Where can one find Republican organizations and solid GOP candidates who have a little “feck”?
I remember in the not-too-distant past , our would be “Republican” leaders telling us gullible voters that having the House of Representatives in the party’s clear control was “just not enough to really impact the federal government’s trajectory”.
As controlling “only one-half of one third of the three co-equal branches of government”, (for four years) there just wasn’t the ‘power’ to much influence events as directed by the other ‘four-fifths’ (Executive, both partisan halves of the Senate, and one partisan half of the House), they told us.
We need control of the Senate ( we gave that to them for two years) and the White House and then watch us “roar”, we were assured!
So, America gave it to them in 2016 . . . three branches, both ‘halves’…the Oval Office, the Senate ‘floor’, the House of Representatives’ “Chambers” (you may recall, that’s where presidents give the State of the Union address to the nation).
And that’s when voters learned what the term “feckless” means. (*see the definitions below)
And, if there was a person who could be the embodiment of that term, “feckless”, it would be Paul Ryan.
And, if a group of persons could be the embodiment of the term, it would be the “Establishment Republicans ” we voters unwittingly sent to Washington!
And, so here we are.
One half of one third of the “co-equal” branches of the United States government is now in control of this nation’s destiny…its eventual status as a second rate socialist ‘non-nation’!
How is that possible?! DLH
‘Have I not been clear about the wall?’ Pelosi signals Trump still won’t get what he wants
An excerpt from Rollcall story:
Three weeks of negotiations not likely to result in a Trump-friendly agreement on border wall funding
ANALYSIS — It took 35 days, but President Donald Trump ultimately caved to Democratic demands that he reopen the government before they’d entertain negotiations on border security. And in 21 more, Trump will have to decide whether to give in again, because he’s not likely to get what he wants.
Trump agreed Friday to back a three-week continuing resolution that will reopen the government through Feb. 15. But he is not giving up on his quest to secure funding for wall along the southern border.“We really have no choice but to build a powerful wall or steel barrier,” Trump said as he concluded remarks from the Rose Garden announcing the deal to temporarily reopen government. “If we don’t get a fair deal from Congress, the government will either shut down on Feb. 15 again or I will use the powers afforded to me under the laws and the Constitution of the United States to address this emergency.”
Democrats say they will not agree to provide funding for the wall, period. If they were willing to entertain that, they would’ve done so before the government shutdown in December or in the more than a month since as roughly 800,000 federal workers went without pay.
“Have I not been clear on the wall?” Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters Friday when one asked if Democrats would continue to object to wall funding in the upcoming negotiations. “I’ve been very clear.”
Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer was more direct: “Democrats are against the wall.”
DLH
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*Some definitions of “feckless; which is how many describe the former GOP Speaker Paul Ryan, and many other “Republican” members of Congress?
ineffective; incompetent; having no sense of responsibility; indifferent; lazy.
Our managing editor adds (apocryphally): roost is what poultry do. Feck is a corruption of peck, something poultry do. Fittingly, adding “er” to the poultry analogy and you get the drift as regards those who fail or are too shy about ruling the roost . . . they are feckerless, a.k.a. . . .
