Trump begins second 100 days held hostage by Republican Congress

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by David M. Drucker | Apr 29, 2017

President Trump begins his second 100 days with major campaign promises held hostage by a stubborn Republican Congress even as GOP voters show faith in his leadership.

The repeal of Obamacare was on life support after legislation pushed by the White House was shelved Friday for a second time in weeks amid Republican opposition in the House. The logjam denied the president a key legislative victory in his first 100 days.

The prospects for tax reform were equally uncertain after Republicans two days earlier announced opposition to critical elements of Trump's blueprint. The president was even denied money for construction of a wall along the Southern border in a must-pass spending bill.

But the president's goals for reforming healthcare, taxes and immigration, and for rebuilding infrastructure could have a permanent, lasting impact on the country long after his presidency. And, they are either stalled amid Republican infighting or have yet to take flight.

Trump concluded his first 100 days in office historically unpopular for a president at this stage. His job approval rating in the RealClearPolitics average was just 43.1 percent, with 51.9 percent disapproving.

Among Republicans, however, Trump is in good shape.

The president rated an 85 percent in CNN's latest poll. And, in a poll conducted for the University of Virginia Center for Politics, self-identified "Trump supporters" who pulled the lever for him in November scored him a 93 percent.

These voters are pleased with the progress he's making on fulfilling his commitments and believed he's accomplished a lot so far. The White House has promoted Trump's first 100 days achievements as historic and unprecedented.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trump-begins-second-100-days-held-hostage-by-republican-congress/article/2621647

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That DOTY award is in your grasp.

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Assad: Trump is merely a puppet of Deep State regime

On Thursday Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said President Trump is not an independent leader, but merely a puppet of the military industrial complex

(Washington, DC) During an interview with Latin American TeleSUR TV network in Damascus, Assad said President Trump isn’t pursuing his own policies, but rather executing the decisions made by the intelligence agencies, the Pentagon, the big arms manufactures, oil companies, and financial institutions.

"As we have seen in the past few weeks, he changed his rhetoric completely and subjected himself to the terms of the deep American state, or the deep American regime," President Assad added.

He referred to the fact that President Trump came to power on a political platform promising a departure from the interventionist policy of the previous U.S. president, Barack Obama, but soon forgot his promises and ordered a missile strike against the Syrian air base following a chemical weapons incident in Syria’s Idlib province.

The Syrian president also said that it is “a complete waste of time to make an assessment of the American president’s foreign policy” as “he might say something” but what he really does depends on “what these [U.S. military and business] institutions dictate to him.”

He also added that it “is not new” and “has been ongoing American policy for decades.”

"This is what characterizes American politicians: they lie on a daily basis... That’s why we shouldn’t believe what the Pentagon or any other American institution says because they say things which serve their policies, not things which reflect reality and the facts on the ground,” Assad told TeleSUR.

He went on to say that the US continues to pursue its age-long policy aimed at establishing and maintaining a global hegemony by turning all countries that oppose it into war zones.

"The United States always seeks to control all the states of the world without exception. It does not accept allies, regardless of whether they are developed states as those in the Western bloc or other states of the world," the Syrian leader explained.

He also added that “what is happening to Syria, to Korea, to Iran, to Russia, and maybe to Venezuela now, aims at re-imposing American hegemony on the world because they believe that this hegemony is under threat now, which consequently threatens the interests of American economic and political elites.”

http://www.trunews.com/article/assad-trump-is-merely-a-puppet-of-deep-state-regime

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Too bad LaPierre didn't just admit that the 'elitists' he is talking about here is the dark state hierarchy of the Republican Party, who is also in the majority of both the House and Senate.  The GOPe is definitely, beyond a shadow of any doubt, the greatest barrier to saving and restoring this country.  That power click is killing what is left of this country.  They have agreed to disagree with Trump on every campaign promise he ran on and got elected on.  The GOPe is the real enemy here.

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NRA’s Wayne LaPierre: Academic, political, media elites ‘America’s greatest domestic threats’

     Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president and CEO of the National Rifle Association, on Friday told gun-rights activists they have to do their best to support President Trump because “leftist zealots” and elites are determined to tear him down.

    “We must do all we can to support our president, because as you know, there’s an intense war that’s being waged by leftist zealots to destroy President Trump and destroy his administration,” Mr. LaPierre said.

    “It’s up to us to speak up against the three most dangerous voices in America: academic elites, political elites, and media elites,” he said. “These are America’s greatest domestic threats.”

    Mr. LaPierre called Sen. Bernard Sanders a “political predator of young voters who were lied to by school teachers and college professors.”

    Mr. LaPierre was speaking at the 2017 NRA Institute for Legislative Action’s “Leadership Forum” at the gun-rights group’s annual meetings, held this year in Atlanta.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/apr/28/lapierre-political-media-greatest-domestic-threat/