Covfefe (using 9D-chess):
“The Sunday Morning Bray”, by Bray!
Matthew 18:21
Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times?
Whoever was advising President Trump that it was better to surrender than fight was bad advice. This was the biggest loss in his Presidency and was easily one of the biggest losses in modern history as the Establishment kicked him in the pebbles repeatedly with a single bill. Whoever came up with the idea of having the four biggest spenders in the swamp to write the bill was pure insanity. Why do you give the minority Party equal footing when you know they never would?
No matter how hopeless it was to veto the bill he would have looked stronger going down fighting rather than surrendering even though he likely considered it a strategic surrender, the visuals were terrible. It weakened him significantly and may never recover as it was obvious the GOP was giving him a taste of what happens to people who want to drain their swamp and showed him he is on his own. Did we see Cruz or Paul filibuster the bill?
The easiest job in the world is being a Dem since you have the entire establishment and media worshiping at your feet. You simply agree with them and act tolerant of everybody and everything and you are a superior person. The second easiest job is being an armchair Conservative. At this point just like GW they will all use this as an excuse to abandon him and stop fighting against the establishment that is too hard.
Nobody expected Trump to do everything right or be a pure Conservative so why be surprised? He saw a bad deal with no other options and took it to cut his losses. He knew if he vetoed it two things were going to happen, it would be overridden within two hours and passed without his signature or most likely was threatened the Military spending would be cut out and a worse bill would be on his desk. Everyone knows Ryan/MarbleMouth have more in common with Schumer than Trump and his supporters so they were going to humiliate him with this bill and for whatever reason put the military in front of himself.
Nobody knows what is really going on with the military and our enemies around the world. One very possible problem is with China and their military growth. Russia is not a threat since they are basically a Turd World country with a bunch of military weapons although their technology is questionable. Can anybody really question the Chinese technology with all of their IPhone and computer sophistication and especially in the next five to ten years? They are becoming the economic and technological power which will be added to their military strength. This should concern everyone as our military has been strangled for the last decade.
It is highly likely we could not fight a war like Iraq again and is questionable how many smart weapons we have left which could be used against N Korea let alone China. China is growing more powerful by the day and even though they are on a friendly basis now who says things may not change in the future. They seem to be on the march against many of the SE Asian countries as they build islands in the sea to threaten the Philippines, Taiwan and Indonesia. They could easily be a threat to Japan and halt shipping lanes in their area and we are basically impotent in stopping their aggression.
Nobody knows why President Trump signed Porkulus 2.0 or how he agreed to allow the four most corrupt people in DC to write it. He should have known at least three of them would take direct aim at him and his voters in the most humiliating means possible. In the end he cannot control Congress and he only has around twenty percent who agree with him and his voters.
Was this a huge mistake? Yes, although now is not the time to give up but to double down. President Trump has already moved this country farther in the right direction than any President since Reagan. In the end he would have been overridden and he had no power to stop it. It would have been better to show his voters he would fight and expose everyone who was stabbing them in the back, but he knew he would need them later. He certainly is not the only one at fault for passing the burden on to our kids.
He needs to start now on the next budget and let them know he is not going to roll over without the wall and real fiscal responsibility. He has to start leading the Party or at least the members who agree with him and put together a coalition who will make a veto stick. This is the primary legislation a President is known so he needs to understand it although he likely does after the cup check he experienced Friday.
Nobody knows what was going on behind the scenes and it is possible he or the Repubs had no choice except to rebuild the military no matter what. That is a monstrous job after nearly twenty years of neglect and misuse. It may be such a situation there is no option other than rebuild and resupply or face grave consequences. The Dems never care about it so they likely held him hostage to more socialist spending or going into the dreaded gummit shutdown. With a GOP leadership who make the French look like Navy SEALS, it is a strategy that works every time without fail.
Now his voters will all go the way of the talk show hosts and bail on President Trump. They will forget all the hard work it took to get him there and declare him a lib. He is not pure enough and let them down when the going got tough so they are going to let him down at the ballot box as revenge. What if they turned the tables and let the Socialists down and elected people who would give President Trump a bill they would be proud of. What if they began organizing their neighborhoods now and supported real Conservatives rather than the McConnells of the Party and really threw a wrench in the Beltway, what would happen then? Up to this bill he has done an outstanding job and for that he deserves a Mulligan. Even without the pass he has done far more for the Conservative cause than anyone ever dreamed he would. In the end he had no choice and neither does America.
Pray America woke
Note: The above opinion is not necessarily my own, but FReeper Bray’s. If you wish to discuss this, please ping Bray.
I was afraid you would do this but unless you know everything that goes on it does appear as you say. Although nothing could be further from the truth.
To begin with there are huge differences between a spending bill which is what Trump signed on to just as Obama/jarrett did for eight years and a budget.Two different worlds.
Spending bills don’t carry the force that a budget bill does.
In a spending bill some of the spending amounts to mere suggestions of how the money should be spent if spent at all which in a budget that’s how it will be spend.
Obama/jarett regime governed under spending bills his entire time since he didn’t want the necessity of having to spend the money any way but his own.
He had 17 lawyers and hudndreds of EO’s to get much of his agenda done.
Now its our turn.
President Trump will have six months to see what he can get done for our side. Which money can be tweaked or reallocated to where just like obama did for eight years.
If he doesn’t want to spend money like say on planned parenthood maybe he won’t,we shall see.
It’s all up in the air,and all remains to be seen.Did we get hoodwinked or did the hard left get hoodwinked?
My money is always on Trump.
Here are some links to further the discussion so we can see what is going on. I learned of this yesterday from a poster named planeboy on American Thinker:
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/03/once_again_i_ask_why_vote_republican.html
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planeboy EddieInFL • a day ago
Don’t jump ship too fast, Trump just suckered them again. The bill is NOT a law, a budget is, this is not a budget. This is how an Omnibus bill works...
https://iotwreport.com/hols...
They just gave Trump a Trillion dollar blank check just like they did with Obama for 8 years and he spent it as he saw fit, I’m betting Trump will do the same.
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here is an excerpt from his link:
Reader “Gunny” at Conservative Treehouse explains that this is a spending bill, not a budget. There is a YUGE difference. Trump observed Obama’s technique for 8 years, can he be taking a page from that playbook?
MJA said the same thing to me a couple of hours ago. In the fog of war, I wasn’t hearing it.
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Wheatietoo and I spent hours yesterday providing links, researching the laws, the 1974 law and statutes…. Do you know why the Omnibus is not going to get any notice…Here it is..
It’s not an official ‘Federal Budget’. It’s an Omnibus bill…not a Budget…He outsmarted them again…Congress basically screwed themselves by not passing a Budget…
Per the Constitution…the President must adhere to a Budget set forth by Congress and direct the expenditures as provided therein.
This is another one of those big Porkulus Bills, like they gave Obama for 8 years. This is not a Budget..
An Omnibus Spending Bill may have some ‘instructions’ as to how the money will be spent…but Obama ignored them.
He spent the money, or didn’t spend it, however he wanted to.
And Congress didn’t do a thing about it! Because they couldn’t..
And, it is only for 6 months..
I think our President observed how this happened, year after year.
He is bound to realize that those ‘appropriations’ for different things in these Omnibus bills…are merely ‘suggestions’.
So like Obama, Pres Trump can spend this money on whatever he wants to.
Or…not spend it.
Planned Parenthood?
What if our President decided to tell the Treas Dept to ‘slow-walk’ that money to Planned Parenthood…until the Senate gets off their ass and confirms his appointees?
Sanctuary Cities?
What if our President decided to ‘slow-walk’ that money too…until those Sanctuary Cities assist ICE in rounding up criminal illegal aliens?
Splodey heads? From the Dems and the Enemedia?
Why yes.
There would be a colorful display of splodey heads.
But what could they do about it.
Hah.
Our President could just say…’What! Congress should’ve passed a Budget.’
done finished…research was done…and it is so very humorous actually….our VSG..just said just give me money for the military and the wall…put anything else you want in it…and those goofballs did.
In this case, as per above….he doesn’t have to spend a dime….because it is not a budget…and even if it was…researched….he could still spend as he please…
Congress appropriates….up to the President to spend it…or not….as he pleases..
If anyone disagrees, I can go back and get the links and evidence, but if you just read yesterdays political thread…Wheatietoo and I laid it all out for all…Wheatietoo did most of the work and put together the consolidated update as per above….
Again, that is why Obama never had a Budget in his Presidency…Congress did continual Omibus’s and he just took the money….for 8 years…and no one seems to know where it went…
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there is more and more all ove the web especially here:
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3642195/posts
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3640542/posts
and then earlier on AT here:
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/03/mainly_mccabe.html
