Trump Thread

[Montmorency]

My earlier comments in this thread that the real goal of the constant drumbeat to impeach Trump was a tool for emasculating his administration is reflected in your cite. THAT has always been the prime goal (though they'd love to dump him if the could). Kill Trump's effort to make change and his followers will fade away and Washington can get back to the usual.

Not quite what I was getting at; I should larify that I'm not talking about Trump. The number of bills is comparable to equivalent periods in other administrations, and for the most part isn't related to President Trump anyway: minor (i.e. trivial) changes in the verbiage of prior legislation, various special considerations for specific individuals or groups, namings of federal buildings...

The fact that most bills aren't related or relevant to the Presidency is why this struck me, that the absolute number of bills is so few. It turns out that Congress rarely sends up more than a few hundred bills per session for executive authorization in modern times, regardless of who is President. I had been under the impression that this sort of routine, low-impact work, generally voted upon unanimously and with little debate, created a much higher volume of bills actually signed into law, on the order of dozens per week. So I was wrong about that. Congress in fact does much less than I realized!


As for the substance of your comment, I suspect the reason the Trump administration and the Republican Congresspeople don't put up all the momentous things they routinely herald for the near future, rather than any Democratic or media opposition, is because they have none. There is no policy, no legislation, only the shell game toward the next election. Once they've reconciled their pillaging of government infrastructure with funding their pork commitments, they'll put up their budgets and their proposals to either privatize or eliminate entirely some civic institution or endowment, but that's about it. I have to believe that the GOP isn't much interested in governing.