President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

Another comparison might be to the Medicare prescription drug expansion back in 2003. According to Wikipedia, the GOP had a 27-seat majority. With that, they were able to push the initial bill and the reconciliation bill through by the slenderest of margins (it passed through the Senate easily.)

From this, you might conclude that the small-government bloc in the GOP is stronger today and/or that the Trump administration's legislative skills really aren't up to speed yet.

 

Remember, in 2003 GW Bush had about a 60 percent approval rating. Easier to support a President with that as opposed to one with somewhere south of 45 percent.

 

What are you shooting for with mentioning this all the time?

 

And knowing Trump, on the same day one of those "good things" happen, most likely.

 

A push for something better. A lot better. A thread without idiotic abortion debates daily. A thread where people don't thrive on their basest misassumptions. A thread where people don't reach deeply into their asscrack, come out with a large glob of creamy Jif, and then hurl it onto the screen.

 

Something else that is emerging too: The Republicans have the majority in both houses, but they're not of one accord. They may have, at least on the surface, rallied around Trump, but the differences between the traditionalists, the tea partiers and the neo-cons.

 

From the CNN article just above at #24129 -

"Trump first demonstrated his penchant for distortion and deception as a young man when he bragged about his accomplishments before he had any. Despite four massive corporate bankruptcies, each involving complex enterprises that required real executive skills, Trump insisted he was a great business leader.

What he was, in fact, was a successful entrepreneur who led family-held companies that he could direct like a monarch. He was THE BOSS and anyone who disagreed with him knew where to find the door.

The trouble for President Trump, who made repeal-and-replace of Obamacare one of his big campaign promises, is that he cannot fire anyone in Congress.

Indeed, only the voters can fire a member of the House of Representatives and if the latest polls are to be believed, very few of those voters liked Trumpcare. Perhaps it was the part of the bill that would push 24 million of them off the health insurance rolls that they didn't like. Or maybe it was the part of the law that eliminated all those coverage requirements for policies including pregnancy care, drug benefits and mental health coverage.

House members, who must seek re-election every two years, understood this and were far more afraid of facing angry constituents than dealing with a President whose approval rating is now 37%."

 

... in the Big Rock Candy Mountains.

 

You can always start making your own contributions that live up to those standards.

 

They'd be lost amid the sandwich spread.

 

Good luck with that. We're on the Internet.

 

I think this was supposed to be on the PB&J thread.