Ballots or balas, lefties. We are trying ballots.
Posted on 08/01/2017 10:52:29 PM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
An old story from Albany is unforgettable. Gov. Nelson Rockefeller was a skilled arm-twister, but one legislator, a fellow Republican, resisted demands to vote a certain way, even rejecting offers of pork-barrel spending in his district.
Feeling triumphant, the legislator looked at Rocky and declared, “There’s nothing you can give me I don’t have.”
“Yes there is,” the governor responded cooly. “A primary opponent.”
With that threat, so the story goes, Rocky got his man.
The anecdote has always been a favorite for what it says about power and how successful pols use it. Rockefeller, like Lyndon Johnson, believed every legislator had a price — he just had to find it.
Which brings us to President Trump, and his growing problems with congressional Republicans. Too many are bucking him, making it hard to get big things done.
Even before the collapse of ObamaCare repeal, the president felt abandoned by his party because few had risen to defend him from special counsel Robert Mueller. “It’s very sad that Republicans, even some that were carried over the line on my back, do very little to protect their President,” he tweeted, a theme one of his sons elaborated on Monday.
“I want somebody to start fighting for him,” Eric Trump told Sean Hannity on Fox News. “My father has the voice of this country. The people of this country love him. Why wouldn’t they [Republicans] get in line?”
He added, “It doesn’t make sense.”
Actually, it does make sense — political sense, which should never be confused with common sense or any other sense.
Political sense is about personal survival, and Republicans are pulling away from Trump because they see it as safer than getting too close to him.
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>> He has to work to get a few RINOs primaried out.
Well, if we managed to elect Trump, we should also possess the ability to Primary the RINOs.
We potentially have a significant Senate yield in 2018. That should include the dethroning of McConnell and Ryan.
NYPost is wrong. Trump needs to keep fighting back as he does or he will be betrayed again.
This is why he is now putting the ante on Congress to also pay Obamacare
It’s as if the GOP doesn’t know right from wrong, so it’s Trump’s responsibility to popularize his own policies. But if the right thing happens to be the unpopular one, I’d still prefer the right thing.
The thing that President Trump needs to learn is how to hit the GOPe in the forehead with a goddamned hammer.
Yep...what we need is a NY Post journalism flunkie to tell world-class billionaire Donald Trump how to deal with people. Yeah...that’s the ticket!
A fake news writer claims to know about power, who never had a real job in his life.
And President Trump, who employed thousands, should ask this expert.
LMAO
Trump has nothing to learn from the original RINO Rockefeller.
I love it when he goes out and talks to us, WE THE PEOPLE. I love his tweets. Come to CO. We need you here. We are over run by commies and illegals. Voter fraud is here! Investigate CO, and save us from Californians who vote like they did there. You could fill Mile High Stadium, hugely bigger than the Kenyan!
Except his quote was marvelous..
A keeper
The President might as well. The Republicans in Congress don’t like Trump. They don’t respect Trump. And they certainly don’t fear Trump. Unless the President changes that then he won’t get much done. At this point taking out some of his more vocal opponents through primaries may be the only way to change that. They will never like him. They will never respect him. But they may learn to fear him and that may be enough.
“Political sense is about personal survival, and Republicans are pulling away from Trump because they see it as safer than getting too close to him.”
Goodwin is FOS! The can’t pull away from him when they’ve never been close to him n the first place. Trump ruined their idea of a “good Republican President” when he rode over “Little Yebbie” and won the nomination and ultmately the White House. Not that “Little Yebbie” could have beaten Hillary, but imagine that absolutely worthless presidency we would have had had he managed to become President. This country has pi$$ed away the entirety of this new century with two worthless turds as president, and make no mistake about it, Boosh was nearly as bad as Obola.
Looking forward to the next time Lou Dobbs has Goodwin on his show.
Ballots or balas, lefties. We are trying ballots.
In addition there will be increased vitriol from the left flank. I have heard from 2 different Union people this morning that Trump is going to take away people’s social security. The scaring of union households must be how the Dems figure to win them back. Sickening.
But even to do that he needs to do what he should have been doing for the last six months, which is to go over the heads of Congress and the media to sell positively the policies that he campaigned on and that Congress should be voting into place.
Instead he has left Congress and its dealings to Congress and to the GOPe quislings (Priebus, Pence, etc.) in his admin. That means he ended up weakly backing Obamacare 2.0, letting Congress fake him into frittering the key first 6+ months of his admin on distractions rather than hard core legislation.
Now, he has already managed to get a lot of good done starting on illegal immigration, easing up regulations, etc., but that should have been taking place in the background while he focused the country on getting Obamacare fully repealed and not just replaced, but replaced with a more free market approach through replacing other counterproductive federal legislation in the area. he should have coupled his tax cuts with such an approach, since a simultaneous drop in income tax rates for the middle class is the only way he could have got the corrosive deductibility of of employer-provided insurance repealed. Meanwhile that repeal is the only way he could have had a meaningful counter to the static-scoring loss of treasury income from a significant drop in income tax rates.
Another thing he should have gone over the head of Congress and the media on is the need to cut wasteful and inappropriate federal programs and funding. Everything in his initial budget guidelines that proposed cuts was pushed back on by the GOP congressional leadership, let alone the Democrats who want increased spending, not cuts in spending.
Meanwhile, this looks fantastic:
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