C_Clayton_Jones
Diamond Member
“Republicans don’t want to say this publicly, but privately they do: President Trump’s personal political obsessions are hurting his Presidency, harming the chances for further policy gains the rest of this year, and putting control of the House and Senate in jeopardy.
That’s the backdrop to the GOP revolt this week in Congress on war powers and funding for the Department of Homeland Security. Mr. Trump’s unrelated priorities are handing Democrats gift after gift and forcing Republicans to take difficult votes that could cost them in November. His desire for political revenge is also alienating Members of Congress he will need this year.
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Mr. Trump’s Presidency will be all but over—except for impeachment 3.0—if the GOP loses control of Congress in November. If he wants to accomplish more legislatively, he has only a few months to do it. Does he want his remaining legacy to be a ballroom, an Arc de Trump, and payoffs for his friends from a fund that Republicans would denounce if a Democratic President tried it? Mr. Trump needs a second-year reset, or he is headed toward a second-term failure.”
Trump’s second term is already a failure, as was his first.
And Trump is incapable of any legislative initiative, focused instead on more grift, corruption, and criminality.
Congressional Republicans aren’t going to move on any major legislation – Trump’s incompetence and fecklessness have seen to that. Republicans are occupied with mitigating disasters such as Trump’s domestic terrorist slush fund and his failed, illegal war of choice with Iran.
That’s the backdrop to the GOP revolt this week in Congress on war powers and funding for the Department of Homeland Security. Mr. Trump’s unrelated priorities are handing Democrats gift after gift and forcing Republicans to take difficult votes that could cost them in November. His desire for political revenge is also alienating Members of Congress he will need this year.
[…]
Mr. Trump’s Presidency will be all but over—except for impeachment 3.0—if the GOP loses control of Congress in November. If he wants to accomplish more legislatively, he has only a few months to do it. Does he want his remaining legacy to be a ballroom, an Arc de Trump, and payoffs for his friends from a fund that Republicans would denounce if a Democratic President tried it? Mr. Trump needs a second-year reset, or he is headed toward a second-term failure.”
Trump’s second term is already a failure, as was his first.
And Trump is incapable of any legislative initiative, focused instead on more grift, corruption, and criminality.
Congressional Republicans aren’t going to move on any major legislation – Trump’s incompetence and fecklessness have seen to that. Republicans are occupied with mitigating disasters such as Trump’s domestic terrorist slush fund and his failed, illegal war of choice with Iran.
