The left and the Democratic Party have made “#TheResistance”
their political strategy since President Trump became the 45
th
President of the
United
States.
They would argue that strategy has paid off, as the Democrats have
picked up one seat apiece in the House and Senate in addition to a handful of
state legislative seats.
Their
#Resistance would have achieved absolutely no success if not for the
incompetence and/or willful ignorance of Republicans in all three branches of
government.
One week after taking office, President Trump signed
into law an executive order that would restrict travel from seven terror-prone
Muslim-majority countries identified as national security threats by the Obama
Administration, which constantly
reminded the American people that “we are not
at war with Islam,” “ISIL is not Islamic,” and “Islam is a religion of peace.”
Had the Obama Administration issued the exact
same travel ban, the left would have had a hard time making the case that he
did so out of bigotry.
Yet because
President Trump had talked about a “Muslim ban” on the campaign trail,
left-wing immigration activists ran to the Courts, looking for a judge to
strike down the travel ban on the grounds that it violated the First
Amendment’s guarantee for Freedom of Religion.
The left found their man in Judge James Robart, a Seattle-based Federal
judge appointed by President George W. Bush, who struck down the travel
ban.
Two Obama-appointed judges found revised travel bans
unconstitutional, including one that included the predominantly atheist country
of
North Korea and the
primarily Catholic country of
Venezuela.
The debate over the travel ban has now found
its way to the Supreme Court, which will hand down its ruling in June.
On September 5, President Trump announced that he
intended to end President Obama’s Executive Order known as DACA; which shielded
approximately 800,000 illegal immigrants brought to the country as children
from deportation.
President Obama signed
the executive order after repeatedly telling immigration activists that he did
not have the authority to unilaterally change immigration law. Upon rescinding
DACA, President Trump gave Congress six months to come up with a legislative
solution for DACA.
Congress discussed several
“DACA fixes” including
one
that would give a path to citizenship to 1.8 million illegal immigrants brought
to the country (more than double the amount originally covered by DACA) in
exchange for $25 billion for the border wall, an end to chain migration, and
ending the diversity visas.
The
Democrats ultimately rejected this proposal because it would have turned off
the spigot of low-wage workers that have provided them with a new constituency
as more and more working-class Americans that once made up the party reject
liberal insanity.
Nearly three dozen
House Republicans wrote a letter to House Speaker Paul Ryan, begging him to
find a legislative fix for DACA.
If only
they shared the same passion for building the wall.
The March 5 deadline for coming up with a DACA fix has
obviously come and gone.
Judge John
Bates, appointed by President George W. Bush,
described President Trump’s
executive order rolling back President Obama’s unconstitutional executive
amnesty as “virtually unlawful.”
In
addition to ruling that the Trump Administration must restore protection to the
illegal immigrants previously covered by DACA, Judge Bates also ruled that
President Trump must begin processing new DACA applicants.
The Democrats point to the fact that
Republican-appointed judges have struck down President Trump’s actions related
to immigration and national security as vindication for their claims that his
actions violate the Constitution.
Perhaps the Democrats do not realize they have several allies in the
Republican Party who share their goals of maintaining a liberal immigration
policy.
Nearly every other Republican Presidential candidate
in 2016 had the “correct” positions on all of the other issues important to Republicans.
Only one made combating illegal immigration,
building a wall on the US-Mexico border and reforming legal immigration centerpieces
of his campaign.
That man now sits in
the oval office.
Most of the other
candidates offered some type of amnesty for illegal immigrants; two of them
voted for the “Gang of Eight” bill.
Congressional Republicans have mostly failed to
implement the Trump agenda; they stupidly passed a $1.3 billion
omnibus
bill that included funding for Planned Parenthood, the Democrats’ pet
project, while explicitly prohibiting the President from using the $1.6 billion
allocated to border security to build a wall on the southern border with
Mexico.
The bill also increased funding for the
National Endowments for the Arts, which the White House has also promised to
defund.
In the past, the NEA has funded
“art” projects including crucifixes submerged in urine and a picture of the
Virgin Mary covered with vulvas.
While Congress bears much of the blame for actually
crafting this monstrosity, President Trump does deserve some blame for actually
signing it.
Do Republicans not realize
that failing to implement the Trump agenda risks a wipeout in the midterm
elections?
Republicans will have to
decide whether or not to grow a backbone again on September 28, when the
government runs out of money again.
President Trump indicated at his rally in
Michigan over the weekend that he would shut
down the government if the spending bill did not include funding for the border
wall.
Democrats hope that history will
repeat itself; that their threats to act like three year olds who threaten to
throw tantrums by shutting down the government will lead Republicans to give
them a pacifier by passing a piece of crap spending bill with the Chuck Schumer
seal of approval.
Congress has also moved at a snail’s pace in
confirming officials to the Trump cabinet.
While most of the obstruction comes from Democrats, Republican Senator
Cory Gardner of
Colorado actually
blocked some
of President Trump’s nominees to the Department of Justice to get back at Attorney General Jeff
Sessions for breaking his promise to look the other way on
Colorado’s law recreational marijuana, which
conflicts with Federal law.
Many Republicans in the Executive Branch, including
the “Republican” overseeing the Russia Probe, have a lot more power to actually
take down the President.
The
“Republican” Former FBI Director James Comey did an enormous amount of damage
to the country by leaking some personal memos detailing the substance of some
of his conversations with President Trump to his good buddy at
Columbia Law School,
telling Senator Susan Collins that he did so hoping that would lead to the
appointment of a Special Counsel.
Comey got his wish.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, another “Republican” foolishly
took Comey’s bait hook, line, and sinker, appointing another “Republican,”
Former FBI Director Robert Mueller, as a Special Counsel just after President
Trump interviewed him as a potential replacement for Comey and indicated that
he did not want to hire Mueller.
Based
on the questions that Mueller plans to ask Trump in a hypothetical interview leaked
out earlier this week, Mueller has more in common with John Kerry, both in
physical appearance and political goals, than any run of the mill Republican
living on Main Street USA.
Investigation
of Russian collusion serves as the secondary purpose for the Special Counsel Investigation;
it has become increasingly clear that the primary purpose of this investigation
is to remove President Trump from office by any means necessary.
If Attorney General Jeff Sessions had not
decided to recuse himself from anything related to Russia because he met with
the Russian ambassador in his capacity as a member of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee while also serving as an advisor to the Trump campaign, the
Trump Administration would not find themselves subject to a Special Counsel
investigation orchestrated by a career bureaucrat.
Another “Republican” hoping to take down President
Trump: Stormy Daniels, the porn star who alleges that she had a one-time affair
with President Trump shortly after the birth of his now twelve-year-old son
Baron.
A report in
The Wall Street
Journal alleges that President Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen paid
Daniels $130,000 in hush money shortly before the 2016 Presidential election.
Believe it or not, Daniels came
very close to
running as a Republican against Louisiana Senator David Vitter in
2010.
Daniels also alleges that someone
with connections to Trump threatened her outside of a
Las Vegas parking lot in 2011.
A sketch of this person completed seven years
after the fact has drawn
comparisons to Tom Brady and even Daniels’ own
husband. She definitely should have lost her “Republican in Good Standing” card
the second she
announced
she planned to donate any winnings she would receive in her lawsuit against
President Trump and Michael Cohen to Planned Parenthood in President Trump’s
name.
As the
Russia probe has not born as much
fruit as the Democrats would have hoped, the left now hopes that the Stormy
Daniels saga will remove President Trump from office.
They hope to get him under oath testifying
about
Russia,
hoping that he will end up perjuring himself should the topic of Stormy Daniels
come up.
The Trump Administration’s
newest attorney, Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, certainly
did
not help himself during a nearly hour-long interview on Fox News’s
“Hannity,” when he made a statement suggesting that President Trump paid back
Cohen for the $130,000 in hush money, which he had previously denied doing.
Regardless of whether or not Daniels’
allegations have any merit, all politicians, especially Republicans, could do
themselves a huge favor by refraining from locker room talk and following the
Pence rule.
The American people have learned the hard way that
“Republican” doesn’t necessarily mean conservative.
The battle between establishment Republicans,
who like to “go along to get along” and anti-establishment Republicans, who
want to change the way
Washington
works, will continue for the foreseeable future.
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