Meanwhile, President Trump is swinging around town threatening to primary those who are too conservative to vote
for his hot garbage proposal. Speaking at a House meeting with Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA), Trump apparently stated
that he’d intervene to attempt to oust anyone who crossed him on the legislation. One House Republican told The Washington
Examiner, “The president will respond as circumstances dictate. He has unique capacities; I wouldn’t want to be the one
he tests them out on.”
So, this is what Republicans got when they bargained that Trump would repeal and replace Obamacare? Obamacare Lite,
crammed down through threats and fulminations?
Congresspeople serve us. They do not serve Trump. Trump serves us. He does not serve himself. If both our Congressional
leaders and Trump feel the necessity to abandon core principles in order to press forward a bad bill, they should feel the heat
from the voters. They have a binary choice: they can either do what they promised to do, or feel our wrath at the polls in
2018. And that wrath won’t be restricted to red districts where conservative legislators stood up in favor of free markets.
Nor do we serve them.
Donaldus Minimus also needs to learn that there is
nothing in the Constitution that says Congress
must do the
bidding of the president. If the president
recommends legislation and the legislation is sound, of course Congress
would be foolish to reject it, but
it is their prerogative to do so just as it's the president's to veto it, just as it's
Congress's to override a veto if they can.
Who'd have thought we'd see the days (this didn't exactly
begin with Donaldus Minimus and company, they merely
show it flagrantly and shamelessly, and in ways over which Droopy Drawers Clinton, President Lips II, and His Excellency
Obama must drool with envy) when the president and his assorted sycophants on Crapola Hill needed civics lessons?