Coulter: GOP’s official motto: “Next time!”- While disappointed with Trump’s messaging, the GOP leadership is absolutely responsible and blameworthy
- Nearly half the Republicans in the House voted against the latest rendition of “we must keep the government open or be blamed” spending bill
- It is all a farce. Leadership is not as pathetically weak as they make out, they just prefer that to being exposed as liars and shills.
From Heritage Fnd’s Daily Signal:
Why Conservatives Are Unhappy With the Final Spending Bill
The House of Representatives, with 103 Republicans voting no, passed a $1.1 trillion spending package Wednesday to keep the government running through September.
Conservative lawmakers who opposed the omnibus spending bill in the 309-118 vote said they’re disappointed the final plan doesn’t reflect that Republicans hold the levers of power in Washington.
Republicans hold 238 seats in the House and Democrats hold 193. Four seats are vacant.
The article goes on to detail defects in the spending bill. We applaud that there are some good things, but when you are in charge and have most of the levers of power, and the responsibility to fulfill promises made there are no credible excuses for letting very bad things fester, and be further inculcated. Time is of the essence politically, economically, Constitutionally, culturally. GOP leadership is doing someones bidding but it seems more theirs than ours.
No bigger champion of Donald Trump than Ann Coulter wades in. She is actually harder on Trump than we are. (excerpts from characteristically pithy article),, bold emphasis ours)
Not only is there no funding for a wall, but — thanks to the deft negotiating skills of House Speaker Paul Ryan — the bill actually prohibits money from being spent on a wall.
. . . But the Democrats graciously agreed to allow the administration to fix broken parts of any existing fences on up to 40 miles of our 3,000 mile border. . . .
But Mulvaney assures us that this monstrosity of a spending bill has set things up beautifully for the next budget negotiation in October.
That has become the GOP’s official motto: “Next time!”
We can never win this time. Instead, Republicans’ idea is always to surrender this time, in hopes that their gentlemanliness will be rewarded by their mortal enemies next time. Then, next time comes, and Republicans again surrender in hopes of currying favor with the Democrats and the media for the next time. . . .
Yeah, sure, it’s only 100 days in, it’s an artificial deadline, the media is dying to say Trump has failed and so on. . . .
It’s theoretically possible that Trump could still build a wall, but he’s just massively lengthened the odds of ever prevailing. Sure, you can let the other team build a 20-point lead in first half and still come back to beat them, but it’s a lot easier if you don’t go into halftime 20 points down.
Trump entered the presidency with the only kind of power that matters. He didn’t owe Wall Street a thing. He didn’t owe anyone — not donors, lobbyists nor any political party. What he had was the people, passionately on his side. . . .
No amount of abandoning his supporters will get Trump anywhere with Wall Street, Hollywood or the media. Their ferocity will simply shift to ridicule.
Admittedly, Trump has the enormous handicap of having to work through congressional Republicans, who are feckless cowards. . . .
This isn’t new information. We knew Washington Republicans were useless. That’s why we elected such a comically improbable president as Donald J. Trump. . . .
We’re not winning. We’re losing, and we’re losing on the central promise of Trump’s campaign.
We want the ruthless businessman we were promised.
