Some of those politicians have become quite wealthy while on the rather modest salaries allowed to our elected Congress critters.

He also uses Twitter for misdirection. When the libs get suckered in to reply to a tweet, its as if they are on a mountainside shooting off canons until the avalanche hits.

That little orange haired kid made himself a billionaire, don't forget. When I hear of politicians calling him dumb, and a show-off, etc. I think, "How many of you created an empire worth Billions?" He is far better at negotiation than any of them, And he's great at cups and balls. You'll never guess where the ball is unless he wants you to.

Agree, although I think the Dems will have to shift at some point. They are a fraction of their power they had in the Tip O'Neill days as it is. They are at best, a regional political power. If they continue on their current path, the next step will be adding "Armed" in front of that "Resist" slogan. They fired on Fort Sumter... eventually they will move beyond burning cars and stores and smashing Starbucks windows to terrorism to get their views published. Recently I've started seeing even moderates hinting at the possibility of civil war. They won't win, obviously, but if you keep pushing a caged animal back into a smaller and smaller corner, eventually they explode.

Leftists have been so angry, for so long, they've lost their sense of humor. They made the mistake thinking it was their rage that took down Nixon, but missed the fact that Reagan showed their rage didn't mean squat. Bush Derangement Syndrome didn't keep Dubya from serving two terms, and it's looking like Trump Derangement Syndrome isn't serving them very well, either. Staying irrationally angry all the time distorts thinking. Humor (real humor, not the nasty name calling that passes for Democrat humor these days) is a balance to rage, restoring the ability to think logically.

Doesn't look as if he's likely to create such institutions.If anyone thinks it is tough to get something passed, just try to get rid of it once it has passed. It's the old irrisistible force meeting an immovable object.

It was appropriate.

Agree, with one exception: there are no conservative Democrats. Joe Manchin, Senator from West Virginia, sounds conservative on occasion, but he pretty much votes the party line.

While the left has been all over Russia Russia Russia and now phony "NRA blood money" narrative - Trump has quietly re-opened coal mining. Yesterday, he announced a 10% tariff on imported aluminum and 25% on steel. His advisors were asking for about 6% and 18% - but that's Trump, don't start negotiating where you need to be, ask for more and see what happens. For his first big development deal in New York, he asked the city for a 60 year tax abatement on it (to make it much more profitable). He really only needed 5 or 10 years, but he was shocked when they gave it to him. So why not ask? He wants a wall, but would probably settle for an adequately-staffed border guard.

Slapping a tariff on the imported steel and aluminum is both a shot across China and Korea's bows. But wait, Korea is an ally... not really, they dumped so many cheap TVs on the US market that none of our domestic (or Japanese manufacturers for that matter) survived. They are just as predatory as the Chinese, so why not call them out. We have been protecting them for 60 f'ing years for free.. they are not going to run to the Chinese because they would cease to exist and they know it... maybe it really is time to learn how to play fair and share, like everyone learned in kindergarten.

There is a massive political victory in this - restoring coal jobs guarantees West Virginia will vote GOP or at least conservative democrat for the next 30 years. Restoring the US steel business will guarantee Pennsylvania and Michigan go for the GOP. Minnesota's taconite range on the north shore of Lake Superior supplies almost all the raw materials for the steel industry (or did - now they ship it to China).. Sadly, the GOP Senators are only pissed because their donations will go down - they don't care, or likely are too dumb to understand the math. Flip West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and potentially Minnesota and there will not be a Democrat in the White House for 30 years. Our heated politics will subside because we won't be down to counting chads every cycle. The 50/50 split of politics would be overturned significantly, and we can go back to life as normal with the democrats occupying the "loyal opposition" seats.

On the wall above my PC hangs a Founding Fathers Calendar sent to me by Judaical Watch (along with a donation request, of course).
Each month features a quote by a Founding Father.
I just glanced up at a drawing of John Adams' face after hanging that calendar back up. I pulled it down to again read a quote George Washington made on the January page, which is~
"Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains taken to bring it to light."
When I first read that during New Years Day, I immediately thought of all of Trump's Tweets about Fake News.
"--pains taken to bright it to light" is not what Obama's "It's Bush's fault" did about being lied about. Even while he was president, Bush would just smile and be what he thought was being presidential above it all while the fake news merchants smeared the crap out of him.
I prefer Trump's approach over being a sitting duck for a bunch of jabbering feces-throwing chimpanzees.
Me dino apologizes if I have offended any jabbering feces-throwing chimpanzees for making this comparison to the toxic lowest of the low life forms of the drive-by media. I only did it for illustrative purposes.

The reason I preferred Trump to Clinton (though I voted for Johnson) was that he's loathed by the establishment of both parties. I figured that no matter which party controlled Congress, it wouldn't cooperate with Trump the way it did with Dubya (when Republicans had a majority) and LBJ (when Democrats did). And so it has been. Trump hasn't created any big new agencies or spending programs. These days, I'll take that as a win.

My leftist friends STILL seem to have no idea of how they are being snookered. I have waited all my long life for something like what is finally happening, years and years of Republicans and conservatives caving to the Left's statement of their own moral superiority.

My so-called libertarian friends who had read Rand proclaimed that everyone should support them because their causes were inspired by Rand. Trump comes along, has obviously read Rand but hardly ever mentions her, and uses a style of communication and misdirection that drives the Left batty.

I've been a fan of H. C. Andersen's "The Emperor's New Clothes" since I was a wee lad, wishing someone would pull a trick like that in the Real World. Now the little kid with the orange hair seems to be doing it, but I think he was preparing during the entire time I was waiting.

Much has been said about Trump's Twitter messages. Two reasons: 1) no President has ever done it the way/extent Trump is; 2) the country has not known before the personal side and thinking of the president in office. Through his messaging we know exactly what he thinks and why. He effectively took out the media, that is why they hate him. He is not trusting the PR lawyers like Obama did with doing the job for him and announcing that "there is not one smidgeon of evidence" in the IRS scandal when everyone knew there was.

Trump causes me to enjoy the internet. That makes him a winner in my eyes.

I'm starting to think that it's not that Trump is in office...it's that the leftist progressives are not. Man, they leave a path of destruction. I still don't consider myself a Trump supporter. I don't really support any candidate anymore. But, I'm certainly not a Dem supporter. They all should be limited to only working one week out of the year, with no special interests. Problems solved...

Never take anything Trump says at face value. He uses language like a guy doing find the ball under one of the three cups. While saying seemingly crazy things, he suckers the left, every time.It's not unintentional or dumb. Most persons have nor caught on to him yet..

It's like he does what the left does to us often...Hey!...look over here!...while slight of hand hides their collusion with russia, ongoing marxist tactics and in general taking down what it is to be an American.

Except!!!, in Trumpets case, behind the fake shadows, his is doing America's work, reducing regulations, getting rid of undesirables and working on eradicating the left's agenda.

Today, was a bit weird though, but, I hope, it was the same kind of thing, sounding like democrap, he states: "we have to take the guns first because the justice system is too slow."

I agree, the justice system is way to slow and way too costly but...if he means what he just said and the way he said it...I might just jump OFF the band wagon...