Ryan is a Thino for whom I would NEVER vote. His wife is a big one worlder, Soros friend - and you know what they say about lying down with dogs and fleas! He has to go. We need a real conservative in that position, not a pretend one.
I will give Trump no more donations, despite the almost daily requests, as long as he increases funding for global warming,w hich is a myth, and climate change is caused by UN and government tinking with the atmosphere! I admit, that I am not pleased with Trump's caving to the Rhino's. And what about Hillary, who says still it was Russia and the FBI which lost her the election. I know the woman has brain damage, but is she insane as well? She has just admitted, without realizing it, that when the truth is told about her, people do not want or trust her, and won't vote for her! I hope Trump gets it together, and stops catering to the" green" idiots.I like Ivanka, but not sure how conservative she really is to be putting ideas in his ear, daughter or not.

Hope Trump turns out to be really good at "art of the deal" hardball with professional politicians he can't say "You're fired!" to
In the first link you provided, one glaring truth for a hard fact stands out and I quote~
"The administration budget isn't going to be the budget," said Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.). "We do the budget here. The administration makes recommendations, but Congress does budgets."

Trump has found himself surrounded by high office mooching looters he can't say "You're fired" to.
For Trump, that change for environment must be like being suddenly transported from the earth to the dark side of the moon.
There the art of the deal must be like the fart of the deal.

I have a different perspective. The Democrat base is feverishly demanding that the congressional Democrats refuse to even meet with Trump or any Republican, so this budget is partly a sop to Democrats so they can convince their supporters that they are still relevant, even if they did negotiate with the evil Trump. Since Obama failed to provide a coherent budget to close out his term, this is in part an end to his administration, with holdover programs that are likely to not survive the next fiscal year.

Planned Parenthood does see funding, but the states now have the authority not to accept those funds for their state. That's just one example of Trump's intent to return more control to the states. Green energy programs are funded in much the same way, with states having control over how those funds are managed.

The border fence is funded, but not "the wall." The fence is a steel barrier that can stop a tank, with openings too narrow for human passage, but allowing animals to cross. This is a compromise that allows the Democrats to declare "victory" in stopping construction of an Israeli style massive concrete structure, but gives DHS Secretary Kelly the barrier he wanted, lower cost but effective when backed by more Border Patrol and surveillance technology.

So much of this is Kabuki theater, with Senator Schumer trying to hold off the Sandernistas by pandering to the hysteria-ridden extreme left in hopes of party survival. It would not surprise me to see a later tell all book that discloses this is all a sham, and that Trump and Schumer staged their public warfare while working together behind the scenes.

The speaker of the majority party IS the leader, the biggest gator of the swamp.
Third in line for the presidency too.
And that's really scary.

Presenting the "ignorant rural folks" as stupid is an attempt to beat them down so they won't get in the way of your schemes to rob or tax them. One of the problems with productive rural people is that they do not record their monetary transactions is a "rational" way, perhaps keeping few records except that "you helped me last week, this week I'm helping you." Hey, the government's supposed to get 15% or maybe 35% of the value of that work. Anything that can be done to get farmers off their land and into factories making taxable earnings is, ipso facto, good.

"'The Socialist Revolution in the US cannot take place because there are too many small independent farmers there. Those people are the stability factor. We here in Russia must hurry while our government is stupid enough to not encourage and support the independent farmership." -- V. I. Lenin

Trump has no power. His own party continues to appease the Left. No principles to stand on.

Someone aptly said after Trump was elected that his detractors took him literally and not seriously. While his supporters took Trump seriously, but not literally. In no way do I think Trump is a stupid man. It's just been 3 1/2 months so far. I think it's way too early to abandon and, certainly, way too early to start overly criticizing him. His "deal-making" maneuvers with the "help" shouldn't be questioned too closely yet. I'm willing to wait the whole term because I am not there with him and I do not know the personalities nor the circumstances he has to deal with. This continuing resolution "budget" is finishing out Obama's last fiscal year. That is how I am going to continue to look at this one until the time has passed and the final results are in.

I love Ted Cruz and I would have happily voted for him. I don't happen to think this was his time, however. His children are still too young and his family would have suffered terribly under the current vitriol of the left. I'm not sure they and he would have been able to withstand it at this time.

The current polarization of this country really needed a person with his foot in both camps. Trump was that person. Rush says he's not ideological. That he doesn't look at the world that way. Maybe that is what was needed at this time and place. A more rigid person of principle like Ted Cruz would probably not have the needed diplomacy to get the cooperation needed. Trump may still have the better chance.

In the meantime, we need to continue to vote out the commie left and continue to find good people of principle to run and be voted in to replace them during each election season.

Yeah, over here you have Farmer Denim Overalls and his redneck kin voting to be left alone and over there you have spiffy sophisticated Mr. Suit and "college material" snowflake offspring voting to be socialist regulated by a so obviously corrupt Evil Hag.

The drain at the bottom of the swamp is clogged with mostly republican hacks who only have their own interests in mind. I expect to see Trump call these bastards out in a very public forum and fairly soon.

Dino also remember people who get to the top love to delegate authority which I am sure trump has done all of his business career. they were knowledgeable people working for him in the private sector, if they screw up he says "your fired", whereas ryan is a CIVIL SERVANT and could care less about his job (?) because he is not subject to losing it.

trump is up to his chest in the swamp. did you expect anything different?

Trump's budget priorities don't really come into play until Fiscal Year 2018, which begins October 1. The current agreement simply continues to fund spending that was previously authorized by Congress. The upcoming Trump budget proposal looks very different from what we have now:

"Trump federal budget 2018: Massive cuts to the arts, science and the poor"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/busine...

"What Trump cut in his budget"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphi...

I think Trump is more likely to play hardball once the budget he is crafting is on the table.

I am fortunate to having been the opposite of your acquaintance. I was born and raised, as they say, in WV. I hated it. It bored me. I went to college and headed for the city, a big corporation, climbed the ladder, lived in the suburbs. I made a joke of where I came from and regretted all that I missed by growing up there.

The problem was that I always ended up going against the grain. I couldn't accept the idea of being a pack animal for hangers on. I couldn't understand people that wanted to be paid more for less, people that thought the poor, the planet, the church, the government and any thing needy, had a claim on me.

When I was introduced to Atlas Shrugged, I had an ah-ha moment. People in WV just wanted to be free and could be ornery as hell regarding anything that infringed on their freedom. They were kind to their fellow man and expected kindness in return. When someone needed help, they felt good about being able to provide assistance because they knew it the shoe was on the other foot, they would be the beneficiary. Yes, many were uneducated and ignorant but they weren't stupid sheep. Their beliefs were all jumbled up and their understanding of complex issues sometimes made they look silly. City people could debate issues on the basis of philosophes backed with statistics and they sounded smart.

The problem here is that if what you believe isn't true, you are just as silly standing there in your Brooks Brother's suit as a hillbilly wearing Dickies bibbed overalls, and using six syllable words doesn't make a difference either.

Ryan IS the swamp.

An acquaintance had a similar experience, CG. He spent his adult life trading on Wall Street and then as an independent stock trader in NY. He moved to rural WV and is very impressed with the natives' abilities to be gentile, productive, and to think rationally.
The metropolitan areas that support a big government, the war industry, crazy taxes, entitlements, and various "social wars" are dragging the entire country down and stealing from the productive, sane people outside those areas.

It is shocking how tiny the stated policy differences all these machinations are supposedly about are. Most all politicians agree on massive borrowing, a huge armaments industry, a complicated tax code, a huge social entitlement system, a war on drugs, an alphabet soup of federal agencies, and having 1 in 20 citizens under the supervision of the criminal justice system. All this nonsense and name-calling is supposedly a dispute over the crumbs. The histrionics would make perfect sense if we had one powerful person/party pushing for an amendment that would limit gov't spending to 10% of GDP.

So what's this all about? It might look like it's a proxy argument for redneck jerks who just want an excuse to be jerks because they're angry about their lives. I don't think so, though, because I recently drove through Kentucky, through the places where supporters of President Trump live. In many ways they're nicer than people in my urban world where Clinton received 90% of the vote, so I don't believe name-calling politicians or their name-calling supporters represent real people. What's it all about? I don't know. I think it's just people with careers in gov't and people who are jerks being a attracted to it the same way they were attracted to pointless name-calling in elementary school.

To make that toilet flush, another MOAB may need to be pushed out the back of an Air Force cargo plane.

This may not even be big enough but....... https://www.google.com/search?q=world...

Trump would need a heavy duty toilet plunger.

I'm frustrated but I'm looking forward to what Trump may accomplish.
He only has 100 so days behind him.
I now recall a cartoon of Trump sitting on a horse-sized snail and fervently beating it with a riding crop.
On the snail's side the word "CONGRESS" was written.

You are spot on Dino, Cruz was the right man and the right time. His conviction, had he won, likely would have gotten him killed.
Sadly and predictably, same as it ever was.

Thanks Dino,
America needs a wake up call. These sleaze bags
Want to destroy US All.
Ryan is a RINO. Trump needs to bite the head off of that snake. Forget about drain the swamp ,flush the toilet.

Why term limits will never receive enough votes.
There are not enough Ted Cruz patriots to vote away their professional politician careers for the good of the country.

"Ryan's budget brinkmanship strategy is to wait until the government is about to run out of spending authority, then demand that conservatives cave in on the Democrats' priorities"
SOP for the GOP for 30 years.
Not a nickle's worth of difference between the major parties.