Oh, I'm not saying he's out of office. I'm just saying that his administration is politically dead. At the rate that they're hemorrhaging political capital, there's gonna be no way to achieve his main priorities. Trump promised he'd get an Obamacare repeal bill on the first day he got in office. That it was a done deal. And he couldn't get his own party to support it.
Then he issued the ultimatum that the members were going to have to vote for it, or he'd get 'em voted out. And it turns out the members of congress called the bluff, and the thing that got 40-some votes to repeal before couldn't even pass the House now. Thus proving that Congress is not afraid of Trump, or they're more afraid of their own districts.
Not to mention that Paul Ryan, has, through backchannels, basically made it clear to the press that Donald Trump is the person who told him to stop the bill. That Trump was the one to abandon a major Republican priority entirely. That Trump was the one who was too weak to push his agenda. Other sources have said that Trump couldn't convince members because he didn't actually understand the basics of his own bill. So while Trump has come out with vague threats towards disloyal members of his own party, Congressmen now know that it's safe to ignore the President, because he'll just move on in the face of adversity. So much for the art of the deal.
This is all in combination with the Russian stuff, and the scandal-of-the-week nature of the current Administration. People are asking "What did the President know, and when did he know it?" in the first 100 days. They may have administrative power, but neither the judiciary nor the legislative branches are cooperating at this point, so nothing major can be achieved. The Trump administration is now a lame duck administration.
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Then he issued the ultimatum that the members were going to have to vote for it, or he'd get 'em voted out. And it turns out the members of congress called the bluff, and the thing that got 40-some votes to repeal before couldn't even pass the House now. Thus proving that Congress is not afraid of Trump, or they're more afraid of their own districts.
Not to mention that Paul Ryan, has, through backchannels, basically made it clear to the press that Donald Trump is the person who told him to stop the bill. That Trump was the one to abandon a major Republican priority entirely. That Trump was the one who was too weak to push his agenda. Other sources have said that Trump couldn't convince members because he didn't actually understand the basics of his own bill. So while Trump has come out with vague threats towards disloyal members of his own party, Congressmen now know that it's safe to ignore the President, because he'll just move on in the face of adversity. So much for the art of the deal.
This is all in combination with the Russian stuff, and the scandal-of-the-week nature of the current Administration. People are asking "What did the President know, and when did he know it?" in the first 100 days. They may have administrative power, but neither the judiciary nor the legislative branches are cooperating at this point, so nothing major can be achieved. The Trump administration is now a lame duck administration.
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