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Why is the Republic legislative agenda floundering?
It has been nearly 10 months since the Republicans took control of the House, Senate and Presidency. In this time, the party has passed no major legislation. Certainly the Republican Congress has passed minor policy changes and Trump has issued numerous executive orders that have infuriated just about everyone. However no big-ticket items have come to fruition, and the current tax reform bill is in serious S.O.S. trouble.
My personal theory: Trump's poor leadership, in addition to Congressional Republicans + their base never switching out of the "let's piss off the liberals" mentality. Heck, it's evidenced on these forums. The current top thread on D.P. is one by Goshin over accusations against Roy Moore and trying to tie this to Hillary, Biden, Franken, Conyers and a few others.
The problem with this is,
1. As the chief executive, Trump must have focus on corralling Congress and getting them to understand, write or amend, and then pass his major policy proposals. Neither Ryan nor McConnell has the time or energy to manage their chamber, their caucuses (fundraising, etc.) and also plan and pass major legislative agenda items. Unfortunately for them the racist, tweeting pumpkin has the attention span of a goldfish.
2. While the "piss off the liberals" strategy feeds the conservative id, it creates no offensive rallying point for elected Republicans or their supporters. Our public discourse right now is not, "We need you to support [AHCA] / [tax bill] / [regulatory reform]," which Ryan and McConnell are desperately trying to get us to talk about, but rather all the Democrats and liberals that FOX News hates.
Your thoughts?
It has been nearly 10 months since the Republicans took control of the House, Senate and Presidency. In this time, the party has passed no major legislation. Certainly the Republican Congress has passed minor policy changes and Trump has issued numerous executive orders that have infuriated just about everyone. However no big-ticket items have come to fruition, and the current tax reform bill is in serious S.O.S. trouble.
My personal theory: Trump's poor leadership, in addition to Congressional Republicans + their base never switching out of the "let's piss off the liberals" mentality. Heck, it's evidenced on these forums. The current top thread on D.P. is one by Goshin over accusations against Roy Moore and trying to tie this to Hillary, Biden, Franken, Conyers and a few others.
The problem with this is,
1. As the chief executive, Trump must have focus on corralling Congress and getting them to understand, write or amend, and then pass his major policy proposals. Neither Ryan nor McConnell has the time or energy to manage their chamber, their caucuses (fundraising, etc.) and also plan and pass major legislative agenda items. Unfortunately for them the racist, tweeting pumpkin has the attention span of a goldfish.
2. While the "piss off the liberals" strategy feeds the conservative id, it creates no offensive rallying point for elected Republicans or their supporters. Our public discourse right now is not, "We need you to support [AHCA] / [tax bill] / [regulatory reform]," which Ryan and McConnell are desperately trying to get us to talk about, but rather all the Democrats and liberals that FOX News hates.
Your thoughts?