Trump picked Gorsuch!

At least it's not Hillary.

Hurricane relief..which would have passed either way.

Give him time. It will part of a YUUUUUUUGE deal.

Everything on that list is Liberal agenda items

MAGA!

This right here.
The skinny obamacare repeal would have done just fine.
A tax cut would be fine.
A border wall would have been just fine.

Then could have rolled into midterms with some accomplishment and eagerness to do more. People would have voted accordingly.

ITS ALL TRUMP'S FAULT THE SENATE AND HOUSE FUCKED US OVER YOU GOD DAMNED LEG HUMPING TRUMP COCK LICKER.  THEY HAD TO DO THAT TO PROVE HOW CONSERVATIVE THEY ARE.

Instead they are going to prove how irrelevant they are.

if they aren't real damn careful people will catch on that there isn't a lick of difference between the two parties and then the game will really be over.  If the voters ever woke up to the fact that most of the differences are manufactured to keep us busy, instead of thinking about things,  politics would get sporty in a hurry. It would make the 2016 election look like the calm before the storm. 

This is all about the midterms. GOPe's plan was to slowwalk everything, get through the midterms, and then keep kill everything so they can get rid of Trump in 4 years. Nail him in the primary with he made a lot of promises but was not able to deliver. They are playing the waiting game. It is real easy to do nothing, if everyone is doing nothing you can point fingers and coast in to re-election on name recognition.

Let's recap how this can play out. First DACA. Congress can sit on it for 6 months while public opinion moves against them, and Trump campaigns about how he was not going to continue Obama's tyranny, and Congress needs to fix it. They can wait and have it hanging over their head during the primaries, or act quickly, take the hit now, spin it, and Trump gets to talk about how Congress with his leadership acted quickly to <do the thing in the best possible light>. Win/win.

Now we have a 90 day budget. GOPE wanted to stall and eventually make a deal that pushed it past the midterms. The longer they stall the longer Harvey relief appears to be delayed, then they can hammer Trump on his "delay in helping rebuild Texas after hurricane Harvey. Look how poorly he handled that tragedy" followed by hit piece after hit piece.  All the while they can dick around for two more years running out the clock and replace Trump without ever having done anything. He failed to MAGA but Senator Republicrat will grant all your wishes.  

Instead we have Congress having to do something about DACA and being on record of either doing something, or doing nothing. Both are politically dangerous. Especially if your are in a Purple state. Trump comes during Primary and says "incumbent sucks, give me someone new". For those who break ranks and are loyal Trump shows up, holds a rally, has you in stage with him, shakes your hand, and declares "incumbent is one of the good ones working to MAGA!". Add in the 90 day budget on the table and now you have two potentially damaging votes on your record. Trump flies in "Incumbent sucks, he put politics ahead of helping the people of texas  in a time of tragedy when we should have been rebuilding their homes and MAGA" or Trump flies in "Incumbent is one of the good ones, he acted decisively to do what was needed to bring relief to the victims of harvey and helped to MAGA."

You lose some seats to Dems, but you can lose some, especially the biggest names in the GOPe and you win the long run. Plus you make some stops in purple states and you can pick up some Republican seats from weak democrats. Especially since you have gained some bipartisan appeal by showing people you both CAN and WILL work with the other side. Some people would never vote for a Republican, but if you can create a difference between the "crazy republicans" and the MAGA new blood you might even grab a chunk of the angry 3rd party.

This leaves our Congress critters two choices. Dig in their heels, and hope they can avoid getting throw out of DC by running on a platform of opposing Trump, or get on Team MAGA and ride the popularity wave to an easy reelection. Make no mistake, this was all about setting up the midterms and forcing the party to make a stand.  Expect to see a couple more examples until they get the hint and things start hitting his desk.

Hate it. Flat out hate it.

Contextually, the debt ceiling is a farce anyway. It always gets raised. However, by threatening to take away the OPTION to make a stand on power of the purse grounds, Trump is effectively telling Congress that either they get on board the Trump Train or they lose a chunk of power for a looooong loooong time.

So, in short order he; forced the GOP into taking a stance on DACA during primary season, forced the GOP into taking a stance on the debt ceiling during primary season, threatened their power of the purse via a "gentleman's agreement", and showed the GOP that he is willing to negotiate with the "other side" if the GOP chooses to remain in obstructionist mode.

Either he's lighting a fire that the GOP can't tap dance around without being burning themselves down in the hopes of forcing them into action or he's straight up given up on the GOP after realizing they don't really want to MAGA and decided to work with Democrats to avoid a lame duck presidency.

We voted for chaos and it looks like we just got it in spades.

The GOPe playbook.
1. Speak conservatively...play to the conservative base.
2. Delay and obstruct conservatives in congress.....play to the liberal base.
3. Always attack the "authoritarian power hungry" President that stands in their way.
4. Campaign against Liberals in the primary.
5. Campaign against conservatives in the general.

Are you quite serious?

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Polictico is garbage, Top Secret links to that garbage all the time, they have the same agenda as the RINO fucks who are pretending to be conservatives. The "republicans" decided to not get anything done, and to continue losing. They're going to pay for that. Do you think the country is filled with idiots that want to believe in the same people who failed them for 8 years, or do you think we're ready to get shit done? Your precious make believe conservatives have the house and the senate. WTF have they done? 
When antifa was cracking conservative heads in the streets, did any of your goons say anything? You're an embarrassment to anyone who calls himself a conservative, the fucking hoouse and the senate, we should be destroying democrats.

For those of us that get it this was brilliant by Trump.

We have a GOP controlled house and senate, yet a few there refuse to support his agenda (think McCain, Ryan McConnell, Graham).

So now after the GOP elitists turning their back on Americans, Trump turns to Dems telling them he *may* support amnesty of DACA kids...but wants their support for tax reform and the border wall (only a few votes are needed - look at the McCain fuck on Obamacare). He kicks the DACA deal to 6 months from now (when many smug as sRINOs are up). The optics of deporting illegal kids will be bad, but he will sacrifice leaving them here if just a few Dems support tax reform for the middle class and the wall so RINO fuckery does not happen again.

This was BTW the huge mistake Reagan made when he gave amnesty in the 80's...the Dems screwed him as they were suppose to support border security in return..it never happened, they lied. So Trump is telling Dems this time, you support both tax reform and the wallin the next few months and I'll give the DACA kids amnesty in 6 months...a small price to pay..you screw me and all bets are off in 6 months. This is why its in 6 months...the GOP midterms will be in full running and Dems will by them have to choose....fucking brilliant. We get the wall border security and tax reform all for giving some DACA kids something we would never had taken anyways...bravo Mr President.

Cute. Pithy. Edgy even.

If you would rather the whole world end, why wouldn't you just end it yourself?

Sarcasm aside, I'm not honestly suggesting you kill yourself.

Out of ALL the available candidates running back from Jan 2015 onward until Nov 2016, who would YOU have preferred won the election and why?

After what he just pulled I think he may need more than "a few votes".

You are not going to see any Senate Democrats going anywhere the wall. It would be political suicide for them.

And yet a whole bunch of people prove yet once again they can't see the trees for the leaves, let alone the forrest...

Campaign promise kept!  #MAGA

That's exactly what I was thinking.

Why didn't we just elect another democrat if all we wanted was DACA, hurricane relief, and an unlimited debt ceiling?

How many times did the R controlled Congress pass a bill to straight repeal the ACA while Obama was in office?
How many did they pass since Trump has been in office?

How is the difference between the two number's Trump's fault?

FIFY

Good video with Lou Dobs on how Trump made Ryan and the RINOs irrelevant.

Lou Dobbs | President took RINO Paul Ryan to the woodshed by making debt-ceiling deal with Democrats...pic.twitter.com/cYlYziOjfG

Journalism Is Dead  (@TheDailyBail) September 7, 2017

When was DACA going to expire? Did it expire prior to Trump's announcement the other day and he just extended it? Did he buy DACA 6 months or did he shut it down before it went to court, allowing everyone to sign up for it in the mean time?

DACA was signed by Obama in June 2015. Why did it take so long to take it to court if it was illegal per se and going to be struck down anyway.

Blue States gave him seven months after he took office to do what he said he would do on "day one". When he did nothing the states decided to force his hand.

Daca lawsuits

"Blue States"?
So you answered one question.
How about this one: "When was DACA going to expire? Did it expire prior to Trump's announcement the other day and he just extended it? Did he buy DACA 6 months or did he shut it down before it went to court, allowing everyone to sign up for it in the mean time?"

Trump could piss on his sycophants and they would think it was raining lemonade.

LOL, burn. 

Uhhhh

The train may have no brakes, but the boiler is also out of fuel and it's slowly coasting to a halt.

Oh for those heady days when we thought he would use his lawful legitimate power as president to get rid of the anti-gun EOs hanging over us....

Don't bother, they don't deal in reality.

Listen, he's going to start doing pro-gun stuff any day now.

Annnny day.

Just be patient.

You'll see.

Sorry, meant Red States.

DACA would only 'expire' with the Obama executive order rescinded. In order to stave off a bunch of Republican states going to court, he kinda' ended it. Or not. He bought the dreamers time, and pretty much ordered Congress to make DACA the law of the land.

He could have ended DACA immediately, as he promised to do on "Day One". He ignored it until he was forced into doing nothing that looks like something. Within six months we will see DACA codified into law with the signature of Donald Trump on the bottom line.

With zero concessions from the Democrats on Border Wall Funding.

Don't forget that part.

He's just going to sign it.

MDACAGA

Only the best deals 

Exactly.

All of a sudden 'big city thinking' is cool because Trump does it.

I've explained this to you before.

Your guy promised you the damn world.  He was LITERALLY supposed to 'make America greater than it has ever been before.'

He also said that he was the worlds greatest deal makers and negotiators and that he was going to negotiate tremendous deals for America.

So the guy has promised to make America greater than it has ever been before, and he's said that he's the worlds best negotiator / strategist / advertiser -- but now you expect us to not assign any blame to him for failing to push through Ocare repeal (among other things)?

Which is it, RDak?  You don't get to have it both ways.

I bet many here would embrace far left bullshit, as long as Trump was behind it.  That's how bad this cult of personality is.

IM SUPER SCHERIOUS!  

That's an excellent question.   Have you asked your representatives this?

From the best brain.

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Time is ticking, our govt will become smaller and cheaper, have fun with your shit show.
https://federalnewsradio.com/omb/2017/03/trump-sign-government-reorg-order-today/