True. But I credit the President with using the EO --- the only means he really had --- to change the trajectory of the economy and illegal immigration. I would like to see how much he can codify into law in his second term. And he has done a hell of a good job with the courts and the military.
I do not - I will remain where I have been long before Tumpy came along: EOs are incidental and no more than candy thrown by the clown at the front of the parade. I'm a meat and potatoes kind of guy. Always have been, always will be.
I agree. -- It's why I favor the President so much. He pretty much ignores the UN and used corporate boardrooms by forcing them to step up during the height of the pandemic and bring back manufacturing at the barrel of a tariff gun. Trump understands them from the inside out and uses his experience to benefit the American people. Unfortunately, there's no one like him in either party---certainly not in Washington.
Again, an incidental reliance on a single man entirely distracts from the real problem, and is, outside of its populist allure, wholly meaningless. One man can do nothing... Or rather, can do little I suppose. The problem, as I have always framed it, is in a flaccid Republican Party... A direct result of populist elections and moderate 'Big Tent' theory. Rather than a party made to order, lean and ready to fight tooth and nail for Conservatism, You have a party that colludes with the Democrats because their true aims are not that different.
Even if I felt Tumpy to be capable, rather than a tub-thumping rabble rouser, he had nothing to back him. He was rendered ineffective from day one, and his governance by EO only proves that. He plays a good game in the public eye, but where the rubber meets the road he's got nothing - Largely because he has no team, and it is a team game...
Roamer, we're clinging to Federalism and the last vestiges of individual freedom with bloody fingernails. My unsolicited advice: let's get the freedom and Federalism things straight before we move budgetary restraints to the number one issue. Get the first two right and the deficit automatically moves up the list because folks will have the security to focus on it and will demand it.
Quite the other way around. All you do by feeding the federal beast is feed the federal beast. Thinking you can do it better than the Democrats is a grave mistake.
Well, this is a little cold. 
Too bad, it would have been interesting to see what an RIV/Roamer (in alphabetical order) alliance would have looked like. 
Wasn't meant to be cold. Was meant to be quipish and true
Should be fairly obvious to you by now RiV, I don't follow crowds. I would welcome company along the trail, but that would only be because we happen to be traveling toward the same destination. If you are running up a different trail, don't expect me to follow. I know where I'm going, and that destination has not changed my whole life long.
No detours. Straight on till morning.
