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Is Trump becoming an iron ball in the Pubbies' ankles?
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Pelle Svanslös
May 15, 2017, 9:59:52 AM5/15/17
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WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans, increasingly unnerved by President
Trump’s volatility and unpopularity, are starting to show signs of
breaking away from him as they try to forge a more traditional
Republican agenda and protect their political fortunes.
Several Republicans have openly questioned Mr. Trump’s decision to fire
the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, and even lawmakers who supported
the move have complained privately that it was poorly timed and
disruptive to their work. Many were dismayed when Mr. Trump seemed to
then threaten Mr. Comey not to leak negative information about him.
As they pursue their own agenda, Republican senators are drafting a
health care bill with little White House input, seeking to avoid the
public relations pitfalls that befell the House as it passed its own
deeply unpopular version. Republicans are also pushing back on the
president’s impending budget request — including, notably, a provision
that would nearly eliminate funding for the national drug control office
amid an opioid epidemic. And many high-ranking Republicans have said
they will not support any move by Mr. Trump to withdraw from the North
American Free Trade Agreement.
So far, Republicans have refrained from bucking the president en masse,
in part to avoid undermining their intense push to put health care and
tax bills on his desk this year. And the Republican leadership,
including Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, and
the House speaker, Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin, remains behind Mr. Trump.
But with the White House lurching from crisis to crisis, the president
is hampering Republicans’ efforts to fulfill his promises.
“All the work that goes into getting big things done is hard enough even
in the most tranquil of environments in Washington,” said Kevin Madden,
a Republican operative who worked for John A. Boehner when he was the
House speaker. “But distractions like these can become a serious
obstacle to aligning the interests of Congress.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/14/us/politics/trump-republican-senators.html
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“Donald Trump is the weak man’s vision of a strong man.”
-- Charles Cooke
Trump’s volatility and unpopularity, are starting to show signs of
breaking away from him as they try to forge a more traditional
Republican agenda and protect their political fortunes.
Several Republicans have openly questioned Mr. Trump’s decision to fire
the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, and even lawmakers who supported
the move have complained privately that it was poorly timed and
disruptive to their work. Many were dismayed when Mr. Trump seemed to
then threaten Mr. Comey not to leak negative information about him.
As they pursue their own agenda, Republican senators are drafting a
health care bill with little White House input, seeking to avoid the
public relations pitfalls that befell the House as it passed its own
deeply unpopular version. Republicans are also pushing back on the
president’s impending budget request — including, notably, a provision
that would nearly eliminate funding for the national drug control office
amid an opioid epidemic. And many high-ranking Republicans have said
they will not support any move by Mr. Trump to withdraw from the North
American Free Trade Agreement.
So far, Republicans have refrained from bucking the president en masse,
in part to avoid undermining their intense push to put health care and
tax bills on his desk this year. And the Republican leadership,
including Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, and
the House speaker, Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin, remains behind Mr. Trump.
But with the White House lurching from crisis to crisis, the president
is hampering Republicans’ efforts to fulfill his promises.
“All the work that goes into getting big things done is hard enough even
in the most tranquil of environments in Washington,” said Kevin Madden,
a Republican operative who worked for John A. Boehner when he was the
House speaker. “But distractions like these can become a serious
obstacle to aligning the interests of Congress.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/14/us/politics/trump-republican-senators.html
--
“Donald Trump is the weak man’s vision of a strong man.”
-- Charles Cooke
The Iceberg
May 15, 2017, 11:23:52 AM5/15/17
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NYT lol
bob
May 18, 2017, 6:08:37 PM5/18/17
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On Mon, 15 May 2017 16:59:50 +0300, Pelle Svanslös <pe...@svans.com>
wrote:
i know we talked a lot about the election last fall, but jesus pelle,
the election's over 6 months, he's in office 4, let it go man.
bob
wrote:
i know we talked a lot about the election last fall, but jesus pelle,
the election's over 6 months, he's in office 4, let it go man.
bob
Guypers
May 18, 2017, 6:30:47 PM5/18/17
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bob
May 18, 2017, 8:38:38 PM5/18/17
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On Thu, 18 May 2017 15:30:45 -0700 (PDT), Guypers <gap...@gmail.com>
wrote:
what a bunch of spoil sports who sit around for months waiting for a
president they don't like to be impeached.
bob
wrote:
president they don't like to be impeached.
bob
Pelle Svanslös
May 19, 2017, 2:52:44 AM5/19/17
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