PRESERVE, PROTECT and CONDEMN
by
FRANK M. GENNARO

"Preserve, Protect and Condemn explores the future of government controlled healthcare in America. The bad news is that you might not have one."

FRANK ON FRIDAY – The Speed of Trump

It’s now three weeks into the Trump presidency, and our new President has politicians on both sides of aisle tied in knots.  The Establishment is frantically trying to keep up with this President.  Excuse the vulgarity, but Trump has them so flustered they don”t know whether to shit or wind their wristwatches.  Donald Trump simply runs at a different speed than Washington is used to.  Call it the speed of Trump.  In Einstein’s famous relativity equation, E=MC2, C stands for the speed of light.  Maybe we need a new equation for this President’s speed.  How about CT=FAST, where the speed of Trump equals Fearless; Active; Stubborn; and Tough.   Donald Trump was the only candidate in 2016 who understood what the voters wanted.   The electorate was fed up with Washington business as usual.  It wanted a change.  Simply put, the voters were longing for a President who would blow the whole place up.  Enter Donald Trump.  A political neophyte, who rejected the status quo.  He refused to play the game.  He refused to tailor his speech to the bland and meaningless drivel that is the norm for politicians.  He rolled over 16 more experienced Republicans.  Then, stunningly, he beat the dreaded Clinton machine, even though it wasn’t necessary for the Clintons to make up embarrassing charges against him.  There was plenty of real dirt, which would have done in any ordinary, mealy-mouthed politician.  But not Trump.  The Clintons didn’t get it.  The media didn’t get it.  I didn’t get it.  Donald Trump and his supporters got it, and he was able to become the first candidate in 100 years to be elected President despite losing his own State.  President Trump has been a whirlwind of activity.  Once again, the ordinary politicians are shocked, most of all because they have encountered the rarest of  all beasts, an elected official who actually intends to do exactly what he promised to do.  What’s worse, he intends to do all the things he promised to do right now.  What’s even worse for the Establishment is that President Trump only sleeps about four hours a day, so he has lots a time to do those things.  The Democrats have dealt with the Trump tornado by adopting the Groucho Marx response, “Whatever it is, I’m against it.”  As for the Republicans, the Trump phenomenon even has energized Senate Republicans.  Democrat delay tactics prompted Orin Hatch, a Mormon, to repeatedly call the Democrats’ dilatory conduct “crap.”  Mitch McConnell even grew a pair this week, employing Senate rules to silence a personal attack on our new Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, by Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth “Fauxcahontas” Warren.  Trump opponents are so confused, they can’t decide whether to complain that things are moving too fast or too slow.  On the one hand, they say Trump is moving too fast.  The border wall is being designed right now – not so fast, they warn.  They are in court over the temporary travel suspensions from 7 Mideast countries.  Again, they say, not so fast.  On those Executive Orders, by the way, what Democrats claim is a “ban on Muslims,” leaves 85% of the world’s Muslims free to enter the U.S., so it’s not a ban.  What’s more, if the (so-called) judges pay attention to the law, then Trump shouldn’t lose.  (They didn’t even mention the law, so he lost). The applicable law is set forth in 8 U.S.C. 1182, which deals with Inadmissible Aliens.  The pertinent portion of that statute reads, “Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate.”  Any judge who values his or her duty to impartially interpret the laws enacted by the Legislature should have no difficulty understanding that plain language.  On the other hand, Trump critics also complain that he’s moving too slow.  Trump promised to lower taxes, but it’s been 3 weeks, so where is the tax cut?  Not for nothing, but Il Duce Obama declared in his January 26, 2011 State of the Union speech that he favored a corporate tax rate cut.  Six years later, and the Obama tax cut never happened.  The Establishment didn’t complain about a 6 year delay, but 3 weeks is too long?  Then there’s the Unaffordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.  Why hasn’t it been repealed and replaced yet?  It took Democrats 100 years to get it passed.  After it was passed, Obama unlawfully amended and delayed its implementation on numerous occasions, for fear that voters would discover that what the Republicans had told us was true; it didn’t work.  These two items require the Congress to get up off its collective ass and do something.  With the Chief Executive moving at the speed of Trump, I have no doubt these things are coming.  Anyhow, the Democrats are in no hurry on these, as they are going to vote against and delay them any way they can, no matter when they come.  It’s not surprising that the Establishment doesn’t understand the Speed of Trump.  In Washington, any movement at all is surprising.

 

 

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