Is it me or has the pace of anxiety changed and we are settling into the new normal of Trump at the Wheel?
I know I am much less enthused at the latest Washington DC breathless catastrophe by saying it wrong and the eternal gotcha nonsense.
Congress is bungling and arguing , which is their other setting after leaving town and doing nothing.
The economy is moving quite nicely. I talked to an excavator who has jobs coming out of the woodwork for commercial foundations and new housing. New restaurants, new offices, new factories.
Apparently a lot of money is coming off the sidelines and out of Bill Devane’s safe.
Me, I still check in, but I am finding that without Obama and the Dems running the executive, I can get on with my life more and watch my back a bit less.
How are you folks feeling? Are we finding a normal or still spinning into the unknown?



I love the Donald. Unequivocally. He is my type of guy- no ideologue but a pragmatist and a successful one at that. I believe him to be a warrior patriot at the highest level.
I will admit to harboring a great fear of the obstructionist Democrats who do not, in any way, have the best interests of the American people at heart. I do worry that they will work long and hard to distract our president from his important goals.
Trump has dealt with more adversity than any of us on this site (combined) will ever know, but Chuck Schumer terrifies me. He is an evil man with a lot of power.
Sorry for the double post; could use the edit button right now!
One of us have been hung out to dry more often than I would care to say.
We have ofter heard that people make their own luck but don’t they also make their own attitude?
Just listened to Trump’s rally in Nashville.
Nashville being the birthplace of Andrew Jackson and today being his 250th birthday, there were the usual comparisons between the two. But I was struck by the similarity with FDR. A lot of the rhetoric seems similar. I grant Trump doesn’t have the stupid economic ideas FDR had, but the war with the judiciary is similar.
“I grant Trump doesn’t have the stupid economic ideas FDR had, but the war with the judiciary is similar.”
I don’t understand this comparison, Dev. FDR tried to stack the court; Trump simply wants to get Gorsuch confirmed. Expliquez.
The Donald needs to go Old Hickory on that clown in Hawaii.
My guess is he is waiting for his guy on the SCOTUS or for a nasty crime committed by one of the people the judge let in. If he gets that, it’s a “Blood on their Hands” and he will impose the order. Right now, he can afford to wait. He needs the tax cut and ‘defying a judge’ will cost him image. When he gets OCare and the tax cut done, then he has a far freer hand.
FDR had a long running fight with the SCOTUS. In frustration he threatened to “pack the court”, for which he got serious push-back by both republicans and democrats. In the end he wound up intimidating the couple conservative SCOTUS judges into going along with his agenda.
But his early period was fraught with conflict, in which the SCOTUS trashed numerous of his plans as unconstitutional. And actually they were right. Helving v. Davis (1937) was the case that gave us the “general welfare” reason to spend money, thereby totally taking all spending restraint off the feds.
I’m not seeing the war on the judiciary angle either.
In fact I wonder just when every single judge in the country gained the authority to override the President at will, because judge. Worse, from what I recall of the Terry Schiavo case long ago, they also somehow gathered the power to ignore both Congress and the President. It struck me as a terrible Constitutional mistake when those two branches got together to pass a law requiring a new judicial review of that case, resulting in the judiciary essentially giving them the finger in response.
Once upon a time, the judiciary overruling the President or Congress was an act of significance, with potentially real consequences for the Judicial branch, including the threat from FDR to enlarge the Court, or the example of Jackson ignoring it.
Not so today. This is a bug, not a feature- for most people. We supposedly have three coequal branches, yet one branch has decided it is more equal than the others, as if it was the court system for Orwell’s Animal Farm.
Thumbs down. As far as I’ve seen none of the people patting themselves on the back because their judicial saviors have thwarted the demon Trump appear to have noticed that they have given him political cover should an attack occur. He can q
Forgive me for the incomplete comment. It was my terribly fat fingers.
And Trump, of course. Trump!!!
“Worse, from what I recall of the Terry Schiavo case long ago, they also somehow gathered the power to ignore both Congress and the President.”
Living in Florida at the time, I certainly remember this case. As is the norm, this Fi-Con usually agrees with So-Cons but often for very different reasons.
Schiavo had parents who were perfectly willing to support her and pay the price for her healthcare. Why the husband didn’t simply file for divorce and back off made me suspicious and why the State felt they any say in this matter was disturbing.
If I recall, he stood to gain a million or two if she was made dead and not merely divorced.
That’s plenty enough reasons to do what he did.
I’m not seeing the war on the judiciary angle either.
In fact I wonder just when every single judge in the country gained the authority to override the President at will, because judge. Worse, from what I recall of the Terry Schiavo case long ago, they also somehow gathered the power to ignore both Congress and the President. It struck me as a terrible Constitutional mistake when those two branches got together to pass a law requiring a new judicial review of that case, resulting in the judiciary essentially giving them the finger in response.
Once upon a time, the judiciary overruling the President or Congress was an act of significance, with potentially real consequences for the Judicial branch, including the threat from FDR to enlarge the Court, or the example of Jackson ignoring it.
Not so today. This is a bug, not a feature- for most people. We supposedly have three coequal branches, yet one branch has decided it is more equal than the others, as if it was the court system for Orwell’s Animal Farm.
Thumbs down. As far as I’ve seen none of the people patting themselves on the back because their judicial saviors have thwarted the demon Trump appear to have noticed that they have given him political cover should an actual bloody attack occur. He can quite truthfully say that tried to prevent it- but the awful judges stopped him.
This won’t be good for the judges, I think.
I don’t think Trump picked this war. Rather it has been the activist judges who have picked the fight, overstepping their authority. Multiple times.
Trump could just go Jacksonian on them and totally disregard them, stating they have no authority so their “ruling” is null and void. That would, of course, precipitate a constitutional crisis.
OTOH Gorsuch is about a week from confirmation. I believe Trump CAN bypass the 9th and go straight to the SCOTUS. With Gorsuch on the court, odds are that he wins.
The MUCH bigger question is what to do about these crazies in the 9th Circuit. Wholesale dismissal and reconstituting the legal boundaries would be a great answer.
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“I don’t think Trump picked this war. Rather it has been the activist judges who have picked the fight, overstepping their authority. Multiple times.”
Agreed.
“Trump could just go Jacksonian on them and totally disregard them, stating they have no authority so their “ruling” is null and void. That would, of course, precipitate a constitutional crisis.”
Agree here too, but it seems to me the second order was drafted in such a way to make it legally bulletproof, thus plainly indicating that Trump won’t uncork any Jackson on them, likely for the reason you say.
Plus, I suspect if Trump did ignore a decree from one of our robed masters the left would shriek for impeachment- still shriek, I mean- but the gop establishment just might go along with them.
Ninth Circus? Break it up. Elections have consequences, etc.