On the Trump-Schumer-Pelosi deal: Clearly a temporary alliance toward an immediate goal. 1/
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Trump treats lawmakers as employees instead of leaders of separate branch, elected on their own, who will be here when he's gone. 4/
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Next, Trump saw September calendar overflowing. Budget, debt ceiling, now hurricanes. How much time left for tax reform? 5/
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After Obamacare failure, tax reform is whole ball game. Best policy tool to keep Trump promise of more jobs at higher wages. 6/
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So Trump saw Fall slipping away in fighting with tax reform undone. Debt ceiling? They always raise it after much posturing. Just do it. 7/
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Hurricane relief? Let the conservative guys talk about offsets, Trump is going to want to shovel money out the door, fast. 8/
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So Trump entered into temporary alliance with Dems to get debt ceiling, spending off table, clear way for tax reform. 9/
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Doesn't mean it's gonna work. Trump's good friends Chuck and Nancy will fight him tooth and nail. But deal gives Trump, GOP time. 10/
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Then, come December, Trump's good friends Chuck and Nancy will slam him during next debt ceiling fight. 11/
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But for now, Trump has a window to get tax reform, and that's the big thing. For him and the GOP. 12/
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By the way, Trump knows if circumstances change, his new best friends Chuck and Nancy will be leading charge to remove him from office. 13/
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If that happens, Trump will need his former best friends Paul and Mitch to save him. 14/
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But that's next year. Right now, Trump saw a temporary alliance as the answer, and that's what he did. End.
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He's right.They're not. Plus,they've been deeply patronising bordering on offensive, to the POTUS. We notice.
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Turmp has waited 8 months for Ryan, McConnell, McCain and Graham to back him up on agenda items THEY were all for during the election.
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Unfair. Right from the beginning Ryan and McConnell have seized every opportunity to crap on Trump.
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Agree with a lot of your thoughts on this tweet chain but Ryan and Mcd promised and campaigned on these issues but lied to their voters
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Paul and Mitchell ARE OUR employees and they are not producing.
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@realDonaldTrump wants to get things done, he just needs to privately tell them he will talk term limits if they don't get onboard.
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He treats them not as direct report employees but rather as employees of an organization for which he is the CEO, the necessary approach now
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