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Trump Promises 'Great Management' -- No, We Need Limited Government
National Review ^ | 01/23/2016 | Yuval Levin

Posted on 01/23/2016 7:26:46 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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To: Awgie

RE: So being a great manager is now considered a liability?

Did the author of this piece insinuate that?


41 posted on 01/23/2016 7:46:56 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: Eddie01

National RINO Review thinks McRomney would be a limited govt guy. That’s their idea of limited govt. LOL.

Just another hit (piece) from RINO Reiview and Yuval Levin.


42 posted on 01/23/2016 7:47:14 AM PST by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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To: SeekAndFind

RINO Review believes that DC Lawyers/career politicians are the only ones with the abilities to ‘manage’ this country.


43 posted on 01/23/2016 7:48:22 AM PST by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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To: bert

RE: the president manages

the congress decides the size of govenrment

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The President has the power of the BULLY PULPIT to inform congress that government is too big and needs to be cut down to size.

I’d like to hear that from Trump.


44 posted on 01/23/2016 7:48:44 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: napscoordinator

LOL. Yet he wants to give more power to the EPA. Is that Conservatism?


45 posted on 01/23/2016 7:49:55 AM PST by Perdogg (Senator Ted Cruz - President 2016)
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To: SeekAndFind
Trump can say he'll stop all trains and blow up garbage dumps and the drones will think it's an excellent plan because he's a winner don't cha know.

Popularity over principle.

46 posted on 01/23/2016 7:50:08 AM PST by Reagan Disciple (Peace through Strength)
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To: grey_whiskers

RE: We KNOW Trump loves America: and will not sit by helplessly while others trash it.

Let’s see where this reasoning is taking us — it is possible that Trump will not cut the size of government, but let’s vote for him anyway because he’s a great manager and because he loves this country.

Is the GOP lineup now so pathetic that there is no one who loves America AND who will cut the size of government?


47 posted on 01/23/2016 7:51:31 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe

I really don’t know what type of ‘CEO’ Trump would be like. I would guess, based on many of his comments, that he would be a delegator. That was Reagan’s style. It’s funny that we equate the President with a CEO, and the only GOP candidate with that experience is Donald Trump.


48 posted on 01/23/2016 7:51:45 AM PST by Right Brother
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To: Perdogg

RE: Yet he wants to give more power to the EPA. Is that Conservatism?

Not only that — he is FOR government taking private property in order to develop big businesses.


49 posted on 01/23/2016 7:52:37 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: Perdogg
Build the wall, get rid of ISIS, and stop Immigration from Middle East are priority. EPA? That was a stupid Nixon mistake.

Anyway I just hope that we can get these 3 things done with Trump....it is imperative.

50 posted on 01/23/2016 7:53:02 AM PST by napscoordinator
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To: Right Brother

RE: I really don’t know what type of CEO Trump would be like. I would guess, based on many of his comments, that he would be a delegator.

I want to hear him say this — I will appoint an able DOWNSIZING manager for the Washington bureaucracy.


51 posted on 01/23/2016 7:53:52 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: House Atreides

I sure hope that TRUMP (WE LIFT UP OUR HEARTS TO HIM) doesn’t turn out to be a MANAGE THE DECLINE type of guy with BIGGER & BETTER SUBSIDIES & MANDATES.


There’s no bigger “mandate” than the 5,000 page Trans Pacific Partnership. NAFTA on steroids. Written by lobbyists like Goldman Sachs. Sadly, Saint Raphael lead the GOP establishment charge for it with Paul Ryan when he successfully campaigned for TPA. Without TPA there would be no TPP.


52 posted on 01/23/2016 7:54:12 AM PST by lodi90 (TRUMP Force 1 lifting off)
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To: napscoordinator

Trump said he wanted to use the EPA to enforce higher EFS - is that Conservatism, Yes or No? This has nothing to do with Nixon.


53 posted on 01/23/2016 7:54:36 AM PST by Perdogg (Senator Ted Cruz - President 2016)
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To: SeekAndFind

Here’s just a little example. There are more if people are willing to listen.

http://getliberty.org/donald-j-trump-joins-americans-for-limited-government-in-fight-against-trade-promotion-authority-trans-pacific-partnership-deal/


54 posted on 01/23/2016 7:55:46 AM PST by boycott (--)
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To: SeekAndFind
Is the GOP lineup now so pathetic that there is no one who loves America AND who will cut the size of government?

You are correct.

Cruz claims to, but he has flip-flopped on H1Bs, has a wife who works for GoldmanSucks, and left off immigration until Trump moved the Overton window; not to mention, the rabid left will not let off the birther thing (recall, btw, that Trump questioned Obama's birth as well, in the past); and, Cruz will face more opposition from the GOPe in Congress than Obama did, without any swell of populist support behind him to give him political cover.

It is the GOPe that maneuvered the US into this desperate position, by caving to Obama while lying about being conservative, and lining their own pockets.

The brand is destroyed.

55 posted on 01/23/2016 7:56:40 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Tag line.


56 posted on 01/23/2016 7:57:12 AM PST by BobL (Who cares? He's going to build a wall and stop this invasion.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Obama has already opened the door to autocratic government, and Trump is just the sort to walk right in.


57 posted on 01/23/2016 7:57:46 AM PST by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: SeekAndFind

“The President has the power of the BULLY PULPIT to inform congress that government is too big and needs to be cut down to size.”

True, but there are clear and present dangers that need to be addressed first, and if not corrected immediately, will make everything else moot. For instance — immigration, of all types.


58 posted on 01/23/2016 7:58:48 AM PST by odawg
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To: SeekAndFind
The article was another hit piece by one of the cloistered chattering class, who has never built or managed anything more than 2 dimensional black and white sheet of text containing his opinions, that we are supposed to consume as if it were Moses coming off the mount with the big 10.

Donald Trump is a man of action. I am weary of the chattering class, who have never accomplished anything 3D, preaching their sermons, and retiring to their cloistered echo chamber enclaves.

59 posted on 01/23/2016 7:58:53 AM PST by Awgie (truth is always stranger than fiction)
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To: napscoordinator
Absolutely! The Trump of the past four months is the biggest and best Conservative we have ever seen!

Wait......what about the Trump of last year? Was that guy Conservative? Sure he was, I mean partial birth abortion is a true conservative belief right?

60 posted on 01/23/2016 7:58:56 AM PST by Reagan Disciple (Peace through Strength)
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