Monday, August 27, 2018

Here is somebody who has completely lost it

With Republicans clinging to a precarious 50-49 majority, every individual GOP senator can serve as a check on Trump’s excesses whenever they choose to act.
The last part of the post concerned the main, and depressing, area where second thoughts were called for. That was the complete failure of the congressional governing party—Paul Ryan and his large Republican majority in the House, Mitch McConnell and his razor-thin Republican majority in the Senate—to stand up either for their institutional prerogatives, as a separate branch of government, or for normal principles of accountability and the rule-of-law.
But remember: Every one of them swore an oath to defend the U.S. Constitution, not simply their own careerist comfort. And not a one of them, yet, has been willing to risk comfort, career, or fund-raising to defend the constitutional check-and-balance prerogatives of their legislative branch.

So this is one of those times when you start to wonder what world certain people live in, and what color the sky is in that world. I cannot think of a single thing that the President has done that has been some sort of plight to the constitution. So far every legal attempt to undermine the President that has made it to the USSC has been settled in his favor, and there is little doubt that he will continue that win streak on whatever other cases come across that body. Compare and contrast that to how many times our previous executor was smacked down by the USSC, and it's clear that the only place our current President is actually breaking our constitutional norms is in the delusions of those suffering from TDS.

The issue is simple. The anti-Trumpers simply do not like Trump, his behavior, or his policies. They would "like" to believe that a President who favors policies that do not please them is akin to being a "danger" and that acting on those policy initiatives crosses over the boundaries of some political "norms" that everyone should understand (as they do). Of course these "norms" have nothing to do with actual historical norms, constitutional norms, or any sort of "norms" that do not specifically include what has been "normal" for Presidential policies and actions over the previous Administration. They use his unconventional (and often undignified) behavior as an excuse to attack his agenda.

In other words, any break from the "progress" that Obama and his progressives were attempting to accomplish should be considered unconstitutional, and needs to be prevented (either through the courts, or through congress).

It doesn't occur to this person (and why should it) that Trump was elected by conservatives to enact a conservative agenda. It also doesn't occur to this person that the Republican members of congress were elected by conservatives to enact a conservative agenda. They don't owe "anything" to the liberals who wanted the Obama legacy to continue, and the liberal agenda to remain status quo. There is no reason why their conservative views, conservative agenda, or conservative policies should be tossed aside because the left doesn't like the way the President uses twitter, because he paid hush money to a porn star to hide an affair, or because he uses the powers of executive action to undo things that Obama did with his powers of executive action.

Trump is the President. Get over it, and get used to it.

20 comments:

Anonymous said...




no surprises here. this is about what i would expect from jimmy carter's former speechwriter.

basically as unhinged as the alky, just with better grammar.

commie said...

With Republicans clinging to a precarious 50-49 majority, every individual GOP senator can serve as a check on Trump’s excesses whenever they choose to act.

Isn't that what the senate is supposed to do? All r's right now are holding their nose, fellating trump and taking it up their ass....instead of doing the work of the country....they are protecting the liar in chief....Oh well, at least the olds speech writer has trumps number, like the 3 million more people who didn't vote for bone spur party boy donnie...

Anonymous said...

President Trump gets a Trade deal done with mexico.

Why didn't little house boy get r done?

C.H. Truth said...

Isn't that what the senate is supposed to do?

Actually the Senate is supposed to pass bills into laws. Specifically the bills that their constituents would like to see passed. So Republicans are supposed to work with other Republicans (not against them) to do the bidding of those who elected them. Just as Democrats would do the same.

Nobody would expect a Democratic Senate to oppose a Democratic President who has 90% plus approval within the Party faithful... but some idiots believe it should be different when it's the other way around.

Loretta said...

"Here is somebody who has completely lost it"

Rog.

commie said...

President Trump gets a Trade deal done with mexico.

Not yet mutton breath....always prematurely ejaculating like a 13 year old boy with his first playboy.....idiot

commie said...

Actually the Senate is supposed to pass bills into laws.

CH you are living proof of the dumbing down of america with a naive post like that....so sad how the might host has become a moronic trump chump.....

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

If my issues with the President were just policy that is just politics. He won the election.

But it's far more important Scott that he has been attacking the institutions and that he is above the law. There is evidence of he may have broken the law.

He should be impeached for treason because he has surrendered to the Russians.

He has violated the campaign laws.

You ignored his behavior in response to the death of Senator McCain. He was forced to lower the flag to half staff.

He issued a statement today saying that he differed with the Senator but respected his service to the country.

If Hillary Clinton had refused to lower the flag you would have been posting another hypocritical 1,000 world declaring she should be impeached.

wp is right. You have lost it.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

“The myth of Trump is now unraveling,” said Barbara Res, a Trump Organization executive from 1978 to 1996. “He’s becoming more obvious, and people are starting to know what he’s like and what he’s doing.”

Whether the president faces legal peril is not clear, but his presidency is at a precarious point. Recent polls suggest his repeated attacks on Mueller for leading a “witch hunt” have lost their effectiveness. And if the Democrats win a majority in at least one house of Congress in the midterm elections, now less than 10 weeks away, they would gain the power to investigate or even impeach.

“The whole reason he is freaking out is, he can’t get rid of any of this,” said a longtime adviser to Trump, who, like others interviewed for this story.

The president’s sense of betrayal came through last week when he derided cooperating witnesses as “flippers.” “Everything’s wonderful and then they get 10 years in jail and they — they flip on whoever the next highest one is, or as high as you can go,” he told Fox News. In contrast, he tweeted that his “brave” former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, who was convicted last week of bank fraud and tax fraud, had “refused to ‘break.’ ”

Former Trump casino executive Jack O’Donnell called the current situation “a dangerous road” for Trump. “For once in his life,” O’Donnell told me a little before 9 a.m., “he should listen to his advisers, and just keep his mouth closed.”

“Once in a while, and that is very, very rarely, Trump does what he is told,” former Trump Organization Executive Vice President Barbara Res said around the same time. “I am sure he is chomping at the bit to lash out at Cohen, but we all know that would be disastrous.”

It's pretty clear that he is feeling the pressure and given his history, he's not going to listen to his advisers.

Take off your partisan sunglasses and look at his actions as the pressure reaches the breaking point.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

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Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

This is TDS.

Per Scott

We weaken our greatness when we confuse our patriotism with tribal rivalries that have sown resentment and hatred and violence in all the corners of the globe. We weaken it when we hide behind walls, rather than tear them down, when we doubt the power of our ideals, rather than trust them to be the great force for change they have always been.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

We weaken our greatness when we confuse our patriotism with tribal rivalries that have sown resentment and hatred and violence in all the corners of the globe. We weaken it when we hide behind walls, rather than tear them down, when we doubt the power of our ideals, rather than trust them to be the great force for change they have always been.

John McCain Vietnam wasn't a war hero because he was captured. You love Trump and have lost your mind.

Loretta said...

Out of your damn mind, LOL!

Loretta said...

"wp is right. You have lost it."

Awe, I'm pretty sure CH is crushed.

Crushed I tell ya, LMAO!

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

In his first formal statement on McCain's death, President Donald Trump said he respected McCain's service and ordered the flags back down.  

He hated it. The military reportedly pressured the President.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

You have forgotten that the Constitution has specific rules. "And not a one of them, yet, has been willing to risk comfort, career, or fund-raising to defend the constitutional check-and-balance prerogatives of their legislative branch.

The Republican party is the Trump party and is ignoring their Constitutional responsibilities.

Loretta said...

"The Republican party is the Trump party and is ignoring their Constitutional responsibilities."

LOL.

Drama queen.

Anonymous said...

Just Queen.

Loretta said...

HA!

Anonymous said...




He should be impeached for treason because he has surrendered to the Russians.

He has violated the campaign laws.



go see a psychiatrist, alky.

TODAY.

impeached for treason. good God.