The Real Achievement of Trump's Deal with Dems

Much ado is being made over Trump's deal with Schumer and Pelosi but most miss the point. Both the Democrat and Republican establishment have made it clear they oppose President Trump and his agenda on every point. The thing is the money for Houston and extending the debt limit were going to happen any way. Trump gave up nothing.

What he did do was embarrass Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan - hopefully into action. Trump may be laying the groundwork to rid the Republican Party of opposition to him and a bunch of "do nothing" establishment types.

With DACA and now the debt ceiling, Trump has given McConnell and Ryan time (yet again) to get their acts together. If the can't, 2018 and 2020 will be ugly for them. The establishment types, RINOs, and never Trumpers will lose their seats, not to Democrats, but rather Constitutional Conservative Republicans who want to make America great again.

A huge swath of the American people are against the Democrat Leftist ideology and the establishment Republican, liberal Democrat-light, Party ideology. They have caught on to the fact that they are ruining the country. They want smaller but effective government that is less intrusive in their daily lives.

Republican leaders McConnell and Ryan have been given a gift by Trump: time to repent and a choice: either get onboard or get out of the way. They can chose to be productive and help Trump enact the agenda he was elected to carry out or they can chose to continue to whine as they have been doing since 2008 when Obama was first elected. If they chose the latter, I predict Trump will support primary efforts against the internal Republican opposition and gain a true "working" majority in both the House and Senate in 2018 and 2020 along with a second term.

What say you readers?

Boehner is Just Plain Wrong

When the Democrats won the White House in 2008, they also had the House and the Senate. When it came to objectives, they got everything they wanted. In 2010, the Republicans took back the House but still the Democrats were able to achieve their objectives. Then in 2012, the Republicans were able to retake the Senate and still the Democrats were able to find ways to push through their agenda. So on the Sunday morning talk shows when Speaker Boehner claimed there was no way the Republicans could defund Obamacare or block the President's illegal executive amnesty for illegal aliens, he was just plain wrong. The Democrats proved time and again that if you want something bad enough, you can find a way to get it regardless of the odds. They are just better politicians and parliamentarians with better leadership.

The problem is that unlike the Democrats who spend time well in advance plotting, planning and scheming to find Plans A, B, C and D in order to achieve their goals, under Boehner's lack of leadership, the Republicans wait until the last minute, lay out a single often not well thought out strategy, and when it meets the first bit of opposition, they preemptively give up. They just don't seem to have the same desire to win that their opponents have.

Whether it is due to a lack of courage, commitment, laziness, limited imagination, or any number of other possible faults, the responsibility for the failure of the Republicans to achieve any of their goals or even block any of the Democrat's misguided and dangerous agenda items, rests squarely on the shoulders of the Speaker. It was a complete failure of leadership and it cost him his job as it should have.

Boehner isn't alone in his lack of leadership. Senate Majority McConnell probably isn't far behind him on the way out. Again, completely justified due to his abject failure to lead effectively. Hopefully, those elected to take Boehner and McConnell's place will have the ability to lead so that when the Democrats complain about the obstructionist Republicans, there will actually be some evidence to support their accusations.