{"id":4006,"date":"2017-09-08T05:11:52","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T20:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/?p=4006"},"modified":"2017-09-08T05:11:52","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T20:11:52","slug":"taming-the-wild-donkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/taming-the-wild-donkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Taming the Wild Donkey"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes a meeting is about who was there and not what was decided.<\/p>\n

The Democrats have been spouting apoplectic vitriol about POTUS for months now, some of it insane, some obscene, some treasonous.<\/p>\n

I enjoy listening to the twaddle from Convention Wisdom paid pundits, looking at the recent Trump- Pelosi , Schumer session in terms of the transaction.<\/p>\n

For POTUS to win, he needs leverage against the entrenched GOP. For that he needs some vulnerable democrats to work with him on healthcare, taxes, infrastructure and more.<\/p>\n

The optics from that meeting is that Schumer and Pelosi, the closest thing the Dems have to leaders can work with POTUS and make deals. That signals the vulnerable to go ahead.\u00a0 The win in the meeting was breaking the diatribe by senior Dems.<\/p>\n

Heidi Heitkamp, D- ND flew home with POTUS in AF1.<\/p>\n

The “Resistance” is becoming the “Collaboration”.<\/p>\n

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Sometimes a meeting is about who was there and not what was decided.<\/p>\n

The Democrats have been spouting apoplectic vitriol about POTUS for months now, some of it insane, some obscene, some treasonous.<\/p>\n

I enjoy listening to the twaddle from Convention Wisdom paid pundits, looking at the recent Trump- Pelosi , Schumer session in terms of the transaction.<\/p>\n

For POTUS to win, he needs leverage against the entrenched GOP. For that he needs some vulnerable democrats to work with him on healthcare, taxes, infrastructure and more.<\/p>\n

The optics from that meeting is that Schumer and Pelosi, the closest thing the Dems have to leaders can work with POTUS and make deals. That signals the vulnerable to go ahead.\u00a0 The win in the meeting was breaking the diatribe by … Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3898,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3898"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4008,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4006\/revisions\/4008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}