He delivered another solid rollback today. I just wish he had come to the podium with a blood dripping head of Al Gore in his hand and threw it at the press.
Score another one for freedom and civilization.
This one is from the campaign, but I like it.
Elsewhere Liz alludes to Krauthammer claiming Trump has given up patriotism for nationalism. Today he should note that Trump has once again struck a blow for our interests.
Note that Trump didn’t deny the “science” of climate change, a dubious claim based upon bad observations and outright fudging of figures. But what he DID claim was that this “agreement” was bad for America.
And while the Left is making the expected screaming and howling, more and more there seems to be a willingness to entertain some OTHER thinking than the official Left- Wing position.
He showed the spineless GOP how to beat back Progressive hysteria today, by making them anti job.
I think maybe a third have the guts to play that way.
Yeah, I loved the line about working for the people of. Pittsburg not Paris.
That picture causes my RA coffee cup to dance on my desk!
I understand that thousands of environmentalists are so angry about how much carbon emissions will rise, they’re going to jet all over the country making speeches and burning things.
hahaha
Still not tired of winning
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It was good. He made an unopposed layup that should’ve been a given. He was expected to the right thing and did it.
I will be ecstatic when he stops consulting John Boehner and vetoes spending coming out of Congress.
We’ve discussed this before but I’d wager he’s consulting Boehner on the machinations of the House and not on policy. Just a guess, but this strikes me as a characteristic thing for Trump to do.
I’ve no doubt your correct on this matter Liz.
The problem is that from Boehner’s perspective the machinations of the House include always spending more increasing the size and scope of the federal government.
One of the articles I read indicated that President Trump was ready to veto the bloated continuing resolution and Boehner was brought in specifically to ensure President Trump signed the bloated stinking mess.
You bring up a valid point; it would be nice to get some clarification from informed political reporters.
Oh wait… that’s an extinct species.
My concern is as always that Pres. Trump in his zeal for seeking counsel and information – admirable trait – that he is sometimes too easily influenced away from core campaign promises and rhetoric.
Pres. Trump has rightly highlighted previously that our budget is a disaster and he backed that up with an improved budget proposal.
Boehner has never demonstrated any proclivity for fiscal restraint and it is concerning that the President sought out Boehner’s input then apparently was easily swayed into a poor decision.
Pres. Trump’s performance undoing the Obama legacy where possible through executive action is admirable. To date though his record standing up to a free spending Congress is less clear.
“My concern is as always that Pres. Trump in his zeal for seeking counsel and information – admirable trait – that he is sometimes too easily influenced away from core campaign promises and rhetoric.”
What I find interesting about your observation is that he did not seem to suffer from such a proclivity in his business life. One thing good businesspeople do is that they will test the waters and he may be doing just that in an unfamiliar arena.
I am optimistic that he will find his legs and feel comfortable facing down the opposition in both parties. He certainly put his neck on the line yesterday with not only his own country but the entire mainland continent of Europe!
I know this sounds ridiculous to say, but I’m a little bit afraid for him. The world and even this country is far more warped than even I imagined.
I hope you are correct regarding his business influences. I do not know who’s counsel he sought as a private business leader and I have no right to invade his privacy, nor desire. He clearly had some tremendous success and also his share of setbacks. What/whose influence, if any, played a part in those outcomes is for only him to know.
I share your fear for him regarding how truly warped the nation and the world appear to be.
You are correct.
I do wonder if the best we can get right now is a major redirection of where the spending goes.
If we move the incentives to people who generate wealth, who work for a living, who raise families on their own from the non working class, if we stop funding the progressive enemy with government funds, that is better than the drift we have now.
When the fiscal crises come, and they will, we need a group of politicians who are more leaning toward the bulk of working Americans than their party donors. IF we just drastically cut spending now, all we will do is hand the power to the progressives so they can ‘solve the fiscal crisis”.
Who do you want to be in power when the hammer on the money falls, a group of marginal, wishy washy politicians who at least know they have to meet the needs of the working voters or the enemies of freedom and liberty?
Same choice we have had for a while. I do not see a drastic spending cutter ever getting elected and having the support to do it without a crisis of huge proportions making it happen.
I do wish we could just gut the place and start over, but I cannot see it happening.
“If we move the incentives to people who generate wealth, who work for a living, who raise families on their own from the non working class, if we stop funding the progressive enemy with government funds, that is better than the drift we have now.”
What frustrates me most about this comment: It is the truth, it is reality and it is pure common sense.
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TKC1101 You make a key point. Although the relative dollars in the scheme may be small we must stop funding our internal enemies of the Constitution and Liberty.
Department of Ed, Housing and Urban Development, and Department of Labor would be three good ones to start.
Have you guys seen this video by the Macaroon? As Peter Robinson said when he posted it, “This is the icing on the gateau.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIBNqP9nZM8
I love it. They can have the grant grifter political yes men and we get their real inventors and ambitious business guys.
Any ‘scientist’ who thinks this is a good deal is best seen leaving the country.
As RightAngles quipped, “Don’t let the door hit ya in the derriere.”
We can use 3 trillion dollars to lower global warming by .005% or we can dedicate those dollars to wiping out malaria, typhus, and educating people how to develop a thriving economy thereby elevating themselves out of dire poverty. Permanently.
Melinda Gates had those very same goals when she and Bill established their foundation, but have now been side-tracked by the plight of third world nation “sex workers.” Isn’t that a bit like treating the symptom instead of the disease?
Yup. That’s precisely what it is.
It’s so cool to be able to read you over here, Percival.
I miss you guys.
Stick around. Free Conceptual coffee and donuts when the time is right.
We miss you. Hang out more. The last time I visited Ricochet it was a Main-Feed-Never-Trump-Always-Rubio hellscape and that was a good day.
I’m still between Ever Trump and Never Trump. Frankly, as long as he manages to keep things moderately together, that will be good enough. I haven’t really liked any of our presidents or Republican nominees since Reagan. The best of the rest was W, who benefited from the reaction he provoked in the BDS Left.
(Trying to figure out the interface. I can HTML, but I haven’t figured out how to add media yet.)
“I’m still between Ever Trump and Never Trump.”
That is ok. Because of your credentials, I’m willing to give you at least a week to get with the program.
;)
Hey, I don’t recall getting a week!
I guess my credentials are lacking.
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It’s ok Brent. All us uncredentialed wags are hiding out here, trying to avoid the random sweeps of the Never Rights.
Trump is interesting to say the least. He has a lot of faults but gets a lot done for our side. The one take away is that he is who he is. He is not playing some handler’s part to look good in the polls.
I second Liz. It is so cool to read Percival again.