too late for patriots to make sure that there were state sovereignty-respecting candidates on the primary ballots, patriots need make sure that such candidates are on the ’18 primary ballots so that they can be elected to support Trump in draining the unconstitutionally big federal government swamp.
Such a Congress will also be able to finish draining the swamp with respect to getting the remaining state sovereignty-ignoring, activist Supreme Court justices off of the bench.
Noting that the primaries start in Iowa and New Hampshire in February ‘18, patriots need to challenge candidates for federal office in the following way.
While I Googled the primary information above concerning Iowa and New Hampshire, FReeper iowamark brought to my attention that the February primaries for these states apply only to presidential election years. And after doing some more scratching, since primary dates for most states for 2018 elections probably haven’t been uploaded at this time (March 14, 2017), FReepers will need to find out primary dates from sources and / or websites in their own states.
Patriots need to qualify candidates by asking them why the Founding States made the Constitution’s Section 8 of Article I; to limit (cripple) the federal government’s powers.
Patriots also need to find candidates that are knowledgeable of the Supreme Court's clarifications of the federal government’s limited powers listed below.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphasis added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Peggy NeoCon Noonan
Amen. Kill the bill. Repeal or let obamacare go bust on its own!
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