JUST WHO IS IT THAT’S REALLY IN CHARGE HERE???

While I remain on the ‘Trump Train’ for now, I cannot guarantee that as the train continues to rumble on down the tracks that there will not come a time when I choose to disembark.  And also, while I don’t blame him entirely for current ‘warming up’ to Democrats, I am beginning to question his willingness to move further in their direction on some issues and away from those who put him into office.  For the time being, at least, I’m chalking this ‘warming up’ as being nothing more than an attempt on the part of our president to light a fire under those in Congress who are supposed to be on his side.  But should it turn out to be something more ominous, even sinister, than I may be exiting the ‘Trump Train’ sooner rather than later.   

It was this past Tuesday that Chuckie Schumer said he and President Trump have "talked a little bit about working together," and he went on to explain what Trump ‘needs’ to do to “improve things.”  Chuckie claimed to have told the president the best way he can show some good faith is to support the Dreamers bill, supported by RINO Lindsay Graham and Democrat ‘Little Dick’ Durbin.  Chuckie wants to move it to the floor quickly and get it done.  Chuckie said, “A second thing he can do that can be very helpful and move things in our direction, is to support an extension of the cost sharing (an Obamacare fix), because we know that that's coming out.  So there are lots of things that we can do that can improve things, that he seems open to.”

And apparently, at least according to Chuckie, when it comes to President Trump's long-promised wall on our southern border, Chuckie is saying we need to forget about it because it ain’t gonna happen.  Chuckie said, “Look, I made it so, so clear to the president that there is not going to be a wall, in the appropriations process or in others.”  And he went on to say, “And I heard that somebody, I don't know who it was, issued today, one of his people? Mark Short issued a statement that says, we're not going to tie the wall to Dreamers. That's a very, very good thing and good progress. I've told him (Trump) over and over again. At one point, he said to me, go easy on the wall. I said no.”  So who is it that’s really in charge here? 

Chuckie said there are many arguments against the wall.  He said, “Mexico's not paying for it, eminent domain, (Interior) Secretary Zinke said he wouldn't know where to build it along the long reaches of river.”  He went on to say, “But there's also the fact that there are a lot better ways and a lot cheaper ways to provide security at the border. We want to provide security at the border. We want to do it smartly, and we certainly don't want the symbol of America to the world, which is now the beautiful lady in the harbor with the torch that I represent, to turn into a wall.”  As far as I’m concerned, every argument against ‘The Wall’ can be countered very easily by one overriding issue, national security, which we all know is not important to Democrats.

And ya know, for years we were told by our less than stellar Republicans, that if we, the American people, would only give them control of the House they would be better able to do more to prevent then president Obummer from successfully moving the country ever further to the left.  Then to be told that what they really needed, before being able to successfully offer up any serious resistance, was also control of the Senate and then yet again we were told that they needed the White House as well.  And then after we did all that we were asked to do we still end up with Chuckie running the country.  So how the Hell does that happen?  And still the Republicans wonder why it is that so many people feel as if they’ve been betrayed?  

And so it is then that once again, thanks to our spineless Republican ‘leadership’, forced to contend with Chuckie and the typical Democrat, ‘our way or the highway’, form of compromise.  Democrats act as if they won the election and it's appears as if they did.  So in an effort to sum up Chuckie's statement: 1) We need to put the interests of illegal aliens above the interests of U.S. citizens.  2) We need to continue pouring money into Obamacare while it’s collapsing.  We want to continue to push towards a complete government takeover of healthcare in the U.S., because we all know how good the VA works.  3) We DO NOT want to protect the sovereignty of the U.S. by protecting our borders.  So exactly who is it that Chuckie represents?

Question: Why is it that on those rare occasions when the Republicans are in the majority in both Houses of Congress, and control the White House, it’s more often than not that the minority Democrats still get to set the agenda?  Well, the answer in this particular case is a relatively easy one and can be summed up with two names, Ryan and McConnell.  These two RINOs don't appear to be the least bit interested in doing what they were elected to do and President Trump seems to be adapting his priorities to match who has the power, which at this point seems to be Chuckie and Pelosi.  It's not the way it's supposed to work in Congress, but in lieu of our lack of leadership from our Republican ‘leaders’, it seems to be the new reality.

And while I think we can safely determine that one of the reasons Hitlery and the Democrats lost the election was because of their support of open borders, I think we can also say that there seems to few ‘Establishment’ Republicans, aka RINOs, who support the building of President Trump’s ‘wall’.  And while I would like to think that Democrats will keep losing as long as they support outsiders over Americans, I fear that if enough Americans come to see little difference between the parties when it comes to this very important issue it will simply cease to be an issue that will have an effect regarding election results.  If the Democrats had won the election, everything would be much worse except for the parasite crowd and America haters.

So let me paraphrase Chuckie's dictates to the president: “We don't give a damn what you promised the voters who elected you, we don't care about the American people and we certainly don't give a crap about securing our borders.  And furthermore the Constitution is nothing more than a ‘living’ document that needs to be change with the times and not stuck in time back in the time in which it was ratified.  You, Mr. President, and the racist and bigoted Republicans will bow to me and my ‘progressive’ friends and give us everything we demand or we will shut things down and make sure, with the help of our many friends in the state-controlled media, that it’s you who will get the blame.  Now kiss my ring and be gone.”

President Trump was elected to do what he promised he’d do if elected, not to become just another go along to get along Republican president.  And I hope, he sticks to his guns and doesn't side with Chuckie & Co. abandoning those of us who voted for him.  What's really sad is that Chuckie is already making demands and saying no.  Chuckie needs to be told that he, and the Democrats, can either be a participant in the process or measures will be taken that will effectively make them little more than spectators.  But as long as we have McConnell and Ryan running things that will never happen.  But the president must tread lightly in his attempts at ‘bipartisanship’ because the flames of discontent are already starting to blow in his direction.