Posted on 05/01/2017 4:19:03 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
All of you FReepers and conservatives out there listening to smug media reports about Schumer and the Dems popping champagne corks over the Continuing Resolution (CR) need to remember who you are dealing with again. As Rush likes to say, do not doubt me.
Trump is the Jason Vorhees of business, and now politics. He didn't get to the pinnacle of success by selling himself and his supporters out for short-term gain as so many politicians do. Rather, this is what in military terms is called a tactical retreat.
In a tactical retreat, you cut your losses and regroup. This is also a "tell" in poker.
Trump has nothing to gain by fighting for spending cut crumbs within an existing fiscal year, especially when you have North Korea breathing down our backs, our military needs immediate funds, and the structural side of big government programs (Obamacare, etc) still in effect. Fighting for cuts now is the equivalent of haggling over the cheapo purple properties in Monopoly.
By signing the CR, Trump just isolated Schumer and put the RINOs in Congress on notice: Advance my priorities or face an angry conservative/populist base in 2018.
The latest CR expires perfectly right at the end of the fiscal year 2017, which means Mulvaney will set the table and outline a clean budget for the new fiscal year that will honestly addresses entitlement spending, spending on liberal special-interest programs, and even the proper role of the federal government in said programs itself.
Once that is discussed, the Republicans can own and run with the narrative, if they choose to do so. They can argue that they reached out to Dems 5 months earlier and funded the government, but now it's the Dems' turn to work with Republicans on reducing the size and spending of the Federal Government.
Meanwhile this spring and summer, Trump can work on tax reform, repealing Obamacare, and getting the states more involved in policies. Also this takes away the shutdown card from the Dems. It will not have as much as an impact in September because the budgetary process will be returned to normal in September.
Of course, if there is another CR or if Republicans give away the store and continue the status quo, then yes I'll be red-hot too. But for now I'm willing to give Trump the benefit of the doubt, because he's got his plate full and needs to get more of his picks confirmed and prepare for an upcoming 2nd SCOTUS vacancy. That also removes leverage from the Dems on blocking such a pick.
Larry can you weigh in on this thread?
I tend to agree.
Trump is the new man in a game he hasn’t played before, but he’s been a winner in other games,tough high
Stakes ones. I’ll rate his play in four years, but till then my money and vote are on him.
Let’ride dealer!
You’re the same person who said during George W. Bush’s presidency, that he’d unleash his conservatism during his second term. This is a trillion dollar budget!
As much as people decry the bias of the Democrats and Media (but I repeat myself), many Trump-bashers here parrot their narrative—apparently more willing to give the Media the benefit of the doubt than the President. Very revealing.
Is the President's signature a foregone conclusion? Has he said definitively that he will sign it?
I'll wait and see what the President has to say about this CR, because if he is conceding too much by signing it—as many of his supporters claim—I suspect there is a longer-term reason for it.
Despite the fact that the President has earned our trust and loyalty many times over, there's just no end to the hysterical negative "hot takes" which erupt at every bit of news...
Just a thought. Both houses of Congress are not controlled. They are one entity controlled by the 'Uniparty'. There is really very little difference between the two parties.
The are certainly, neither one, in favor of Trump's policies, nor do they see eye to eye with him. There are not in business to MAGA. They are only in business to make themselves great. The Democrats and Republican Congresspersons are ONE.
I would go a step farther.
The CR is 1000+ pages long. Pres. Trump should buy a little time to have his staff study it to come up with a decent sized list of all the K street agenda items in the CR.
With that list, veto the CR and proclaim that anyone who votes to override the veto is by definition part of the swamp.
Furthermore, let’s not forget who basically controls K-Street — the Banksters. Threatening to break up the TBTF banks shows them that President Trump can return fire too.
IMHO, all this CR foolishly does is expose the swamps agenda.
bump
“I think he won on the wall as well. He got a very large increase for boarder security, which includes “repair” of existing wall. That’s about as much “new” wall as he can put up in the remaining 4 months anyway.”
That part is good - it should be coupled with the ELCHAPO bill that would use $14 billion in drug money for the wall. Ted Cruz sponsored that one.
I believe the ELCHAPO approach could be pushed through with a 51 vote majority in the Senate...
We’ll see just how traitorous the RINOs are feeling in the months ahead. I hope 2018 is a (figurative) RINO bloodbath.
Many concern trolls don't bother thinking things through because it hurts their arguments.
Very good point! Republican control means nothing... yet!
Given time and the defeat of the RINOs, then we can begin to build something powerful.
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