cartoon by Alexander Hoffman at dailyreckoning.com
Quite a few conservative bloggers and columnists have been
throwing up their hands in despair over President Trump’s signing of the
god-awful Omnibus spending bill last week. Headlines such as “Art of the Fail” or
“Trump Fought the Swamp and the Swamp Won” were everywhere. But perhaps we are watching
another Trump negotiation. Since the Omnibus bill is not a budget, the
Executive branch has some flexibility on how (and if) funds are allocated. For example, Ann Coulter
suggested he fund the wall using Defense Dept. money.
My own outrage is directed at the GOPe members of the
Uniparty, who ran on - and raised millions on - promises they had no intention
of ever keeping. They did not expect to win. Some might conclude that they wanted to lose. And we now see them, out in the
open, blocking Trump’s agenda at every turn, including this latest maneuver.
As I see it, The GOPe has tried hard to stop Trump from the day
he announced his candidacy right up to today. The Omnibus bill was just another opportunity
to obstruct and undermine. They don’t want to be in the majority. They want to
keep their noses in the trough and raise money by making more empty promises
that they can whine about if they are in the minority. And the gloating Democrat
leadership would love nothing more than to see Trump’s base lose heart.
For
some more optimistic/realistic takes, try Don Surber, Kurt Schlichter, or Sundance at
Conservative Treehouse.
Related: at American Thinker, Joseph Smith asks if it will
be “Time for Republicans to stay home in 2018?”
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