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#25,801
Sandman 423 said:
Like he did with Daca. If only President Obama had control of both chambers they could have done actual immigration reform. Mick, this is not a Trump problem and as long as people continually look away when it is their guy it will never get fixed.
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The Republicans have to blink first on this one. They haven't done anything legislatively in ten years except tax cut for the rich and spend money we don't have. The fact is they don't know how to govern. All they know is to oppose the Democrats. That's been the main pillar of the party since it was created.
 
#25,802
#25,802
Mick said:
The Republicans have to blink first on this one. They haven't done anything legislatively in ten years except tax cut for the rich and spend money we don't have. The fact is they don't know how to govern. All they know is to oppose the Democrats. That's been the main pillar of the party since it was created.
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Some times I truly wonder if you are a troll or actually believe the stuff you type .
 
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Mick said:
The Republicans have to blink first on this one. They haven't done anything legislatively in ten years except tax cut for the rich and spend money we don't have. The fact is they don't know how to govern. All they know is to oppose the Democrats. That's been the main pillar of the party since it was created.
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You are becoming more ignorant daily. Please seek help
 
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The central planner in chief for fakeass conservatives:

“In what Republicans used to call the core of their agenda — limited government — Trump has been profoundly unconservative. Take the issue that produced the tea party: the United States’ runaway debt. ... In his first year in office, Trump, with the eager assistance of a Republican House and Senate, blew up the U.S. budget with a tax cut that ballooned the deficit this year to about $1 trillion and will add nearly $2 trillion to the national debt over 10 years. ... Trump has now added more than $88 billion in taxes in the form of tariffs, according to the right-leaning Tax Foundation. (Despite what the president says, tariffs are taxes on foreign goods paid by U.S. consumers.) ... Farmers have been hit hard, but Trump recently explained that they can’t be too angry with him because “I gave them $12 billion [in 2018], and I gave them $16 billion this year.” That dwarfs the $12 billion the 2009 auto bailout cost the federal government.

Remember that free-market ideology was born in opposition to tariffs, protectionism and mercantilism, which were the central focus of writers such as Adam Smith and David Ricardo. For decades, conservatives including Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan preached to the world the virtues of free trade. But perhaps even more, they believed in the idea that governments should not pick winners and losers in the economy — an idea so fundamental to Republicanism that Trump tweeted it out in 2015 soon after announcing his candidacy.

Yet the Trump administration has behaved like a Central Planning Agency, granting exemptions on tariffs to favored companies and industries, while refusing them to others. Salmon, cod, Bibles and fracking chemicals are among the products that have escaped being taxed, for now. Waivers are temporary, so companies have had to reapply. In true Soviet style, lobbyists, lawyers and corporate executives now line up to petition government officials for these treasured waivers, which are granted in an opaque process — apparently sometimes by Trump himself. He initially tweeted that Apple would not get one, but after chief executive Tim Cook met with him, it did.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...15489e-17a1-11ea-8406-df3c54b3253e_story.html
 
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n_huffhines said:
The central planner in chief for fakeass conservatives:

“In what Republicans used to call the core of their agenda — limited government — Trump has been profoundly unconservative. Take the issue that produced the tea party: the United States’ runaway debt. ... In his first year in office, Trump, with the eager assistance of a Republican House and Senate, blew up the U.S. budget with a tax cut that ballooned the deficit this year to about $1 trillion and will add nearly $2 trillion to the national debt over 10 years. ... Trump has now added more than $88 billion in taxes in the form of tariffs, according to the right-leaning Tax Foundation. (Despite what the president says, tariffs are taxes on foreign goods paid by U.S. consumers.) ... Farmers have been hit hard, but Trump recently explained that they can’t be too angry with him because “I gave them $12 billion [in 2018], and I gave them $16 billion this year.” That dwarfs the $12 billion the 2009 auto bailout cost the federal government.

Remember that free-market ideology was born in opposition to tariffs, protectionism and mercantilism, which were the central focus of writers such as Adam Smith and David Ricardo. For decades, conservatives including Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan preached to the world the virtues of free trade. But perhaps even more, they believed in the idea that governments should not pick winners and losers in the economy — an idea so fundamental to Republicanism that Trump tweeted it out in 2015 soon after announcing his candidacy.

Yet the Trump administration has behaved like a Central Planning Agency, granting exemptions on tariffs to favored companies and industries, while refusing them to others. Salmon, cod, Bibles and fracking chemicals are among the products that have escaped being taxed, for now. Waivers are temporary, so companies have had to reapply. In true Soviet style, lobbyists, lawyers and corporate executives now line up to petition government officials for these treasured waivers, which are granted in an opaque process — apparently sometimes by Trump himself. He initially tweeted that Apple would not get one, but after chief executive Tim Cook met with him, it did.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...15489e-17a1-11ea-8406-df3c54b3253e_story.html
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This is only news to you liberals, no one has ever accused President Trump of being a conservative
 
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#25,824
1972 Grad said:
He is in some respects, and not others.
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It is Quixotic in that the GOPers voting for him claim its because he has done and will do well for the economy and that its not because of his antagonism towards racial minorities. Yet, his economic policies are indeed contra to most everything the GOP says it stands for.

This suggests to me that either 1) the GOP's mantras about balanced budgets and free trade are all a bunch of b.s., convenient at the time but that they don't really adhere to; or 2) the GOP voters claiming that their vote is based on his economic policies and not his malevolent social outlook are lying about their true motivations.

Personally, I think its both.
 
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#25,825
Sandman 423 said:
I pretty sure President Trump has been a life long Democrat.
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And he's the face of the republican party?
Ponder on how and why that came to pass. I swear I don't think you guys see Trump for what Trump is; but then again, he knew that would be the case.
 
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