Pumping more oil in the US doesn’t hurt the Saudis or the Russians, boosts the pockets of people making six or more figures, boosts the market for oil (again people making six or more figures), and absolutely hurts the environment with little to no consequence.
Take the waters of Houston Texas where boats can’t go trough ironically named Clear Lake because it’s a graveyard for rigs they just sank instead of removing as oil was drilled from under there.
The Good:
Congressional Term Limits (great for 2018 election)
Lobbying Limits
Withdrawal from TPP
End Offshoring Act
Affordable Childcare and Eldercare Act
The Questionable:
Middle Class Tax Relief
NAFTA Negotiations
Federal Regulations
Accusing China for currency manipulation
Foreign Trading Abuses
Pull out of the Paris Climate Plans and address the environmental issues in The United States (good luck with that)
American Energy and Infrastructure Act
School Choice and Education Opportunity Act
Cleaning up Corruption in Washington Act
The Bad:
Undoing everything Obama has done to the GOP
Deportation of 2 million illegal immigrants
Kill off Sanctuary funding
Block Refugees from entering the United States
Community Safety Act
National Security Act
Kill off ObamaCare
Kill off Immigration Act
The Ugly:
Gutting EPA
Elimination of Fossil Fuels Restrictions
Continuation and approval of all Pipelines construction
Good since some of the congressmen where FFI goons; also for bringing in new blood in this congress. However It, will never happen thanks to majority of GOPs aren’t willing to pass this, but we’ll see.
It’s questionable because it pretty much a waste of time, but not as damaging as giving a middle finger to refugees and environmentalists.
Why is this good? What if I like my super experienced congress critter that’s served my district well for the past 20 years?
Depending on how long the limits (12 years for Congress and 18 for the Court would be my preference), we need national leaders who are willing to move from job to job. That’s how ideas get tested in the open.
The DNC party line on this only serves to protect the opaque, insular society of leaders from the rest of us. It’s part of why they fail us constantly.
This… plank of Trump’s is empty bullshit, though. Won’t be considered, if considered it’ll grandfather the current crop. Terms set won’t make sense.
Don’t know if the GOP will be able to survive the backlash against the bait-and-switch, though. I think they still believe the culture war will mollify their base.
See the problem there is you have to have money to be able to put into savings… I think Annoying Orange forgets most people don’t have money. The FDA thing SOUNDS good, especially given how some of that could help my sister have an improved quality of life, but soundsand is can be two different things.
Totally behind getting congressional term limits enacted. ANY sort of term limit even if current members are grandfathered into their ‘first’ term under the proposed new system means you can’t have assholes that serve for the majority of their lives.
Good luck getting congress, republican or otherwise, to approve, but I like this one.
Draining the proverbial swamp… look if he manages nothing else. This and term limits. That would make me genuinely like the guy, because that would mean others could make washington BETTER with a less corrupt slate.
Hey, I can hope right… please let me have that one. I need something here. The savings account thing is so far into lala land that it’s unfeasable.
How does limiting term limits end corruption? Taking a career politician and telling them “you have no career” means they need a private industry job to go to after.
This is the disconnect I see here. It’s not like Congress is a lifetime appointment. Voters can show you the door if you’re lousy at your job. If someone has served in congress for multiple terms maybe they are doing something right for their district. Term limits punish assholes, but they also punish the good ones as well.
ETA:
*ding ding ding* To me it only seems like term limits help to increase corruption and special interest meddling.
In Theory. However the districts have been drawn so that basically in a lot of places you can effectivly run unopposed if you make it past the point whre the party selects who they want to run. So while having a better re-districting would be preferrable to remove gerrymandering, and eleminating first past the post best of all so you have a break on the two party system… Look I’m trying to find something good here while i’m in the middle of a panic.
They can, but they won’t. The re-election rate for senators and representatives is in the high 90%'s.
Case in point: my senator, Dianne Feinstein is, in my opinion, a DINO and sinking deeply into senility, but she’ll be a senator from California until she quits, dies, or gets something better.
I await the outcome of Trumps term limits initiative with great interest. 20+ years ago, California tried to vote in term limits for our federal senators and representatives. It passed but was swiftly shot down as unconstitutional-- the feds said the state didn’t have the right to impose term limits on Congress. I wouldn’t be surprised if this time they say it will require an amendment to the Constitution.
Here what will happen in the first 100 days of President Trump;
TPP will approved Unopposed.
China thing is Rejected by GOP.
Swamp Draining is a code word for overthrowing Democrats, Liberals, and any form of Socialist/Progressive government officials out of Supreme Court, Senate, and Congress.
All of said “good” Acts only applies to the 0.001%.
All of the Progressive will be sent behind bars for threatening the 0.001%
All of the Native Americans will be kill off for threatening the 0.001%
All of the Working Class will be enslaved.
All of the National Park to be demolished for Resource Extraction.
All of the Regulations will be eliminated.
THE CONSTITUTION WILL BE DESTROYED, ALLOWING THE HEIRS OF THE KOCH BROS. TO RULE THE UNITED CORPORATIONS OF AMERICA; ALL WHILE THE CITIZENS ARE IN THE SAME CONDITION AS OF THOSE IN CHINA!
HERE LET’S JACK OFF IN A CIRCLE AROUND THE TREE OF TRUMP IS THE FUCKING DEVIL!
I hated my parents doing that shit over Obama. I will not tolerate Trump being treated the same way. I do not LIKE this man. I think too much of his tv persona IS the real trump… but at the same time i will not tolerate this spiteful ‘we lost so everything is doom and fire.’
I have seen people drink from that well all around me for eight years. Put the bucket down.
I will not be sorry to see most of congress suddenly realize they are not defacto annointed nobility.
While an overhaul of the system would be better so that votes don’t become lost if ‘your’ pick loses… this is a thing i can live with. i just wish we could fix the gerrymandering issue.
Most of them spend half their time frantically trying to raise money to get through their next election campaign. I don’t see how they can do anything useful when they’re constantly worrying about that.
Personally, I’d like to see more power devolved from DC. My congresswoman represents 700K people. I don’t see how anyone can do that meaningfully. Either congress needs to be much bigger or the power needs to reside lower down.
