Trump Has Lost the Governing Plot - WSJ Editorial

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Republicans don’t want to say this publicly, but privately they do: President Trump’s personal political obsessions are hurting his Presidency, harming the chances for further policy gains the rest of this year, and putting control of the House and Senate in jeopardy.

That’s the backdrop to the GOP revolt this week in Congress on war powers and funding for the Department of Homeland Security. Mr. Trump’s unrelated priorities are handing Democrats gift after gift and forcing Republicans to take difficult votes that could cost them in November. His desire for political revenge is also alienating Members of Congress he will need this year.

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Democrats planned to offer amendments to the DHS funding bill that would put Republicans on record for supporting a taxpayer payout to convicted rioters and Mr. Trump’s friends and allies. Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, hardly a GOP faint heart, said someone had called it a “galactic blunder,” and “that’s probably true.” Mr. Trump has already pardoned the rioters but now he wants the rest of us to pay them.

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Then there’s Mr. Trump’s East Wing ballroom fixation, for which he wants $220 million from Congress. He has a point about hardened security for the new White House area, but he had said when he first tore down the old East Wing that it would require no public money. The parliamentarian struck the ballroom funding from the DHS bill under budget reconciliation rules, so now the GOP will need 60 votes (not 51) to pass ballroom funding. Mr. Trump naturally berated GOP Senators for not firing the parliamentarian.

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Mr. Trump’s Presidency will be all but over—except for impeachment 3.0—if the GOP loses control of Congress in November. If he wants to accomplish more legislatively, he has only a few months to do it. Does he want his remaining legacy to be a ballroom, an Arc de Trump, and payoffs for his friends from a fund that Republicans would denounce if a Democratic President tried it? Mr. Trump needs a second-year reset, or he is headed toward a second-term failure.

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-has-lost-the-governing-plot-4879dd64?st=HipX7T&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

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[LearnedHand]

1. How can you lose something you never had?

Duh.

[rampartd]

2. "demolish, distract, disinform" is not a governing strategy.

[LearnedHand]

3. The sanewashing is crazymaking

[LymphocyteLover]

6. it's like they are taking his crazy away and then transferring it to us to make us crazy

[Skittles]

4. let's all guess how the WSJ would word this if this was a DEM president

especially FEMALE / POC

[J_William_Ryan]

5. "...or he is headed toward a second-term failure."

Trump’s second term is already a failure, as was his first.

And Trump is incapable of any legislative initiative, focused instead on more grift, corruption, and criminality.

Congressional Republicans aren’t going to move on any major legislation – Trump’s incompetence and fecklessness have seen to that. Republicans are occupied with mitigating disasters such as Trump’s domestic terrorist slush fund and his failed, illegal war of choice with Iran.

[LymphocyteLover]

7. His wildly deranged actions are "hurting his presidency" ... such a quaint way to frame it

Like it wasn't an absolute train wreck of a shit show dumpster fire before these most recent episodes?

[slightlv]

8. When you have a derangement syndrome named after you....

but even that can't be readily attributed to a specific group of people... you gotta a cult problem; and the media is a large part of the problem!

TDS via R's... a democratic malady because they hate trump and the fact we maga own them.

TDS via D's... a republican malady because they are so far up trumps butt they can't see past the cult leader!

I've never seen anything like this is in my entire life (SMDH)