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03-02-2017, 03:44 AM | #1 |
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After a hostile takeover, it's Trump's party now
WASHINGTON ? It is now Trump's party. President Trump's first address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night underscored how he has redefined the Republicans' political base and their policy message on issues from trade to immigration to deficits to international alliances. While he struck a sunnier tone than he did in his inaugural address six weeks ago, when he had talked darkly of "American carnage," he once again warned that the nation was threatened with decline at home and threats from abroad. He had led a political "earthquake" of disenchanted American voters in last year's election, he boasted. "They were united by one very simple but crucial demand, that America must put its own citizens first," he declared, "because only then can we truly make America great again." (In the text distributed by the White House, Trump's familiar four-word campaign theme appeared in all caps.) The hourlong speech was in many ways a conventional presidential address, with a laundry list of proposals, allusions to American history and tributes to American heroes. That's notable in part because so much about Trump's presidency has been unconventional ? and because many of his populist, nationalist prescriptions that defy Republican orthodoxy are becoming part of the GOP mainstream. "My job is not to represent the world," he said as he discussed the U.S. role around the globe. "My job is to represent the United States of America." He had been cheered when he spoke to CPAC, a conservative conclave he once viewed as so problematic that he canceled his appearance there during last year's campaign. In the ornate House chamber Tuesday, Republican senators and representatives gave him repeated standing ovations, though only a handful had endorsed his candidacy before his nomination became inevitable. (Some of them didn't do so even then.) In a final sign that his takeover of the GOP, once viewed as hostile, was complete: 84% of Republican-leaning voters in the Pew Research Center poll approved of the job Trump is doing in the White House, a level of support that nearly matches what Barack Obama received among Democrats at this point in his presidency, in 2009, and is a bit better than the backing Ronald Reagan was getting among Republicans in 1981. "In the first 30 days it's hard to think about how he could have cemented his relationship with the conservative heart and soul of the party any better," says Matt Schlapp, chairman of the American Conservative Union, which sponsors CPAC. "I think it's indisputable that he is the political head of the Republican Party." That said, strains and a spiderweb of fractures in the GOP already are apparent as Trump continues to face allegations about his campaign's ties to Russia and gets more enmeshed in the details of the proposals he had outlined only in broad strokes before. On Tuesday afternoon, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., warned that the president's budget plan to slash State Department funding, an idea floated just 24 hours earlier, probably couldn't pass. And policymakers in both parties were roiled after TV anchors emerged from a luncheon with the president to report that a "senior administration official" told them Trump was open to negotiating a comprehensive immigration bill, language that typically indicates a path to legal status or even citizenship for undocumented workers. Continued Analysis: After a hostile takeover, it's Trump's party now
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03-02-2017, 03:50 AM | #2 |
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You really should read the stuff you post first - the last couple of paragraphs are a off message and paint a different picture.
That said, strains and a spiderweb of fractures in the GOP already are apparent as Trump continues to face allegations about his campaign's ties to Russia and gets more enmeshed in the details of the proposals he had outlined only in broad strokes before. On Tuesday afternoon, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., warned that the president's budget plan to slash State Department funding, an idea floated just 24 hours earlier, probably couldn't pass. And policymakers in both parties were roiled after TV anchors emerged from a luncheon with the president to report that a "senior administration official" told them Trump was open to negotiating a comprehensive immigration bill, language that typically indicates a path to legal status or even citizenship for undocumented workers. So 2 key Trump policies (slashing state dept funding, and illegal immigrant deportation) are not actually going to happen.
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03-02-2017, 03:56 AM | #3 |
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I did read, it's a well-balanced article, the party is now Trump's, even if a few people aren't happy about that
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03-02-2017, 10:35 AM | #4 |
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CNN and the left is getting desperate...now teaming up with George Bush, John McCain and pedo Lindsey Graham!
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03-02-2017, 11:42 AM | #5 |
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Republican politicians seems to be "meekly going along with this" to see where it is going. You know they will not support him if his ship starts sinking.
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03-02-2017, 11:44 AM | #6 |
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03-06-2017, 04:06 PM | #7 |
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Such sillyness
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