The GOP Agenda for the Next Two Years

[mystery-ak]

The GOP Agenda for the Next Two Years

    Steve Baldwin
   

November 20, 2018, 12:05 am

So many missed opportunities these last two years.

There’s a quite a bit of talk about how the two parties will work together to pass some policy initiatives over the next two years but don’t believe it for a minute. It is unlikely the Democrats will compromise with the Republicans on any issue that would give Trump a win. The reality is that when it comes to important issues such as border security, tax cuts, and health care, the Democrats simply don’t share the same underlying principles with the Republicans. We need to realize that today’s Democrat Party is not the same one that existed in the pre-Obama era when they were often able to find common ground with the Republicans. The last decade has seen the Democrat Party transform itself into a socialist party with little in common with traditional American governance.

Indeed, there are no more moderate Democrats in any key party positions whatsoever and those who today set the party’s agenda have a socialist orientation, despise capitalism, and support identity and group politics over merit and individual accountability. They have rejected the traditional norms that undergird the Christian-based value system America was founded upon. They defer to globalist institutions over U.S. constitutional law and don’t even support basic governing principles such as sovereignty and the concept of citizenship.

If JFK ran for office today, he would not only get clobbered, but he would be denounced for his whiteness, his elitist background, and his support for capitalism, tax cuts, and a strong military. He wouldn’t even make it past the Democrat primary.

Whatever compromise legislation offered by the House Democrats would almost certainly be something that violates basic conservative principles and should be rejected by the Republicans. Even on the issue of “infrastructure,” what the Democrats will likely do is to turn such a bill into a “Christmas tree” pork bill, whereby hundreds of state and local infrastructure projects will be placed into the bill for federal funding.

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[libertybele]

The GOP blew it BIGLY these past two years.  They held a rare majority in ALL houses and they couldn't get their act together. No agenda that I can see other than once again curtsy to the leftists as usual.  One positive is Lyin' Ryan will be history!

My concern right now is how will Pres. Trump act going forward?  Will he pander to the left or will he stand his ground?

Don't count on a wall.  At best he will keep illegal immigration and asylum to a minimum; if he plans on running for re-election and maintaining the Senate in 2020, this is crucial.  IF the demographics of the country changes too much; it's game over for him and the GOP.

[XenaLee]

The GOP blew it BIGLY these past two years.  They held a rare majority in ALL houses and they couldn't get their act together. No agenda that I can see other than once again curtsy to the leftists as usual.  One positive is Lyin' Ryan will be history!

My concern right now is how will Pres. Trump act going forward?  Will he pander to the left or will he stand his ground?

Don't count on a wall.  At best he will keep illegal immigration and asylum to a minimum; if he plans on running for re-election and maintaining the Senate in 2020, this is crucial.  IF the demographics of the country changes too much; it's game over for him and the GOP.

Oh, I disagree (channeling Frank Cannon here). 

They could have gotten their act together.  Coulda woulda shoulda.  They didn't want to come together to pass Trump's agenda.  Too damned many RINOs and establishment elitists in there to have done what was in the best interest of the entire country.... vs. what was in their best interest.

Now they have a free pass, get out of jail free card to do NOTHING and sit back, draw their cushy salaries at tax-payer expense, while talking out of both sides of their mouths...like true politicians do... and while pretending that "if only" they still had majority control they coulda done so much to "help Americans".   Yeah.  Riiiight.   Fool me once, fool me twice... but hell no to fooling me thrice.