vivster said:
TheWPCTraveler said:
The funny thing is that this is no longer Trump's monster. This is McConnell's monster, instead of doing something productive and reforming the utterly byzantine tax code the United States has, he willingly pushes through with bills that have a near-zero chance of success in the current senate. Pushing a replacement to the ACA should be a much easier task if (R)s are able to expand their majority in 2018.
The fact that Trump had to go negotiate with (D)s on the budget (and conceding ground on issues like border security in exchange for stability in the upcoming fiscal year) is also reflective of the impotence (or unwillingness) of McConnell as a Senate Majority Leader.
But, why should he care when he can just go blame Trump for his own incompetence, and people will applaud him for it?
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If Trump hasn't enough power to solve any of this can't we just impeach him? It's not like he can do anything anyway with McConnell in such a strong position. That way we can at least appease more than 50% of voters in the country.
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I'd say that McConnell would've had a proper justificarion for this had Trump refused to sign the Russia Sanctions bill.
iirc He needs both houses of congress to impeach Trump, and while I know that McConnell and Ryan can both secure that sort of support (added to the Democrats', of course), next year happens to be an election year. There are some people who don't want to be primaried out of their seats.
