I have already praised him for the Goresuch appointment, for his intervention in Syria, for his appointment of Secretary of State etc.
He gets no credit now for having beat Hillary in November, his ranking as president is not fixed merely by winning the election we have to judge him for what he does as president.
Part of the role of being a president for which he must be judged is his ability to control his own party and his ability to intimidate the other party into fashioning legislation that he wants. In other words, he must lead. Apart from executive orders of which I approve, he has betrayed us on the continuing resolution and all that it contains and on the reform of healthcare so far, not to mention NAFTA, Paris, Iran, Chinese currency (a phony issue from the beginning), prosecuting Hillary-and the list goes on.
People like you told us in the nominating process that the Photoshop man garbed in a Superman suit astride the globe would lead the nation with supernatural powers and cut deals we would not believe. Now when possessed of the responsibility he is incapable of doing what Ronald Reagan did and what virtually every other successful president has done, bend Congress to his will. Instead, the best that might be said of him is that Congress has bent him to its will, or, worse, Trump all along has been for Obamacare, against the wall, for Planned Parenthood, etc. etc. In any event, it is undeniable that he has joined forces with them and not only abandoned his campaign promises but signed on to contrary results and threatened those who stood for his promises.
I have already praised him for the Goresuch appointment, for his intervention in Syria, for his appointment of Secretary of State etc. How gracious of you to praise the President for the Gorsuch nomination and a couple other items. You couldn't be more grudging if you tried.
[President Trump] has betrayed us...on the reform of healthcare so far
There's lies, and there's damn lies, and that's a damn lie.
So both President Trump and the House Freedom Caucus have "betrayed us" on Obamacare repeal & replace?
President Trump has been consistent regarding "repealing and replacing Obamacare" since the earliest days of his campaign. He never said it would be "repeal only".
And so now, even with the vaunted House Freedom Caucus on board with this new bill—and even though you know this is necessarily a multi-step process— you try to claim that the President has betrayed us?
That's just totally disingenuous, and once more reveals your inability to control your #NeverTrump impulses—and that's precisely what they are.
[President Trump] has betrayed us on the continuing resolution and all that it contains... not to mention NAFTA, Paris, Iran, Chinese currency (a phony issue from the beginning)
Do you have a frog in your pocket? He's perhaps betrayed you on these issues, because of your completely unreasonable criteria of what constitutes "betrayal".
Your claim with respect to NAFTA is asinine on its face. The same is true for Paris and Iran. None of those things have been definitely addressed, and yet they're all "betrayals" according to your warped reasoning.
That you can draw such ridiculous conclusions after the President being less than four months in office is the height of insincerity and—once again—"betrays" your severe bias.
As for the President's ability to "control 'his' own party"—vrtually the entire leadership structure of which vigorously opposed him during the election—you again show a completely unrealistic—even irrational—mindset.
And regarding prosecuting Hillary—are you serious? The time may come for something like than, but it would be pure insanity to attempt such things before the President has fully consolidated power. The same principle holds regarding risking a government shutdown on a CR relating to a budget that wasn't even his.
You couldn't possibly be more disingenuous on each these points, knowing the practical realities which apply when establishing and wielding political power in Washington DC.
Instead, the best that might be said of him is that Congress has bent him to its will, or, worse, Trump all along has been for Obamacare, against the wall, for Planned Parenthood, etc. etc.
Inasmuch as President Trump arrives in power as an outsider to both entrenched parties, you must be aware how ridiculous that sounds. And that's "the best that might be said of him", of course.
You naively and unrealistically expect a total political outsider to arrive in Washington to bend the entire GOPe Legislature to his will—all in less the four months? Put your crack pipe down.
Your pathological inability to treat President Trump with even a modicum of fairness remains prominently on display—it betrays a profound disregard for the unique situation which this man has to face on a daily basis.
Obviously, you remain utterly incapable of fairly judging this President—or the practical political realities in Washington DC—without subconsciously tainting your analysis with your ingrained #NeverTrump bias...