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Steven
You still happy with Trump?
I was happy with Gorsuch. Beyond that, this has been an unmitigated disaster. Advancing Conservative policies--never popular with journalists and at odds with America's understanding of self--requires sober and serious leadership, a desire and a willingness to sell the policies, and the ability to communicate why doing so is important. None of this-none at all-is happening. Trump is currently feuding with his own Attorney General for hell's sake.
I'm willing to listen to counterarguments.
I was happy with Gorsuch. Beyond that, this has been an unmitigated disaster. Advancing Conservative policies--never popular with journalists and at odds with America's understanding of self--requires sober and serious leadership, a desire and a willingness to sell the policies, and the ability to communicate why doing so is important. None of this-none at all-is happening. Trump is currently feuding with his own Attorney General for hell's sake.
I'm willing to listen to counterarguments.
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That said, there were only four things I really care about.
1) Putting real conservatives on SCOTUS - He hit a homer.
2) DOL Fiduciary Rule that we can live with - everything is moving in the right direction so far.
3) Lower corporate taxes - Too early to tell. Be done with healthcare one way or the other and move the freak on to taxes.
4) Moving our embassy to Jerusalem - He pussied out...big time.
1) Conservatives or reactionaries?
2) You half convinced me that it ain't a bad thing, but only half.
3) Lower corporate taxes? OK. Tax cuts for the 1-5%? No way.
4) One of the worse possible things that could be done if one is at all serious about achieving peace in the region.
BTW - The way things are going under Bibi pretty soon Israel might not even consider you officially to be a Jew. Buffy's a 210% no-hoper.
Pretending all of Jerusalem is up for grabs dependent on negotiations just allows the Palestinians to continue with their delusions.
Maintaining some sort of equilibrium is what prevents continuous World War. Keeping our Embassy in Tel Aviv is a message that we pay a little more than lip service to legal niceties and are not telling the Arabs to go pound their copious amounts of sand.
This is similar to yesterday's decision to remove the metal detectors from the Temple Mount. All it does is embolden the Palestinians to keep doing what they've been doing and claiming what they've been claiming.
Getting to Yes is ****.
Anybody that thinks corporate tax cuts will bring manufacturing back to America needs a serious change in any of their math grades. There is no tax cut in the world that is going to allow an American worker to compete with someone that will work for $7 a week.
It also keeps us from openly endorsing the occupation of Palestine. Until that occupation ends, no borders are set in stone.
And he has done everything in his power to assure it.
Fixed for reality.
Said they expect a bill to begin moving through committees this fall.
Without the BAT, it's unclear how big a tax cut could be.
A corporate tax cut most likely would encourage domestic investment, which in turn would create jobs - not unskilled jobs, but the kind derived from investments that now go to other advanced economies, such as most of Europe.
What makes you think we would have a mess if Hillary was elected, serious question.
Speaking of mess, the conservative world is going to be pissed on Friday. The GOP has the presidency, the House and the Senate and they still can't repeal or replace. Now there's a mess.
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Moved to Montana, gonna be a dental floss tycoon.
Because she's a Clinton? That's the political equivalent of being Pig-Pen.
OK, admittedly the Clintons are deeply unpleasant people who are overly fond of money. Do you think Dufus Donny is not?
Then again, let's compare the numerous investigations of the Clintons that have yielded zero indictments save for Bill's impeachment, which he survived, and his superb political skills, to the Donald's obvious fear of having his Russian connections and finances examined, and his complete lack of governing skills.
Please explain how Hillary in the White House could possibly be worse than Donald.
To be fair, Goldie asked why Bufurd thought we'd be in a mess with Hillary, not more in a mess with Hillary.
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Seriously, a lot of the Hillary hate is nothing more than ill-concealed misogyny. As deeply flawed as she is, she's nowhere near the steaming pile of incompetence called Trump.
Are we better off with somebody deeply flawed and incompetent or deeply flawed but competent?
You really think that's why she failed twice? I thought the reason was the Russians and Comey?
The fact that she planned to continue Obama's policies was the biggest reason she lost.
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Well, everyone gets to interpret history their way. Policies? Obama would never have been re-elected if his policies were that unpopular. the only policies that affected the election was which side some people can go to the bathroom in. Which is to say social issues, including immigration. IMO, Hil lost because hatred (not just disgust) of the DC political establishment had reached extreme levels, and ANY non-member of the "establishment" was going to be favored. Remember that approval of congress was less than 20% going into the election process. I regarded Hil as just another well meaning but self-absorbed career politician who was obsessed with having a war chest and was willing to stretch the rules to get it. That she was a beta female didn't help.
And there is no door #3.
Mike
Did I say that? Try reading for comprehension next time.
That's because a lot of his policies weren't realized until his second term. Which is why the pendulum slowly swung away from the D's in the congressional elections and finally in the last presidential election.
When you say "Hillary Hate" I think it's safe to assume that is why you also think she lost both times. What am I missing?