The infighting starts

Started by rmstock, May 01, 2017, 09:53:02 PM

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rmstock


After Trump and Ryan, apparently under the auspices of their newly
appointed `Chief of State' Reince Priebrus, introduced a $1.1 trillion
spending-bill, taking care of Federal Funding until September of this year,
Trump used a old Sumo Wrestling trick.  He agreed almost blindly to all
of the establishments demands including the bitter painful `Nein Nein
Nein' to building the Wall on the Mexican border. Democrats demanded
that Trump be told : `Dass its Verboten.'

Like a true Paul Revere, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) went on the
air at CNN to sound off his disgust about Trump dropping the Ball
on the Wall and Planned Parenthood :

https://twitter.com/NewDay/status/859006707422429185

Some highlights of the bill :
http://www.startribune.com/highlights-of-bipartisan-1-1t-government-wide-spending-bill/420910393/ 
https://rules.house.gov/sites/republicans.rules.house.gov/files/115/OMNI/CPRT-115-HPRT-RU00-SAHR244-AMNT.pdf

  "—$53.1 billion for foreign aid and State Department diplomacy, a
   $400 million increase that runs counter the administration's vow to
   slash foreign assistance. Increases include nearly $1 billion in
   famine relief to combat starvation in Nigeria, South Sudan,
   Somalia, and Yemen. Almost $7 billion is for humanitarian programs
   that assist refugees and others displaced by conflict. Another $100
   million would counter Russian influence in Europe and South and
   Central Asia. The plan does follow through on the administration's
   pledge to cancel climate change funding and contains no money for
   the Green Climate Fund, which assists developing nations in
   reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Funding for U.N. agencies is cut
   by $640 million from current levels."

Looks pretty good, sign it of. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), should not be so
stubborn when the Wall is not itemized in such a Bill. Such details are
normally not hardfacted in a spending bill. What is actually the H.R.
Bill number of this 1,665-page spending proposal ? I have my doubts
about Jim Jordan going off about this at CNN of all places. Why CNN ?
Is there something off with the Freedom Caucus ?

- "It provides President Donald Trump with an increase in the
   Pentagon budget but denies his request for construction of a wall
   along the U.S.-Mexico border."
- "—$341 million for replacement fencing along the Mexico border,
   $170 million for communications and surveillance along the border,
   and $100 million for access roads. But Trump's $1 billion request
   for new border wall construction was denied."

The verbal denial is just a political hangout sign, which got Jim
Jordan invited to CNN in the first place. The $1 billion for a Wall
inside a $1.1 trillion bill can easily be rearranged, and it looks that
the Wall needs a separate aye's or nae's in congress at this time.

Despite of these demands, which included agreeing to keep funding
`Planned Parenthood' Trump approved of the $1.1 trillion Bill.
The WaPo editor called it `folding'.

Shortly after Trump `folded' as in handing down a $1.1T Royal Flush, on
the table, the first signs of establishmental infighting have been
spotted :

Erik Wemple Opinion
Reince Priebus is a dunderhead (and he can't sue me for saying so)
By Erik Wemple May 1 at 2:45 PM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2017/05/01/reince-priebus-is-a-dunderhead-and-he-cant-sue-me-for-saying-so/?utm_term=.466411f038b4&wpisrc=nl_popns&wpmm=1


White House Chief of State Reince Priebus with other Trump
administration officials. (Andrew Harnik/Associated Press)


  "The courts have interpreted the First Amendment so as to allow the Erik
   Wemple Blog to call people names. "Defamatory statements are those that
   harm a person's reputation and are clearly more than insults," writes
   David Schultz in the "Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court." So it's
   perfectly legal to state:
   
   Reince Priebus is a dunderhead.
   Reince Priebus is a lunkhead.
   Reince Priebus is a ninny.
   Reince Priebus is a dunderpate.
   Reince Priebus is a birdbrain.
   
   Grounds for all those statements come from an interview between
   Priebus, President Trump's chief of staff, and Jonathan Karl of ABC
   News. "

So why the infighting suddenly ? My guess is that also the establishment
Democrats have dropped a couple of their demands, the most important
being :

  "The plan does follow through on the administration's
   pledge to cancel climate change funding and contains no money for
   the Green Climate Fund, which assists developing nations in
   reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Funding for U.N. agencies is cut
   by $640 million from current levels."

Which will pose real trouble for the establishment Congress members
in both House and Senate in the coming time.

``I hope that the fair, and, I may say certain prospects of success will not induce us to relax.''
-- Lieutenant General George Washington, commander-in-chief to
   Major General Israel Putnam,
   Head-Quarters, Valley Forge, 5 May, 1778

rmstock

Another reason why Trump signed of on the Bipartisan ''Consolidated
Appropriations Act, 2017'' was to take the wind out of the sails of the
Color Revolution by Soros and Democrats. During the election anti trump
folks could sign up at Graig's list to join the protest and receive some
penny cash, and risk their lives and wellbeing with the potential to
obtain a Criminal Records file and risk being thrown out of the job
market for a long time to come. With the $1.1 Trillion bill the price
to funnel the Color Revolution has gone way up. Soros is now challenged
to outspend $1.1 Trillion in order to take down Trump.

``I hope that the fair, and, I may say certain prospects of success will not induce us to relax.''
-- Lieutenant General George Washington, commander-in-chief to
   Major General Israel Putnam,
   Head-Quarters, Valley Forge, 5 May, 1778