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Donald Trump Is Worried About His First Hundred Days - By Kevin Drum
KEVIN DRUM APR. 21, 2017 12:06 PM
I love this tweet:
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Trump, of course, has accomplished virtually nothing so far. He's issued a few executive orders that are mostly small beer and signed a few bills that rescinded some of Obama's executive orders. That's it. His health care bill was a fiasco. He hasn't gotten funding for his wall. His immigration order crashed and burned. He has no tax plan. He has no plan to destroy ISIS.
But there's a silver lining here. As always, this tweet should be read as an alert aimed at his base. He's telling them that in a few days they'll see a lot of stories saying he's accomplished nothing. In fact, less than nothing, since the government might well be headed for a shutdown by the end of next week. But it's all lies! Clearly he's concerned about this.
That should give Democrats an opening. Try to strike a budget deal before next week's deadline. Agree to support some money for Trump's wall in return for making Obamacare's CSR appropriation automatic.1 This would be good for Trump in two ways. First, he gets to say that he's started building the wall. Second, Obamacare doesn't collapse on his watch, and agreeing to the CSR appropriation doesn't do anything to stop him from trying to repeal and replace Obamacare later. It just ensures that it will work in the meantime.
In return, Democrats don't really get anything. Agreeing to funding for the wall is unpopular with their base, and CSR funding is something that only a few wonks care about. Keeping the CSR money flowing would help insurance companies and it would help actual people, but politically it does nothing much for Democrats.
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Donald Trump Is Worried About His First Hundred Days - By Kevin Drum (Original Post)
DonViejo
Apr 2017
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Rollo
(2,559 posts)1. He's batting zero...
GeorgeGist
(25,294 posts)2. On the other hand ...
he has caused enormous damage to America.
dalton99a
(81,062 posts)3. Give a moron a Twitter account, and he'll show the world he's a moron
irisblue
(32,828 posts)4. Dumbass
F-er should be. He is in way way over his head & his staff is stabbing each other in the back @ nearly every turn. If it wasn't for the fact that that fools' actions hurt this country & the world for all time, I would be thrilled @ their incompetence.