• Entertainment
  • Government
  • Healthcare
  • Law
  • Military
  • Politics
  • Polling
  • Sports
  • the Economy
  • Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Political Dog 101

Politics, News, Comments & Other Good Stuff....

  • About this place….
  • Login
  • Register
  • Show Search
Hide Search

Republicans lawmakers are worried about a party leader they never were happy about in the first place….

March 10, 2018 By jamesb

Remember?:……

Donald J. Trump ran AGAINST the Grand Ole’ Parties lawmakers …..

The party fought against him before their voters jumped ship FOR Trump….

Donald Trump is by trade a New York Real Estate guy….

He wasn’t a politican….

THAT fact played well for Trump….

But THAT is STILL a problem for the lawmakers who seem to have capitulated to Trump’s leadership…..

Image result for Trump/Ryan/McConnell

And they are WORRIED….

Trump seems to working hard to make them even MORE Worried….

Trump seems hard pressed to throw things out with a tariff and trade war….

Over the past week, congressional Republicans have gotten a glimpse of the President Trump they hoped to never see.

On gun safety and, more significantly to many of them, trade, the president has loudly broken with longstanding party orthodoxy and reminded Republican leaders on Capitol Hill that they can never be 100 percent certain of what they are going to get with the onetime New York Democrat.

Despite such worries, Mr. Trump’s first-year actions on policy and personnel — particularly judicial nominees — provided substantial reassurance to congressional Republicans. They concluded that Mr. Trump was really one of them when it came to bedrock issues and that the anti-Washington, drain-the-swamp cries from the raucous campaign rallies were only so many applause lines.

In the chaos of the early weeks of his administration, Mr. Trump provoked a sigh of relief from Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the majority leader, that the president seemed to actually be conservative. “If you look at the steps that have been taken so far, looks good to me,” Mr. McConnell said.

Now here comes Mr. Trump with his sudden proposal to rebuild the country’s steel and aluminum industries through steep tariffs on imports from leading trading partners. Most congressional Republicans fundamentally disagree with that approach, which they consider a backdoor tax that could easily touch off a calamitous trade war, hurt their local businesses and overwhelm any gains from their hard-won, Republican-only tax bill…..

More….

image…newsweek.com

Filed Under: Government, Law, Politics, the Economy Tagged With: Donald Trump, Imports, Republicans, Tariff's

Reader Interactions

Primary Sidebar

We’re looking for people to jump into on-line discussions here…..

Search Political101 Searches

RSS Reuters Top US News

  • Secret U.S. prosecutors' deal violated Epstein victims' rights: judge February 21, 2019
  • Actor Smollett staged 'hate crime' hoax to advance career: Chicago police February 21, 2019
  • North Carolina elections board orders new U.S. House election February 21, 2019
  • Johnson & Johnson receives federal subpoenas related to baby powder litigation February 21, 2019
  • Trump, adult children urge dismissal of marketing scam lawsuit February 21, 2019
  • Latest teachers strike launched in Oakland, California February 21, 2019
  • Trump administration ends California talks on auto emissions: White House February 21, 2019

President Trump Job Approval…

RCP Average .…2/21/19 Update

Approve……..44.3
Disapprove…52.6

Spread………-8.3  Disapprove

 Trump’s approval number continues to tick up…(Added the RCP average by another Rasmussen poll)

RCP has Speaker Pelosi’s approval average @ 39.30 and disapproval @ 48. for a spread of -9.0 Disapprove…

…RealClear Politics does NOT list all of the major poll’s in its average…..

Recent Posts

  • Al Sharpton and Kamala Harris have a sit-down in the Big Apple…..
  • Trump relents….Will leave 200 or so US troops in Syria…..
  • There will be a new House Election in North Carolina’s 9th District….
  • Robert Mueller’s lament?…..More and More Things just ain’t Right…..
  • A folding smartphone….Trump 6G networks and more in cell phones futures …..
  • Duke Basketball star’s knee injury 33 seconds into a game….His Nike came apart at the seams….
  • Alabama woman who joined ISIS cannot return to America….
  • Mueller & Co. are reported to have at least 14 MORE seal indictments waiting….Hmmmm?

Recent Comments

  • jamesb on Roger Stone posts a picture of his judge with a crosshairs next to her head….Update.... Judge orders a full gag order against S…
  • jamesb on Could Donald Trump be in the process of destroying the Grand ole’ Party?…Open Thread for Feb. 16, 2019….Had an interesting conversation this morning.... A…
  • jamesb on Mueller & Co. are reported to have at least 14 MORE seal indictments waiting….Hmmmm?Seen on twitter by Occupy Democrats.....
  • jamesb on Could Donald Trump be in the process of destroying the Grand ole’ Party?…Open Thread for Feb. 16, 2019….Morning All.....
  • jamesb on Could Donald Trump be in the process of destroying the Grand ole’ Party?…Open Thread for Feb. 16, 2019….Remember Even WITH Mueller’s report? Probes contin…
  • jamesb on Could Donald Trump be in the process of destroying the Grand ole’ Party?…Open Thread for Feb. 16, 2019….The media is hard on the view that the Mueller Rep…
  • jamesb on Could Donald Trump be in the process of destroying the Grand ole’ Party?…Open Thread for Feb. 16, 2019….Breaking..... There are reports that new AG Barr h…
  • jamesb on Could Donald Trump be in the process of destroying the Grand ole’ Party?…Open Thread for Feb. 16, 2019….Good Morning to all who would come to this place..…

Meta

  • Register
  • Log in
  • Entries RSS
  • Comments RSS
  • WordPress.org

Countdown to Important 2019 and 2020 Political Events…..

As of February 22, 2019…

824  days since the 2016 General Election….

758 days since Inauguration Day, 2017 (Trump days in Office)

35 days to the scheduled Brexit decision day...MAYBE????

345 days, (presumably) until the 2020 Iowa Democratic presidential caucuses

351 days,  (presumably) until the 2020 N.H. presidential primary

619 days  until Election Day, 2020

696  days  until Inauguration Day, 2021

Data from DSD @ PDog

Archives

  • February 2019
  • January 2019
  • December 2018
  • November 2018
  • October 2018
  • September 2018
  • August 2018
  • July 2018
  • June 2018
  • May 2018
  • April 2018
  • March 2018
  • November 2017
Powered by

Copyright © 2019 · Web site by Gelfand Design