A progress report.
Mr. President, for two years, I have had to defend you from the constant barrage of criticism that comes from DC and most of the media. You have forced people to either hate you, or defend you, even though they are not one of your people outright. So, here is an open letter to you.
Dear Mr. President.
I am frankly disappointed. You tend to overdo the playground bravado. You pound your chest indicating how tough you are. Mr. President, if you are tough, the last thing you need to do is pound your chest. The media has prodded you into doing it, and we know that you really don't care whether it is good or bad reporting, only that there is reporting. As President none of that is necessary.
I was worried that you would take too much power breaking things in DC. Of course, paying attention to the media would lead people to believe that you had done exactly that. You haven't. It was during the primary and general campaign that I came to realize that a real libertarian was not what was necessary to fix the system, but rather someone willing to break things. Someone willing to take a meat cleaver to the bureaucracy, and send at least some of the unelected in DC to job training programs or the unemployment line. You didn't. True, you did cut some regulations, but not nearly enough.
When it comes to immigration and the wall, you should have been listening to Ann Coulter, expanding that to foreign policy in general, bringing troops home from Afghanistan, Syria, and pretty much wherever we have troops would have been able to let Guard and Reserve units and personnel get back to their lives, and take those troops that were sitting around Germany training and put them on the border. Draw a line and be very vocal about it. Make sure Mexico understands that the border is militarized, and that allowing civilians to get too close in areas other than ports of entry subjects them to be treated as invaders. Of course the optics on that can't be good, but it may provide incentives to DC swamp denizens to give you the border security that you promised.
Good call getting out of Syria and the rest of the Middle East, the only thing that could have been done would have been to pull in the Governments of Syria, Turkey, Iraq, and Iran, to discuss a homeland for the Kurds, and let them have their sovereign nation. Realigning the rest of the nations of the Middle East to recognize the religious differences would have been something that the Nobel people could not have denied. It would have been challenging, piecing together the nations into nations that can have internal piece would have been worthwhile. Too bad. Best choice is to get out.
It is too bad that General Mattis resigned, though that does speak highly of him, not agreeing with your policy. It is the right policy, and hopefully someone will be found that agrees, and is willing to remake the military from the Neocon model to one that can serve the nation in the future.
You have had to fight not just the Democrats and the Media (yeah, two sides of the same coin) but the establishment GOP as well. They have paid lip service to what you wanted to accomplish, but when it came time to do, they mostly didn't. Why Senator McConnell thinks that Senator Chuckie will keep the filibuster if he gets a Democrat President and Majority in 2020 is beyond me, He won't. The genie is out, time to bury it. I once thought not to do so, but since it has been used, not as a machete of last resort, but as a butter knife used every meal, it no longer has meaning, other than requiring a super-majority to ask to go to the bathroom. So, they have dragged their feet on so many things. They brag about getting a major overhaul of the taxcode across the Finish Line, but in reality it was just a minor rewrite, and while the benefit is net positive, the attacks that you still face in the press have muted the genuine good that was done. Better to go big and have the American public see who stands where.
The temptation Mr. President for you to switch horses now is very strong. But remember, no matter who may be willing to work with you, on what, the Democrats hate you, because you defeated their second Affirmative Action candidate.
Wreck the regulatory state, Mr. President. Take the flamethrower to it. They hate you, and they are standing in the way of you implementing your goals.
Tell Nancy and Mitch that henceforth, any bill that requires law making by unelected people i.e. regulation by the Executive Branch will be vetoed, and then mean it. Tell them that they better budget to do the work themselves. That is what they are paid to do, they are the ones that should be held to account. And if they refuse, ask for legislation that will allow for the easy removal of bureaucrats for failing to implement your policies.
Just a lot of thoughts on the first day of Winter.
Be the bull in the China Shop. It is sorely needed.
Dear Mr. President.
I am frankly disappointed. You tend to overdo the playground bravado. You pound your chest indicating how tough you are. Mr. President, if you are tough, the last thing you need to do is pound your chest. The media has prodded you into doing it, and we know that you really don't care whether it is good or bad reporting, only that there is reporting. As President none of that is necessary.
I was worried that you would take too much power breaking things in DC. Of course, paying attention to the media would lead people to believe that you had done exactly that. You haven't. It was during the primary and general campaign that I came to realize that a real libertarian was not what was necessary to fix the system, but rather someone willing to break things. Someone willing to take a meat cleaver to the bureaucracy, and send at least some of the unelected in DC to job training programs or the unemployment line. You didn't. True, you did cut some regulations, but not nearly enough.
When it comes to immigration and the wall, you should have been listening to Ann Coulter, expanding that to foreign policy in general, bringing troops home from Afghanistan, Syria, and pretty much wherever we have troops would have been able to let Guard and Reserve units and personnel get back to their lives, and take those troops that were sitting around Germany training and put them on the border. Draw a line and be very vocal about it. Make sure Mexico understands that the border is militarized, and that allowing civilians to get too close in areas other than ports of entry subjects them to be treated as invaders. Of course the optics on that can't be good, but it may provide incentives to DC swamp denizens to give you the border security that you promised.
Good call getting out of Syria and the rest of the Middle East, the only thing that could have been done would have been to pull in the Governments of Syria, Turkey, Iraq, and Iran, to discuss a homeland for the Kurds, and let them have their sovereign nation. Realigning the rest of the nations of the Middle East to recognize the religious differences would have been something that the Nobel people could not have denied. It would have been challenging, piecing together the nations into nations that can have internal piece would have been worthwhile. Too bad. Best choice is to get out.
It is too bad that General Mattis resigned, though that does speak highly of him, not agreeing with your policy. It is the right policy, and hopefully someone will be found that agrees, and is willing to remake the military from the Neocon model to one that can serve the nation in the future.
You have had to fight not just the Democrats and the Media (yeah, two sides of the same coin) but the establishment GOP as well. They have paid lip service to what you wanted to accomplish, but when it came time to do, they mostly didn't. Why Senator McConnell thinks that Senator Chuckie will keep the filibuster if he gets a Democrat President and Majority in 2020 is beyond me, He won't. The genie is out, time to bury it. I once thought not to do so, but since it has been used, not as a machete of last resort, but as a butter knife used every meal, it no longer has meaning, other than requiring a super-majority to ask to go to the bathroom. So, they have dragged their feet on so many things. They brag about getting a major overhaul of the taxcode across the Finish Line, but in reality it was just a minor rewrite, and while the benefit is net positive, the attacks that you still face in the press have muted the genuine good that was done. Better to go big and have the American public see who stands where.
The temptation Mr. President for you to switch horses now is very strong. But remember, no matter who may be willing to work with you, on what, the Democrats hate you, because you defeated their second Affirmative Action candidate.
Wreck the regulatory state, Mr. President. Take the flamethrower to it. They hate you, and they are standing in the way of you implementing your goals.
Tell Nancy and Mitch that henceforth, any bill that requires law making by unelected people i.e. regulation by the Executive Branch will be vetoed, and then mean it. Tell them that they better budget to do the work themselves. That is what they are paid to do, they are the ones that should be held to account. And if they refuse, ask for legislation that will allow for the easy removal of bureaucrats for failing to implement your policies.
Just a lot of thoughts on the first day of Winter.
Be the bull in the China Shop. It is sorely needed.
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