President Trump

Conversation is right on the edge of getting personal. Please continue to bring strong, well reasoned points without crossing that line. This applies to all of us.

 

I hate Congress. My party is saying it's too much. What exactly is too hard when they control House, Senate, WH, and SCOTUS?


President Trump and GOP leaders on Capitol Hill have promised voters that 2017 will bring the repeal and replacement of ObamaCare, a long-awaited overhaul of the tax code and funding for a “great wall” along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Now, some in the party are wondering whether Republicans have bitten off more than they can chew.

Conservative naysayers inside and outside the Capitol argue that it’s not just about the GOP-controlled Congress’s slow start in carrying out Trump’s agenda.

There’s serious concern that Trump and GOP leadership have simply identified too many big-ticket, politically thorny items to tackle in year one. They also see tough times ahead in prioritizing what to do.

“It’s not just the fact that there are a lot of items but the enormity of those items,” said GOP Rep. Daniel Webster, who learned how to manage a legislative calendar while serving as Speaker of the Florida state House.

Another Republican lawmaker was even more blunt: “There’s no way we can do all these issues.”

The GOP’s 2017 calendar is already riddled with must-pass deadlines: Congress needs to fund the government before money runs out on April 28; raise the debt ceiling by this summer; and pass reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration by September, among other statutory deadlines.

Republicans also have begun dismantling a plethora of Obama-era regulations focused on the environment and other issues.

On top of that, Republicans hope to pass all 12 fiscal year 2018 appropriation bills before Oct. 1 — something that hasn’t been done in two decades.

Trump has talked of a $1 trillion infrastructure package — though conservatives on Capitol Hill have had heartburn over that proposal for some time.

“Think about it. We have two appropriations [processes] to do before Sept. 30, plus tax reform, the wall, infrastructure,” the GOP lawmaker said. “Any two would be Herculean."

You can read the rest of the article here: http://www.thehill.com/homenews/house/318808-gop-frets-over-too-high-expectations

 

There's spots where the money can come from, but not all of it and certainly this is too much to try to do at the start of the term.

Part of me loves the idea of these fat, lazy bureaucrats being forced to actually make things happen for once, but another part of me realizes when things are being pushed too far. This farce of a wall needs to be tabled for more important matters.

 

Flynn has been fired, or stepped down, depending on who you believe.

 

Interview today was strange, even by her standards.

I think she's out of her element. She's better at getting people into office than repping them while in office.

 

Well, I'll say Flynn didn't just decide to call up the Russian Ambassador on his own.

Someone told him to do it. Either Trump, Bannon, or Pence probably.

 

Here's the latest "Trump's staff working with the Russians" news of the day. This is a separate one from Flynn.

I was listening to the interview of a former CIA agent who was saying, every big world power is constantly trying to influence each others elections. They all constantly try to hack and intercept eachother's information. What's disturbing is that Trump's people have been so stupidly brazen with talking directly to Russia and talking to them a lot.

They're trying to run the government like an authoritarian business where what they say goes, but eventually he's going to push that too far and impeachment proceedings WILL start.

 

I think you're right. Approval rating today is 55%.

 

I'm genuinely scared of the stuff Trump is doing on a daily basis. He's crazy, he gets his info/news from tv and trash websites, and he's trying to control the media, what we see of him, and how we see it. He's getting a little too.. Hitlery for my taste.

 

The exaggeration factor of people reacting to Trump is not really any more helpful than his extreme declarations. The Hitler comparison is probably the most popular. I'm curious. What exactly about Trump is "Hitlery"? I ask this as someone who is a history buff and has read a bit of Hitler's career.