'AMERICA FIRST' DOESN'T RESONATE WITH THE 'PROGRESSIVE' LEFT,... WHY?
Trump’s invitation to
the Progressive 'left' to join hands to work together as one for the American people to fix health care, and abandon
the Obama continuation of the Socialist transformation of America, through
division and deception, that the ice between the 2 parties would start to melt, but as these progressives sat on their hands, and sat on their hands when Trump
attempted to bring up issues that even the left supports failed, I knew that it
wasn’t going to be a good night!
Pelosi: I'm 'Proud' of Democrats' Decorum Last Night
Pelosi: I'm 'Proud' of Democrats' Decorum Last Night
On Tuesday night, as President Trump addressed Congress for
the first time, Democrats hissed, booed, groaned, gave him the thumbs down, and
refused to stand during his remarks - even when he was honoring our American
soldiers.
“I was very proud of the dignity with which our members
listened to his speech,” Pelosi said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Wednesday. “It
was clearly a bait-and-switch speech.”
As Trump launched an assault on public education,
immigration and the like, Democrats sat with "dignity," she noted.
No they didn't - and we have the footage to prove it.
Pelosi refuses to acknowledge the disgraceful behavior of
her colleagues, but nothing changes the fact that Democrats remained seated as
Trump asked them to recognize our soldiers and law enforcement, or that Debbie
Wasserman Schultz and Keith Ellison made no apparent effort to recognize Carryn
Owens, widow of fallen Navy SEAL William Ryan Owens.
Democrats used racism, to defend our first black President's response to criticism, and then Hillary Clinton said that half of Donald Trump’s American
citizen supporters came from what she called a “basket of deplorables…. racist,
sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic” then said I don’t doubt that many
of the Donald’s backers are terrible, racist, nativist, and misogynist people!
Hillary’s Podesta then went on to portray Conservative Catholicism members of America’s
religious communities as a “bastardization of the faith” and seemed to imply
that Evangelicals are a bunch of impoverished country bumpkins! Did anyone notice
that Hillary never mentioned the word ‘Americans’ who have the 1st amendment
right to believe in whatever they want? I’m beginning to think this is why 'crooked'
Hillary believes that there is room in the constitution for regulation when it
comes to the 1st and 2nd Amendment, and that her shit doesn't stink!
President Trump’s first
speech to the joint members of congress was all about an optimistic vision for the
future of America, and then went into what he's already started to do to fulfill his campaign promises! President Trump by the way did it all without the obstructionist Progressive left's
fast tracking Trump's cabinet nominees needed to assist in helping
make America great again! It has become very clear to me now that the disdain for America, our
constitution, and the ‘Will’ of the American people will continue to be targeted
by the new leadership of the DNC, House minority leader Nancy Pelosi, and
Senate minority leader, Chuck-e Schumer!
After President Trump’s speech to the joint members of
Congress last night those 10 out of 23 Democratic Senate seats that are up for
grabs in the 2018 midterms are in pretty bad shape, especially when Trump won
in a big way in those same 10 states! The New Democratic members of congress
shouldn’t forget that Pelosi and Schumer are Democratic career politicians
that attempted to sell out our founding fathers Constitutional Republic for Socialism, and
that they will go down with the Obama/Hillary ship no matter what the innocent
collateral damage is to the party of ‘nothing new.’
President Trump is a RINO (Republican in name only) because
he had to be part of the establishment's bipartisan garden party to be President
of the United States! He leans right but leans more towards the ‘Will of the
American people and sees the positives and negatives on both sides of the
aisle. The Republican Party accepted the results and adjusting, but the Democratic Party has
been taken over by the Progressive left and will never surrender their Socialist policies and agenda to undermine our constitution!
The two-party system’s rules and regulation have run our political
selection process for generations, and should show all Americans how corrupt
the process truly is! Did you know that there is no mention of political
parties in the Constitutional? Did you know that the system has been financed
by outside interests and ideologues like George Soros, who have sinister plans
for the world and the world order through globalism, open borders, and
financing the plan through taxpayer’s dollars before what’s in the best
interest for the American people, and keeping America safe!
This morning I’m hearing from the critics of the left about
how the widow of Ryan Owens, one of our heroes that was killed a month ago, in
the line of duty while retrieving important intel need to assist in the
downfall of ISIS, was only a ‘token’ gesture, that the Dem’s felt didn’t need
to be applauded, stood up for, or even recognized, and then shortly after
walking out quickly after the speech!
How quickly they forgot about the Democratic convention and their more
than obvious ‘agenda driven’ paid tokens that they either spoke about or
physically displayed in front of the world:
Clinton Cash: Khizr Khan’s Deep Legal, Financial Connections
to Saudi Arabia, Hillary’s Clinton Foundation Tie Terror, Immigration, Email
Scandals Together!
Khizr Khan, the Muslim Gold Star father that the mainstream
media and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have been using to
criticize Donald J. Trump, has deep ties to the government of Saudi Arabia—and
to international Islamist investors through his own law firm. In addition to
those ties to the wealthy Islamist nation, Khan also has ties to controversial
immigration programs that wealthy foreigners can use to essentially buy their
way into the United States—and has deep ties to the “Clinton Cash” narrative
through the Clinton Foundation!
TOKEN LIBERAL MEXICAN FEDERAL JUDGE: GONZALO CURIEL!
(Because he’s a Mexican)
It comes to light from LawNewz that the law firm Robbins
Geller appointed by Judge Gonzalo Curiel to represent a plaintiff in the Trump
University class action suits has another connection to Hillary Clinton beyond
a $2700 campaign contribution from firm chairman Darren Robbins. LawNewz did
not mention the firm’s connection to the Trump University case. The information
was apparently retrieved from a Washington Post data base with the Clinton
financial filings on file. (The Post itself has not reported on this
connection.)
It seems that Robbins Geller “paid the Clintons nearly half
a million dollars in less than a year.” Why? Speeches of course.
That’s right. One of the law firms picked by the Judge in
the Trump University case — the very Judge Donald Trump accuses by name of
anti-Trump bias — awarded this firm the case after — say again after — Hillary
and Bill Clinton had been paid a cool $450,000 for two speeches by the firm.
In the meantime, it would behoove Republican leadership to
stop slandering Trump over this issue. Democrats consistently win elections
because they’ve learned to never criticize their own.
WHAT, WE CAN’T COME TOGETHER AGAIN LIKE WE DID WHEN ALL
AMERICANS FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE DROPPED WHAT THEY WERE DOING TO ANSWER THE
CALL WHEN THE JAPANESE ATTACKED PEARL HARBOR ON DECEMBER 7, 1941? ~~
Whose Side Are You On?
It was President Trump without the affect. That’s how Fox
News’s Tucker Carlson described Trump’s first address to Congress last night.
It was populist, but we all know Trump is a right-leaning member of that
political persuasion. There wasn’t much that was necessarily radical, except
for the Obamacare portion, but we all know both Republicans and Democrats
disagree on that issue.
Carlson said that the net effect of the speech was to
diminish the Democrats in the room.
“They didn’t greet him when he walked in, they didn’t
applaud when he said we’re going to put American interests first, they groaned
when he brought up the victims of immigrant crime, raising the obvious question
whose side are you on exactly,” he said.
Democratic 'Women in White' Remain Seated As Trump Asks
Congress to Honor Our Soldiers
President Trump spent several moments during his address to
the joint session of Congress on Tuesday honoring the bravest among us: our
soldiers. Upon the mention of our military, the entire room--Republican and
Democrat--were on their feet. Well, almost everyone.
Unbelievably, a handful of Democratic women who had dressed
in white (for reasons hard to understand) to protest the president, remained seated
at the mention of our soldiers.You would think supporting our military would be a
bipartisan issue.
Shortly after that, Trump recognized fallen Navy SEAL
William "Ryan" Owens, who died in a raid on an al Qaeda compound in
Yemen in January. His widow, Carryn Owens, was one of Trump's special guests
tonight, sitting right beside his daughter Ivanka. What followed was a
beautiful tribute to her brave husband. Throughout the president's remarks,
Mrs. Owens glanced to the sky and let her tears fall. It was one of the most
emotional moments ever to occur at a joint session of Congress.
It really exposed the contrast of the moment. Dana Loesch
said it best:
Dana Loesch
✔ @DLoesch
All you women in white — you better get a look at Carryn
Owens. That’s the face of strength. #Jointsession
9:59 PM - 28 Feb 2017 ~~By Cortney O'Brien, a Friend of
America!
Syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer said President
Obama is being “semi-delusional” when he says that the results of the 2016
election don’t matter much and that Democrats just lost one election.
“The damage his party has suffered in his eight years in
office is incalculable,” he said. “The reason that when people talk about who
is going to run in 2020, they’re all octogenarians or nearly because the bench
has been wiped out. There has been a prairie fire.”
Yes, Obama himself has been popular, Krauthammer
acknowledged, but he “overreached as a liberal.”
“With Obama care, with cap and trade, with all of the
regulations, and he had a very slow recovery. He thinks that he succeeded, the
country doesn’t. Obama himself said in 2010 and 2014 and then 16 “I’m not on
the ballot but my policy, my legacy is.” That’s exactly what happened and his
legacy was rejected. And I don’t think he understands that.” ~~By Leah
Barkoukis, a Friend of America!
Four big takeaways (and four shocking surprises) from
Trump's speech
Maybe I have baseball on the brain, but when I watch
President Trump what I’ve seen to date is one fastball after another.
For nearly nine months now, Trump has thrown at one speed –
hard, high and inside. His candidacy: hardly nuanced. His presidency: as subtle
as a wrecking ball.
This was one of several unresolved questions going into
Tuesday night’s joint address to Congress: could Trump deviate from the
rhetorical heat that proved effective as a candidate to a president capable of
mixing speeds (rhetorically, at least) and keeping Democratic batters
off-balance and behind in the count?
Trump’s address -- he billed it as “a renewal of the
American spirit,” calling on Congress to join him “in dreaming big, and bold
and daring things for our country” -- weaved in and out of familiar places. But
with the occasional surprise detour – the sort of focus-group approach that
made Bill Clinton’s speeches before Congress so long (Trump spoke for an hour)
but politically effective.
Now that Trump has lent his voice to policy choices, he has
a choice. He can sit back and trust Speaker Ryan and Senate Majority Leader
Mitch McConnell to do the driving. Or, he can work with the congressional
leadership to keep the flock from straying.
Democrats were forced to take notice of Trump’s call for
paid family leave, just as Republicans couldn’t ignore a stronger-than-usual
call for school choice.
Trump constantly repeated to a higher ground of
bipartisanship and national pride, be it rebuilding at home or reengaging
overseas.
The effectiveness of it all? I’ll wager that it tested well
with voters willing to put aside the man’s personality and listen to his ideas.
Several hours before Trump’s address, I attended a lunch
where House Speaker Paul spoke briefly. Ryan outlined a prestissimo tempo on
Capitol Hill this spring: budgeting, tax reform, salvaging the health care
train wreck. Another baseball metaphor comes to mind: The House pitching, the
Senate catching.
And President Trump?
Starting with Tuesday night’s address, if he wants his
agenda – or a reasonable portion of it in the first two years – he’ll have to
learn how to manage a squad of congressional Republicans with self-defeating
tendencies.
Here are four takeaways from Trump’s speech:
1. How Trump Stated the Union’s State. Bill Clinton and
Barack Obama entered office amidst rocky economies. George W. Bush came to
Washington needing to prove his legitimacy after losing the popular vote and a
prolonged legal challenge.
Despite the White House’s pre-speech insistence, the night
was all about optimism, this wasn’t an address containing Obama-level
saccharine (after a fiery convention speech and an ominous-sounding inaugural,
were you surprised?).
In a realigned Washington, a Republican president now touts
victimhood (bad trade deals stealing American jobs; illegal aliens preying on
lawful citizens). Congressional Democrats bemoan government over-reach in the
form of Obamacare stepped-up immigration enforcement.
Throughout the evening, Trump didn’t go off on a tangent.
Congressional Democrats sat stonily. Nowadays, that passes for a good evening
in the nation’s capital.
2. The State of Trump’s State. The 45th president entered
his first joint address to Congress with a 39 percent approval rating, per the
Fox News Poll (Obama was at 60 percent at the same point in 2009).
The good news: it’s worlds better than Congress’ 17 percent
approval in the same poll. The bad news: it’s not the best of leveraging
positions.
What does work for Trump is the novelty of his appearing in prime-time
television (as a politician, that is) working off a Teleprompter and having an
adult conversation with the American public. Unlike the a.m. version of Trump –
the one prone to manic tweeting and extemporaneous remarks at press avails that
set off dumpster fires – the p.m. version is less abrasive and makes a more
convincing case that he’s serious about the job and has a lot of ideas that
makes sense.
It may be asking too much to ask Trump to give up the
stream-of-consciousness tweeting for Lent.
What he should consider: more speeches like this and town
hall venues outside the beltway, where the presidential agenda has far more
resonance – with Democrats representing districts that didn’t vote for Hillary
Clinton in a tough spot.
The surprises:
-- Just hours after the White House hinted it’s open to a
deal on immigration reform, Trump talked about immigration through the context
of drug-smuggling, the border wall and controlled entry into the U.S. There was
no mention of DREAM-ers or dealing with sanctuary cities.
-- Trump’s call for bipartisanship included fair trade and a
new “border tax” – not “drain the swamp” reforms such as lobbying restrictions
that were mentioned earlier in the address (and met with Democratic sarcasm).
-- Trump’s highlighting Pompe Disease survivor Megan Crowley
was a reminder of this president’s populist instincts, just as the prolonged
applause for Navy widow Carryn Owen was Reagan-level poignancy? Want to unite
voters? Point out the high cost of medicine and the FDA’s burdensome process,
or one family’s sacrifice to its country.
-- While the economy got large play, the specifics of tax
reform didn’t. The president made a vague reference to reducing for businesses
and families, but didn’t give it the same play as infrastructure investment or
regulatory reform. One imagines that Wall Street was hoping for more.
4. Can Anyone Play This Game? It’s the question Casey
Stengel once asked while pondering the expansion New York Mets of 1962 infamy.
Dealt an inside straight in this election – control of two branches of
government; an opposition party long on dissent but short on substance – can
the GOP capitalize on its good fortune?
Now that Trump has lent his voice to policy choices, he has
a choice. He can sit back and trust Speaker Ryan and Senate Majority Leader
Mitch McConnell to do the driving. Or, he can work with the congressional
leadership to keep the flock from straying.
This isn’t to suggest that Trump should rent a copy of HBO’s
“All The Way” and mimic Lyndon Johnson’s handholding and arm-twisting. But
perhaps it’s time to shift gears and push for the agenda in the same struggling
economic pockets that made the politically impossible last fall.
On a night when nothing historically lasting was uttered,
it’s how this president will be judged: by results, not fancy words or extended
olive branches.
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