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10th May 2017, 04:41 PM | #321 |
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What an idiot! White House lawyers had to repeatedly advise the Orange Menace not to reach out to Flynn.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...-michael-flynn |
10th May 2017, 06:30 PM | #322 |
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More opinions, how about specifics!
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10th May 2017, 06:45 PM | #323 |
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I don't know how to get more specific than a Republican Congressman talking about his negotiations with the White House.
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Chained CPI? 2014 budget negotiations, Obama offered to cut SS and Medicare in exchange for revenue increases from Republicans - you know, negotiations. Republicans turned him down, fortunately.
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They were, of course, qualified. He needed to appoint inept, inexperienced Republican boobs like Trump in order to satisfy your ever-shifting criteria? How many Democrats are in Trump's cabinet? Bush's?
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Obama tried to set up regular meetings with Republicans to discuss ideas they could cooperate on.
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He helped organize a bipartisan group of Senators to develop a solution both parties could agree with. This is not my opinion as I quoted Obama speaking favorably about the effort. This is evidence of Obama trying to work with Republicans to develop bipartisan legislation.
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10th May 2017, 07:46 PM | #324 |
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I'll help you since you can't. Getting together with republican leadership to hammer out an actual compromise. You using a quote from a liberal is as usual a joke.
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Both parties could agree with? As it failed, your side will claim he tried. His whole administration was set up to fail because he could not compromise in meaningful ways. Clinton is never characterized that way, he made major compromises with republicans to have a lasting legacy of great economic growth.
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10th May 2017, 08:06 PM | #328 |
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Yeah, that's moving the goal posts. Obama offered endless compromises, as I and others have shown, but the Republicans decided to refuse to work with him. Turned out to benefit them politically, but it is totally incorrect to assert that Obama didn't reach out to them.
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10th May 2017, 11:52 PM | #330 |
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White House in turmoil.
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Dumb Trump was warned not the appoint Flynn, but dumb Trump appointed Flynn anyway despite the warnings and the fact that Flynn was fired by Obama. Goes to show that Trump is too dumb to be president.
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11th May 2017, 12:25 AM | #334 |
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Doesn't matter. Now a significant proportion of the US electorate think Obama did tap his phones and another large portion aren't sure but aren't that bothered that the claims are baseless.
The accusations did their job. Hardly anyone remembers that Jeff Sessions perjured himself (and not all of them actually care). Trump's failure to progress many of his key policies has been kept off the front page and Trump has lost little or no support as a result of the accusations. |
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11th May 2017, 01:30 AM | #336 |
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I don't think this is entirelly fair considering Trump's opinion polls. There's an idiot core of supporters who won't shift for any reason, but other than that, Trump doesn't have much support among the populace. GOP politicians are another matter. To make them flinch, their own prospects need to be threatened. I believe that's coming.
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Why not, most people don't seem to be that bothered. For sure Trump is gradually ebbing support but there's no indication of large-scale public outrage.
Trump is still at 84% among Republicans and at 40% (and rising) among independents (which is his highest among them since January) http://www.gallup.com/poll/203198/pr...ald-trump.aspx What is unusual is that he has almost no support from the Democratic Party supporters. IMO that's more indicative of the partisanship at the heart of US politics rather than it being specifically a comment on his (lack of) performance. |
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Trump is burning bridges/ships , whatever metaphor you want.
Until there is a Republican contender sufficiently removed from Trump (i.e. not Pence until he grows a spine), there is no place for the party to shift TO. So don't expect any wavering of support for the administration until Trump starts purging where it hurts the GOP personally. |
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I don't have a direct line to the US public, so I wouldn't know. What I do know is that the pressure is on from the press. That Trump is feeling the pressure should be obvious by now.
Aggregated polls show his job approval at 42 % approve, 53 % disapprove, with a negative trend, and favorability at 41.8 favorable, 54.2 unfavorable, also with a negative trend. It's likely both. Trump's policies should be anathema for any DEM voter. |
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Now he claims to have come up with the phrase "prime the pump". Can he get any stupider?
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I don't know if this has been mentioned here yet, but there's this interview:
http://time.com/4775040/donald-trump...ing-president/ I couldn't get through it.
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Here's one clue of many of just how dumb Trump is. Trump is so dumb that he allowed the Russians to dupe him on photos in the White House, which made Trump a laughing stock in the eyes of the whole world to see. What made it hilarious is that Trump blocked the American media while allowing the Russian media to come in and do its dirty work. To sum that up, Trump has proven once again that he is unfit as president.
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Usually a president that is known for compromising has several major legislative accomplishments. Your first clue is that Obama has one, that you posted. He is not known for being a president that compromised. Why you "feel" this need to change that is bazar.
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11th May 2017, 10:19 AM | #356 |
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You might want to read up on the history of Obamas presidency, your recollection appears to be faulty.
Usually whichever party is in opposition to government can find common ground on some issues and make progress on legislation that benefits the country as a whole. The GOP during Obamas tenure were obstructionist in the extreme, going so far as complete volte face on several issues, like healthcare, as soon as it was Obama proposing reforms. |
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