After taking reins, Trump delivers
Less encouraging, of course, was the high-speed derailment of the Obamacare Repeal Express. Fortunately, a compromise suggests Republicans will get it back on track.
The first 100 days of the Trump Era recall that old Western: “The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly.”
President Trump’s biggest accomplishment: He has stopped and reversed Obama’s eight-year slouch toward socialism.
Trump has secured a slew of achievements, of which conservatives merely have fantasized — sometimes for decades: • The Keystone Pipeline is alive. • The War on Coal is dead. • Trump has signed 11 Congressional Review Act bills to vacate much of President Obama’s late-term regulatory spree.
• Illegal-alien infiltration of the southern frontier dropped 64 percent in March, compared to a year earlier.
• States now are free from Obama’s rule that forced them to send federal Title X familyplanning funds to Planned Parenthood and other clinics that perform abortions.
• The proposed 2018 budgets for the National Endowment of the Arts and the National Endowment of Humanities: $0.00
• Trump’s just-unveiled taxreform proposal promises 15 percent tax rates for corporations and small businesses, a doubling of the standard deduction, death for the Death Tax and the Alternative Minimum Tax, and many more gorgeous things.
The Supreme Court nomination of Neil Gorsuch, 49, will place Trump’ s constitution a list fingerprints on American jurisprudence for perhaps a quarter century or more.
Overseas, President Trump has re-established American power and prestige. Fifty-nine U.S. cruise missiles clarified that for Syria, and the Mother of All Bombs beautifully delivered that message to 94 now dead ISIS terrorists in Afghanistan. Trump recruited Chinese General Secretary Xi Jinping to yank North Korea’s leash. That’s good. Less encouraging, of course, was the high-speed derailment of the Obamacare Repeal Express. Fortunately, a compromise between House members Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) of the conservative Freedom Caucus and Tom MacArthur (R-N.J.) of the moderate Tuesday Group suggests that Republicans have repaired this wreck and will get repeal and replacement back on the rails before long.
Trump’s initial 90-day limit on immigrants from terror-torn nations immediately slammed into a wall. It should have been better crafted, coordinated and communicated. A second so-called travel ban followed these steps and addressed the objections of several federal judges who blocked the first measure. But a fresh set of judges swiftly sandbagged the new-and-improved order. That’s bad. Democrats and the Left refuse to compromise with Trump. They want him impeached, incarcerated, or entombed.
Instead of presenting their own agenda, the Left marches more often than soldiers in basic training. They have staged a March for Women, a Day without Women, a march for Trump’s tax returns, and a recent March for Science. The Left should march less and think more.
Trump Derangement Syndrome has devolved into violent protests against conservative speakers on college campuses, shattered windows, arson, and physical assaults on Trump supporters.
That’s ugly.