Meanwhile, Trump marches on
Reuters has noticed something:
Over his first nine months, Trump has used an aggressive series of regulatory rollbacks, executive orders and changes in enforcement guidelines to rewrite the rules for industries from energy to airlines, and on issues from campus sexual assault to anti-discrimination protections for transgender students.
While his administration has been chaotic, and his decision-making impulsive and sometimes whimsical, Trump has made changes that could have far-reaching and lingering consequences for society and the economy. Some have grabbed headlines but many, no less consequential, have gone largely unnoticed amid the daily controversies and Twitter insults that have marked Trump’s early months in office…
The Trump administration has withdrawn or delayed more than 800 Obama-era regulatory actions in its first six months. Proposals for new rules, including those to delay or rescind existing rules, dropped 32 percent from the same period in 2016 under Obama, and are down from similar six-month periods under presidents George W. Bush, a Republican, and Bill Clinton, a Democrat, according to the libertarian Competitive Enterprise Institute.
At the same time, Trump has limited new federal regulations by requiring agencies to cut two rules for every new one they create. He has asked each agency to name a regulatory reform officer to take aim at unneeded rules.
Please read the whole thing.
Oh, and there’s also this from Powerline:
But President Trump is winning big on judicial nominations. He’s nominating outstanding men and women, and most of them seem destined to be confirmed.
All of this and if Gorsuch helps bring down the public sector unions in SCOTUS it will all be worth it.
Add to your list:
“NO SANCTUARY FOR ILLEGALS: Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials announced the arrests of nearly 500 illegal immigrants living in sanctuary cities across the country as part of a massive illegal immigration sweep this week … The raid, called “Operation Safe City,” spanned four days and ended Wednesday. Illegal immigrants with criminal charges or known gang affiliations were targeted. Participants in the DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) program were not.”
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/09/29/fox-news-first-trump-defends-handling-puerto-rico-crisis-massive-sanctuary-city-raids-nationwide.html
Kudos to General Sessions and his ICE. Well except for the last sentence–can;t win on everything even with the President.
I finally decided that Trump is keeping the lefties distracted with all the tweets while he is undoing all the Obama executive orders. Every time he tweets that all the media reports on for the next week.
Thanks for the pick-me-up neo. Anything that distresses Reuters has to be a good thing. It’s heartening to learn that Trump is managing to accomplish some positive things despite all the hate and obstructionism arrayed against him.
Unfortunately, without Congressional support they’re temporary palliatives.
Judicial appointments appear to be one of the few things that Trump has the leverage to accomplish that will have some permanence.
Pulling out of Paris Agreement on the global warming scam is huge.
People and the media get too caught up in the drama and tweets.
And imagine how Kim would jerk Hillary around.
Even if Trump did nothing but surf the net and tweet all day he would still be a better president than Obama and Hillary.
Why would the media report on positives?
Especially when they don’t count them as such.
Ray: I agree. Trump’s tweets and other “nonsense” are clearly a distraction to keep the media from looking too closely at what he really is doing!
Man, oh, man. The more Trump does the more I am so glad that I voted for him!
Nah! He’s just lucky.
“Unfortunately, without Congressional support they’re temporary palliatives.”
Weren’t many of the Obama EOs that Trump is rescinding actually executive power grabs that went well beyond not only the letter but the intent of the law? In those cases Trump already has Congressional support effectively
“Unfortunately, without Congressional support they’re temporary palliatives.”
I beginning to think that should be amended to just the Senate. I read yesterday that the GOP reps are getting very annoyed with their brethren in the Senate. And, I think they’re correct. Look at where it has all broken down…in the Senate. And in particular we can point directly to McCain, and the ladies from Maine and Alaska. Sad how 4 people can totally derail an entire country.
It seemed that when Trump got a cabinet position approved, he came out with an executive action that included a review and report within a certain time frame. A key point was to verify that a regulation or a function actually had authority from Congress.
I think that we will see lots of department changes soon which should really change things in DC.
“Oh, and there’s also this from Powerline:
‘But President Trump is winning big on judicial nominations./” ][Neo]
Ilya Shapiro agrees. The link:
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/on-judicial-nominees-trump-just-keeps-on-winning/article/2635988
I finally decided that Trump is keeping the lefties distracted with all the tweets while he is undoing all the Obama executive orders.
I agree and wonder if Congress will start to wonder about the 2018 primaries.
Letting the judicial system get so complicated that you need a political power in DC to nominate judges in your Constitutional favor, or lawyers who need decades of training to even understand the law, is a losing proposition in the longer war.
All tactics, no strategy or logistics.
“I agree and wonder if Congress will start to wonder about the 2018 primaries.”
I think that was the whole point of his “DACA deal” with Schmucky Schumer. Remember that the GOPe wanted to kick the debt ceiling past 2018; Trump will force them to defend their spending in the primaries where we the people can take them out.
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