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To: A Navy Vet
Disclaimer: I am not giving up on Pres. Trump, but know the following before you attack.

Once he won the primaries, I re-thought my take on him. I was impressed, even though I still wish he were more articulate. I realized that his populist/strategic vision is why he won out against the MSM backed shoe-in Hillary machine. I knew then, America was having a real revolution back to what has worked since our founding.

Like another poster has repeatedly said on these threads, he has fulfilled many of his campaign promises and continues to try. President Trump has done a lot of good stuff in his short time. Some say even more than President Reagan.

That said, I still wish he would have stood firm on this pork-laden Omnibus bill. Although, there is no such thing as a line-veto, he could have insisted time for his staff to review it and line out items and send it back to Congress with the threat of a veto.

I agree with many here that the GOP leadership is feckless and needs to be replaced and is the main problem.

You folks who say you're not going to vote in November this year, are just building your own noose.

10 posted on 03/23/2018 3:33:59 PM PDT by A Navy Vet (I'm not Islamophobic - I'm Islamonauseous. Plus LGBTQxyz nauseous.)
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To: A Navy Vet
"You folks who say you're not going to vote in November this year, are just building your own noose."

I second that. From the negative chatter on some of these discussion boards, Democrats are more sure that they will easily pass laws to confiscate weapons for one. For another, with a simple majority in the House, they'll impeach the President.


12 posted on 03/23/2018 3:41:11 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: A Navy Vet
I'm glad you're not giving up on Trump. He saved us from Clinton and he took a lot of slings and arrows doing that. Also giving up on Trump or giving up on big spending Republican politicians means a walk in the wilderness with a lot of uncertainty. Going the big spending route adds quite a bit of certainty. We mortgage the future, we eventually have to default or inflate but we can also tackle part of the debt to GDP ratio through growth.

A veto would not have brought us a separate military funding bill or anything like that, so he is right to sign in that respect. But it is disappointing that there was so much lost here, you could hear it in Trump's voice today. Some of this is tactical failure, and some is the political culture. Too many votes for "my" big spending congresscritter while decrying big spending.

23 posted on 03/23/2018 7:51:17 PM PDT by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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