Posted on 02/20/2017 6:33:14 AM PST by RoosterRedux
It's been decades since Washington has experienced a month as frantic, breathless and head-spinning as the first month of the Trump administration.
It's sometimes been difficult to tell what's actually happening, and to put things in perspective, partly because Washington's news media have gotten so many stories wrong, and partly because politicians of both parties have overreacted to every move by the other side.
So it's crucial to take a step back and review President Trump's job performance by looking at what he has actually done, not merely what the media said he was doing, or what Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi warned he was going to do some day.
Ironically, the two entwined themes of Trump's first turbulent month have been predictability and hyperactivity. Trump has done what he promised to do, and behaved, for better and worse, as he has always behaved.
For conservatives, the most important moment of Trump's first month was his nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. This is a real, substantive and excellent step that, in many a presidency, would by itself mark the first month as a success. Trump's promise to pick a justice "in the mold of Scalia," and his list of 21 candidates was crucial to his winning the election. This was the convincing factor for countless conservatives.
And Trump delivered. Gorsuch isn't just a "conservative judge," (a vague term). He is brilliant and careful in his reasoning, and crystal clear in his writing. His rulings have shown him faithful to the Constitution and attentive to the letter of the law. On religious liberty, Gorsuch has been a pioneer in broadening individual liberties and narrowing state power.
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Good article ping.
Imagine how much farther along he would be if he had any help in Congress?
They’re doing all they can to stop him.
The challenge now will to get Paul Ryno moving and Mitchie out of the bar and working. The RINOs in both houses will begin to show their true colors and Trump will have an uphill battle.
What turbulent month things are on track media like children I want everything now.
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