Fed Up With Useless, Do-Nothing Republicans, Trump Finds Success In New Alliances With Democrat Leaders
Frustrated by the failure of GOP majorities in both chambers to pass
his agenda, President Trump followed through on threats to work with
Democrats. Signs suggest it was not a one-off deal, as the president
already is discussing other topics with Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi.
Hurricanes Harvey and Irma helped spark his decision. Trump was clear
that, especially on storm relief, he wanted fast, bipartisan action that
reflected the way ordinary Americans were helping each other,
especially in hard-hit Houston. With Irma aiming at Florida and the
southeast, the president recognized that the public would have rightly
viewed political squabbling during national emergencies as an
infuriating failure.
his agenda, President Trump followed through on threats to work with
Democrats. Signs suggest it was not a one-off deal, as the president
already is discussing other topics with Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi.
Hurricanes Harvey and Irma helped spark his decision. Trump was clear
that, especially on storm relief, he wanted fast, bipartisan action that
reflected the way ordinary Americans were helping each other,
especially in hard-hit Houston. With Irma aiming at Florida and the
southeast, the president recognized that the public would have rightly
viewed political squabbling during national emergencies as an
infuriating failure.
September 10, 2017
Keep
these numbers in mind: 316 to 90 and 80 to 17. They were the lopsided
votes in the House and Senate in support of the deal President Trump
made with Democratic leaders on storm aid, the debt limit and government
funding.
EDITOR’S NOTE: From the way the GOP in Washington are acting, you would think they were the ones that
lost the election and not the Democrats. The Republicans have spent more
time resisting President Trump than they have passing the legislation
the people elected them to do. President Trump is 100% correct in now
bypassing the pusillanimous GOP and forming new alliances with the
Democrats. The GOP would do well to remember that we didn’t vote
“Republican” in 2016, we voted for Donald Trump. Get on the Trump Train, Republicans, or get run over. That is all.
Remarkably, all the no voters were Republicans.
The numbers shout that we are witnessing a potential turning point in
the Trump presidency, one that could further shake up Washington and
rattle the calcified political parties.
Frustrated by the failure of GOP majorities
in both chambers to pass his agenda, President Trump followed through
on threats to work with Democrats. Signs suggest it was not a one-off
deal, as the president already is discussing other topics with Chuck
Schumer and Nancy Pelosi.
Hurricanes Harvey and Irma helped spark his decision.
Trump was clear that, especially on storm relief, he wanted fast,
bipartisan action that reflected the way ordinary Americans were helping
each other, especially in hard-hit Houston. With Irma aiming at Florida
and the southeast, the president recognized that the public would have
rightly viewed political squabbling during national emergencies as an
infuriating failure.
Still, the circumstances didn’t stop all the
GOP grumbling, with some Republicans astonished that a president from
their party had accepted Dems’ terms on the debt limit to get a quick
deal. Not surprisingly, Trump was hardly apologetic, firing back on
Twitter: “Republicans, sorry, but I’ve been hearing about Repeal &
Replace for 7 years, didn’t happen!” — a reference to the failure to
overturn ObamaCare.
He also issued a warning on tax reform,
tweeting: “Republicans must start the Tax Reform/Tax Cut legislation
ASAP. Don’t wait until the end of September. Needed now more than ever.
Hurry!”
The developments show the president shedding the party straitjacket and being true to his disrupter
candidacy. If he continues and is successful, he could create a new
coalition that includes revolving members of both parties, depending on
the issue.
That’s an ambitious scenario, given the hyper-partisan
atmosphere in Washington and the cultural and political chasms across
the country. But at least the president is proving in the short term
that it is possible to get things done — and get them done quickly, a
point he emphasized by signing the legislative package as soon as it
reached his desk.
Naturally, the prospect of a bipartisan approach alarms
both ends of the political spectrum, with leftists angry that Schumer
and Pelosi dared to even talk to Trump, let alone make a deal. That
attitude is both a cause and effect of the gridlock that has gripped the
capital for the better part of two decades and turned compromise into
an insult.
Yet beyond the professional activists, ideologues and
consultants, much of America yearns for more government cooperation and
less combat.
Like children watching their parents fight, most
voters just want a productive peace, not an endless battle for total
victory that yields nothing of common value. Above all, they want a
government that works for them, not one fixated on partisan scorekeeping
and ideological litmus tests.
Indeed, Trump’s promise to change Washington
was a key ingredient in his victory, and he may be uniquely positioned
to carve out a new model. Throughout his business life, he’s been on
both sides of big issues, and comes to the presidency with less of a
fixed political core than anyone in recent memory.
That’s made
him understandingly suspect to many conservatives and his inexperience
has been compounded by mistakes, but that outsider, pragmatic
perspective can now work in his favor. If he can find both common ground
and real solutions, we might look back one day and see a more
bipartisan approach to governing as the one silver lining of the weather
calamities of 2017. source
Fed Up With Useless, Do-Nothing Republicans, Trump Finds Success In New Alliances With Democrat Leaders • Now The End Begins – Re-Shared and administered by Aaron Halim
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