Posted on 05/01/2017 2:39:22 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: You know, the more you get into this, the worse it actually is. Listen to this. This is from the Washington Post story with the headline: “Eight Ways Trump Got Rolled in His First Budget .” This, in the Washington Post, is their number one roll, and it’s understandable. The only thing that didn’t get any money in this budget is Trump’s wall. Everything else — including everything Trump opposes — got a budget increase. Try this: “There are explicit restrictions to block the border wall.
“We knew last week there would be no money to start construction on a project… But the final agreement goes further, putting strict limitations on how Trump can use new money for border security… Administration officials have insisted they already have the statutory authority to start building the wall under a 2006 law. This prevents such an end run.” Can I translate this for you? And, by the way, it’s true. Trump has been running around saying legislation from 2006 authorizes the building of the wall — and, for all intents and purposes, it does.
This budget has put a restriction explicitly on building the wall! Now, some of the quasi-Republicans in the media who are trying to soften the impact of this are saying, “Well, yeah, Trump didn’t get the money to build the wall. But, man, is there all kinds of new border security in there. This is a win for Trump because there’s all kinds of new border security authorizing more freedom and latitude and leeway for ICE and Border Patrol people and all that.”
The truth of the matter is that this budget explicitly takes aim at building the wall and says it cannot happen. So where does this come from? is the point. Who wrote this budget? Did the Democrats write this budget? Well, that’s what we’re led to believe. What we’re led to believe is the Democrats wrote the budget, and they used the threat of a government shutdown, and once again those rascally Republicans (who thought they were gonna do an end run again on the United States) were brought up short because they know a government shutdown will be blamed on them.
They will lose every election thereafter, and so they caved. That’s what we are supposed to believe. And the Republicans seem content with that! The Republicans — mystifyingly — seem content with the spin that they’re scared to death of a government shutdown and therefore the Democrats can’t be opposed. Now, I know this budget reflects Democrat Party thinking. I know that… What I just read anything from the Washington Post. I know this represents their ideology. They don’t want a wall. They don’t want any limitations on illegal immigration. They want their sanctuary cities funded and acknowledged.
And all of that happened. But did the Democrats really write it, or is this somebody else’s work? It may be six of one, a half dozen of the other, because the Washington establishment is for the most part very liberal and very progressive. The community of people that we’re talking about, not all of the population of Washington, but those that have any contact offer tie with government, 94% voted for Hillary. So the actual governing portion of Washington, D.C. (and even the surrounding areas of Virginia, Maryland) is overwhelmingly big government liberal.
And those are the people who are the power behind the throne. And the Republicans just don’t stand up to ’em. That much is abundantly clear. Which is why Trump was elected. Look, I hate being repetitive. I’m just saying that this is all going to fall on Trump’s shoulders. And I think he’s fully aware of it. I think he knows. I think he was hoping for something different. I think he was hoping that the Republican Party would actually unify behind his agenda and his election. And that may have been a bit naive, but I think he was hoping for that. I think he was probably a little surprised at the disunity and the division after his election, certainly after his inauguration.
But all of this is an elongated wake-up call. So we’ll see. We’ll just have to let it all play out and see what happens. But this is… There’s nothing in here. I mean, if I were, if I had the job… If my job were to carry the water for the Republican Party, I don’t know how I would do it. I don’t know how in the world I would! If that was my job — which it isn’t, for those of you in the media. But if it were, I don’t know how I could. I don’t know where I’d do it. I don’t know where there’s water to carry here. And if I tried, you people? You’d throw me overboard, if I tried.
There’s nothing here that’s defensible, at least when it comes to the areas that we’ve talked about here: Funding cities, funding Planned Parenthood. How in the world can anybody come to a Republican voter and say, “Hey, hey, hey, we got ’em right where we want ’em! Hey, hey, be patient we’re if we go to. Hey, hey!” There’s no way I don’t know how you would carry water for this. Not that I want to; don’t misunderstand. I’m just coming up with new ways to explain what a sellout, disaster, betrayal — whatever you want to call this — it is.
Okay, let’s go to the audio sound bites. As I mentioned, there’s lots of other things going on out here, and one of those things going on is the ongoing battle between Trump and the media.
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RUSH: Sean Spicer, White House Daily Briefing. The sharks are out asking and asking about the budget deal, and how it squares with Trump’s agenda and his campaign. John Roberts of Fox News: “What do you say to conservatives who feel like they didn’t get a whole lot of out of the spending bill? There was no money for the wall. There were no cuts to sanctuary cities. Funding for Planned Parenthood was maintained. What do you say to those people?”
SPICER: People have to keep in context. We’re talking about 2017 funding, right? So this is something that most presidents would walk into office and that would have been done. Because the last Congress didn’t do this under President Obama, we have an opportunity to get some of the president’s priorities infused to the last five months of 2017. That’s a big step forward. Remember, this is 2017 funding. This is something that he wouldn’t normally even have a shot at because it should have been done. So infusing his priority in the 2011 budget cycle is actually something that he’s able to have a say in, which is a big deal the remaining five months. The 2018 budget will address those things.
RUSH: Okay, so let me translate this. What he’s saying is, “Under normal circumstances we wouldn’t have even had this, a newly incoming president. The budget would have been done last September, October, and it would have been done. Nothing he could have done about it anyway, no matter what. This was an incomplete budget, and so they had to finish it.” nd Spicer is saying, “A lot of Trump’s wishes are in this budget.” But what he really said was, “You wait for Trump to really get into gear in 2018,” meaning the 2018 budget, which starts October 1st of this year.
The fiscal year is October 1. So what Spicer is saying is, “Look, we wouldn’t normally have had any input in this at all because this would have been a done deal from the last Congress. But since it wasn’t a done deal, they had to finish up the spending. There’s not a whole lot of opportunity for Trump to fix anything here, ’cause this is not normally something he would have been involved in anyway. But the next budget starting this fall, when we start negotiating, that’s Trump’s budget, and that’s when you better start paying attention.” That’s what Sean Spicer just said. That’s what that means.
(translated) “Don’t pay any attention to this! This is a previous administration’s budget that was incomplete. We had to fill the stopgap, and that was that. This doesn’t mean anything! You just pay attention when we start putting together our first budget. This isn’t Trump’s!” I’m just saying that that’s what he said. (pause) Uh, no. No, no, no, no. I don’t remember that. What I remember is Reince Priebus on this program the Friday after the election saying, “No excuses. We got no excuses now.” But look, Spicer is saying… Just to repeat this, he’s saying, “In a normal year, this wouldn’t have happened.
“In a president’s first year, the first nine months of that year are irrelevant in terms of the budget because it would have been done under the previous president’s watch, with a previous Congress. In this case, the previous budget was not complete. It was a series of CRs, and so we had to fund the government for the rest of this year. It was not considered important enough to go to the mat on because it’s not even our budget. Our budget starts with the next budget, which will be negotiated this fall, and the fiscal year begins October 1st.” Spicer was simply saying, “That’s when you’re gonna see Trump get in gear.”
I think if you go back to the first hour of the program, I got close to predicting this.
I suppose everybody here is accustomed to being betrayed. So nothing that comes out of DC now is a surprise. I suppose. Sigh!
Trump getting co-opted would be very bad.
It IS only 2017 money. All they got is extra DoD money, and that was largely non controversial. Some of it will get spent in Dem districts.
But no Wall is pretty damn bad. The GOP crafting this CR are not gung ho pro Wall and that’s a factor. Will there be Wall money in the full budget due Oct 1?
THERE BETTER BE, and I’m frankly of the opinion Jared and Ivanka will agree. They are above all things ideologic, loyal to DJT. If you can’t agree ideologically, but are 100% loyal and UNQUESTIONABLY loyal, you’re worth more than 15 zillion idealogues.
I suspect Ivanka will realize there MUST be a Wall. She and Jared will advise that as non negotiable.
I think the key is who in congress voted for it and who voted against it. Trump DID have it in his power to veto it.
.....The fiscal year is October 1. So what Spicer is saying is, “Look, we wouldn’t normally have had any input in this at all because this would have been a done deal from the last Congress. But since it wasn’t a done deal, they had to finish up the spending. There’s not a whole lot of opportunity for Trump to fix anything here, ’cause this is not normally something he would have been involved in anyway. But the next budget starting this fall, when we start negotiating, that’s Trump’s budget, and that’s when you better start paying attention.” That’s what Sean Spicer just said. That’s what that means. .....
My initial reaction? Horse$hit.
This was an opportunity to get a jump start and rather than set a radically different tone (you know, the reason Trump was elected?) from the gate, we have more of the same @#$%@$. Mid-term elections are coming fast. The Dems will take over both houses if Trump keeps ‘winning’ like this...
“Look, we wouldn’t normally have had any input in this at all”
Well, this sell out to the Rats should not have happened with or without thier input. It’s supposedly a GOP congress, what a joke that is. So our hope that Trump will veto this is wasted since Spicer is trying to spin it. It is a sickening betrayal. These traitors need to be primaried and dumped.
Imagine that!
The sanctimonious refusal of the so-called “Freedom Caucus” to support President Trump’s first step towards killing Obama0care pushed President Trump into making deals with the Democrats, including a deal to keep the government functioning.
If the “Freedom Caucus” was half as smart as they “think” they are, they would have seen this coming....
I wonder how many other deals will have to be done without any “support” from that handful of all-or-nothing ideologs.
I agree, this is pretty lame.
Politics is a complicated thing; it’s the art of the possible.
If the “We The People” sends a crowd of confusion to Washington, it’s the thing that Donald Trump has to work with.
“....It IS only 2017 money....”
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BUT are the “strict restrictions” on using money for building the wall limited to fiscal year 2017 (ending 9/30/17) or are they instead OPEN ENDED?
If they are open ended, these “strict restrictions” may stand until the RINO/’RAT controlled Congress passes new legislation removing them. What would be the odds of THAT happening?
We are SO screwed!!
I’d think, tied to this budget.
“Trump DID have it in his power to veto it.”
YES he did, and Rush did himself no service today in trying to exculpate Trump and blame this “democrat” budget on lobbyists. It was pathetic and bumbling.
The establishment doesn’t respect or fear Trump. Trump could win that respect/fear by vetoing any bill he wants.
But, and this is the sad fact (and Trump and Priebus are well aware of this ) - The democrats and RINO republicans could override any Trump veto making Trump look like an effete figurehead.
This is what happens when you get a non-politician as president. A president without a party.
Trump is in favor of this?
“The fiscal year is October 1.”
Sept. 16, if I’m not mistaken.
Let’s get our terminolgy right here- the feckless crap weasels in Congress are not passing a budget, they are passing the buck, just like they have for the last 7years.
Congress has not passed a legitimate budget since the disaterous 2010 budget and have instead funded the government via a series of continuing resolutions
This is why the even more destructive sequester deal was put in place to reign in the insanity of contantly continuing the 2010 disaster
Congress is broken and cannot pass a legitimate budget
It is unfixable with the current cast of losers
We need new leadership if the country is to survive
Yes, it is a terrible deal.
However, we may be about to go to war with North Korea. Does anyone really think we should go to war at the same time we have a “government shutdown”?
There may be some fringe benefits to this delay as well:
1. Paul Ryan is revealed as a snake (again). Freepers already knew that, but far too many “Republicans” have not yet figured that out.
2. We still have MANY Trump appointments held up in the Senate. This is partly Mitch McConnell’s fault, but at least some things are getting through. We now have until September to get the rest.
3. Kennedy is rumored to be planning retirement this summer. If so, we need him replaced with someone better before the fireworks begin.
4. If the wheels of justice ever start to turn, we might even have some charges filed against a few of the many criminals from the Obama/Hillary years by September. The libs will absolutely explode when this happens. Trump needs to have as many of his people in place as possible first (particularly the “Justice” Department and the FBI).
The showdown, when it comes, will be epic and historic. In my opinion, it will make everything thus far look tame. Timing matters. In my opinion, September is a better time to pick this fight than May.
So... Yes, it is a horrible deal. But in a big picture sense perhaps a delay in the inevitable showdown until September is worth it.
The very big problem is that President Trump trusts the likes of Paul Ryan and other fake Republicans. Another problem is that Jared and Ivanka and some other swamp things are steering the process. If he doesn’t get the swamp things out of the aquarium, it will be the swamp that overwhelms the clear, fresh environment we thought would get the job done.
You are correct. The RedRats yell "Mouse", and our representatives climb up on chairs.
We need new leadership if the country is to survive.
Correct again, Trump is perhaps an excellent start, but he can only work with what we send him; and, it is obvious we need to send him a team.
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