Comments on: Is Trump lying, just bragging, or telling the truth?

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Tue, 29 Aug 2017 03:51:06 +0000

Big Maq Says:
August 27th, 2017 at 8:42 pm
@Bill — how is it going? Hope you and family are doing fine.

@Aesopfan — likewise for your sister, hope all is well.
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Thanks for the concern; she is well this evening, but her car took in water up to the inside seats, so no driving even if the roads were passable.
Heading over to Neo’s Houston post for today.

By: Big Maq

Big Maq — Mon, 28 Aug 2017 00:42:38 +0000

@Bill – how is it going? Hope you and family are doing fine.

@Aesopfan – likewise for your sister, hope all is well.

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Sun, 27 Aug 2017 20:51:22 +0000

Brian E Says:
August 27th, 2017 at 1:28 am
Leaving aside the personal foibles of President Trump, something is happening inside his administration that has been described as unprecedented, possibly in the last 100 years.
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I hadn’t heard about that.
Of course, many people outside the Congress and White House pray over our country and its leaders, but it’s encouraging to see that the anti-religious intimidation of the Left hasn’t completely silenced the people who most need heavenly assistance.

Whether they follow God’s advice, or not, is something we probably won’t ever know.

http://www1.cbn.com/beltwaybuzz/archive/2017/04/24/trump-cabinet-members-praying-studying-the-bible-together

http://www.presidentialprayerteam.com/

A little history.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/theoval/2016/02/04/how-presidents-pray-prayer-breakfast-eisenhower-obama/79786384/
(once a year event)

And this about another annual event that fell by the wayside…
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/05/obama-cancels-national-prayer-day-service.html

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By: Brian E

Brian E — Sun, 27 Aug 2017 05:28:07 +0000

Leaving aside the personal foibles of President Trump, something is happening inside his administration that has been described as unprecedented, possibly in the last 100 years.

Prayer groups are forming in many of the administration agencies and a weekly bible study occurs inside the white house and DeVos, Sessions, CIA Director Mike Pompeo, Energy Secretary Rick Perry and Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price have been among the participants.

Trump hasn’t attended, but receives a copy of the study each week.

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Sun, 27 Aug 2017 04:04:16 +0000

neo-neocon Says:
August 25th, 2017 at 9:25 pm

Thanks for posting the VA bill. I hope there will be more to follow. If Trump does nothing more than clean up that despicable bastion of corruption, I will be happy.
If he can clean up the EPA and DOJ as well I will be ecstatic.

It would be nice if he could move faster, but it’s hard to walk in a tar pit — which is much more descriptive of DC than just “swamp” as we are made more aware nearly every day.

Maybe he could practice by doing some bog snorkeling.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bog_snorkelling

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Sun, 27 Aug 2017 03:59:38 +0000

huxley Says:
August 25th, 2017 at 11:04 pm
Maybe I’ve not been paying attention, but I can’t think of any flat, serious lies Trump has told so far as POTUS.

Yes, he has said many things which were foolish, ill-informed, boorish, exaggerated, arguable or vindictive, but he has yet to have a “You can keep your doctor” moment.
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This looks like what Neo is saying here and later.
Puff and promises are not prevarication.

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Sun, 27 Aug 2017 03:58:18 +0000

Bill Says: August 26th, 2017 at 8:12 am Now if you’ll excuse me I have a hurricane to dodge ðŸ‚ prayers appreciated for Texas. * * Prayers for Texas are being offered here and in many places. I have a sister in Houston, and our family went through Allison in 2001, 15 miles up the road from her landfall in Freeport. No stranger to hurricanes, and glad I'm no longer there. If your power goes out, we will keep you in mind while we jabber tonight.

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Sun, 27 Aug 2017 03:49:04 +0000

Irv Says:
August 26th, 2017 at 12:24 am
If Trump was presidential, like the Bush’s for example, then he would never have become president. If he started acting presidential after being elected he would either be totally ineffective or be forced to resign. It’s his outrageous mannerisms that keep the opposition forces off balance and cause them to flail insanely at everything thereby reduces their efforts to parody.

There are a lot of things to both like and dislike about Trump but the way he keeps his enemies (Democrats, establishment Republicans, the news media, the entertainment media and the education establishment) looking like fools can’t be denied.
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Mr. Frank Says:
August 25th, 2017 at 9:08 pm
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The MSM are so wound up with Trump derangement they don’t see what he is doing.

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Plan or coincidence?
Will we ever know for sure?
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Dave Says:
August 25th, 2017 at 8:28 pm
Trump is a fascinating character, too bad no matter how great a job he does as the president he will go down the history as the worst president ever simply because the history is written by liberals and liberal historians will never be able to look at this controversial figure objectively.
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Other than exchanging “leftists” for “liberals” I agree, and Obama will almost certainly be ranked in the top three — whoever those are after the Democrats finish downgrading Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln.

Time to start some serious alt-History works.

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Sun, 27 Aug 2017 03:45:17 +0000

M J R Says:
August 25th, 2017 at 5:27 pm
Salena Zito wrote last fall, “the press takes him literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally.”
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Still works for me.

By: Tom G

Tom G — Sun, 27 Aug 2017 00:17:58 +0000

He’s done a LOT more than the Dem press gives him credit for, yet also the Dems (& GOPe) are holding his agenda / the conservative agenda back:
“His major policy initiatives — repealing Obamacare, passing tax reform, an infrastructure plan and more — have all been stalled on Capitol Hill, either because of Republican disputes or Democratic obstruction or both.”

But tax reform is a Rep failure — why doesn’t Paul Ryan have a plan from 2014 worked out? And even the repeal of Obamacare — why don’t the Reps have an agreed law to vote on, now that they’re in the majority?

Rep disputes & Dem obstruction are stalling Trump — yet Trump is rolling thru.

I believe no President has reduced regulations as much in the first year; and this is one of the biggest things.