WHEN IT COMES TO TRUMPS BUDGET: HE WHO LAUGHS LAST, LAUGHS BEST!

By Jonathan E.P. Moore, and Friends of America!

WHEN IT COMES TO TRUMPS BUDGET: HE WHO LAUGHS LAST, LAUGHS BEST!

As ‘left’ Progressives are taking a victory lap and high-fiving it, while Mulvaney spells out the truth about the winners and losers, and disproves, again, how what the left claims to be the facts, are not about what the American people really got from the Republicans, and what the democrats didn't deliver on to their constituency, again! President Trump is back to work on the legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare, tax reform, and ‘making America great again, so if you don't realize whose doing the work, and trying to make America great again for all Americans, can you haven't done your homework! What the ‘Left’ doesn’t realize is that this victory lap will be the last time, after the 8 years of Obama’s feckless lack of following the law when it came to the required time frame for submitting a budget, then lied to the American people, and lied directly to their faces when he took the oath of office for his first term as President!

Obama didn’t need a budget, the House, or the Senate to use taxpayers’ dollars to fund his unvetted illegal immigrant and refugee immigration policies, but he did need his ‘Pen and Phone’ to work its magic to give him the key to the coffers of the treasury, and the America’s taxpayer dollars! Obama used these funds to blackmail illegals to help swing the illegal's vote unconstitutionally through voter ID fraud, and their racist narrative they claim is the reason for them stonewalling any legislation that would make voter ID a requirement to vote.

What Trump did by allowing this budget to pass is allowing the American people to see how bad America has become while Obama was in charge, and how the Republican members of Congress and the House have fallen under the spell of the Obama agenda of division through ‘Political Correctness,’ and by doing so, helping to divide the different factions of the Republican Party! Republican Party Members now believe that the ‘me, myself and I’ preservation of their own ego, greed, and their reelection is more important than saving our Constitutional Republic, and losing sight of the Republican ‘team's’ ‘all for one,  and one for all’ battle cry that patriotically existed during the WWI and WWII, and approved by ‘Will’ of the American people then, and the 'Will' of the American people today! It's apparent to me that Trump is trying to draw the American public's attention to the fact that their job is not over, and that the 'Swamp' needs to be drained of all bipartisan statesmen who agree with the lawlessness, and anti-constitutional narrative that is being displayed by some of the members of both parties that agree with the lawlessness, of the financed special interest to undermine and resist anything that is Trump, and his platform of enforcing the rule law, the letter of the law, and defending America's Constitutional Republic.  

What agenda journalists and the questioning constituencies of both parties are missing is understanding how a outsider nonpolitician Billionaire President of the United State can move on, change direction, and still complete the project after changing the order of priorities, finishing on time, and then attending the opening day ceremonial cutting of the tape of a new Trump skyscraper, golf course, or 'new' commercial enterprise!

The only thing that Trump has going for himself is that he can't be held to the same standard of a politician, but can tell the truth, or not tell the truth, and by doing so play the same political game, that the status quo has been playing for years. He's a quick understudy, and will figure out what the hell is going on in this country, and get us back on the same track our founding fathers and the Constitution had us on from the beginning......!  

2008-2012: OBAMA NEVER PASSED A BUDGET!

President Barack Obama will be the first president in this great country who will not have passed a budget in his first term of office. He submitted a budget that was defeated by a vote of 97-0. Not a single Democrat or Republican voted for it.

In his first two years in office, instead of focusing on the economy, he passed the stimulus bill (which did not work because he pushed for clean energy), and the Affordable Healthcare Act (which had to go to the U.S. Supreme Court because it was so controversial). In fact, we had to wait until it was passed before we saw what was in it.

In 2010, the Republicans won a majority in the House, and they have submitted 33 budget bills that have been shelved by the Democrat-controlled Senate. The bills were not allowed for discussion or for a vote. The president refuses to negotiate with Republicans, and unlike the outsider nonpolitician President Trump who has proven to have an open door to anyone that chooses to chat about making America great again!

I would like to say that all voters need to ask any person running for public office how the candidates plan on breaking this deadlock in Washington, D.C. If they can’t answer that question, they don’t deserve our vote.

Click here>  President Obama’s Missed Budget Deadlines: An Unprecedented Disrespect for the Law 

PRESIDENT OBAMA: THE BIGGEST GOVERNMENT SPENDER IN WORLD HISTORY! (2012)

The U.S. has never before had a President who thinks so little of the American people that he imagines he can win re-election running on the opposite of reality. But that is the reality of President Obama today.

Waving a planted press commentary, Obama recently claimed on the campaign stump, “federal spending since I took office has risen at the slowest pace of any President in almost 60 years.”

Peggy Noonan aptly summarized in last weekend’s Wall Street Journal the take away by the still holding majority of Americans living in the real world: “

“There is, now, a house-of-cards feel about this administration.  It became apparent some weeks ago when the President talked on the stump – where else? – about an essay by a fellow who said spending growth [under Obama] is actually lower than that of previous Presidents.  This was startling to a lot of people, who looked into it and found the man had left out most spending from 2009, the first year of Mr. Obama’s Presidency.  People sneered: The President was deliberately using a misleading argument to paint a false picture!  But you know, why would he go out there waiving an article that could immediately be debunked?  Maybe because he thought it was true.  That’s more alarming, isn’t it, the idea that he knows so little about the effects of his own economic program that he thinks he really is a low spender.”

What this shows most importantly is that the recognition is starting to break through to the general public regarding the President’s rhetorical strategy that I've have been calling Calculated Deception.  The latter is deliberately using a misleading argument to paint a false picture.  That has been a central Obama practice not only throughout his entire presidency, but also as the foundation of his 2008 campaign strategy, and actually throughout his whole career. ~~Peter Ferrara, a Friend of America!

‘OBAMA LEGACY’: 10 WAYS BARACK OBAMA BROKE THE AMERICAN SYSTEM!

Much ink has been spilled, and much bandwidth spent, on describing Donald Trump’s 2016 victory as a populist revolt. Less attention has been paid to what voters were rebelling against.

There were economic grievances — in the Upper Midwest in particular — but the economy as a whole is slowly recovering. (As Alexis de Tocqueville observed, revolutions tend to occur in times of rising expectations.)

But at its core, the revolution of 2016 was an attempt at restoration — at fixing a broken system.

What broke it? Both parties acquiesced in bank liberalization, open-borders immigration, and Wall Street bailouts.

But the most acute challenge was Barack Obama’s direct attack on the constitutional framework itself. Obama sought to transform America, and believed that the ends would justify the means.

Republicans, hypnotized by race and cowed by the media, put up little fight. So voters took matters into their own hands.

Here are ten of the most serious ways Obama broke the system.

1. The stimulus. On the campaign trail, Obama promised a $50 billion stimulus and criticized George W. Bush for building up the national debt. In office, Obama passed a nearly $1 trillion stimulus, over Republican objections, that failed to keep unemployment from below 8% (as promised), and went largely to pet projects and state and local governments. The profligate spending shocked voters who feared that the country was now on an irreversible path to fiscal ruin. The Tea Party was born.

2. Fast and Furious. The Obama administration smuggled guns across the Mexican border, ostensibly to trace them to drug cartels. Unlike the Bush administration’s Wide Receiver, Obama’s Operation Fast and Furious happened without the Mexican government’s knowledge. The likely goal was to create a pretext for reducing gun ownership in the U.S. It led to the murders of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry and hundreds of Mexicans. Afterwards, Obama used “executive privilege” to cover it up.

3. Betraying allies. Obama picked public fights with Israel in a deliberate effort to establish “distance” between the allies. He also broke agreements with the Czechs and the Poles on missile defense, infamously informing the Polish prime minister on the 70th anniversary of the Katyn Massacre. He Snubbed the British in ways small (returning a Churchill bust) and big (using the Argentinian term “Malvinas” for the Falklands). And he spied on foreign allies, including Germany’s Angela Merkel.

4. Obamacare. The sweeping plan for “universal” health insurance sought, fundamentally, to make individuals dependent on the state, the better to open the door to even more sweeping changes. But it was the process of passing the bill that caused the real damage. To pass Obamacare, Obama bent and broke procedural rules; lied, repeatedly, about the policy; disguised a tax as a fee; and bullied the Supreme Court into compliance. It was the first major entitlement passed without bipartisan support.

5. Debt ceiling. Few of the Republicans who rode the Tea Party wave in 2010 made an issue out of the debt ceiling. But the Obama administration believed that a confrontation would help it regain full control of Congress. So it picked a fight over the debt, and forced a confrontation in the summer of 2011 that brought the country to the brink of default. Obama scuttled a “grand bargain” with Republicans by demanding higher taxes. The result: a hated budget “sequester” and a credit downgrade.

6. Benghazi. Presidents had lied to the country before about national security incidents: the Iran-Contra scandal, for example, left a stain on Ronald Reagan’s legacy. But no previous American president had abandoned Americans to die abroad without putting up a fight or making a serious effort to punish the perpetrators. In fact, in the heat of battle, Obama went to sleep and flew to a political fundraiser in Las Vegas the next day. It was an unprecedented abdication of his commander-in-chief role.

7. IRS scandal. Encouraged by Obama’s attacks on “dark money” and conservative political donors, the Internal Revenue Service began singling out conservative non-profit organizations for excessive scrutiny, denying them the ability to operate during the crucial 2012 elections, and trying to pry loose private information on their donors, their meetings, and even the content of their prayers. To this day, no Obama administration official has been punished for that horrific abuse of power.

8. AP scandal. Despite the media’s ongoing love affair with Obama, the administration targeted journalists for harassment, surveillance and prosecution. In one case, the Department of Justice seized phone records from the Associated Press; in another, the DOJ searched the emails of Fox News reporter James Rosen and his family. Congress later found Attorney General Eric Holder misled it when he told them in May 2013 he had not been involved in potential prosecution of the media.

9. Iran deal. After resisting sanctions on Iran, and holding off on any real action against the Iranian regime when it faced mass protests in 2009, Obama made a deal with Iran in 2015 that removed most sanctions in exchange for a mere temporary slowdown in the Iranian nuclear program. Worse, he refused to submit it to the Senate for ratification in accordance with the Constitution’s Treaty Clause, and Democrats blocked a weaker effort to submit the deal to an overall congressional vote.

10. Executive action on immigration. Obama abused prosecutorial discretion in 2012 in announcing “Deferred Action for Children of Americans” (DACA) in 2012, even after Congress declined to pass legislation on “Dreamers.” But the real offense came after the 2014 elections, when Obama defied the electorate and announced an “executive amnesty” — “Deferred Action for Parents of Americans” (DAPA) — that he himself said dozens of times was unconstitutional (he lost in the courts). ~~by Joel B. Pollak, a Friend of America!

PRESIDENT TRUMP'S MESSAGE TO THE 'PAID TO REPORT' MEDIA: "COME INTO MY PARLOR SAID THE SPIDER TO THE FLY"

THE BIG IDEA: Perhaps the best negotiators are not the people who tell everyone that they are the best negotiators, and the agenda journalists who won't stop using intent, interpretation, and protected 'fake' sources when relaying their 'fake' news to the American people.

A spending agreement was reached last night that will keep the government funded through the end of September. This will be the first significant bipartisan measure passed by Congress since Donald Trump took office, and never done once in the 8 years of Obama! So, chalk that up to another accomplishment for the 100 day old outsider nonpolitician, President Donald Trump!

-- The White House agreed to punt on a lot of the president’s top priorities until this fall to avert a shutdown on Friday and to clear the deck so that the House can pass a health-care bill. “This is going to be a great week,” Gary Cohn, Trump’s chief economic adviser, said on CBS this morning. “We're going to get health care down to the floor of the House. We're convinced we've got the votes, and we're going to keep moving on with our agenda.”

-- But Democrats are surprised by just how many concessions they extracted in the trillion-dollar deal, considering that Republicans have unified control of government. How surprised can they be when they know once Obamacare is repealed, that $1 Trillion in additional tax funding will be available to President Trump and the 'making America great again' platform...Hmmm?

Trump’s longtime lawyer Michael Cohen bragged during the campaign: “He’s an amazing negotiator, probably the best in this world.”

On Sunday, the president acknowledged he has a lot to learn. “I think the rules in Congress and, in particular the rules in the Senate, are unbelievably archaic and slow moving and, in many cases, unfair,” Trump said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” “In many cases, you're forced to make deals that are not the deal you'd make. You'd make a much different kind of a deal. You're forced into situations that you hate to be forced into.”

-- You can read the 1,665-page bill here. The House Appropriations Committee posted a department-by-department breakdown here.

-- Now that the language has posted, here are the eight most notable areas Trump caved in his first big spending negotiation:

1. There are explicit restrictions to block the border wall. We knew last week there would be no money to start construction on a project that the president says is more important to his base than anything else. But the final agreement goes further, putting strict limitations on how Trump can use new money for border security (e.g. to invest in new technology and repair existing fencing). Administration officials have insisted they already have the statutory authority to start building the wall under a 2006 law. This prevents such an end run. But with border crossings down 73%, the lowest number of crossing in 17 years, why should he waste his powder on an issue that seems to be working without the beginning of the construction of the wall?...Hmmm? 

The $1.5 billion for border security is also half as much as the White House requested. Additionally, there are no cuts in funding to sanctuary cities, something a federal judge said last week would be required for the Justice Department to follow through on its threats. And there is also no money for a deportation force.

2. Non-defense domestic spending will go up, despite the Trump team’s insistence he wouldn’t let that happen. The president called for $18 billion in cuts. Instead, he’s going to sign a budget with lots of sweeteners that grow the size of government. Mitch McConnell made sure $4.6 billion got put aside to permanently extend health benefits to 22,000 retired Appalachian coal miners and their families. Nancy Pelosi made sure $295 million was included to shore up Medicaid in Puerto Rico. Chuck Schumer got $61 million to reimburse local law enforcement agencies for the cost of protecting Trump when he travels to his residences in Florida and New York. There is also another $2 billion in disaster relief money for states, which bought a couple votes. (Kelsey Snell, our lead budget reporter, has more examples.) Time will tell, and at this time not that important because repealing Obamacare, tax reform, and building up our military are the highest 3 most important initiatives that President Trump is working on, and the rest just low lying fruit that the Dems can have, and celebrate, for now, and until September 30TH when all bets are off!

3. Barack Obama’s cancer moonshot is generously funded. The administration asked to slash spending at the National Institutes of Health by $1.2 billion for the rest of this fiscal year. Instead, the NIH will get a $2 billion boost — on top of the huge increase it got last year. Republican appropriators who care about biomedical research, including Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.) and Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), delivered. Now the people of Oklahoma and Missouri know who's not on the side of the 'Will' of the American People, or backing the mandate of the American people by worrying too much about their reelection and kissing ass of the financial special interests of those 2 states!

Trump also failed in his efforts to cut money for other kinds of scientific inquiry. For example, he proposed defunding the Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy. Instead, it is getting a $15 million increase. President Trump wants to be in office when they attempt to go to mars, so why wouldn't he ease up on the sciences and their funding, and help out? 

4. Trump fought to cut the Environmental Protection Agency by a third. The final deal trims its budget by just 1 percent, with no staff cuts. As part of a compromise, the EPA gets $80 million less than last year, but the budget is $8 billion. I think you missed the point that President Trump, through executive order, eliminated the restrictions and regulation that were holding back America's companies and Corporations from creating jobs, and reversing the addition of Obama's 43 new major rules last year (2015) which increased the annual regulatory costs by more than $22 billion, bringing the total annual costs of Obama Administration rules to an astonishing $100 billon-plus in just seven years, and this not including Obama's last minute, walking out the door additions! So, when you look at the millions being allowed compared to the 10's of Billions President Trump is now saving America's Corporations and Companies, which makes these high five celebrations laughable!

5. He didn’t defund Planned Parenthood. Despite the best efforts of social conservatives, the group will continue to receive funding at current levels. Nothing to be said here except:

Click here>   PLANNED PARENTHOOD AND THEIR LIES, WHO MURDER FOR PROFIT!

6. The president got less than half as much for the military as he said was necessary. Trump repeatedly prodded Congress to increase military spending by $30 billion. He’s getting $12.5 billion, with an additional $2.5 billion if/when he delivers a detailed plan on how to defeat the Islamic State. Many Democrats from states with bases and manufacturers, especially those up for reelection in 2018, wanted this, too. Like Trump, they will tout the increased spending as a victory. The White House plans to call this a down payment on a much bigger investment down the road. The world community,  and our old loyal ally's, who Obama turned his back on are now lining up behind President Trump, the pro-American and ally President that brought America back to the stage and supplying the world with the power and leadership that has been absent from the world stage for the last 8 years by America, So, honestly I don't see the immediate need, especially after the Syrian bombing defense of Obama's feckless 'redline' threat and inaction, that there is a need for the immediate funding of additional military preparedness because of the aid from other countries that are now willing to step up to the plate, to do what Obama couldn't, and wouldn't do, to keep the world safe!

7. Democrats say they forced Republicans to withdraw more than 160 riders. These unrelated policy measures, which each could have been a poison pill, would have done things like get rid of the fiduciary rule and water down environmental regulations. On the other side of the ledger, this budget blocks the Justice Department from restricting the dispensing of medical marijuana in states where it has been legalized. All of the above don't need to be a responsibility of the federal government, and not a cost to the taxpayer, or subsidized by the Federal Government. Who knows better about what these individual riders accomplish or not, but the individual States that are effected by these some 160 riders, and the voters of those states! 

8. To keep negotiations moving, the White House already agreed last week to continue paying Obamacare subsidies. This money, which goes to insurance companies, reduces out-of-pocket expenses for low-income people who get coverage under the Affordable Care Act. The Trump administration justifies giving up on this because of the potential to resolve the bigger issue by repealing Obamacare. An answer within the answer, go figure. Obamacare is still the law of the land so by law, it still has to be funded....duh...that's a tough one for common sense logic, I guess?

The House is expected to easily pass this spending deal in the coming days.

-- Soon after the deal was reached last night, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi quickly put out celebratory statements. But McConnell and Paul Ryan did not.

-- The lack of aggressive messaging from Republican leadership, and especially the White House, late Sunday is one of the reasons that coverage is so lopsidedly bad for them in this morning’s papers and on cable news. Here are 10 examples:

•“Overall, the compromise resembles more of an Obama administration-era budget than a Trump one,” Bloomberg reports.

•The Associated Press calls it “a lowest-common-denominator measure that won't look too much different than the deal that could have been struck on Obama's watch last year.”

•Reuters: “While Republicans control the House, Senate and White House, Democrats scored … significant victories in the deal.”

•The Los Angeles Times describes the agreement as “something of an embarrassment to the White House”: “Trump engineered the fiscal standoff shortly after he was elected, insisting late last year that Congress should fund the government for only a few months so he could put his stamp on federal spending as the new president.”

•The headline on FoxNews.com is “Spending bill language omits border wall funding, sanctuary cities crackdown”: “It also rejects White House budget director Mick Mulvaney's proposals to cut popular programs such as funding medical research and community development grants.”

•New York Times A1: “The deal should spare Republicans the embarrassment of seeing the government shut down on their watch. But it also gave a glimpse of the reluctance of lawmakers to bend to Mr. Trump’s spending priorities, like his desire for sharp cuts to domestic programs.”

•The Wall Street Journal’s headline notes the $2 billion for Obama’s moon shot, plus the EPA and Planned Parenthood being left intact.

•“Congressional negotiators basically told the Trump administration to take a hike,” David Nather writes on Axios.

•NPR says Democrats “flexed their leverage in spending negotiations.”

•Vox: “Conservatives got almost nothing they wanted.”

-- The bigger picture: “Trump is a nightmare negotiating partner,” writes USA Today commentary editor Jill Lawrence, who wrote a book called “The Art of the Political Deal.” “The only constants with Trump are unpredictability and expediency. These are not, suffice it to say, the traditional cornerstones of getting to yes in politics.” ~~By James Hohmann,……not so sure what this does for America, but I do know it's like shooting fish in a barrel come September 30th, 2017!

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