Thursday, September 7, 2017

The Generals are Turning Trump Into a War Hawk and a Lefty!

Trump's pals
The war hawk thing we already knew about with several military escalations from Yemen to Afghanistan, but now Trump has jumped into bed with the worst of the crony, elitist, criminal Left---thanks to the generals.

The Hill columnist Brent Budowsky writes:
 The pattern of the Trump presidency in recent weeks is clear. White House chief of staff John Kelly is executing a game-changing virtual purge of far-right and alt right advocates from the White House staff. Trump, who continues to periodically offer red meat to his base on racially charged issues, has now made a dramatic deal with Democratic leaders that was vehemently opposed by Republican leaders.
Budowsky explains the deal President Trump just cut with Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi. It is a
total win for the Democrats:
When President Trump, Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) reached a major three-month debt ceiling and government spending deal in a White House meeting on Wednesday, they formed a short-term alliance that has game-changing potential for government in Washington during the Trump presidency.

Democratic leaders in Congress wanted a three-month deal to extend the debt ceiling and fund the government because it would give them leverage on major issues pending before Congress. Republican leaders in Congress strongly opposed the three-month deal for this reason, with House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) calling a three-month debt ceiling extension “ridiculous” and “disgraceful” before Trump sided with Democrats and agreed to the deal.

f the three-month agreement is approved by Congress, which is now likely, there will be an intense, high-stakes showdown in December, on a playing field favorable for Democrats, over some of the most contentious issues facing the president and Congress.


There is a very realistic possibility that Democrats and key Republicans can forge a major agreement to enact a form of the Dream Act that will put to rest the fears of Dreamers who are threatened by Trump with deportation if Congress does not act within six months...

It is possible that some Republicans in Congress, and possibly President Trump, will try to threaten a government shutdown before the December spending showdown if funding for the border wall is not included in must-pass legislation. This is unlikely to succeed because some Republicans in Congress do not support funding for the wall, while Democrats adamantly oppose it.

It is ironic but revealing that, while Trump has not won a single major legislative victory in his first seven months in office, his first major victory could well be a deal with Democratic leaders that was opposed by Republican leaders.

While Schumer and Pelosi won a huge victory with the three-month deal, tensions between Trump and key Republicans in Congress are destined to escalate, potentially to white hot levels. When the showdown arrives in December, Democrats will have bargaining leverage and many of the issues that will be joined between now and December work to the political advantage of Democrats as the midterm elections in 2018 come ever closer.
Trump will probably not even end Obamacare. Budowsky again:

 Democrats and Republicans know that the ill-advised GOP plans to repeal and replace ObamaCare is one of the most unpopular major proposals in modern political history, while a majority of voters favor some version of the liberal proposal for a public option or expanded Medicare.

Any hugely unpopular “repeal and replace” plan is highly unlikely to pass. A significant bipartisan ObamaCare fix, which has long been advocated by Democrats, is now much more likely to pass Congress this year.

I repeat once more. There is no strategic reason for libertarians to support Trump. His statist policy positions should be attacked unmercifully.

Trump is bad news---even for some pretty statist conservatives.

 -RW

5 comments:

  1. A former lifelong Democrat and friend of the Clinton is acting like a liberal, color me shocked.

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  2. When you consider the trivial differences between the GOP and Democrats on all major issues relative to how far they both are from a PPS/stateless society, who cares with which party he makes deals? That's like focusing on moving the deck chairs around on the Titanic.

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  3. ON the bright side, when all there is to vote for is the Uniparty it'll make election season alot shorter.

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    1. Actually, Sirk, I think it might make it longer - there being the need for increased hot air to convince the tube watchers that this time will be different and to keep them watching through the next commercial.

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  4. "that was vehemently opposed by Republican leaders."

    This in itself is meaningless, and depending on the context even positive. Trump was "vehemently opposed" by Republican leaders before he ever even set foot in the White House. And we already know anyway that they are frauds and hypocrites who wouldn't know a consistent position if it fell on their face.

    Regardless of whether you agree with the orange clown or not, at least he is not acting as merely a pliable tool for GOP apparatchiks.

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