Trump the Gladiator fights for America’s future

If you watch the news shows, or read the NYT and/or the Washington Post – you are missing a great show.

Right now — a great battle rages unreported by them — between Congress and the President – and providing Trump prevails; this battle will one day be recorded as a historic watershed for the future of America.

Here is the set up. Beginning during the Reagan administration, Republican and Democratic lawmakers have enjoyed a kind of un-talked about truce, which allowed incumbents from both sides of the aisle to rule as a Uniparty. Some people call this the “Deep State” but it’s really the intersection of greed, power, the desire for unlimited incumbency and money. During the Reagan administration, a new algorithm emerged, which promoted the growth of unprecedented national debt, by an arrangement between two men, California Congressman Henry Waxman and President Reagan.

Reagan got his defense money and Waxman got his social spending money and the fact that those two numbers added up to much more than the government could afford – was papered over with debt.

Just like that, the Uniparty was born! That tacit arrangement has been in place ever since — and every administration out does the next with another doubling of the debt.

Why? Because incumbency became sacred, which can ONLY be paid for in pork if EVERY Congressman, and Congresswoman, and Senator could go home — after every election with more goodies from the national coffers. Such a ruinous habit combined with numerous foreign wars — cannot be sustained without ever increasing levels of debt.

No matter, the algorithm discovered by the Uniparty has been perfected and today, Congress routinely — and almost exclusively — delivers giant omnibus spending bills to the President — on or near the very day the government shuts down — if he doesn’t sign the bill. Crazy huh?

This is a permanent shift toward Congress — of power — and away from the Presidency, and which has been ongoing for 30 years now — and finally, finally — we have a president fighting back. Trump is attempting to restore the essential balance to our governmental system and our fiscal health as a nation — before another economic disaster strikes.

Yesterday, like a miracle out of nowhere, the two parties — that have APPARENTLY fought tooth and nail for months — came together like butter and toast – to pass with EASE in BOTH chambers — this evil, $1.3 TRILLION monstrosity.

Notice Ryan, McConnell, Schumer and Pelosi did not address DACA!

They did not address the president’s Wall!

They did address the procedures holding up all the President’s appointments!

They DID HOWEVER manage to fund every single program they care about – plus a lot more!

Trump is a historic figure, waging a great battle for the future of America right now, and this battle is at the heart of it. The president drew a line in the sand today and promised he would not sign anymore of these omnibus travesty’s — and he also called for a line item veto capability in any future spending bills from Congress.

They won’t GIVE him this.

Trump will have to suit up like a Gladiator and fight for this.

I recommend he veto everything coming out of Congress.

Everything.

Until they give him spending authority for the military and debt authority to back it up, past the next September deadline.

Separate the military funding from the other spending authority so the president has more leverage next time. If Trump could say no to an omnibus (for example, one without the military in it) he might be willing to shut the rest of the government down. This latitude then — would then possibly give him the leverage to demand the spending bills be presented to him one at a time – right now, he can’t call their bluff.

Trump isn’t willing to veto this bill – even though he knows he should — and they know it — because of the military. Congress isn’t too bad at THE ART of the Deal themselves. Trump needs to get ahead of them on that point, or he’ll end up right back where he is now, in September, just like Reagan did, Bush Sr. did, Clinton did, Bush Jr. did, and Obama did – every single year.

Trump is waging this historic battle with Congress for the nation’s fiscal future, without any analysis in the national press to guide him — or explore the subject with him and/or inform the public. He’s like a great prizefighter at the top of his game, fighting a whole ring full of opponents, and he’s waging this war for the fiscal future of the whole country – heroically – while the audience is purposely choosing to look elsewhere and even the ring side announcers are refusing to acknowledge the fight.

The Pedes are with you Mr. President, we may be small and green colored, but we see the struggle you are fighting for us and we are grateful.