morekaos said:
All the hyperbolic talk, all the kicking and screaming, all the "huge "protests and outpouring of support will be for naught. Go ahead, don't like this Supreme Court candidate? Tough luck he will be approved. Don't like DeVoss or this particular Secretary of State? Tough toenails they will be approved. Don't like a pipeline. Scream your lungs out snowflakes...it will be built. This is all theater. As our previous President loved to point out, "elections have consequences." Suck it up and live with them...we had to for the last 8 years. Now we get to drive. Like him or hate him he is and will deliver on his promises. Protest away, nothing will change.
Yeah, I think most of these people will get approved. And they should, unless they are really unqualified. Some of what the Senate Dems are doing is just trying to slow down the process. Some of the nominees are not being vetted well. I'm not sure why Trump doesn't think cabinet nominees should be subjected to extreme vetting.
I'm not sure Trump will deliver on many of his promises. Here are ones that I don't think he will deliver on.
This is the group of promises that he has already failed on.
1. On his first day in office, ask Congress to pass Kate's Law. I didn't see this reported. Did he do this?
2. On the first day in office, get rid of gun-free zones at military bases, recruiting centers and, in some cases, schools. Did he do this? I would have thought this would have been reported in the liberal media.
3. Stop the surge of violent crime in Chicago within 1 week. Did he do it?
4. Instruct the attorney general to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Hillary Clinton. Backed down from that one before he even took office.
5. Drain the swamp. Instead he hired it.
6. Bring back waterboarding. Already seems to have backed down on this.
7. Allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices. He has already started back-tracking on that.
8. Stop AT&T from buying Time Warner. Back in December, AT&T said it was feeling confident about its ability to buy Time Warner after meeting with President-elect Donald Trump's transition team.
These are ones he will fail on.
1. To stick it to Wall Street. Instead he is hiring Wall Street and tearing down regulations so that Wall Street can get a second go-round at hurting the Trump voters that went broke in 2008.
2. Replace ACA with something that will cover everyone, provide better coverage, have no individual mandate, allow nation-wide plans, and cost less. Good luck with that.
3. Build an impenetrable physical wall along the USA/Mexico border. The wall will be one foot taller than the Great Wall of China and artistically beautiful, constructed of hardened concrete, rebar and steel. And Mexico will pay for it. It will end up being a Swiss cheese wall. And we will pay for it.
4. Require employers to recruit from the unemployment office, not the immigration office. His own companies hire lots of immigrants. He doesn't seem to be changing that.
5. Expand the number of H-1B visas for highly skilled workers. No action on this yet.
6. Get rid of the H-1B visa program. Wait, what?
7. Make all see-saws now always have both ends be up.*
8. Raise the federal minimum wage to $10/hr. Haven't heard anything about this lately. It is obviously really early. Maybe he will remember this.
9. Be so presidential, you're going to get bored. Ha ha ha.
10. Release his tax returns as soon as the audit it done. He's not going to do it.
11. Impose a 45% tariff on Chinese goods imported into the USA. No way that this happens. All his voters that shop at WalMart won't be happy at the increase in prices.
12. Grow the economy by at least 4% per year. Too high of a bar.
13. $1 trillion (public and private money) infrastructure projects. I guess, maybe he can do this. But then look at #14.
14. Eliminate the national debt within 8 years. His tax cuts and spending increases will increase the debt.
15. Cut the national budget by 20%. I doubt he cuts it much, if at all. Maybe he can save some by cutting the EPA. Then we can have polluted air, polluted water, and polluted people.
16. Collect unpaid taxes totaling as much as $385 billion/year. Not sure why he thinks he can do anything about this. Maybe he will start by paying his own taxes?
17. Create a deportation task force. Immediately deport undocumented immigrants who have committed a crime, are a member of a gang, or are a security threat. And that there are 2-3 million of these folks. No action on this yet. And his numbers, as is usual with him, are way off.
18. Deport all the undocumented immigrants who are here on expired visas. No action on this yet. How will he find all these people?
19. End birthright citizenship, only granting citizenship to babies whose parents are legally in the country. Ha ha ha.
20. Urge assimilation of immigrants. Maybe he is doing this in a weird way by making immigrants terrified to stand out. Crazy like a fox?
21. Increase funding for treatment of mental health issues and drug treatment. Increase the number of mental health professionals. He should, but he won't.
22. Put America first. Seems to be putting Trump first and Russia second.
23. Help Haiti rebuild. Odds are he doesn't remember promising this.
24. Bomb ISIS and knock them out. Bomb oil fields controlled by them, seize the oil, and give the profits to injured veterans. I don't see this happening.
25. Eliminate or gut the EPA, eliminate the Clean Water Rule, eliminate the Clean Power Plan, ease regulations on the coal industry, and ensure that the country has absolutely crystal clear and clean water and beautiful, immaculate air. Seems like quite a contradiction here.
26. Guarantee 6 weeks of paid maternity leave. With a Republican Congress?
27. At the end of 4 years, get over 95% of the African American vote. Ha ha ha.
28. Dismantle every last criminal gang and cartel threatening our cities. That would be great - get on it Donald!
29. Protect and defend all Americans, whereever they come from. Sign the 1st Amendment Defense Act which prevents denying grants, contracts, etc. to an individual or business that discriminates against gays. America will be a tolerant and open society. We will be one people under one God. Again, there are contradictions here.
*Okay, he didn't promise this. It is just a metaphor for his some of these promises.
