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This is still not normal
Author: Raine    Date: 09/14/2017 13:05:25

Waking up this morning we all heard that 45 may have struck a deal with Minority leaders Pelosi and Schumer. The deal was about #DACA and the over 690,000 people who are known as Dreamers. I wrote about that last week.

Last week Pelosi and Schumer managed to get 45 to agree about raising the debt ceiling, thus avoiding a government shutdown for a few more months and an aide package for those affected by Hurricane Harvey.

It had to be done.

It's still not normal. Some Republicans are apoplectic. Others are acting like this is the pivot that we have been promised for over a year.
And in between those posts, there was a flurry of fuming calls and text messages — a blaring political fire alarm among Trump’s diehard supporters.

“The reality is sinking in that Trump administration is on the precipice of turning into an establishment presidency,” Sam Nunberg, a former Trump campaign adviser, said in an interview early Thursday morning. (snip)

“If AP is correct, Trump base is blown up, destroyed, irreparable, and disillusioned beyond repair,” King tweeted, referencing an Associated Press story on the bipartisan agreement.

He added, “No promise is credible.” (snip)

Breitbart News, the conservative website now run by former White House chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon, quickly became a gathering place for aggrieved Trump backers. Readers congregated by the thousands in the comments section for an article with a bright red headline: “Amnesty Don.” (snip)

“My sense is that he told Chuck and Nancy what they wanted to hear, and they heard what they wanted to hear. I think there could be some mischief-making on the part of Schumer since the White House is walking it back,” said Mark Krikorian, an immigration hard-liner who runs the Center for Immigration Studies, in an interview.

Meanwhile, Fox News host Sean Hannity, who is in regular contact with Trump, directed his ire over the developments not at the president but at GOP leaders on Capitol Hill.


As for the Dems, they are getting on with the act of actual governance in spite of this wildly erratic and untrustworthy resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. And Mr. Krikorian could very well be correct about 45 making mischief. I cannot stress it enough, this is still not normal.

The reality is that we need government to work for people instead of against people and I view Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer as the people who not only know how to govern, they also know how to use politics to get things done. He's still a scorpion, but our leaders understand the science of how to deal with him. They are not the Frogs in this fable. Pepe is, truth be told.
Trump’s conservative critics, however, said his latest gestures reflect his liberal instincts on some issues and his intense desire for popularity.

“He’s always had that itch to liberate himself from the Republican Party,” said William Kristol, a Trump critic and editor at large of the Weekly Standard magazine. “He ran against it in 2015 and 2016, and has attacked it in 2017. He wants to win and doesn’t care about the substance of winning.”

Kristol added, “Democratic voters may loathe Trump, but he could conceivably give them lots of policy victories.”

Democrats say they are focused only on working with the president on areas where they believe they can get what they want in terms of their priorities, including protections for the dreamers and federal health-care subsidies for Obamacare. They have vowed not to trade dreamer protections for Trump’s long-promised wall at the southern border — and in recent days the White House has indicated the two issues do not have to be linked.

On other issues and with this president, many Democrats remain wary.

Donnelly, despite being wooed by Trump and up for reelection next year, said he feels no pressure to vote for the Republican tax plan if he thinks it’s a bad deal.

“If the tax package makes sense, I’ll support,” Donnelly said. “If not, I’ll pass.”


Coming from a dysfunctional upbringing, the one thing I had to learn is how to survive and be happy knowing I couldn't change the dysfunction around me; that is what the Dems have figured out.

While the GOP continues to forget how to run the government, The Dems walked into the White House and appear to be getting the very basic things that need to get done, done. Texas, Louisiana, and Florida need desperate help. It is looking like Georgia is going to need help as well. The government needs to be funded and we need to keep our promises to the Dreamers. These are American things that we do, we help the people who live here in this nation. One party is making sure that gets done, even if it means dealing with malignant abnormalities.

Keep up the resistance, keep calling and don't blink. None of this would be happening if it weren't for the resistance.

and

Raine
 
 

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Comment by Raine on 09/14/2017 13:10:31






Comment by wickedpam on 09/14/2017 13:20:43
Morning

Comment by Raine on 09/14/2017 15:02:54
is this thing on?


I heard from Mondo, I think he will be able to get back home soon!

Comment by wickedpam on 09/14/2017 15:06:28
Quote by Raine:
is this thing on?


I heard from Mondo, I think he will be able to get back home soon!



Awesome to hear! Does he know if this place got any damage?

Comment by Raine on 09/14/2017 15:49:00
Quote by wickedpam:
Quote by Raine:
is this thing on?


I heard from Mondo, I think he will be able to get back home soon!



Awesome to hear! Does he know if this place got any damage?
HE said no flooding and was waiting for power.

That was some wicked stuff that happened in Jax


Comment by Raine on 09/14/2017 15:51:33
Comment by Scoopster on 09/14/2017 15:54:47
Moooornin!

Comment by Raine on 09/14/2017 16:17:59
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Moooornin!

ya made it just under the bell!


Comment by Raine on 09/14/2017 16:21:54
Why do I love twitter?

Stuff like this, Check out the date:





Comment by Raine on 09/14/2017 16:32:12
Apropos of today's blog:
“We agreed that the President would support enshrining the DACA protections into law,” Schumer said, speaking from the Senate floor. “What remains to be negotiated are the details of border security with the mutual goal of finalizing all the details as soon as possible. While both sides agreed that the wall would not be any part of this agreement, the President made clear he intends to pursue it at a later time and we made clear that we would continue to oppose it.”

Trump corroborated Schumer’s statements Thursday morning before heading to Florida to assess Hurricane Irma damage, saying the parties are “working on a plan for DACA” and that the border wall would come “later.”




Comment by Raine on 09/14/2017 16:45:36
Quote by Raine:
Apropos of today's blog:
“We agreed that the President would support enshrining the DACA protections into law,” Schumer said, speaking from the Senate floor. “What remains to be negotiated are the details of border security with the mutual goal of finalizing all the details as soon as possible. While both sides agreed that the wall would not be any part of this agreement, the President made clear he intends to pursue it at a later time and we made clear that we would continue to oppose it.”

Trump corroborated Schumer’s statements Thursday morning before heading to Florida to assess Hurricane Irma damage, saying the parties are “working on a plan for DACA” and that the border wall would come “later.”


Go Chuck!





Comment by wickedpam on 09/14/2017 16:48:25
Quote by Raine:
Quote by wickedpam:
Quote by Raine:
is this thing on?


I heard from Mondo, I think he will be able to get back home soon!



Awesome to hear! Does he know if this place got any damage?
HE said no flooding and was waiting for power.

That was some wicked stuff that happened in Jax



It was crazy - the flooding never seemed to get that bad when we were in Wilmington, Worse flooding we has was a sewer grate that would get clogged with pinestraw and we would have to go out and clear it to keep water from getting too high.

Comment by livingonli on 09/14/2017 16:51:46
Waiting for my car to be finished which I dropped off yesterday because it needed work done.

Comment by Raine on 09/14/2017 17:04:45
BTW, about the Hope Hicks Twitter account,





Comment by Scoopster on 09/14/2017 17:15:07
Quote by Raine:
BTW, about the Hope Hicks Twitter account,



Ohohohoho so it WAS a fake account!

Comment by Raine on 09/14/2017 17:49:43
Quote by Scoopster:
Quote by Raine:
BTW, about the Hope Hicks Twitter account,



Ohohohoho so it WAS a fake account!
yeah.

That jones went with it is hysterical.


Comment by wickedpam on 09/14/2017 17:57:28
Quote by livingonli:
Waiting for my car to be finished which I dropped off yesterday because it needed work done.



I've had that happen. Sucks but ya gotta keep it in good working order to help your job hunt :)

Comment by livingonli on 09/14/2017 18:03:26
Quote by wickedpam:
Quote by livingonli:
Waiting for my car to be finished which I dropped off yesterday because it needed work done.



I've had that happen. Sucks but ya gotta keep it in good working order to help your job hunt :)

Not to mention the $800 it's going to cost me in repairs which I could use for other things. Although I was afraid it was going to end up being more than that.