09-11-2017, 10:13 PM
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Trump likely to lose congress
The last 4 administrations: Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama have entered the White House with a U.S. Congress, from the same political party, which controlled both houses. However, by the mid-term elections all 4 presidents lost control of congress.It is not so much a matter of liberal Vs. conservative, but rather a rejection of supreme government power. It is more a matter of the people wanting to control the government, instead of the government controlling the people.
We, as a nation, have always railed at a centralized, out-of-touch, government dictating to us what we can and can not do.
Occasionally, the centralized Federal government "get's it right"; as in the case of school integration, which forced state school systems to allow blacks to attend school with whites. It should be noted that it was not any particular political party which brought this about, but rather that the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) which ruled that segregation was unconstitutional, in the landmark case of Brown Vs. The Board of Education.
Unfortunately, however, the Federal government, ie the congress and the president, makes promises to the people and then fails to carry those promises out.
One of the primary planks in the Trump campaign was that he would dismantle the Obama socialized medicine agenda. (Often referred to as Obama Care). Trump and the Republican controlled congress have clearly failed in their promise. It is for this reason that the people will make the Republicans pay dearly for this failure, by throwing the bas*#^ds out.
In 51 weeks , following the 2018 mid-term elections, we shall know just how angry the people are.
10-11-2017, 11:58 AM
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He's lost the plot anyway IMO even his wife appears not to want to touch his tiny hands and people around him increasingly having to lie to back him up. It's interesting how far some of them are willing to go to try to say he's right, bald faced lying everytime.
10-11-2017, 01:13 PM
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As much as I'm not keen on Trump, I feel Clinton would have dragged the US into another war by now...also she was terminally corrupt.I'm reading a book right now about Lyndon Johnson's administration post Kennedy and it fairly well pushes across the viewpoint that Johnson was a psychopath, totally unsuited to the job.
I can't keep up with it all
10-11-2017, 02:36 PM
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His credibility on the world stage has diminished, IMO. He is just a mighty mouth that blows off every so often.'War' or threat of it, seems to be the thing that helps to show these men , as 'mighty'.
As we arrive at Remembrance day, once again, do we conveniently forget what we endeavour to achieve on such a day, ...for the next 364 days.. ?
I do wonder what happened to all those mutterings about Russia being a threat to Europe , and the building up of tensions not so long ago. I think it was prior to Brexit. Suddenly we heard nothing more.
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