Posted on 05/20/2017 7:22:16 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
Friday at the Irving-Las Colinas Chamber of Commerce in Irving, TX, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said some President Donald Trump political problems were “self-inflicted.”
Cruz said, “What I’m trying to do is just ignore the circus.”
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Like the “self inflicted wounds” of pulling off one of the greatest political upsets in history and keeping Hillary out of the Whitehouse? A task that no republican again no republican could have accomplished. Blaming Trump for the 24/7 drumbeat of attacks by the media and deepstate, the phony investigations, and the lack of congressional cooperation by his own party to fulfill his agenda is absurd. We now have a special prosecutor appointed 4 months into his term(that’s gotta be a new record) with no evidence of any crime being committed and not one high level republican coming out in full throated support for Trump. Kind of weird huh? We the people know who our friends are and Ted Cruz ain’t one of them. Fake conservative.
Most of the Trump damage is by adultchildren throwing
temper tantrums.
Most of these guys like Cruz, Santorum really believe those MSM polls.
They are mistaken.
I don’t see how it’s holding it all up. Trump is a businessman. A smart businessperson goes about business ignoring much of the noise. They don’t put on their fireman’s hat for every little brush fire. Let them cry Wolf while getting things done.
I wish Trump would have suggested the special counsel. It would have made all the demos look like fools.
So Justin Amash doesn’t belong to the Freedom Caucus? He was babbling about impeachment, right along with Maxine Waters. Didn’t hear a single fellow Freedom Caucus member tell him to tone it down, either.
Maybe some of the Freedom Caucus’ problems are self-inflicted.
The House Freedom Caucus would be among them. And yet these were the members of Congress who were singled out for scathing criticism by President Trump for refusing to support Paul Ryan’s health care reform bill that didn’t address a single item in the health care reform proposal that Trump’s campaign had proposed when he was a candidate in 2016.
Like I said ... the Republicans in Washington who will fare the best over the next couple of years are likely to be the ones who can figure out how to ignore him whenever they need to.
Does the butt hurt “Freedom Caucus” want a wall or not? Apparently, not. It’s clear these beltway careerists are playing folks like you like a fiddle. They’ve got a chance to advance the conservative agenda for the first time in decades and are AWOL. And yet you make excuse after excuse for them.
If the GOP is unable to govern they will all pay a price on election day. Right now, they seem comfortable with that if it stops POTUS from draining the swamp.
Things will change if Republicans lose their majority in the House and Pelosi takes over. In which case, the game is over.
‘The GOP is trying to wear down Trump so he won’t run for reelection. LBJ is the correct historical parallel.’
Great analysis. Agree completely.
GOPe coup bump for later....
You missed the point. The GOP has ammunition and to spare, if they cared to support Trump. But they have no interest in supporting him. They enjoy seeing him viciously, unfairly and relentlessly attacked far more.
Every time Ted Cruz opens his mouth he reinforces my opinion of him.
He is a lying, back stabbing, NWO politician who is a foreigner and should not even be a Texas senator.
His career is based on lies, his presidential campaign was based on lies and I nearly as I can tell, he intends to continue in the same vein.
Maybe so. I suspect the GOP also relishes seeing Donald Trump in the media spotlight all the time because it helps ensure people leave them alone.
Well, I have a long time friend in the DC area going back to the 1960’s. He is a rare bird, a conservative lawyer.
He warned me and others about Mueller being old buddies for 2 decades. Now we know that is true.
He, also, warned us about Mueller’s really softness with the Jihadists in America. That is documented in the link below:
I’m a Jeff Sessions fan, if he supported Mueller, I would be surprised.
“Like it or not, he’s right about this.”
No! He’s not right. Trump’s problems are not self inflicted.
Trump’s problems are the nation’s problems, namely:
1) that we’ve strayed too far from the constitutional limitations on government intended by the Founders
2) that as a result, we have traded away our liberties for a nanny state, our manufacturing base for a Ponzi scheme, and our cultural values for an amoral system of political correctness.
3) that when faced with these seemingly insurmountable threats to our Republic, the entire Democrat party, many in the Republican party, the entire Hollywood celebrity crowd and the entire press core see fit to oppose any serious effort to find solutions, instead obsessing on fake news about non issues in a blatant effort to obstruct the man we the people elected POTUS.
How is any of that self-inflicted on Trump’s part?
These memes - that Trump’s problems are self inflicted, that Trump is acting like a 7 year old, or is not “presidential” enough, that he twitters too much, that it is immature for him to call the dishonest press “dishonest”, that his staff is in chaos, etc, etc, etc... are all memes generated by his enemies to distract from the real issue: they don’t want him to drain the swamp.
Any supposed Trump supporter that piles on with these memes, saying things like “I’m a Trump supporter, but Trump should really put a sock in it” is unwittingly assisting the left with their propaganda.
Of course, any criticism from the left, however unfair, has an element of truth to it... all the best lies have an element of truth - so Trump isn’t perfect, but why carry water for the left and repeat their anti Trump propaganda?
Conviction requires 67 Senate votes. That is also impossible.
What would be best is to have more Republicans with testicles to tell the Dems and the press to hit the road unless you come back with some evidence or wrongdoing. Crying literally or symbolically isn't evidence of anything. Nor is general whining.
1. The allegations against him are not only outlandish, but they're all over the map. An effective defense requires specific allegations. Coming out in public and defending President Trump against an allegation from a quasi-humanoid mutant like Maxine Waters will do nothing but reduce the public perception of your IQ by about 30 points.
2. Now that you have a special counsel in place, you have no idea what may or may not come out in an ongoing investigation. There may very well be cases where individuals in the Trump administration face legal trouble over things that have nothing to do with the matter at hand.
Another possibility is.....
3. The democrats polled impeachment and found out this would action would be very bad for the democrats.
According to the prophecies that declared Trump to be the POTUS several years before the election; this liberal crapstorm will blow itself out in a few months. Then, I know not how; only that God has declared it, corrupt justices, judges, congress critters and senators will be arrested and taken away to trial. The prosecution of the whole pizzagate debacle will bring many of them down. Prosperity, honor, truth and godliness will come back in style. Trump is not going to do it; God is, through the Trump administration. Believers, take heart. Haters, take warning.
I’m not sure even Donald Trump would agree with all three of the points you’ve posted as “Trump’s problems” and “the nation’s problems.”
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