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To: Howie66

>>The GOPe does NOT want control of Congress. IF they did, then they would be in a position to be held accountable for their actions and inactions.

In 2017-2018 the GOP did have control of Congress. However, Trump had no transition plan, totally screwed up staffing and appointments, and had no rapport with Congress.

It was a missed opportunity for which no one has been held accountable, least of all Trump.


37 posted on 07/03/2023 8:08:33 AM PDT by FarCenter
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To: FarCenter

Nope. Not buying this at all.

The GOPe was complicit with the Commies and Deep State Maggots in working against President Trump from the very beginning.


48 posted on 07/03/2023 8:27:46 AM PDT by Howie66 (Let's Go Brandon!!)
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To: FarCenter
Reince Priebus was appointed to serve as Trump’s chief of staff specifically to build and maintain “rapport with Congress.”

There’s no one person who should be held accountable for the GOP failures in 2017-18. It was a group effort. Trump’s contribution was mainly that he was in the impossible position of winning a presidential election while openly opposing his own party’s platform on key issues (immigration and trade). I hold the GOP leadership in Congress responsible for the 2017-18 disaster. The timing of Preibus’ departure as chief of staff in July 2017 was all the evidence you need. He left on almost the exact same day that the “ObamaCare repeal” bill failed in Congress.

At the time, I saw that as a sign that the GOP leadership knew damn well that it had been exposed as a bunch of feckless frauds — failing miserably to enact the one piece of legislation they had been the centerpiece of their political campaigns for more than seven years.

58 posted on 07/03/2023 9:58:02 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I've just pissed in my pants and nobody can do anything about it." -- Major Fambrough)
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