With Democrats set to blow up the budget in order to shut down funding for President Trump’s border wall and maintain funding for Planned Parenthood, Republicans including Trump are running for the hills. This means that, as Daniel Horowitz points out at Conservative Review, virtually every top Republican priority outside of the nomination of Justice Neil Gorsuch has stalled utterly, from Obamacare repeal to the repeal of Obama’s executive amnesty, from the dispatching of the Iran deal to the pullout from the Paris climate accords, from tax reform to defunding of Planned Parenthood. Meanwhile, Republicans continue to cave to Democratic budget maneuvers:
This degree of capitulation, with control of all three branches, is impressing even me … and I had low expectations of this president and this party. They have managed to get run over by a parked car. It’s truly breathtaking to contrast the performance of Democrats in the spring of 2009 with what Republicans have done today with all three branches. At this time in 2009, Democrats passed the bailouts, the stimulus, the first round of financial regulations, an equal pay bill, SCHIP expansion, and laid the groundwork for other, bigger proposals, such as cap and trade and Obamacare. Then they got everything they wanted in the March 2009 omnibus bill, and a number of GOP senators voted for it. We, on the other hand, are left with nothing.
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