That would be you, John. And when you really don't like Trump you let results from 2 blue states cloud your judgement. Your hatred blinds you to the fact that flyover country is sick of people like you and the people who think like you. Pretending to support the President just to win an election so you can go backstab him once you're in office isn't going to work any more.
“Backlash”! ROTFL. Guess the Republicans better “hunker down”, right Johnny? Heh heh. We’re talking New Joysey, New Yawk and Virginistan here. Lighten up.
They still don’t get why Trump won.
Good news for us moving to 2020.
The DC Swamp creates from BOTH parties are the ones in jeopardy.
The MSM-Democrats throw everything they have at him, 24x7, for a year and a half, without letup, 98% negative coverage, much of which is garbage made up out of a tissue of lies, and holy jumpin’ catfish, his approval numbers stand at 38%! This is not good!
NYC voted in Decomio before Trump even ran for office and wasn’t going anywhere, Christie killed his collegue with Bridgegate and Gillespie was neverTrump. But these elections were a backlash against Trump? Otay buckwheat.
The post is hardly “Never Trump”
Fake News. When you start off with a lie, the rest can be dismissed out of hand.
Trump’s approval rating is still 100% at my house.
Podhertz is a putz.
No fear. So they built a club house in their back yard. It changes nothing.
True words well said
I despise this smug GOPe neocon.
But my GOP-majority area was buried with a massive Democrat turnout yesterday. Almost all new voting registrations have been Democrats as well.
In short, their side is at least as riled up as the tea party was in its best years. Unless the intensity on the other side is ratcheted up significantly, there will be a Congressional bloodbath in 2018 (maybe still not enough of the right senate seats up to make for a flip in the senate).
Yeah, Trump is “polarizing”, but this will be due to the Democrat/media/GOPe/Deep State national perfidy.
OK JPod, I’m all for facing facts.
The facts are that the Republicans #1 priority is getting rid of Trump. Whatever it takes to accomplish this, their main objective, they will do.
Right now, they are just slyly preventing him from having any accomplishments which require the collaboration of the Legislative Branch, as they wait for Mueller to give them a fig leaf behind which they can begin removal proceedings.
McConnell has a pool of about 20 Senators to whom he can assign the three “no” votes necessary to stop any Trump initiatives from passing.
What they want and need is to get the water level in the swamp back up to normal. For this, they are quite willing to lose both Houses of Congress.
To break this Gordian knot the Uniparty has constructed, there needs to be an opposition force in the 2018 elections. Bannon is working on the Senate, but what’s really needed is a House campaign in all 435 districts, for which I fear it is already too late.
Reaction to the repubs not getting anything done? Build the damn wall, keep muzzards out, and they’ll vote repub again.
Despite Trump’s valiant leadership, we are totally and completely screwed.
We lose Congress in 2018, the Left removes Trump, then removes every last protection we enjoy under our Constitution.
And for all the braggadocio about armed resistance — it’s never going to happen. Sheep to the slaughter, Leftism triumphant, a new Dark Ages.
I am beyond despondent for the future of our nation.
We remain stymied legislatively by the filibuster. It's not a McConnell/RINO conspiracy; that mantra is an exercise in denial. The problem is numbers. McConnell has 52 in the caucus; two of them are named Collins and McCain, and a couple others are highly unreliable. The rest are reasonably solid. But the filibuster is killing every legislative initiative even if McConnell can round up a simple majority. At the moment, it is driving the Republican need to pass tax reform under reconciliation, which is forcing them into the straightjacket on revenue enhancers to offset tax cuts elsewhere.
Complicating this, many self-styled conservatives, including many here, are pitching a fit about closing loopholes that are patently regressive, benefit mostly blue states, and that have always been bad social policy as well. Yes, the home mortgage interest deduction should go, and let the chips fall where they may. Yes, the deductibility of state and local taxes should be repealed. Let the chips fall where they may. Use the money to cut taxes that should be cut. If we can't even reform the indefensible parts of the tax code, we can't do what needs to be done. Anyone who thinks his little deduction is sacred is a swamp creature himself; that's swamp thinking distilled to its essence. Go big and go clean, and tell New York, California, etc. to go pound sand.
The only tactical decision that makes a bit of difference is whether the Senate Republicans will choose to abolish the filibuster. Nothing is going to pass unless they do. But the old timers are deathly afraid of what the Democrats will do the next time they have the majority if there is no filibuster. YMMV. McConnell earned his spurs as an outstanding Minority Leader. He has not forgotten.
If Democrats retake the Senate next year, it's over for at least another 8-12 years. Trump will have two years left, but nothing will pass legislatively, and the Senate Dems will NOT confirm any new judges. None. It won't matter if RBG drops dead the day after the new Senate is sworn in. So even the window on Supreme Court nominations may be about to close.
Steve Bannon & Co. have convinced a lot of people that the thing we really, really need to do is blow up the GOP. Bannon should shut up and run for office himself if he thinks its so easy. Let him pick a blue or purple state and give it a try. He'd get his head handed to him and might learn something.
I see the #FRNeverTrump cadre is active on this thread, including names that I haven’t seen since the election.
I wonder how many Trump supporters did not come out to vote for Gillespie.