The Republic establishment and its donors are blocking funding for the wall for obvious reasons (cheap labor) and a handful of liberal Senators are blocking the defunding of PP. Trump is using DACA to try to get funding for the wall and worked hard to get an Obamacare repeal passed that included the de-funding of PP. It's absurd to say he hasn't tried or doesn't want to accomplish those objectives.
Anyone should, on balance, be thrilled with what Trump has accomplished in 14 months. It easily surpasses what Reagan accomplished in his first 14 months, But, he needs more conservatives in Congress to get the rest of his agenda passed.
My first wife:
Added $60k to our family income.
Gave me 2 great kids.
Arranged to sell our first house for a newer, stylish house.
...but then she cheated on me, divorced me and wiped me out financially.
See what I’m saying?
The voice of reason and sanity amidst the fainting drama queens. Well done.
In other words we should just lay back and enjoy it. Oh well some of us older ones are used to it.
I am trying to view it like you. I just hope the tariffs, the cut regulations, and businesses returning to the U.S. will be enough to offset our getting deeper into massive debt.
But it is embarrassing to have the Democrats gloating over how they win whether they are in the majority or not.
Your analysis is right and accurate. I agree completely.
I am sorry to say that all It takes for the base, is not so much the sense of betrayal they feel, but the appearance of weakness in a man they elected to be a fighter.
Trump had a choice, the veto. He could call the Congress back into session to pass one more Continuing Resolution. He then could do his best to renegotiate a replacement bill with the House GOP to fund the wall (huge symbol to the base) and defund Planned Parenthood.
Ultimately this would go to either a 51% reconciliation vote in the Senate or force a House/Senate Reciliation Committee. Let the Democrats dare to try to defund Defense with the mid-term elections 6 months away.
I am not prophet enough to know if this scenario would prevail, but this is the kind fight in Trump we expected and voted for. The President said he will not vote for such a bill again. This is insufficient. This bill precludes another funding bill for two years.
To retrieve his base the President must ACT soon in some way with the honesty, strength and intrepid courage his base thought they voted for in 2016. I want to vote for that man again. We need reassurance in action, and we need it now.
>>But, he needs more conservatives in Congress to get the rest of his agenda passed.
You can’t unilaterally blame Congress. They didn’t have the votes for a veto. Trump owns this bill, regardless of what he’s done in his term so far.
He got played like a bull fiddle and even now doesn’t seem to know it.