The GOP Congress Better Get Its Act Together, Or It’s Sunk

Townhall.com ^ | June 12, 2017 | Kurt Schlichter

[Alberta's Child]

The author makes a common mistake here of assuming that Trump’s agenda (whatever that is) has grassroots support across the entire country. The reality is that a lot of people voted for Trump simply because they were pissed off at the status quo, but that doesn’t mean they’re willing to give unconditional support to everything that comes out of the GOP Congress.

[central_va]

The author makes a common mistake here of assuming that Trump’s agenda (whatever that is) has grassroots support across the entire country

Of course it does. You Cruzers are funny lot.

[Alberta's Child]

They also know that it is absolutely impossible to fulfill all those campaign promises about health care. You know, like this: "We're going to reduce insurance premiums, but everyone will still have insurance and pre-existing conditions will be covered."

Yeah, right. LOL.

[Alberta's Child]

Huh?

[fortheDeclaration]

Paul Ryan is a weasel.

[grania]

I'm disgusted, too. The only thing that has a chance of saving the nation is a realignment of the political parties: Sovereignty vs Globalists. The voters made it clear in the November election that we voted for Sovereignty. The Republicans ignore that and keep doing their DC swampcreature thing.

Under these conditions, the nation cannot survive. If the Republicans in DC don't man up and save the nation, why would I vote for them? The nation is done anyway, why reward the creeps we voted for to save it?

[central_va]

Mr. Trump ran on a pretty simple platform: A wall, cut immigration, cut taxes, cut regulations and get out of the way. What part of that doesn’t have grass root support?

[central_va]

Paul Ryan is a weasel.

You have insulted weasels.

[Alberta's Child]

Mr. Trump also ran around in his first two months in office pushing a Paul Ryan “health care reform” bill that didn’t address any one of the items in Trump’s seven-point health care plan from his campaign. This Ryan bill had the support of less than 20% of the voters in this country. Does that sound like grassroots support to you?

[Alberta's Child]

P.S. — Most of those items in Trump’s platform are moving ahead just fine ... and most of those that AREN’T moving ahead are his own doing (giving amnesty to “Dreamers,” for example).

[central_va]

Ok you are saying that the Congressional failure to reform O’Bastard Care equates to a loss of grass root support for Donald Trump? Like I said the Trump agenda is wildly popular. Nice spin.

[central_va]

The wall, the Presidents most beloved agenda item, is being spiked by a bunch of globalist hacks in the GOP. Don’t think the American people are not noticing that.

[Cobra64]

Lazy bastards is all they are. If this were a business, the issues would have been resolved in less than a week.

[Alberta's Child]

No — my point is that Trump has been all over the map on a lot of these issues, so you can’t expect anyone in Congress to get behind him very strongly. They answer to their own constituents first, and not some ephemeral “Trump voter” who is not a monolithic group in this country.

[Alberta's Child]

A couple of months ago Donald Trump publicly criticized the House Freedom Caucus for failing to support a Ryan health care bill that was strongly opposed by most Americans.

Have you seen anything similar to that from Trump over the failure of Congress to fund this "most beloved agenda item" of his? No. See my point?

[central_va]

No — my point is that Trump has been all over the map on a lot of these issues, so you can’t expect anyone in Congress to get behind him very strongly.

Bull crap. Trump is not all over the palace at all. What part of the wall is all over the place?

Your point is to undermine Donald Trump like a good little globalist troll GOPer. I've read your Establishment screed for many years and it makes me sick.

[Alberta's Child]

I’ve never even been a registered Republican, so I have no idea what the hell youre talking about.

[MulberryDraw]

My wife needs a health insurance policy for 7 months before Medicare starts. Only thing available is an HMO which we don’t want or need, then to add insult to that she ìs required to buy an adolescent dental insurance plan! What a shocking piece of s-— this Obamacare crap is. Now the Republicans are dragging their feet on getting rid of it. What the h-— is wrong with them?

[Bookshelf]

If by October the Trump agenda is still being blocked in Congress Trump himself should announce that he is calling for a Congress of concerned Americans to create the America Party (or what you will). Trump should begin preparing for that event by having people create the names of participants who are favorable to a change in the American political system. This should certainly put the coffin in the feckless Republican Party just as the Republican Party put an end to the feckless Whigs. The Third Party run could be expected to cause a split in the vote and lead to Congress being controlled by Democrats. If Trump could stand the heat for two years (and the man’s a rock), it would also lead to a landslide election of Trump’s America Party in 2020 and the revitalization of the United States.

[central_va]

I’ve never even been a registered Republican, so I have no idea what the hell youre talking about.

Sure you do. Don't Comey me.