I can see the thinking behind that but I don’t buy it. The best ideas should be a combination of voices and debating. Right now we have been stuck in a I can’t vote for that because a Democrat (or Republican) said it.
We have a system where you can’t vote for something that makes sense unless it comes from your party and we vote out people if they voted with the other party once.
As Trump would say…
SAD! 
It’s another fine day today. Do you know why it’s a fine day? Because the long legged Mack daddy is gone, the Whitehouse has been fumigated, the old bongs thrown out and the gay porn removed from under the mattress. A fine day!
Time to add India to the ban list:
Sure, but shouldn’t the leader of the Republican Party be working with both sides (and the Dems) to find a compromise in order to move forward on meaningful legislation? Has President Trump even attempted that?
He’s too busy coming up with super cool hip nicknames to slam people. Between that, golfing, campaigning for 2020, and giving classified intel to the Russians, he’s a pretty busy guy.
^^ I love how much butthurt his Twitter causes
Because many people’s view is such that an incompetent leader makes our enemies more likely to attack our soldiers. The lives of our soliders matters a great bit to me, and anyone that adds risk to their lives better have a good fuckin reason to do so.
Imo, getting into pissing matches with CNN isn’t a good enough reason to put our men/women in harms way. That’s just me.
LOL
Tweeting will endanger US soldier lives. That’s a good one
Anything else?
Refute the statement. Tweeting makes Trump look incompetent. Incompetent looking leaders make our enemies more likely to attack us.
There’s nothing to refute, it’s an empty assertion
Gotcha. Have a nice 4th
What you perceive and the perception for our allies and other sovereign heads of state are different. You do not get the kind of uneasiness that has been shown across the pond and even above in Canada with the perception of a strong leader.
What are you basing their (other heads of state) perception of Trump on?
All we really have to go on are the comments other leaders make after meeting Trump and they are uniformly positive.
He just met Narender Modi who made glowing remarks about Trump
On certain issues I agree. If you were elected on a platform of certain belief systems (and you truthfully hold those beliefs). There’s no room for compromise on certain issues.
Take an originalist libertarian on healthcare. The only way they can vote on a bill that takes over 15% of the economy and compels purchase of a private product is “No”. It doesn’t matter whether Obama or Trump backs it.
Take a pro immigration Democrat on amnesty. They’ve likely painted themselves into a corner. Every amnesty bill will have a provision for making illegal immigrants pay a fine or “go to the back of the line” because they broke the law (to appease dems from purple districts). If they spoke at La Raza events to get elected, then there’s no immigration fix they can vote for.
People complain that Congress is too polarized. Well that’s the voting public’s fault. If you want elected officials acting moderately, then we’d need to actually elect moderates. I don’t see that happening.
Stalemate isn’t so bad really. The less government can get done, the less they can oppress the populace.
Here’s the deal : I get why some people hate his Twitter, totally understand. You prefer he tweet like all other politicians do, empty corporate like tweets or none at all.
But let’s clamp down on the hysteria of it’s ramifications. It’s way overblown.
Bottom line it’s embarrassing to have our leader act like this. We can go back and forth on the ramifications but he acts like a middle school kid and that is embarrassing for our country
Agree on a lot. I just think it messes things up. Obamacare had a lot of Republican ideas in it but they had to run hard against it because they were determined to make him a one term President.
Democrats as far as I can see have no desire to really work with Republicans as they don’t want Trump to have victories and it will look bad in the primaries if they ever supported something of his.
When you can’t support good ideas because they don’t come from your team it is bad for everyone. At least that’s the way I see it
I am expecting the legislature to do their job - create law and the executive to do its - enforce said laws.
Neither is doing jack, and our country of 330mm is suffering while 600 jerkoffs posture and refuse to actually lead. It’s like watching the Northern generals in the Civil War stalling ang waiting to get into the fight - until Lincoln fired one after another.
Not aimed at you since l know you concur - it’s time for Congress to take their position as first of equals, instead of the US being held hostage to the last several clowns sitting in the White House (and Executive Dept) or the Judiciary.
Agree absolutely.
This is a function of non leadership in the Congress, imo.
Ryan, Pelosi et al Grrrrrrr! Idiots and traitors to our society.