I actually agree with this too… But do you think we will actually get out of these dumb wars? Nothing sucks up money like war…personally Id be cool with getting the F out of these places close all the military bases we dont need and on the way out take the oil… My F250 likes $0.50 gas
I don’t know.
I’d set the bar at not starting any new ones based on Bush and Obama. I don’t see Trump starting any new wars but who knows.
I don’t know…
War and fighting in South East Asia wasn’t something that started with U.S. involvement.
Our involvement was a slow and steady escalation.
That appears to be what is happening in Syria as we speak.
There is already talk about putting more “boots on the ground” in Syria. The reason that I feel that there will be a slow and steady escalation in our involvement is because “wiping ISIS off the face of the Earth” was a campaign promise of Trump’s.
In many ways, that makes the escalation of our involvement almost inevitable.
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Maybe thats what all the bromance is in Russia… We lift sanctions he fights isis
I’m just really curious what happens when Trump starts to push his infrastructure plan and attempt to make it into a reality.
That thing seems to fly against everything the Republican Party has promoted for the last 8 years, and there has been enough hints during the election that the Republican leadership aren’t all that keen on it to begin with.
Obama trying to EO his way through everything was shit. I don’t care if it was because Congress stone-walled him in every conceivable fashion. Trump doing mostly EO in the first month of his Presidency seems more of the same.
Actually get some legislation passed. The Republicans hold all the levers for the next 2 (and probably 4 really) years. Let’s see what they can get done.
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I think that you might be spot on with this prediction. Unlike most politicians Trump is actually trying to fulfill his campaign promises. What a chump…
This will be interesting, and as Trump moves the GOP away from being even remotely fiscally conservative.
As you mention:
What should the fiscal conservatives do?
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Align themselves with consultants and board positions on the companies that are going to be handling the contracts.
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I would love to see the republicans apply pressure to get Bannon out of the WH. We all know Trump doesn’t really have an ideology, but we’re pretty certain Bannon does…and it’s not comforting. I think Trump’s extremely susceptible to influence and Bannon appears to be the (figurative?) devil whispering into his ear. The catch-22, of course, is that Bannon is one reason Trump has maintained the support of his base.
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There is no such thing as “fical conservative” in modern american politics, at least not in power anywhere.
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No, there really aren’t. They’ll stand on principal until its time to get paid. Once they figure out how to get money flowing into their district or by association with a corporate entity, it the most American idea since baseball or apple pie.
Bannon is a tool… Trump should dump his bitch ass
All Bannon will do is fuck up stuff Intl and domestic
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Continue to be the hypocrites they have shown themselves to be?
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Bannon and Trump are speaking at CPAC this week.
This should be interesting.
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4 to 1 says its another shit show…only hope is Trump finally gets embarssed by Bannons idocy and cuts him apprentice style
They’re both going to have to learn the hard way that the more a politician says, the more there is to be held against them.
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Well…Bannon and Preibus spoke…
I get that CPAC is a “rah-rah” Convention for the Faithful…
But I personally am as uncomfortable with what Bannon had to say as I was with Bernie Sanders.
Buzz words and phrases/paraphrases like “New Order”; “Us against “them”'/Fight to the End”; “They” are out to destroy “Us/America”…
I also am always disturbed when the powerful and influential give wrong reasons; and by extension very wrong solutions; for real problems.
The net result of all of this will either be really good…or really bad…
I guess we’ll see.
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Let me also add to this, SkyzykS…
Each CPAC speaker (I’ve only really listened to Bannon, Preibus and Pence…I don’t expect anything new from Trump)…are making one of Hillaries fatal mistakes…ignoring, discrediting and insulting large swaths of a disgruntled American public, who are genuinely concerned about what they see and hear coming from this Administration.
They are no more a bunch of Professional agitators and “Corporatist” than all Trump voters were “despicables”.
Oh how the winds change…
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It’s doubtful, HH.
Bannon appears to be have the “ear” of the President on a level that compares to his kids…and that’s disturbing.
The real “test” is when (not if) Bannon’s advice is counter to Tillerson, Mattis, Kelley or McMaster.
It’s almost guaranteed to happen.
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