By Joe Cunningham
https://www.redstate.com/joesquire/2018/03/24/omnibus-signing-trump-formally-surrenders-swamp/In the hours leading up to the signing of the omnibus spending deal – a bill that adds way more money to the nation’s deficit, and one that was orchestrated largely by Congressional Republicans who campaigned for the last decade on doing the opposite – there were multiple reactions coming from his conservative supporters.
Some praised his threat of a veto, which seemed to signal that he was going to hold on to conservative principles. Others were worried he would sign the bill, which doesn’t even give him the much-touted border wall.
Still others were already finding new and creative ways to blame Trump’s opponents for the looming disaster . . .
. . . The press conference came, and we saw it for ourselves: Donald Trump signed the omnibus deal. With his signature on the paper, Donald Trump formally surrendered to The Swamp.
I’ve seen the spin.
* Trump is still playing three-dimensional chess.
* He’s playing the long game, you’re worried about one play.
* Trump was dealt a bad hand, by Congress.
* Now is not the time to fight. We must prepare for the next battle.
The people making these statements are the very same conservatives who railed against the Republican Establishment for years for making the same points. It was a crap argument then, and it’s a crap argument now . . .
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Emphasis in the original.---EA.
