A Big Promise Kept. Another Promise Broken.

[Silver Pines]

A Big Promise Kept. Another Promise Broken.

By Erick Erickson
February 1, 2017



On the campaign trail, President Trump made two promises to evangelical Christians. He promised he would nominate to the Supreme Court someone in the mold of Antonin Scalia. President Trump also promised to reverse a Barack Obama executive order that prioritizes the gay left’s agenda at the expense of helping the poor. He kept the first, but he has broken the latter.

President Trump has set up the Supreme Court for a generation of sound jurisprudence with the nomination of Neil Gorsuch. The odds are that President Trump will get one or two more picks and should be able to decisively shift the Court to the right. That would be a good thing for business, culture, and small government.

I cannot understate the relief Gorsuch’s nomination should give to Trump skeptics and critics from the right. At this point, if you cannot say thank you just for this nomination, you are more ill-mannered than a critic. Gorsuch is a grand slam, and the President deserves our thanks for it.

But President Trump has also walked away from a core commitment to the poor and to evangelicals who supported him. He should not be allowed to hang his hat on one Supreme Court nominee when there are so many other areas in which the Obama administration wrecked havoc. He should explicitly not be allowed to hang his hat on this nomination to avoid keeping a promise that, if kept, would help the poor.


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http://theresurgent.com/a-big-promise-kept-another-promise-broken/

[endicom]

I suspect that the promise broken will be addressed from a different angle. We'll see.

[TomSea]

It's still less than 2 work weeks into the Trump administration.  The Democrats are upset enough already.

[corbe]

   This Gay crap is his and his Daughter's NY Liberalism shining through, This was a major disappointment.     
   Expecting Congress to do anything about this is a pipe dream.
   Most of the rest of what's transpired in the last 10 days has been phenomenal.

[Silver Pines]

I note two reasonable responses and one "only a Democrat would want to hold Trump accountable to his campaign promises" post.

[endicom]

   This Gay crap is his and his Daughter's NY Liberalism shining through, This was a major disappointment.     

The goal should be to allow people their religious convictions and to spare people from having to share private facilities with who-knows-what. Hannibal allowed a Roman army into his center to annihilate it from the flanks. Maybe the Pubs have a similar plan.

[Frank Cannon]

And if President Trump thinks that he will be liked by doing this, he should look around. Gay rights groups yesterday strongly condemned him for even suggesting he might repeal this executive order and never praised him for keeping it. So perhaps the President should keep this promise too and help the poor.

Sure thing Erick, and if Trump thinks he will ever get any kudos from members of the Evan McMuffin party like you he only needs to read you petty bitch piece.

I'll take a solid lifetime appointment to the SC over some EO any day of the week.