Posted on 04/25/2017 8:19:30 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The tradition of taking stock of presidential accomplishments after the first 100 days of a new administration goes back to Franklin Roosevelt, who invited the assessment as part of his effort to combat what has become known as The Great Depression.
The flurry of legislation he pushed through Congress at something close to the speed of light obscures his promise to have sought what we might refer to now as dictatorial powers should his initial attempts to work with and through Congress fail.
He needn't have worried. The public demanded action and Roosevelt gave it to them, concerns about the constitutionality of his actions be damned. That was for later. His actions were as important symbolically as they were from the standpoint of policy. His predecessor, a multi-millionaire civil engineer who had never held elective office and had a reputation for being the world's great solver of even greater problems, was unable to do anything to stop the rising unemployment, closure of banks and growing panic commonly associated with the depression's early years. FDR took up the task vigorously – and the public believed he had matters well in hand despite – as economic reporter Amity Shales points out in her well-reviewed 2008 book "The Forgotten Man" – the massive government interventions in the economy that originated with him did little to actually reserve the collapse. It took America's entry in World War II to do that.
Nevertheless, the benchmark stuck. Every president since has seen his first 100 days in office scrutinized with an intensity and efficiency usually not seen in the American media. It gives the cheerleaders a chance to trumpet the successes while the detractors use it as an opportunity to pronounce the new chief executive a failure....
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I think he has done well. Just seating Gorsuch is my measure for now.
Just seating Gorsuch is my measure for now.
Day 77 for Jeff Sessions as Attorney General.
Just what in the hell is he doing to earn his paycheck?
I don’t know.
He was going to build a border wall.
He was going to even up trade, between China and America.
He is not doing EITHER ONE yet.
Yeah, but to many in here because he hasn’t built a 2,000 mile wall in his first 100 days, he has failed...
He gave Democrats until SEPTEMBER.
(arrgh)
http://www.mlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/04/artificial_barrier_or_not_trum.html
I do not think so.
Go back and check my posts. In almost two years, this is the first time, I am saying Trump is on the wrong side of any issue as President.
Check. Take all the time you need. I’ve been supporting Trump here since before he even announced his candidacy.
But he is WRONG about this issue. Terribly wrong.
Seating Gorsuch is about as winning as it gets. That’s YUGE in my book.
IIRC, the whole damn Congress agreed to build a wall after 9-11. And in reviewing their use of the term wall, it is synonymous with the term fence.
Don't be so impatient.
I do want the wall. Right now.
Good job.
I’ll make my assessment of Trump’s efforts around August 1, 2020.
The Clinton and Bush I administrations were just as genocidal toward American citizens as GWB and Obama, but the tech boom created jobs faster than they could kill them.
28 years of those communist globalist pissants was far too much, and nearly killed the USA.
“I do want the wall. Right now.”
Like the song says, “You can’t always get what you want.”
President Trump will get the wall built as soon as circumstances allow. I’m good with that.
You might have started supported Trump before me (big whoop lol) but I haven’t stopped trusting him yet.
Doesn't it come from Napoleon's second go at Europe, after he returned from the Isle of Elba? ("Able was I ere I saw Elba", his famous palindrome.)
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