Thus far Trump’s tweets and the Republican congressional disarray add up to a GOP train wreck about to happen
by Howie Katz
Make no mistake about it, the Democrats are determined to destroy the Trump presidency. Bent on revenge over what they consider a stolen election, they are not going to let up until Trump is driven out of office. And they’re getting plenty of help from Trump himself and his fellow Republicans.
Those who idolize Trump think his tweets are a wonderful way of communicating directly with the public. But Trump has been using Twitter mostly to lash back at his critics. And his tweet accusing Obama of ordering a wiretap on him has come back to bite him in the butt, with no end in sight. His tweets may well be the sword Trump falls on.
While the Republicans have a majority in both houses of congress, they are divided into conservative and moderate factions, each group being at odds with the other. This disarray led to the collapse of an attempt to redo Obamacare, something the Republicans have been swearing to do for the past seven years. Furthermore, the conservative faction is not enthralled with Trump, believing that he is not truly a conservative. They are probably right on that one.
In the Senate, Trump has Republican enemies who are not going to make the president’s life any easier. John McCain and Lindsey Graham use every opportunity to show they are at odds with Trump. McCain seems to be bitter over Trump’s stupid statement that the Vietnam War hero was no hero because he was a POW. You can also bet that Ted Cruz hasn’t forgotten Trump’s absurd accusation that his father took part in the assassination of JFK.
Trump’s tweets together with the Republican disarray look like a GOP train wreck about to happen. That begs the question: Will 2018 prove to be a catastrophic year for the Republicans?
The way things are going, it looks like the Democrats will sweep the 2018 midterm congressional elections, and possibly achieving super majorities in both houses. Even if that does not happen, Trump looks like a one-term President. How does President Elizabeth Warren sound?
Howie Katz is a former law enforcement officer and retired criminal justice professor. In 1969 he founded the Texas Narcotic Officers Association. He currently resides in Houston, Texas. You can see more of his writing at http://barkgrowlbite.blogspot.com and http://theunconventionalgazette.blogspot.com.
Why does this idiot get a forum here? Hello? DJT is not conservative – must the GOP embrace this waste of space? The saving grace of the Trump presidency is that Congress might stop acting like the British Parliament, grow a pair and act like a co-equal branch of government for the first time in 25 yrs.
I suspect that David Jennings gives this idiot a forum so that people like you can get their bowels all in an uproar.
Despite your low opinion of Trump’s Tweets, as time passes, he turns out to have been – if not diplomatic – correct.
“I’ll be frank; I still can’t decide whether Trump is Holmes or Clouseau. But the sonofabitch always wins, and his enemies always lose in spectacular fashion, and it’s making for a presidency that’s far more enjoyable to watch than any Hollywood movie.”
http://takimag.com/article/holmes_or_clouseau_who_carestrump_wins_again_david_cole/print#ixzz4cUnkHKMJ
Always wins? What do you call the Trumpcare fiasco? He is the leader of the party that control all three branches.
If the Democrats do take over Congress expect that impeachment will not be far behind and who knows who else he may take with him.
For impeachment to succeed articles must first be brought by the House of Representatives and passed by a majority. Then a trial would take place in the Senate. A conviction would require an affirmative vote by 2/3 of the Senate. A President of the United States has never been successfully impeached. If you think Trump will be the first, you’re deluded.
Two presidents have been successfully impeached – Bill Clinton and Andrew Johnson. I think what you meant to say was that no president of the United States has been CONVICTED. Two very different things.
Thanks Mack, Fat, the Russian connection and what would come out to embarrass the Republican Party is what will happen.
I think New York will convict Trump of something unless he goes the way of Ken Lay.
Anyone with any lick of sense would have a very strong suspicion that Trump and numerous members of his staff and members of the Republican Party were working with Russian.
Dick Cheney “An act of War”. I don’t like the Russians, “They are supplying the Taliban” an American General. They supplied the Viet Cong.
Patton, “Someday we will have to fight them and it will take six years and cost us six million lives.”
I can’t understand the Republican Party becoming Russian lovers.
Letting the liberal wing of the GOP lead on legislation will never work out well for repubs. Trump will figure that out.
And Howie, Trump has been proven quite correct on the surveillance issue.
Not exactly DanMan. The surveillance was incidental. The CIA and NSA were monitoring foreigners, and not only Russians, when they picked up contacts between the people whose phones they were listening to and members of Trump’s team. So far there is no evidence that the government wiretapped Trump.
And don’t forget that Trump accused Obama of ordering a wiretap on him after reading Breitbart News – not the most reliable news source – and a couple of lines in The New York Times.
Personally, I think it is quite possible that Obama had Trump wiretapped illegally by hiring an outside black-op group to do it. But so far it doesn’t look like anyone is pursuing that possibility.
What Nanes did is part of a coverup, it will come out eventually, for that they can be convicted.