Trump Draws Line Across McConnell’s Face

As related in the Politico, the GOP just got itself Trumped:

On Wednesday morning, Ryan called the deal floated by Democrats to fund the government and lift the debt ceiling through mid-December as part of a relief package for Hurricane Harvey victims “disgraceful.” Expecting cover from Trump on their insistence to extend the debt ceiling much longer, Ryan and McConnell instead were abandoned.

Long story short: Republicans wanted to extend the debt ceiling for a very long time.  Democrats wanted eighteen months.  Both sides wanted to pair this with Harvey relief cash.  Trump went to the Democrats and got a deal for three months.  It makes the Democrats bulletproof for the short term.  Republicans had better get their stuff together for the December showdown.  This will be their hallmark opportunity to either get on board with the elected President of their own party, or cross the Rubicon in the warmup to the 2018 seasons.

Trump just punted, not trusting the people supposedly on his own team to carry the ball the right way.

Good call.

Looks Like SOMEBODY Has a Case of the Mondays

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17 Responses to Trump Draws Line Across McConnell’s Face

  1. Xennady says:

    I read this article. Bwahahaha.

    It’s as if the entire nevertrump thing neverhappened, as the gop is shocked- shocked!- to find that Donald Trump, President of the United States, despite their best efforts, is charting his own course. How dare he not do what he was told?

    I’ve long figured Trump and the hapless GOP leadership would eventually part ways- and maybe this is how it manifests.

    “It doesn’t help our leadership to try to hold us Republicans together on anything when they know the president will chop them off at the knees,” said a House Republican lawmaker allied with Ryan. “Trump has got to start caring more about his colleagues over here.”

    I looove this quote. Paul Ryan has done nothing but strive to undermine Trump at every turn, yet now we get to read one of his minions whine that Trump declines to carry water for him. And, amazingly, he is also upset that Trump isn’t interested in covering for his political enemies in the party.

    Oh the huge manatee!!

  2. AdministratorAdministrator says:

    Yep. Only a 3rd-stage Guild Navigator could have seen this coming.

  3. BrentB67BrentB67 says:

    That Republicans led by Ryan, McConnell, P. Sessions, and Cornyn are lying inept buffoons isn’t news to anyone around these parts.

    However, does ‘getting on board with the elected President of their own party’ include spending the maximum amount of money possible on continuing resolutions as was the case earlier and again yesterday?

    Trump clearly has a proclivity for Democratesque spending and no evidence of fiscal restraint. I am not sure I want to be on board with that.

    • AdministratorAdministrator says:

      They think they can screw him at their leisure. He says they can’t. Either Trump or the GOP is going to make the other come to heel. I know which I support. It’s kind of the whole point for me.
      We cannot have nice things so long as the GOP gets to take us for granted. Therefore, do not be bought off with offers of nice things. They won’t be there when the due date comes. Or ever.

  4. Xennady says:

    I have flat zero belief that the cabal of inept lying buffoons ruling the United States has any interest in any sort of fiscal restraint.

    The GOP leadership isn’t any better.

    Thus, despite my fervent wish that the United States remain solvent, I cannot rationally condemn Donald Trump for noticing that the American political class, in all its various manifestations, has no interest in that sort of thing.

    The worst political class in our history, as Glenn Reynolds laments- and he’s spot on.

  5. TKC1101TKC1101 says:

    The debt ceiling is a nonsense issue used by both sides to simulate combat. Neither side will let it fail.

    Trump refused to let hurricane relief get caught up in a non issue, and so took away their toys of mock combat.

    Tax policy and real spending in the budget is the game. Trump’s whole economic policy is growth in the private sector by cutting regulation , cutting taxes and rebuilding one way trade. He is not a zero sum cut the federal budget by 3% guy.

    Did anyone really expect anyone in either party to NOT raise the debt ceiling?

    He realizes he needs to cut deals with the Dems since Ryan and McConnell are hopeless.

    If the GOP wants to play, they better get their act together. McConnell needs to do things like remove McCain from his Chairmanship of Armed Services and send a serious signal he intends to deliver.

    Trump called the GOP bluff on promising and then never delivering.

  6. Trinity WatersTrinity Waters says:

    My wife and I watched just a bit of TV yesterday, and happened to see this. In unison, we both told the TV, “great, xxxxx the Republican leadership”! McConnell and Ryan and their associated squishes get on board with the citizens and Trump or prepare for Armageddon next year. I don’t see this as portentous of Trump’s fiscal policy, like some do, but rather as a serious backhand to the GOP Congress. Good for him; they are part of the swamp. 8 Billion dollars is a rounding error in our federal budget, but the scorn that Trump delivered to the GOP is priceless. So much winning!!!

  7. EJHill says:

    This is what I don’t understand:
    1. Pelosi and Schumer can’t deliver a damned thing. They are MINORITY leaders. So these two need GOP votes.
    2. If they DO deliver, what does that saw about Ryan and McConnell? And, for that matter, the rest of “The Guardians of the Conservative Galaxy” that our Moral and Intellectual Superiors™ tell us are the The True Principled Conservatives?®

    • BrentB67BrentB67 says:

      I have the same question.

    • TKC1101TKC1101 says:

      Good question EJ. If I may hazard an answer, Pelosi and Schumer bring Media cover for a compromise deal. GOP politicians go from evil Nazis Klansman to statesman in a flash. Their Mom does not have to see them trashed on Good Morning America.