I think i’ve told you before, that he’s making good progress on what he promised,
with what he controls.
Illegal immigration is down 70% and they are adding more temp legal visas.
Whether or not we ever get a ‘wall’ he is delivering on his promise here.
Our NATO allies are now committed to honor their word and increase their defense spending. Given time this will take pressure off the US as the sole world policeman.
Healthcare and tax reform are still to be done, but I put more responsibility for that on Congress. If they don’t take action, there will be repercussions come reelection season.
He’s also still on the hook for tangible results in ‘cleaning out the swamp’.
Where did you read that our NATO allies have committed to increase defense spending? All I could find is that member-states promised they would begin submitting annual national plans, in the interests of transparency. I certainly couldn’t find any increases or promised increases that were a direct result of negotiations by Mr. Trump, so if you’d please find that, I’d appreciate it.
With regard to “the wall,” do remember that he promised Mexico would pay for it. He didn’t just promise a wall, then. He promised a big beautiful wall for free. If Mr. Trump’s opponent promised something for free, that person was elected and we got the promised item but wound up paying for it, tell me how Mr. Trump would rate that promise–kept or broken?
One more time: whose numbers say that illegal immigration is down 70%? How did they arrive at that number? This President has made a habit of throwing out numbers without saying where he got them, which is clear foul for someone who said that no one knows if we have 3 million or 30 million people in this country illegally.
If you’re going to say some numbers are real and some are made up–and every number used in political decision-making should be evaluated for the how the measurements were done and what assumptions the number rests on–you’ve set the standard that all of your numbers can be demonstrated to be real…right?
Here are some Trump tweets about what is in the President’s control:
*Obama’s complaints about Republicans stopping his agenda are BS since he had full control for two years. He can never take responsibility.
8:11 AM - 26 Sep 2012
With proper thinking and leadership, we can have a much better plan than Obamacare - something that works for the people and costs much less
4:06 AM - Sep 29, 2013
Leadership: Whatever happens, you’re responsible. If it doesn’t happen, you’re responsible.
12:01 PM - Nov 8, 2013
“Leadership is perhaps the key to getting any job done.” – The Art of The Deal
12:59 PM - Aug 21, 2013*
That is the standard the President set for himself, not something I’m putting on him. If his party controls Congress and he doesn’t deliver an improvement in health care policy in the direction promised, that is on him. (I don’t hold him to delivering everything, even though I firmly believe he himself would, if the tables were turned.)
Health reform is still to be started, to be blunt. Tell me specifically: What is the President’s proposal? If he has no specific proposal and hasn’t made a disciplined effort to concentrate on this issue, in what sense has he done any work to achieve the results he promised? If anything, his public assessment that the House version was suffered from a “fundamental meanness”** after** they passed their first effort was counterproductive and politically harmful to his allies in Congress.
Mind you, there is nothing wrong whatsoever about wanting a bill with more heart!! That is a good thing!! The problem was not saying so BEFORE the House voted on the bill. He needed to be clear* ahead of time* about whether he had their backs if they passed it in the version they were considering. Otherwise, he’s really hanging needed allies out to dry and making it less likely that they’ll win re-election in 2018.
That can be excused as a rookie mistake, if he doesn’t do it again. Mr. Scaramucci’s choice to call up a reporter, fail to ask that the conversation be off the record, and treat this person who
makes a living by reporting “colorful” news that no one else has heard to a barrage of “colorful” descriptions of the people Scaramucci worked with in the West Wing is likewise something he can put behind him if he is careful not to repeat his mistake.
The difference seems to me that Mr. Scaramucci has already proven he can admit a mistake, apologize, and amend his life. Mr. Trump is really weak in the area of admitting mistakes, apologizing, and changing his habits in order to improve his results. It seems as if he does things his way, period, no excuse, and if anything he attacks people who imply his conduct is in serious need of improvement. He also does things he attacked other people for doing with no apology at all. If you attacked former Presidents for things you are doing as President (such as, for instance, getting in a LOT of golf at considerable taxpayer expense in the Secret Service work, use of Air Force One, and so on), you really ought to answer questions about that with, “I was wrong. Now that I’m President, I can see why they did what they did. I’m sure it is not the first time I’ll learn the difference between theory and practice.”
If you cannot bring yourself to believe that a difficult job you have no experience at is really something that is not going to require a great deal of humility and diligence to learn, you are at an enormous disadvantage.
It is my belief that his core supporters are the only ones with the leverage to convince him to change his ways on that front. I don’t wish Hillary Clinton were in the White House. I wish the man who was actually elected would accept some correction and do his job a lot better than he has.
but because it made so much sense. I agree about young people and that people pay the penalty because it is cheaper. I don’t pretend to have all the answers. But it indeed is going to be expensive to ensure everyone has affordable healthcare. ** The alternative seems unacceptable to me**. Now I admittedly can be a big sap IRL and I was actually sitting here with my eyes watering thinking about it after reading your post. So forgive me if I sometimes seem over passionate on the issue. But I’ve been voting my whole life with this issue in mind. And I will keep praying along with you that’s for sure. God bless.