Posted on 04/05/2017 1:56:58 PM PDT by Kaslin
After less then 75 days in office, the mainstream media is already writing obituaries for the Trump administration. I don't know whether to laugh or cry from the absurdity of it all.
Even Juan Williams of Fox News writes. "But it is no liberal fantasy to say the odds of a Trump resignation or impeachment before 2020 are looking better by the day."
Words are cheap, and I wonder what kind of odds Williams would actually give this ridiculous proposition were he to put some of his own cash on the table.
I prefer to look through the noise and see a president who cannot tolerate losing and as result will incur all costs, and take all action, to ensure that he we will win.
This means taking immediate measure of the situation and changing, as necessary.
I am reminded of a quote from a U.S. Marine, Major Lloyd Williams, memorialized in a veterans memorial in my hometown in California, just outside Camp Pendleton. When advised by a French Colonel to retreat during a battle in World War I, he said, "Retreat Hell! We just got here!"
After a round of golf with Senator Rand Paul, a critic of the health care bill that Republicans couldn't muster the votes to pass, Trump tweeted:
"Anybody (especially Fake News media) who thinks that Repeal and Replace of Obamacare is dead does not know the love and strength in R. Party. ... Talks on Repealing and Replacing ObamaCare are going on, and will continue until such time as a deal is hopefully struck."
Far more important than flailing from left-wing journalists is the sentiment of the American people. And optimism is surging.
Pew Research Center has just released a new survey showing that 58 percent "say the economic situation is very or somewhat good." This is up from 44 percent from same time last year.
Says Pew, "The 14-percentage-point rise in overall public opinion about the economy since last year is the largest one-year improvement in public sentiment about economic conditions in the history of this survey."
It's also the first time since 2007 that positive sentiment about the economy was greater than negative sentiment.
And this surge of optimism about the economy is bipartisan.
Sixty-one percent of Republicans and 60 percent of Democrats say economic conditions are "very or somewhat good," with the figure for Independents standing at 54 percent.
The stock market, the ultimate bellwether of sentiment, is surging. The Dow Jones Industrial Average stands 25 percent higher today than where it was in February 2016.
Of course, we have a new team in place in Washington and it is reasonable to expect some mistakes. The point is not mistakes, but the focus and commitment to move on.
What is unique today is the combination of a president who will not settle for less than delivering on what he promised and a core group of committed Republicans in Congress who will not settle for less than getting America back on track to its founding principle of freedom.
The Senate will confirm the nomination of a great conservative judge, Neil Gorsuch, to the Supreme Court, and Democrats will pay the price for their opposition.
Lessons from this first exercise on health care will have been learned, and Republicans will move forward on tax reform with greater wisdom and will succeed.
And health care will be re-addressed and fixed. We have no choice. As President Trump said when the Republican bill was pulled, Obamacare is imploding.
According to the Cato Institute, premiums on silver plans have doubled since Obamacare was passed and insurance companies are pulling out of the market, with "roughly one-third of U.S. counties ... having just one insurer offering Obamacare plans."
After one setback early in the game, who thinks Republicans will retreat? Retreat, hell! Trump just got here!
The left will always tell you who they fear the most.
Demoncrats can do no wrong. Republicans can do no right. I think the Demoncrats are willing to risk a civil war rather than give up power for 4 to 8 years. Also it seems they think if they can get Pres. Trump out of office that somehow Hillary will be magically swept into the White House.
Trump should quit paying attention to NY Times, WaPo and CNN.
Just ignore them completely. Literally. Ignore them.
Just concentrate on MAGA and let Spicer handle the dishonest fools in the media.
The same folks who were telling us since June 2015 that there was no possible way that Trump could win.
Let them continue to cry and curse, because the more they curse, the more they unwittingly bless.
If they knew what they were doing, they wouldn’t be doing that.
Than. Less THAN 75 days...
No satire tag? ;-)
Maybe Juan is up for O’Really’s slot..
No satire tag? ;-)
Maybe Juan is up for O’Really’s slot..
If the American People could just sit and listen to their hate, and disgust for this Administration, it really makes you sick...
There are 23 Dems and 2 Independents up in 2018 and if you can stomach this to watch them, the people would vote for the neighbor's dog before voting for these rabid, hateful, sinful aliens...
Right! And many of these talking heads are the same people who said that Trump would never get the nomination, never get the electoral votes, never win, never get inaugurated. Say it with me, Negative Nancy’s: PRESIDENT Trump!
Try this one: Let’s re-elect President Trump!
I met Star Parker once. I believe it was election eve, 2004. Walked into a local Florida Republican HQ and she was there....”Are you Star Parker?!” I asked...
She looked a bit surprised someone had recognized her, but said yes. I told her she was great and I loved reading her columns. She seemed pleased and was very pleasant. This was before the advent of smart phones so I didn’t get a picture.
The Donald does not retreat. This is, probably, the best and most challenging game he has ever engaged in, and believe it or not, he seems to be keeping all the balls in the air at once. What’s more, he seems to be thriving on it.
Impeachment? For what? Beating up on the girl? Herself knew what the game was about when she got in, and whining now is just so pathetic.
Swamp draining is probably one of the biggest industrial projects in that territory now tentatively known once again as “the United States of America”, and it would be a wise course of action to wear oxygen masks, while slogging about the muck, as some of those black shiny bubbles rising out of the ooze may contain some really toxic residues.
The press is mostly concerned with depressing and demoralizing Trump supporters. It’s working to some degree. If they can turn 20 % of us they think they will be able to remove him.
If you read her biography it says that she used to be a welfare queen but got out of it and has become very successful
Don't pay any attention to Juan. I do like him better that Jerry Rivers to be honest.
President Trump is proving his critics wrong everyday, though the vast majority of them will never come around or even grudgingly admit they may have misjudged him. The jobs picture is rosy and these are breadwinner-type jobs, not mcjobs. Illegal immigration has fallen by 67 percent. He has emasculated an out-of-control EPA, and has subjected climate change warriors to nothing short of ridicule. I see no inclination to engage in large-scale foreign adventures. Now, he wants to get rid of Common Core, the worst educational idea since replacing phonics with “whole-word” reading.
Overall, he continues to impress me almost on a daily basis. I don’t agree with some of his proposals, such as The Wall; I think eliminating public benefits would prove much more effective. But, his socialist/globalist/statist deep state suckups will never stop trashing him.
The mainstream media is guilty of many things, including yellow journalism. Is the MSM guilty of sedition?
Most likely.
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