Rock Bottom- The Lowly Point to Which Both Parties Have Descended

Rock Bottom- The Lowly Point to Which Both Parties Have Descended

It’s a race to the bottom, and whichever party gets there first gets dibs on claiming that it’s they who can boast about hating Trump more.

On the one side we have the Democrats. United in their opposition to the Republican president, they act as one in their singular determination to block any and all initiative coming from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. It doesn’t matter whether or not any singular effort coming from the Trump White House would benefit the country, for as long as such effort comes from Trump, they will oppose, resist, delay and disparage the President in the process. To an extent, this is expected of an opposition party out of power, but it has descended to the point of lunacy on the part of the minion senators and representatives who blindly obey the commands of Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), respectively, in universal opposition to Trump legislative initiative, regardless whether such initiative pursues the greater good of the nation. To be a Democrat is to hate all things Trump, and the rest doesn’t really matter much.

Yet, leading the race to the bottom are the Republicans- specifically those Republicans who are doing everything in their power to delegitimize and marginalize a Trump presidency they have opposed from the very start. This is especially true in the Senate, where at least twelve of the fifty-two Republican Senators are actively driving an effort to bring down the president in any and every way they can. They do so by cowardly backing away from heretofore unified votes to repeal ObamaCare, they once cast at a time when they knew their repeal votes were for naught, under a President Obama when he would surely veto them. Now that a Republican president is in a position to sign whatever they would put forward to repeal, replace and provide the country with a better solution to its healthcare woes, these same cowards run away for fear they might look bad if it doesn’t work, or fear that the media will say they are mean for taking away someone’s health care. Others try to limit their own president’s ability to make recess appointments for fear that President Trump will put a stop to the Bob Mueller/Democrat Lawyers Who Supported Hillary Clinton-led witch hunt and replace Mueller with a non-partisan special counsel, or that Trump would replace his own Attorney General in the interim. Still others pass legislation that would curtail President Trump from leveraging sanctions to conduct foreign policy without the Senate’s imprimatur, in direct opposition to the Constitution of the United States.

These are the “dirty dozen” Republican senators who, with an all-abiding eye of their own leadership, do what they can to stymie the president. These include Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Shelly Moore Caputo (R-WV), Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Bob Corker (R-TN), Susan Collins (R-ME), Jeff Flake (R-AZ), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Dean Heller (R-NV), John McCain (R-AZ), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Rob Portman (R-OH), and Ben Sasse (R-NE). Some do so overtly, like Arizona Senator Jeff Flake, who is currently writing a book on how to oppose Donald Trump- a duly elected president from his own party! Others like South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham do so covertly, by fully colluding with their Democrat counterparts to propel an ever-expanding probe into whatever they can find on Donald Trump to pursue impeachment of a president that none of them “authorized” to win. It’s plain to see that none of these dirty dozen, nor their leadership in the Senate, give any regard at all to the very real criminal offenses perpetrated by Hillary Clinton and her campaign, with regards to Clinton Foundation pay-for-play, unauthorized dissemination of classified information, and the destruction of e-mail evidence under congressional subpoena. None are concerned about Obama administration’s criminal and targeted unmasking of U.S. citizens caught up in the surveillance of foreign entities. No, they’d rather go after Trump, instead.  So while all of these bottom-dwellers take an extended vacation back to their districts, the investigations they have launched to bring down their president go forward with great zeal and determined purpose.

Then, we have the President- a political outsider, who looks out upon the swamp that is Washington, D.C. It is a city laden with corruption that permeates both parties- an endemic poison that prevents the level of change needed to address the needs of the nation’s people. Even more dangerously, the institution of a “deep state” which dominates every federal department and agency, and which condescendingly looks down upon an electorate who from their stand point, lacks their “expertise” in all matters governmental. It is this deep state- primarily, career federal employees who would sooner leak out confidential conversations that the president has with foreign leaders, and thereby threaten our national security in the process, than allow the very idea of a successful Trump presidency.

In spite of all of this (and for that matter, everyone else including an adversarial mainstream media united in message and purpose to disparage the president), Donald Trump disregards the many forces allayed against him, and pursues his agenda in any and every way he can. With the self-confidence and self-assurance that is his own essential quality, he knows that what he seeks is for the overall benefit of Americans, and he does so to strengthen America’s position in the world. He will keep doing so, as long as he has the support of the people who elected him, regardless of the slime that is the content and dwelling space of his opposition.

After all, Donald Trump has a job he was elected to do- and it’s one hell of a job he must do, if we are going to have a country…politicians be damned.

 

-Drew Nickell, 4 August 2017

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