They’re making a rather bad choice on something, and constituents are noticing. This thing they are supporting is almost universally reviled, except for the person who is creating it and the sycophants who are all-in on it. Why have Republicans decided to do this? Aren’t they looking forward to midterms? Or are there those that are resigned to *not* being re-elected? My appreciation for Raw Story:
The GOP is walking into an embarrassing trap by stumping for one of Trump’s vanity projects, said an ex-GOP political operative on Friday. “This is one of the stupidest political traps I’ve ever seen somebody walk themselves into,” said former Republican political strategist Rick Wilson during an appearance on MS NOW. “I want Republicans to vote for the ballroom.”
What? That doesn’t make any sense. Why would he want Republicans to make their chances worse? We the People don’t want the thing, don’t care about the thing, and will never be able to use the thing. It’s a big, ugly building for Trump’s ego, nothing more, no matter how much he boasts about it.
Wilson was talking about Trump’s White House ballroom. Senate Republicans are asking that taxpayers fork over $1 billion to fund security features in the Trump ballroom and have tied the demand into a $70 billion reconciliation package to fund federal immigration enforcement. “I want them to go out and cheerlead for the ballroom every day,” Wilson said, as he would like to see the GOP continue to shoot itself in the foot. “The GOP, while they’re nervous…They’re still not going to publicly defy Trump.”
Good point. They’re still afraid of him and think he can make or break them. But geez, for the ballroom? It would be better to talk about what’s going on with the American people, as opposed to cheering for our terrible two-year-old excuse for a ‘president’. Some Republicans actually do support Trump but the rest of us? Those polls are diving down, and attaching oneself to Trump is … irrational. Trump will never admit anything. Trump will never support anyone but himself. He will throw people away like a used tissue (or a bottle of ketchup).
Wilson explained that “the ads write themselves” as farmers in rural districts deal with “record farm bankruptcies and unbelievably high fuel costs.” It would be easy to imagine “that farmer looking straight into the camera saying, ‘you know, we’re going to lose the farm, we’re going bankrupt, but at least I get to pay for a ballroom with my taxes,'” Wilson said.
“The suburban mom at the grocery store or at the gas pump: ‘At least I get to pay for a ballroom. Can’t really afford to go to work, but I’m going to pay for the ballroom,'” Wilson said.
“If they cast this vote, it is going to get hung around their neck like a dead animal,” Wilson predicted. “And it’s going to stink all the way to election day.”
WHAM. There it is, Wilson lays it out. “I get to pay for a ballroom.” One thing to change: it’s not a dead animal around their necks. It’s a stone, and they are rapidly getting pulled down to the bottom of the public’s approval. They had best look at the big picture and decide whether Trump is more important or their career is. There’s no in between. They’re running out of time.
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Well we can’t expect all those billionaires who’ll be using it to PAY for it, can we?
Then they’d have less money.
Just after we’ve got the system working so that can’t happen – it would be a step back to the fifties.
And since they don’t pay tax either, someone has to foot the bill, it’s a great chance for the actual taxpayers to step up and fund this so that the wealth can start trickling down.
Though what’s trickling down so far doesn’t smell like wealth.
Trickle-down hasn’t, and never will…..