Re: POTUS 45.12: Dan, does it take courage when encountering the covfefe?
The leadership should have divorced themselves from him on Day 1 to avoid all this. Instead they figured they could use him to get what they want. Well they might get some of it (Health Care for sure, Tax Reform most likely) but now all GOP House members are at risk in the midterms. When the head of your party is one of the least popular presidents in the Post-Vietnam era who has spent the majority of his time in office having his EOs shot down by the courts and being investigated for a bevy of offenses that will hurt you. Couldnt happen to a better group of frauds and sellouts.
You guys say that all the time, but other than a handful of legislation, I don't think they have.
The health care bills never resembled what don wanted- that's all R's, and 0 don. And it's funny that don then adopted it, but even with all of that, it barely got past house, and looks very different in the senate. Either way, nothing is what don said he wanted. So all he's looking for is to get credit for something getting done.
The fact that the continuing resolution was about 180deg from what don wants also should be very telling. Congress funded everything minus 1% in spite of the fact that few leaders have been nominated. And didn't put a penny to the wall.
And even if the senate gets their super secret health care bill out- it's going to conflict a lot with the house. Which re-starts that fight.
The next actual thing to work on will be the budget. We will see how that goes. People take don's proposal at its face value, not hearing congress saying- "yea, not so much".
And if all of that can be worked out- THEN we should see the tax reform. By then, so many of the R's will be pressured not to hand out tax breaks for the rich- it will be chaos.
After all that, then what?
