Posted on 04/07/2017 11:52:11 AM PDT by drewh
If they think that alienating the base is a good way to win reelection, then I question their judgment on everything. As far and I'm concerned, neither one of the Kushners is worth a pimple on a bull's ass.
The fake news is so thick the BS is piling higher and higher to super levels. It takes some doing to get out from under all the BS being spewed there and everywhere. I saw this "Axios" earlier - what the heck is an Axios? A lefty progressive website like the Hill.com?
Lots of unnamed white house staffers are quick to leak when it’s to stick the knife into Bannon. Tells you which faction the leakers are coming from, doesn’t it?
Yeah, it’s that same good thinking of the McCain and Romney campaigns that essentially tried to out-Democrat the Democrats.
No doubt, as liberal Democrats, they think they are even more qualified to pursue this losing strategy.
What their continued meddling will lead to is a Democrat House by 2018 and impeachment proceedings by 2019.
There is also the story of how the BP feels betrayed because Obama holdovers whose job it was to not enforce immigration law have been put in key management positions at the BP by Trump’s DHS.
That one hasn’t gotten much attention with all the other news this week.
I agree with you about Ryan. I decided that Ryan was an idiot when he first came up with that budget back before he became Romney’s running mate. He gets Kudos for trying, but his solution was to cut entitlements and do nothing about the economy that was running on half cylinders.
Trump gets the big picture and Ryan either doesn’t or has been bought and sold.
The Hill? Are you kidding? May as well rely on Mad Magazine for Washington insider content. The Hill is nothing more than a Marxist incubator for new Washington Post scribblers.
Seems so power hungry. I could be wrong.
Yup. Priebus and Ryan are not to be trusted, whereas Bannon is an invaluable asset to Trump.
Plenty of us knew. Did you listen to Ivanka’s speech at the convention? Trump talked more about Ivanka than any of his other children or family members. She was a top surrogate and he said he would use her for many issues. He used her to unveil a “family leave” plan in the middle of the campaign.
There was also reporting on Jared Kushner’s involvement in the campaign. I’m not sure how much Trump talked about Kushner during the campaign, but starting in November he started to say Kushner could broker Middle East peace and was smart enough to do anything.
We knew all those things about Kushner and Ivanka before the election...the fundraising for Cory Booker, fundraising for same-sex marriage, Ivanka’s friendship with Chelsea, pushing for “equal pay for equal work,” not being registered as Republicans, etc. To not think that daddy’s little girl would have an influence on Trump was naive.
Nevermind ALL of the other pressures in D.C. from the lobbyists, career Congress-critters, lifelong bureaucrats and stay-at-home, commie, astroturf protestors all pushing to the left. Nobody has ever gone to D.C. and become more conservative. All you can do is send the most conservative person you’ve got there in the hopes their needle stays as far to the right as possible.
The problem with conservative outsiders to government is their lack of experience in operating within a government. If Bannon was the one who said they should demand the hard-and-fast deadline on passing health care as some reports say, then he blew that. That strategy was doomed to fail. Trump himself knows he has no experience with government, so he is naturally going to start listening more to the government insiders for advice, especially if Bannon’s plans are flopping.
If only we had had a rock-ribbed conservative candidate in the primary who actually had experience in government, so that he didn’t need to rely on advice from the establishment to navigate, or shall I say cruise the waters.
It’s the standard RINO lie. They say conservatives need to support liberal policies in order to make them more electable. But that doesn’t actually work. They just support liberal policies themselves and use the promise of “electability” as a scare tactic to make conservatives vote against their principles. The standard RINO con.
That’s a much more practical problem that any conservative administration has to deal with. It’s not easy to just fire everybody and replace them. So how do you weed out the liberals from the conservatives? Are there even any conservatives there? And are there any conservatives lining up with job applications in a city that’s the most liberal in the country? From what I understand, Ronald Reagan himself didn’t come close to cleaning up the bureaucracy.
As conservatives know, the real solution is NOT to create a government bureaucracy and staff it with “good people.” Because even if it were possible, the next Democrat to get elected will just replace them all with liberals. The only real answer is to dismantle the bureaucracy so that it no longer exists and the power is sent back to state and local authorities.
But anyone who knows moderate Republicans knows that idea is one of the most hated and maligned by them, and of course by liberals. It’s seen as one of the “craziest” ideas. And whenever people like Rick Perry sing the praises of shutting down departments, they change their tune as soon as they get anywhere close to power. So it’s likely that EVERYONE Trump sees in D.C. besides Bannon and maybe Conway is telling Trump not to do close down any part of the bureaucracy.
But all the explanations aren’t going to matter if Trump abandons the stances he took during the campaign and the promises he made, over and over, to his supporters. Those supporters weren’t coming to see Ivanka and most had probably never heard of Jared.
If he allows the liberals and the globalists, family members or otherwise, to sway him away from what he promised to his supporters during the campaign, then he will be a one term president and the most despised in modern history. The Dims will never like him and if he betrays his most passionate supporters, then it won’t be pleasant for anyone.
I wonder if Jared and Ivanka are so self-important and self-righteous and overly privileged that they are unable to see what problems their insinuating themselves into critical decision making will cause their father and father-in-law if he accepts too many of their leftist ideas?
Hopefully Trump will stick to the stances that got him elected and ignore the liberal and globalists agendas of all too many staff members, family or otherwise.
Brandon Darby: Border Patrol Agents Feel Betrayed by the Trump Administration
Putting a despised Obama holdover in charge of the BP? I'm afraid Trump is just letting some of his all too liberal cabinet members do their thing with no oversight. Or did he approve of this appointment?
I hope that is not the case. I’d be surprised if Kelly is that naive. Then again, I’m fresh out of trust for the whole lot of them. Nothing is making much sense.
Jared is in charge now. He a liberal New York Jew. Been rich all his life. Probably never met a coal miner or diner waitress before. Probably never met a serious Christian before. He’s not a Trump was not raised by him.
There is a link in comment #75.
“She’d fit right in with Gorelick and the rest of the OBAMMY bootlickers TRUMP HAS KEPT ON OR RE-hired.”
That Dina Powell chick brought in by Trump’s lib kids has me worried.
If Bannon goes, we’ve lost the battle and the war. His presence in the Oval Office is the only thing that has kept me confident and calm about the future. That pansy Kushner and his soft spoken-but-deadly wife need to clear out!
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