President Trump: Making America Great Again...

[myboynoah]

CNN was all over the "Trump hasn't responded to the latest SNL show" reporting.

[Walter Sobchak]

From Reagan's city on a hill to this moral equivalence BS.

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President Trump's salient point is this: those in glass houses shouldn't throw stones... even if he expressed it in-artfully.

[BlueK]

Where have you been the last eight years?

I'm a Libertarian, not a democrat. So yes, I do have a problem with Obama or any other president overstepping their Constitutional authority. What Obama did is not a valid defense of Trump.

[Jeff Lebowski]

President Trump's salient point is this: those in glass houses shouldn't throw stones... even if he expressed it in-artfully.

That's funny.

So is this going to be our foreign-policy platform for the next four years? What Trump said was the worst kind of false equivalence. What a moron.

[BlueK]

That's funny.

So is this going to be our foreign-policy platform for the next four years? What Trump said was the worst kind of false equivalence. What a moron.

I think most Americans are having a hard time understanding his pro-Russia statements. They really make no sense.

[Moliere]

I think most Americans are having a hard time understanding his pro-Russia statements. They really make no sense.

If my addition is correct, Trump can still kill 20 million people and still maintain moral equivalence with Russia.


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[wuapinmon]

http://www.rollcall.com/news/politic...ps-exec-orders

There were also reports that congressional staffers on the Judiciary Committee worked on the order with Trump transition officials.
The chairman of that committee, Rep. Robert W. Goodlatte of Virginia, refused to answer questions about a report that said his staff signed nondisclosure agreements to avoid talking about the work they were doing — an unprecedented move that blurs the lines of separation of powers.

[Applejack]

President Trump's salient point is this: those in glass houses shouldn't throw stones... even if he expressed it in-artfully.

Oh no! Trump got to you to! First Uncle Ted, and now you. Sad.

[Jeff Lebowski]

If my addition is correct, Trump can still kill 20 million people and still maintain moral equivalence with Russia.

Haha. Yes.

[byu71]

Tax reform, health care reform, reducing regulations, conservative Supreme Court appointment, strengthening the military, getting the budget under control. All policies I can support. Policies that will take a lot of effort and political capital.

Yet, such a flawed messenger at the top. Constantly talking out of his butt instead of making sure his brain is engaged before he speaks or tweets. Any oxygen for good policy change gets sucked up trying to clean up the smelly air.

[Topper]

Tax reform, health care reform, reducing regulations, conservative Supreme Court appointment, strengthening the military, getting the budget under control. All policies I can support. Policies that will take a lot of effort and political capital.

Yet, such a flawed messenger at the top. Constantly talking out of his butt instead of making sure his brain is engaged before he speaks or tweets. Any oxygen for good policy change gets sucked up trying to clean up the smelly air.

With the exception of healthcare reform and tax reform, these are rather modest requests and matters I can support. I also support tax and healthcare reform but wonder if we have the correct persons assigned to those tasks.

The messengers are so toxic, it appears it might be difficult to accomplish any of these rather modest tasks. In any event, I don't expect much out of this President, so it might be easy for him to achieve very modest goals. As long as those aren't counterbalanced by major screw ups, i.e., wars, tanking the economy through bad fiscal policies, or an all out trade war, the modest changes should be achievable. The major task at hand is the re-tooling of healthcare reform.

[BlueK]

Tax reform, health care reform, reducing regulations, conservative Supreme Court appointment, strengthening the military, getting the budget under control. All policies I can support. Policies that will take a lot of effort and political capital.

Yet, such a flawed messenger at the top. Constantly talking out of his butt instead of making sure his brain is engaged before he speaks or tweets. Any oxygen for good policy change gets sucked up trying to clean up the smelly air.

It wouldn't be so bad if Trump just got out of the way and allowed congress to do these things. But he won't.

[byu71]

IMHO, policiy changes would require hard work, but the other side is also flawed. Schumer, Pelosi, Warren, protestors in the streets and naive college students are the opposition. If the opposition wasn't so flawed we would never have had a President Trump.

[Topper]

IMHO, policiy changes would require hard work, but the other side is also flawed. Schumer, Pelosi, Warren, protestors in the streets and naive college students are the opposition. If the opposition wasn't so flawed we would never have had a President Trump.

Without a crystal ball, one can't know for sure, but my suspicions are that the opposition is actually making Trump stronger. His base is solidified behind him for the same the reasons he was elected. The voters are more divided than ever before, but those voters that supported Trump will feel as if their votes are being attacked.

If Trump and the Congress unite, we might see more change than we anticipated.

My guess is that the filibuster is dead. The reason: next time the Dems are in power, they will eliminate it. The original concept was a good idea, we wanted compromise and a super-majority to make changes. But in an era where no compromise exists, the need for it evaporates.

[Eddie]

This week's Time cover story is about Bannon, and it has me very concerned. Among many other troubling things, it reports that Bannon is a big believer in the views espoused in a book....

The book argues that American history can be described in a four-phase cycle, repeated again and again, in which successive generations have fallen into crisis, embraced institutions, rebelled against those institutions and forgotten the lessons of the past--which invites the next crisis.

Most of us here are Mormon, you can just call it "The Pride Cycle", and we'll understand what you're talking about.

Just curious - did this book about the pride cycle in America begin at the revolutionary war?