I will say it was a brilliant move on the part of the President!!! McConnel and Ryan looked neutered!!!
On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 8:07 AM, MJ <micha...@america.net> wrote: > > September 8, 2017 > > *Trump Dumps the Do-Nothing Congress *By Patrick J. Buchanan > > Donald Trump is president today because he was seen as a doer not a > talker. Among the most common compliments paid him in 2016 was, “At least > he gets things done!” > > And it was exasperation with a dithering GOP Congress, which had failed to > enact his or its own agenda, that caused Trump to pull the job of raising > the debt ceiling away from Republican contractors Ryan & McConnell, and > give it to Pelosi & Schumer. > > Hard to fault Trump. Over seven months, Congress showed itself incapable > of repealing Obamacare, though the GOP promised this as its first priority > in three successive elections. > > Returning to D.C. after five weeks vacation, with zero legislation > enacted, Speaker Paul Ryan and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell were facing > a deadline to raise the debt ceiling and fund the government. > > Failure to do so would crash the markets, imperil the U.S. bond rating, > and make America look like a deadbeat republic. > > Families and businesses do this annually. Yet, every year, it seems, > Congress goes up to the precipice of national default before authorizing > the borrowing to pay the bills Congress itself has run up. > > To be sure, Trump only kicked this year’s debt crisis to mid-December. > > Before year’s end, he and Congress will also have to deal with an > immigration crisis brought on by his cancellation of the Obama > administration’s amnesty for the “Dreamers” now vulnerable to deportation. > > He will have to get Congress to fund his Wall, enact tax reform and > finance the repair and renewal of our infrastructure, or have his first > year declared a failure. > > We are likely looking at a Congressional pileup, pre-Christmas, from which > Trump will have to call on Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, again, to > extricate him and his party. > > The question that now arises: Has the president concluded that working > with the GOP majorities alone cannot get him where he needs to go to make > his a successful presidency? > > Having cut a deal with Democrats for help with the debt ceiling, will > Trump seek a deal with Democrats on amnesty for the “Dreamers,” in return > for funding for border security? Trump seemed to be signaling receptivity > to the idea this week. > > Will he give up on free-trade Republicans to work with Democrats to > protect U.S. jobs and businesses from predator traders like China? > > Will he cut a deal with Hill Democrats on which infrastructure projects > should be funded first? Will he seek out compromise with Democrats on whose > taxes should be cut and whose retained? > > We could be looking at a seismic shift in national politics, with Trump > looking to centrist and bipartisan coalitions to achieve as much of his > agenda as he can. He could collaborate with Federalist Society Republicans > on justices and with economic-nationalist Democrats on tariffs. > > But the Congressional gridlock that exhausted the president’s patience may > prove more serious than a passing phase. The Congress of the United States, > whose powers were delineated in the late 18th century, may simply not be an > institution suited to the 21st. > > A century ago, Congress ceded to the Federal Reserve its right “to coin > money (and) regulate the value thereof.” It has yielded to the third > branch, the Supreme Court, the power to invent new rights, as in Roe v. > Wade. Its power to “regulate commerce with foreign nations” has been > assumed by an executive branch that negotiates the trade treaties, leaving > Congress to say yea or nay. > > Congress alone has the power to declare war. But recent wars have been > launched by presidents over Congressional objection, some without > consultation. We are close to a second major war in Korea, the first of > which, begun in 1950, was never declared by the Congress, but declared by > Harry Truman to be a “police action.” > > In the age of the internet and cable TV, the White House is seen as a > locus of decision and action, while Capitol Hill takes months to move. > Watching Congress, the word torpor invariably comes to mind, which one > Webster’s Dictionary defines as “a state of mental and motor inactivity > with partial or total insensibility.” > > Result: In a recent survey, 72 percent of Americans expressed high > confidence in the military; 12 percent said the same of Congress. > > The members of Congress the TV cameras reward with air time are most often > mavericks like John McCain, Lindsay Graham and Jeff Flake, who will defy a > president the media largely detest. > > At the onset of the post-Cold War era, some contended that democracy was > the inevitable future of mankind. But autocracy is holding its own. Russia, > China, India, Turkey, Egypt come to mind. > > If democracy, as Freedom House contends, is in global retreat, one reason > may be that, in our new age, legislatures, split into hostile blocs > checkmating one another, cannot act with the dispatch impatient peoples now > demand of their rulers. > > In the days of Henry Clay and Daniel Webster, Congress was a rival to even > strong presidents. Those days are long gone. > > http://buchanan.org/blog/trump-dumps-nothing-congress-127627 > > -- > -- > Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. > For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum > > * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ > * It's active and moderated. 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