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highplainsdem

(49,004 posts)
Sat Jul 29, 2017, 08:19 AM Jul 2017

Ryan/Priebus ally to Harwood yesterday: Trump will go to war against GOP Congress. Started today.

From John Harwood yesterday afternoon:




Ryan-Priebus ally to me: next phase of Trump presidency will be warfare against GOP Congress




This morning:




considering that Trump now is now saying GOP senators "look like fools" and issuing orders to McConnell, this didn't take long






it's already starting. if you're counting on tax reform or infrastructure plan, you might want to rethink
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Ryan/Priebus ally to Harwood yesterday: Trump will go to war against GOP Congress. Started today. (Original Post) highplainsdem Jul 2017 OP
Whew! Saw this in time to add popcorn to my grocery list. tanyev Jul 2017 #1
I was just thinking that my local Safeway doesn't STOCK enough popcorn lapfog_1 Jul 2017 #6
I may need to buy stock in popcorn, at this point. ButSeeYa Jul 2017 #12
Cosco has been selling popcorn in 44 count boxes... Wounded Bear Jul 2017 #18
Lol. We've already made good inroads on a couple of Hortensis Jul 2017 #22
One war too many Achilleaze Jul 2017 #2
He needs to read or see A BRIDGE TOO FAR n/m bagelsforbreakfast Jul 2017 #8
Awww! Mr. Snowflake got his fee-fees hurt. smirkymonkey Jul 2017 #3
Going to war against the body that could remove him from office... VMA131Marine Jul 2017 #4
Just like having your Secretary of Interior threaten the avebury Jul 2017 #5
No one on TV explained that the senate and congress are RUN by the gop right now... lindysalsagal Jul 2017 #14
I am skeptical that the Congressional republicans will actually stand up to trump still_one Jul 2017 #7
It's time for the Democratic Party to do this: HAB911 Jul 2017 #9
NO. NO. NO. Bernardo de La Paz Jul 2017 #23
Good. Oh how I hope this Golem they brought to life Drahthaardogs Jul 2017 #10
"Excellent. Salvation is At Hand!" - Mighty Mike (Holy RCKFR*) Achilleaze Jul 2017 #11
y'know, if here WERE and almighty, all-knowing god, would she really choose this pissant? lindysalsagal Jul 2017 #15
NO! This is the Spanish Inquisition in a $100 Sears suit. Raster Jul 2017 #24
ROFLMAO!!! lindysalsagal Jul 2017 #25
Waht an idiot.... usedtobedemgurl Jul 2017 #13
Hard to know from tweets exactly what he's saying. Honeycombe8 Jul 2017 #16
It's all going down hill. Snarkoleptic Jul 2017 #17
Question is... GetRidOfThem Jul 2017 #19
It took only three dissenting Republican Senators to help set this off. jalan48 Jul 2017 #20
Sounds like fun! CanonRay Jul 2017 #21
Trump hasn't read the Constitution yet...lol...not going to end well... beachbum bob Jul 2017 #26
Great! Let *them* be pissed for a change. All it takes is to move a few numbers R B Garr Jul 2017 #27
The people that can vote for impeachment Renew Deal Jul 2017 #28
Trump is a Republican. This is just a made up distraction. rockfordfile Jul 2017 #29

lapfog_1

(29,205 posts)
6. I was just thinking that my local Safeway doesn't STOCK enough popcorn
Sat Jul 29, 2017, 08:50 AM
Jul 2017

for me to watch what is about to take place in the "swamp".

Go to war with the repukes in Congress... and the mooch as comm director... with Twitler in the Oval... what could go wrong?

Wounded Bear

(58,670 posts)
18. Cosco has been selling popcorn in 44 count boxes...
Sat Jul 29, 2017, 10:13 AM
Jul 2017

for $10. At this rate it may not last til next payday.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
22. Lol. We've already made good inroads on a couple of
Sat Jul 29, 2017, 11:05 AM
Jul 2017

big Sam's Club boxes. Two because I like the extra butter. So much has been happening, that I've had to learn to keep my cellphone more charged up.

I was reading that Sessions' colleagues in the cabinet, as well as his colleagues in congress, are angry about how Rump is treating Sessions. Without firing him. Something they all apparently take personally.

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
2. One war too many
Sat Jul 29, 2017, 08:25 AM
Jul 2017

for Comrade Casino, the ignoble KGOP Draft-Dodger-in-Chief.

I think his allies in the russian money mobs will be of only weak assistance to him in this skank-birthed imbroglio, as he continues pissing on American democracy and the American people.





 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
3. Awww! Mr. Snowflake got his fee-fees hurt.
Sat Jul 29, 2017, 08:29 AM
Jul 2017

Now he's going to revenge himself upon congress. How utterly predictable.

VMA131Marine

(4,140 posts)
4. Going to war against the body that could remove him from office...
Sat Jul 29, 2017, 08:37 AM
Jul 2017

...seems a little short-sighted, does it not?

avebury

(10,952 posts)
5. Just like having your Secretary of Interior threaten the
Sat Jul 29, 2017, 08:44 AM
Jul 2017

Senator who is head of the Committee that control's his agency's budget.

lindysalsagal

(20,692 posts)
14. No one on TV explained that the senate and congress are RUN by the gop right now...
Sat Jul 29, 2017, 09:11 AM
Jul 2017

He thinks there's a TV producer somewhere behind the curtain that he has to bring in ratings for....

HAB911

(8,904 posts)
9. It's time for the Democratic Party to do this:
Sat Jul 29, 2017, 08:58 AM
Jul 2017
“Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the pee pee tape that is missing,” “I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.”


AS IN:


“Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,” Mr. Trump said during a news conference here in an apparent reference to Mrs. Clinton’s deleted emails. “I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.”

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,010 posts)
23. NO. NO. NO.
Sat Jul 29, 2017, 11:16 AM
Jul 2017

That's what tRump did, called for the Russians to collude with him, called for it publicly. He is a Republicon.

Democrats don't call on foreign powers to do dirty work for them.

Period.

Perish the thought.



Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
11. "Excellent. Salvation is At Hand!" - Mighty Mike (Holy RCKFR*)
Sat Jul 29, 2017, 09:10 AM
Jul 2017

"All you snooty-nosed, tofu-eating, pointy-headed lib sinners out there across the fruited plains better watch your asses. My hour cometh, and I'm fixin to crush you beneath the Hob-nailed BOOT of mandatory salvation." - MM



* russian-complicit kristo-fascist republican

Raster

(20,998 posts)
24. NO! This is the Spanish Inquisition in a $100 Sears suit.
Sun Jul 30, 2017, 08:09 AM
Jul 2017

Bonus: You can't have dinner with another woman if your wife's not there? Duuuuude, finding another woman to have dinner with you is the problem.

usedtobedemgurl

(1,139 posts)
13. Waht an idiot....
Sat Jul 29, 2017, 09:10 AM
Jul 2017

attack the people you need most to make government work. Yeah, let's see how that works for you!

This illustrates why he never should have been elected. He is not a politician and he has no idea how government works. He has the money and so he has been the head of his companies his whole life. He could keep them running his way (not the best, but he still got everything his was) because he was the boss and there was no one else above him. People HAD to obey him.

Now he has his very first job where he is not the boss, he serves us. He thought, in his naïve little mind, that he was going to have the top boss job in the country and he would rule everything. Obama was weak because he did not know how to rule. Didn't Obama know that you bark out orders just right and then everyone kisses your ring and do exactly as you say? Everyone before him was weak and he was going to show them all.

Now he is faced with reality. No one is obligated to work with him. But he is an old dog and he cannot learn new tricks. All of his life he has had enough money to coerce people and get away with not paying them when the bill is due. He bullies and 'goes around the media' to get his fake point across without his many intellectually stunted followers calling him on things because what he says makes no sense. He has such a bad temper, and those close to him are so afraid of a meltdown, that they shield him from the truth and what he needs to know to actually govern in a proper way.

My friends and I discussed, last night, what would happen with this Russian sanctions bill. Our money is he will throw a tantrum and tweet out he is not going to let it go through and so he will not sign it, not realizing that it will eventually go through if he does not sign it. This whole thing is an exercise in stupidity.

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
16. Hard to know from tweets exactly what he's saying.
Sat Jul 29, 2017, 09:20 AM
Jul 2017

He's saying a source who is an ally of Paul Ryan & Priebus is saying that he thinks Trump's plan is to go to war against the GOP, NOT that the GOP is going to war with Trump?

That now Trump thinks he is issuing orders to McConnell and has that right to do that?

And that the GOP won't do tax reform or infrastructure, in retaliation, if Trump is mean to them?

If that's what he's saying, I don't believe Congress will pass on giving their rich donors tax breaks because Trump is mean to them.

Snarkoleptic

(5,997 posts)
17. It's all going down hill.
Sat Jul 29, 2017, 10:09 AM
Jul 2017

And each day brings a new low!
Pissing off the press, intelligence community, now GOP.
He truly believes he's some sort of emperor.

jalan48

(13,870 posts)
20. It took only three dissenting Republican Senators to help set this off.
Sat Jul 29, 2017, 10:54 AM
Jul 2017

The future may be brighter than we think.

R B Garr

(16,954 posts)
27. Great! Let *them* be pissed for a change. All it takes is to move a few numbers
Sun Jul 30, 2017, 06:19 PM
Jul 2017

and the impeachment/resignation machine could start up. Tick tick tick.

forgot the popcorn

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