{"id":231679,"date":"2017-05-01T12:50:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T16:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=231679"},"modified":"2017-05-02T16:14:51","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T20:14:51","slug":"its-time-for-trump-to-take-over-leadership-from-the-house-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/05\/01\/its-time-for-trump-to-take-over-leadership-from-the-house-republicans\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do We Vote Republican? What Trump Must Do to Avoid More Disastrous Budget Deals"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Now, I know what many of you are thinking, and it is next up in the Stack<\/a> right here. Here is the headline. I don\u2019t care where you see it, this is the headline: “Congress Deal Funds Sanctuary Cities, Obamacare, EPA, Planned Parenthood; Does Not Provide Money for the Wall.” Now, if you look at that headline and you happen to believe that it\u2019s true — which it is. I mean, we extended the budget. There\u2019s not gonna be any shutdown. Republicans are going (sigh), “Thank God! No shutdown.” So we have extended the budget, not for a week, but all the way through September.<\/p>\n

\"\"In the process, sanctuary cities are continually funded. Obamacare is not repealed nor is it replaced. The White House is saying that they\u2019re very close to having enough votes in the House to actually move forward on Obamacare. But until we see the vote, we will know they don\u2019t have the votes. They\u2019re not gonna conduct a vote \u2019til they have them. So Obamacare gets funded. Sanctuary cities get funded. The EPA gets funded through September. Planned Parenthood gets funded. The wall does not. So if you\u2019re asking yourself, “Why am I voting Republican?” you have a good question.<\/p>\n

Why is anybody voting Republican, if this is what happens when we win?<\/p>\n

We won the House, we won the Senate, we won the White House, and the Democrats thwarted everything we supposedly said we were going to do with our victory. Well, I don\u2019t want to use the word “we,” \u2019cause I\u2019ve got nothing to do with this. This is another reason why I do not get close to these people. I do not… I would not relish having to have you call here today and make me justify what all happened here, had I been out there promoting and ballyhooing. That\u2019s why I keep my distance from these people, \u2019cause I don\u2019t have any control over what they\u2019re gonna do or say, what their policies are going to be.<\/p>\n

But I think this illustrates a much larger problem that we are going to have to recognize, and it\u2019s the real reason Donald Trump was elected. It\u2019s the real thing that he has got to do, and he\u2019s got to start doing it. And it is not going to happen if he continues to work with Republicans, because it is obvious, for whatever reasons — and we can get into them — the Republican Party has no intention of defunding Planned Parenthood, no intention of defunding sanctuary cities. They don\u2019t want to pay for a wall. Who knows what they really want in Obamacare. But then again, is it really the Republicans? I think there\u2019s something much larger going on.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: There\u2019s no reason to keep electing Republicans if this is what we\u2019re gonna get with this budget deal, which pays — continually pays — for sanctuary cities, funds Obamacare, funds the EPA, gives money to Planned Parenthood and no money for the wall. If you\u2019re asking, “What am I voting for Republicans for?” you have a legitimate question. This is one of the reasons Donald Trump was elected. This is the swamp. This is what needs to be drained: The way the budget happens, the way legislation happens, who\u2019s responsible for it. I\u2019ll tell you where I\u2019m going with this. I want to go back and play a sound bite from me on Friday\u2019s program<\/a>. This is the direction that I\u2019m thinking this has to go…<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: Where\u2019s Trump on this? For crying out loud, Trump\u2019s elected president! Trump\u2019s got a mandate. This was clearly part of it. Like building the wall, like any number of other things, repealing and place Obamacare was mentioned at every rally, so why doesn\u2019t the president go in there and tell them what-for?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, I don\u2019t mean to be ragging on Trump there, but my point is this. The legislation making process in Washington, everybody I think is under some misunderstanding about it. Mr. Snerdley, how do you think legislation happens in Washington? I mean, take me from there\u2019s nothing and then there\u2019s a bill. What happens? Where does it start? (interruption) No, it does not… (interruption) No, I\u2019m not asking spending. I\u2019m talking any bill, any bill whatsoever. Where does it start? Who writes it? Who\u2019s in charge? Say you… (interruption) There you go: The lobbyists, the donors.<\/p>\n

This is the problem.<\/p>\n

The Republican Party is not a party that writes legislation. The Democrats don\u2019t write legislation anymore. You know where legislation is written? Legislation is written by the quote-unquote “special interests.” You know where they\u2019re located? They\u2019re located on K Street. They\u2019re lobbyists; they are donors. They are the people, and 96% of Washington, D.C., — which is where these people live — voted against Donald Trump. He got 4% of the vote in D.C. among this group of people. Not the whole population, but among this group of people. Depending on the Republican Party for this is a loser\u2019s game. Trump is going to have to take over the legislation-writing process himself.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why I was asking, “Where\u2019s Trump on this health care?”<\/p>\n

Screw the House leadership! Write your own bill and get it passed.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me try to explain this as best I can. When I saw this headline, it brought some things into focus for me, because this is gnawing at the edges here of irritation. The impression that I\u2019ve had — you\u2019ve had it, too — that something\u2019s out of whack, something\u2019s not wrong right. We won the election. I\u2019ve described it, I don\u2019t see the glow of victory on Republican faces. I don\u2019t see optimism. I don\u2019t see happiness. I don\u2019t see confidence. I don\u2019t see an attitude that says, “Man, what an opportunity we have.” And as I say it\u2019s just been eating away at me.<\/p>\n

And like everybody else, I\u2019m trying to nail it down, explain it to myself so that then I can explain it to you. And then I see the headline at FrontPage Magazine: “Congress Deal Funds Sanctuary Cities, ObamaCare, EPA, Planned Parenthood, Doesn\u2019t Fund Wall<\/a>.” This doesn\u2019t make any sense. It makes no common sense whatsoever when you juxtapose it against the election returns.<\/p>\n

\"\"Donald Trump won the election and he ran and won on a series of issues, and all of them are embodied in this budget, and not a one of these things did Donald Trump seek the presidency by saying he was going to continue. The one thing that is not paid for in this budget is the one thing that Trump made one of his top two vote-getters, and that\u2019s building the wall. And that of course is related to immigration.<\/p>\n

So what explains this? Why hasn\u2019t there been a flood of legislation emanating from the Republicans in the House and the Senate to begin the process of implementing the Trump agenda? I know, I\u2019ve answered my question. I\u2019m doing this in a rhetorical sense to set up a premise. As I\u2019ve stated many times, the Washington establishment\u2019s totally opposed to Trump. They don\u2019t want anything that Trump campaigned on to happen. They don\u2019t want an outsider coming in and succeeding and thereby demonstrating how it can be done.<\/p>\n

Nobody on the outside is supposed to be able to come in and reform Washington and improve it. The establishment has set it up so they have an exclusive, exclusionary club that very few people are capable or qualified to be part of, and that\u2019s that. So the last thing they can afford is for somebody like Trump, who\u2019s not a politician by trade, to come in after winning an election and totally turn the town upside down. They will not do it.<\/p>\n

I go back to Lindsey Graham. He\u2019s changed his mind since, but go back to Lindsey Graham before the election. (paraphrasing) “I would rather lose and be on the outs for 25 years than to win with Donald Trump.” That happens to be the frame of mind and the attitude of Washington, D.C. There isn\u2019t, in that town, folks, in all of the places where legislation is written — oh, and let me issue one other caveat here.<\/p>\n

Normally I would be happy that no new laws are being made. Every new law is potentially an erosion of freedom. I\u2019m not one of these people that defines Washington\u2019s success by how many bills get passed and signed into law. But in this case, the legislation needed is that which will unravel and unwind things which are destroying the country or wreaking great harm and damage on our culture, the economy, and what have you.<\/p>\n

But the dirty little secret is that there isn\u2019t any evidence that anywhere in Washington is there any aspect of the Trump agenda on display. It doesn\u2019t seem to be that in the House of Representatives that there is a desire to implement any of the Trump agenda. It doesn\u2019t seem in the Senate that there is a desire to implement any of the Trump agenda. It does seem in the House that there is a lot of energy devoted to stopping a Trump agenda. Ditto in the Senate.<\/p>\n

So the people who are running the show in Washington are impervious and unconcerned about public opinion and the results of an election and are now in the process of doing what they can to thwart the will of the people in a very clear issues-dominated and issues-oriented election. Trump wins, he has a specific agenda. Where are the members of his party writing legislation to get going on the implementation of his agenda?<\/p>\n

When Obama was elected, do you know the stimulus bill was written even before Obama was inaugurated? Who wrote it? Who actually wrote the stimulus bill? It was written before Obama was inaugurated. The stimulus bill was off and running nine days after he was inaugurated. And then they were off and running on Obamacare. And then off and running on whatever else the Obama agenda was. The Republicans didn\u2019t have the votes to stop anything, so they were irrelevant in the process the first two years.<\/p>\n

Well, what I said in the previous segment, the fact of the matter is that corporate interests or special interests or lobbyists or what have you, is where legislation gets written, because that\u2019s where the donors and their money are headquartered. And the donors, the big money more than likely determine what does and does not happen in Washington. And I can tell you this. On K Street, the lobbying firms, the Chamber of Commerce, big donors, there\u2019s nobody in that group that is in favor of the Trump agenda.<\/p>\n

Now, Trump knew this; it\u2019s why he ran for office. You knew it. I knew it. We all knew this. This is what being opposed to the ruling class, being opposed to the establishment is all about. But now it\u2019s become crystal clear. Now it\u2019s no longer a matter of speculation and theory. Now we know, we\u2019ve just extended a federal budget all the way through September and there\u2019s nothing in it that represents the will of the American people as expressed in the election. There\u2019s nothing in it that represents the campaign pledges, promises, objectives of Donald Trump. Quite the opposite.<\/p>\n

This budget is a direct slap in the face. This budget is a stop sign. And it\u2019s throwing down the gauntlet. “You may be elected president, but you\u2019re not getting anything. Nothing\u2019s gonna happen here.” And if Donald Trump cannot rely on the members of his own party — are you really telling me we can\u2019t get a replace and repeal Obamacare bill after all this time? And I don\u2019t mean since Trump won the election; I\u2019m talking about since it was passed seven years ago, six, whatever it is now.<\/p>\n

\"\"All those repeal and replacement bills that they sent to Obama that he vetoed, where are those? Where\u2019s one of those? The will isn\u2019t there. I\u2019m not harping on any one Republican. That\u2019s not the point here. The point is that if something doesn\u2019t change, then this is going to continue to be the story. What has to change is that the entire legislative writing process is going to have be taken over by the White House, meaning the ball gets rolling at the White House, and there\u2019s gonna be, I mean, tons of opposition to it.<\/p>\n

But for Trump to rely on his allies on Capitol Hill to commence with legislation that implements his objectives is not gonna happen. Obviously it\u2019s not gonna happen. We\u2019ve had enough months now under our belt to know exactly what the lay of the land is. Now, you can say, “Well, yeah, Rush, but it was the fear of a government shutdown.” No, it\u2019s not that. That\u2019s such a convenient excuse.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m telling you, folks, the will isn\u2019t there. The establishment, whatever you want to call this bunch of people, the ruling class, the establishment, the donors, whatever you want to call \u2019em, they\u2019re not just gonna roll over and let Trump implement those things that he campaigned on just because he won the office, just because he won the presidency. And he\u2019s going to have to overcome this if he\u2019s going to be successful. And the way he\u2019s going to have overcome it, he\u2019s going to have to have his own staff, legislative staff in the White House that writes this legislation and muscles its way through.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s gonna be tough. You see the obstacles here with Obamacare, the repeal and replace. They\u2019re making this so much harder than it should be, so much harder than it is. One thing that\u2019s become abundantly clear in the Obamacare fiasco is that official Washington does not trust free markets. Official Washington is not interested in letting the free market determine the solution to any problem. Understandably so. They have less power if the free market runs.<\/p>\n

These people have control and total say-so over money, how it\u2019s spent, who gets the money, and this kind of thing. Why give that up? So it\u2019s gonna be a knock-down, drag-out. I\u2019m not saying any of this because I don\u2019t think Trump knows it. I think he\u2019s more than aware of this. And I would fully expect a White House official reply to what I\u2019m saying today to be, “Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but we know what\u2019s going on, but, look, the next budget coming up in September, when we go for the next fiscal year, that\u2019s when we\u2019re gonna put the pedal to the metal.”<\/p>\n

Well, okay, fine, I understand that, but that\u2019s what we Republicans have been told for I don\u2019t know how many years: “Well, we got to do it this way now, but I\u2019ll tell you what. The next time this comes up, we\u2019re gonna hammer \u2019em.” And they never get hammered.<\/p>\n

So it is a Herculean battle, ladies and gentlemen, and it\u2019s all compressed right here in this one story about this budget. The Democrats are gloating like you can\u2019t believe. Grab audio sound bite number four. We have a little montage here of the Drive-Bys declaring victory for the Democrats and reminding Trump that he said everybody was gonna get tired of winning so much. They\u2019re starting to now gloat, “Where\u2019s the winning, Mr. President? Where\u2019s the winning?”<\/p>\n

\"\"ALISYN CAMEROTA: (music) The bipartisan budget deal appears to have more wins for Democrats than for Republicans.<\/p>\n

CHRIS CUOMO: A good day for Democrats. The border wall is not in there. The money that goes to Planned Parenthood is in there.<\/p>\n

NANCY CORDES: The money cannot be used to build a new border wall. The bill keeps funding for Planned Parenthood.<\/p>\n

GRIFF JENKINS: Democrats have been quick to praise the deal as a victory.<\/p>\n

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Big victory! Democrats are refusing to fund President Trump\u2019s border wall.<\/p>\n

AINSLEY EARNHARDT: Democrats getting plenty of concessions, but money for the border wall? Nowhere to be found.<\/p>\n

STEVE DOOCY: …money for a border wall nowhere to be found.<\/p>\n

JOHN BERMAN: I\u2019m hearing a lot more Democrats crowing than Republicans.<\/p>\n

RON BROWNSTEIN: …victories in stopping things that Trump wanted to do.<\/p>\n

ADRIANO ESPAILLAT: This is a clear victory for Democrats…<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: And it is! It is, folks. There\u2019s no other way to look at this. If you\u2019re asking yourself, “Why am I bothering to vote Republican?” you\u2019re gonna have a lot of people understand why. The Democrats didn\u2019t win diddly-squat last November. The Democrats continue to have trouble winning elections, and yet they\u2019re carrying the day as always. Is it really the Democrats, though? What\u2019d the Democrats do here other than threaten a government shutdown? I think that\u2019s what they want us to believe.<\/p>\n

They want us to believe that the Republicans still haven\u2019t quite gotten the courage to take the Democrats on. I don\u2019t think that\u2019s what\u2019s going on at all here. I think what\u2019s really going on is that the action is not in the Congress, the action is not in the House, and the action is not in the Senate. If the House Republicans are unwilling to implement the Trump agenda, why? Is it because they disagree with Trump\u2019s ideas, Trump\u2019s issues, or is it because there\u2019s outside pressure threatening them if they do? And is that pressure monetarily?<\/p>\n

Are donors telling them, “If you help this guy, you can forget being reelected; you can forget our help”? Is that what\u2019s going on? More than likely it is, because that\u2019s what always has gone on. The lobbying effort gets bigger every year, spends more money every year and, as such, has more power every year. And Trump knows it, folks. That\u2019s what draining the swamp really was about, not simply getting rid of all of the embeds in the bureaucracy, in the deep state. It\u2019s also dealing with K Street and overcoming the influence there, because nobody there is elected. Nobody on K Street — no lobbyist, no donor — none of them are elected. And that\u2019s where legislation either begins or is prevented.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Listen to this list of things that were funded in the latest budget deal and ask yourself: Why are you voting Republican? “The bill continues funding refugee resettlement and visas from the six countries from which Trump wanted to suspend immediate immigration, despite this budget being the last recourse against the judicial tyranny.” This was a… This budget was an opportunity to stick it to the judges. It did not. “Sanctuary cities were funded…” Congress could have weighed in in any number of ways to stop this. The American people are tired of it; Trump is tired of it.<\/p>\n

\"\"Trump ran for office and was elected on this. Sanctuary cities continue to be funded against the law. “Planned Parenthood was funded, despite the long-standing GOP promise to fight to defund it, even when they only controlled Congress. … Increased spending for a number of liberal priorities rather than codifying Trump\u2019s requested $17 billion in non-defense spending cuts. EPA was saved from the cuts proposed for this year by Trump\u2019s [budget director]. A $295.9 billion bailout for Puerto Rico\u2019s irresponsible Medicaid program. …<\/p>\n

“Sec. 543 of the omnibus contains a provision opening the door for more H2-B low-skilled workers this fiscal year. $990 million increase of the ‘Food for Peace\u2019 program in Africa. Government-run health care? HHS will see a $2.8 billion boost in spending, of which $2 billion will go to the [National Institutes for Health], which was supposed to be cut by the Trump budget. Green energy programs within the Department of Energy, programs Trump would have eliminated, received a modest spending increase.<\/p>\n

“The federal judiciary saw its budget increased by 3%, to $7.4 billion, from fiscal 2016, despite engaging in civil disobedience against the rule of law. The unconstitutional Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is fully funded despite GOP promises to dismantle it. … California\u2019s high-speed rail will continue to be funded by the Federal Rail Administration.” What was “not funded”? “The border wall. Although $1.5 billion in additional ‘border security\u2019 funds were allocated,” and there were a couple of other little things done to ramp up border security and fewer people are coming in because of the fear factor, but this makes no sense.<\/p>\n

It makes no logical sense whatsoever if you have a particular view of politics.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me be clear about something. It wasn\u2019t just Trump that people voted for. It was Republicans in Congress, Republicans in the Senate. People voted to do the exact opposite of what has happened in this budget. It\u2019s not just Trump voters. Now, you can say it\u2019s betrayal. It certainly is. But it\u2019s much more than that.<\/p>\n

All right, now, look. I\u2019m seeing all kinds of adjectives in the media various places how we got screwed, how we got betrayed and all of this. I… Folks, I think, yeah, yeah, yeah. There\u2019s no question. But none of this should be a surprise. It\u2019s disappointing, and the election had specific reasons for happening. People voted for specific reasons. Among them was stopping the current inertia, reinstituting the rule of law throughout our country; trying to save the constantly degrading culture, the growing expanse that is the Washington, D.C., government and the entitlement component of our government that just seems to have no end.<\/p>\n

\"\"A totally inexperienced nonpolitician was elected because people know — instinctively they know — that official Washington is not interested in any of this. Official Washington is not interested in reducing the size, the scope, the reach of government. Official Washington is not interested in spending less money. Official Washington is not interested in closing the border to illegal immigration. Existing Washington is not in favor of a middle-class tax cut or any tax cut whatsoever. People knew this going in.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s on display here is exactly how Washington, official Washington does it — and in that, it\u2019s another learning opportunity. Now, I know what the objections to what I\u2019ve said in the first hour are gonna be. I can predict them right now. “Rush! Rush, come on. You know that this is a stopgap. You know that this was just basically a spending omnibus, meaning we gotta throw everything into it \u2019cause we gotta keep the government running! Enough of these one-week continuing resolutions. Enough of this one month here. We need to get this funded through the end of the year” well, the fiscal year, which is September, “so that we can turn our attention to things that really matter.”<\/p>\n

No, no, no. This is the stuff that really matters.<\/p>\n

“But Rush, there was gonna be a government shutdown. We can\u2019t afford a government shutdown. A government shutdown would destroy whatever credibility…” No, no, no. (chuckles) The Republican Party doesn\u2019t have any credibility right now, not after a budget deal like this. It would have been better for the Republican Party to let the Democrats go ahead and shut things down than to do this. What are the Republicans thinking? Ask yourself this: Why are the Republicans probably not worried at all about this? You think they are? Why aren\u2019t they?<\/p>\n

They followed instructions to the letter is exactly what they did. Now, you could say their masters are their paymasters, their donors or what have you, but one thing is crystal clear. Can you find any single piece of legislation that is in anywhere near final form since Donald Trump was inaugurated, or even before? As I say, in the case of Obama and his stimulus, it was written before he was inaugurated. He wins the election; he knows he wants to have a stimulus bill because he knows what he wants it to be.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t a stimulus. I don\u2019t want to re-litigate this, but it was a payback to his donors and it was a sop to unions. It was not a stimulus. It was not gonna grow anything, and it didn\u2019t, and it was not gonna build roads, bridges or anything. It didn\u2019t. The point is they wanted it done and it got done even before Obama was inaugurated and it was voted on and implemented within a week, two weeks of his inauguration. Where is that corresponding behavior? We won the election. Where is all of this pent-up legislation that we supposedly have been believing in and dying to have passed for the last eight years?<\/p>\n

\"\"Repealing Obamacare, replacing it, whatever. That\u2019s at the top of the list. Getting rid of a whole bunch of punitive taxes, that\u2019s another thing that\u2019s been at the top of the list. And, of course, immigration reform has been at the top. Not for Washington, but for voters. The point is, there isn\u2019t any legislation being written. Again, I want to restate something so there\u2019s no misunderstanding. I\u2019m universally, almost always opposed to legislation meaning something good\u2019s happening. I long ago ceased falling into that trap. Legislation is just new laws.<\/p>\n

The legislation we\u2019re talking about is legislation that fixes years and years and years of mistakes. The legislation we\u2019re talking about is legislation that could have done an end run around these judicial rulings that have tried to stopgap Trump ever since he became president. No effort whatsoever behind any of this. And they\u2019re gonna say, “But, Rush, it\u2019s a stopgap. We really… We\u2019re gonna do all this stuff once we get the real first Trump budget when that kicks off next year.” Okay. If we want, we\u2019ve got no choice but to sit around, wait, and see what happens.<\/p>\n

What they mean by that is that the next fiscal year budget, which will be Trump\u2019s first, kicks in October 1st of this year. The fiscal year starts October 1st. So the budget negotiations that we\u2019ve just been through are gonna happen all over again. And Trump\u2019s gonna be back, and he\u2019s gonna be touting the fact that we\u2019re gonna build a wall, we\u2019re gonna have it paid for by somebody. The tax cut that Trump has advanced, that\u2019s going to be part of the budget as well. But, remember, the budget is not the president\u2019s. The budget originates in the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n

And by, you know, using intelligence guided by experience, why should we expect anything different in the next budget after what we\u2019ve just seen in this one? Trump is going to have to take the reins, which is what his campaign led people to believe he was going to do anyway. This is a battle between Donald Trump and not the House Republicans per se. It\u2019s not between Donald Trump and the congressional Democrats, House and Senate. This is a battle between Donald Trump and official Washington. And the House members and the Senate members, in large part, are employees, not of us, but of official Washington.<\/p>\n

\"\"So what\u2019s the process to overcome this? It can be done. It\u2019s going to have to be led by Donald Trump. This is what he does. Donald Trump\u2019s a smart guy. Donald Trump\u2019s a great negotiator. Donald Trump is the guy who fixes things going wrong. Donald Trump is the guy who… He told us — and it\u2019s been true in the way he\u2019s lived his other business and professional lives — that this is the kind of stuff he tackles and overcomes and fixes, and he\u2019s going to have to do it. He\u2019s going to have to be the energy.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s going to have to have a staff of people in the White House who take over the process of writing the legislation. Because if he waits for it to happen in Congress, it isn\u2019t going to happen. It\u2019s clear and abundant. And it\u2019s not just since Trump. Throughout the eight years of Obama — do I need to repeat the story for you? — every election year we hear wonderful, marvelous things from the Republicans. We hear exactly what we want to hear. We hear exactly the common-sense that we demand.<\/p>\n

We hear it. We hear it so loudly and we\u2019re in favor of it so much that those people win. The Republicans now have the House, the Senate, and the White House. But nothing changes, does it? Republicans don\u2019t act like winners, don\u2019t seem to be excited about winning. I mean, in the sense that the power and opportunity that it presents them. So we\u2019ll see how this next budget fight goes. We\u2019ll see how this all shakes out, if it\u2019s any different. Trump has got to be furious. I don\u2019t know to what extent Trump knows what he\u2019s up against.<\/p>\n

I have to think he knows better than I do, better than anybody else does, \u2019cause he\u2019s living it. I don\u2019t know what his expectations were. I can believe that he expected the Republicans were gonna be deliriously happy at his victory and deliriously happy to work with him, and I fully think that he expected the Republicans to be on his team and that they would be working together to get a whole lot of this stuff done to fix and repair America and stop this descending trend that our country is in.<\/p>\n

But he hasn\u2019t found that to be the case. Where is there any legislation to fix — not even the Obamacare repeal — are you telling me it\u2019s this complicated? It isn\u2019t this complicated. There\u2019s no trust in the free market, obviously. It\u2019s not that there\u2019s no trust in the free market. There\u2019s no desire for it. These are people who have control over the market. Why would they give that up? By free market, if you want to fix Obamacare, let the market hash it out. The market will do a much better job of fixing American health care than these so-called Washington experts have been doing for 50 years.<\/p>\n

Free markets have been determined to be successful. They work every time they\u2019re tried. That\u2019s the problem. It\u2019s almost the same analogy Trump coming to Washington as an outsider and those insiders cannot afford for Trump to succeed. What would that make them look like? They would be unmasked and illustrated to be close to fraudulent.<\/p>\n

Well, they tell us only they are capable, they\u2019re experts, you have to have certain number of years of experience. Your life has to be devoted to this, that, and the other, the way to make Washington work, governance, the policy, process, all of this stuff. And some outsider comes in and inside of a four-year term fixes it all? They can\u2019t let that happen. So it\u2019s gonna be a battle royal, a knockdown, drag out. The thing is, it hasn\u2019t really begun yet, as evidenced by this particular budget.<\/p>\n