Posted on 08/03/2018 6:06:20 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
OPINION — In this time of tumult, political truths are being knocked off their pedestals faster than Confederate statues. But even now, it seems ludicrously self-evident that a president wants to elect a Congress of his own party.
Donald Trump, however, is a president who marches to a different brass band. Consider what he has done in just the last week.
Tuesday morning, the president unleashed a bitter Twitter attack on the “globalist Koch Brothers,” excoriating as “overrated” the network of conservative donors who have been the bulwark of congressional GOP funding in the super PAC era.
Trump’s Treasury Department is working on a legally dubious backdoor maneuver that would slash capital gains taxes for the wealthy without going to Congress for legislation. If Treasury goes forward, it would hand the Democrats a potent issue for November.
Over the weekend, Trump played Rumpelstiltskin, stomping his feet and threatening to shut down the government if Congress does not provide ample funding for his cherished border wall. A pre-election shutdown would make voters question GOP competence since the Republicans control all the levers of government.
(Excerpt) Read more at rollcall.com ...
ea tu Roll Call, this is crap.
Opposition where all batteries can be released unabated is a far more impressive PUBLIC SHOWING than a metered sniping engagement. All for 2020, remember 2016.
Sure sure
The size and excitement of his rally crowds just scream “ We doubt the President’s competence...”
I think that is wrong. If fact, the media has so played the Trump hysteria card, they really don't have much more to offer over a "government shutdown". What are they going to do to show the outrage, set themselves on fire on live TV. The public is numb to vitriol and hysterics. I think Trump supporters would actually invite the fight. Lord knows it's about time. Throw in a slash of government spending and America will rally to shutting down the government.
Look up Walter Shapiro’s background. Guy’s a fellow at NYU’s Brennan Center. He’s been all over the liberal press during his career.
The BOSS, my President, would never throw a competition. He is about winning.
If Trump is trying to throw an election, it would be the first fight Trump has deliberately tried to lose in his entire life of competitive public life.
Utter projection by Trump-deranged nitwits and liberals who live inside the democrat’s national-socialist media. But I repeat myself.
Just a bunch of ridiculous metropoloids endlessly spouting their moronic opinions.
These people are retarded.
Trump is there to destroy the DC Political/Media/Business complex. He not there to be swimming in the GOP side of the DC Cesspool.
Running against these Chamber Of Commerce ownership of the GOP-E is good politics.
His threat to shut down the government and calling out the Koch brothers is his way of calling out the Bush League Republicans without naming them.
He ain’t.
Who writes such utter garbage?
Trump has committed $60m of his own war chest for 2020 and has promised to campaign 6-7 times a WEEK to get GOP candidates elected.
My God these people are imbeciles.
50% approval in yesterday’s daily poll report. The survey result for today should be available within the next few minutes.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration/prez_track_aug02
They are backed into a corner and are desperate.
That headline is one of the downsides of the overall positive impact of internet news platforms. People feel obligated to write and publish something, even if it is stupid.
So how do you feel about this article, you posted?
Want to know a few things about Koch?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;q=quick;s=Koch
Thanks to SunkenCiv!
President Obama tried to make HIS “shutdown of non-essential services” as PAINFUL as possible for voters.
President Trump will make HIS “shutdown of non-essential services” as PAINLESS as possible for voters.
As one example, who would care if the countless “agencies” that “work” at doling out taxpayer-funded “foreign aid” or “research grants” to so-called colleges stop that “work” for a few weeks? Or longer? Who would even notice?
I think that American patriots want their Senators and Congressman to reveal their true selves through public votes on funding the border wall BEFORE the 2018 elections. I think the patriots want to KNOW who supports America and who supports their donors.
Wake up, Ryan and McConnell!
Pres. Trump has been driven by the urge to succeed and win all his life. Now that he’s President, it can only mean good for the country that all that personal drive is behind making America great again.
I’m amazed by the size of the crowds who come to hear him speak, though I shouldn’t be. The official campaign is long over but DJT continues to stoke public enthusiasm for his agenda. This too is good.
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