{"id":134430,"date":"2017-08-25T08:06:54","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T14:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=134430"},"modified":"2017-08-25T08:22:21","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T14:22:21","slug":"tweetizen-trump-2017-08-25-schrodingers-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/25\/tweetizen-trump-2017-08-25-schrodingers-bills.html","title":{"rendered":"Tweetizen Trump &#8211; &#8211; 2017-08-25: &#8220;Schrodinger&#8217;s Bills&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/trump+meme+bills+passed.jpgimgmax=660.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-134431\" title=\"trump meme bills passed\" src=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/trump+meme+bills+passed.jpgimgmax=660-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/trump+meme+bills+passed.jpgimgmax=660-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/trump+meme+bills+passed.jpgimgmax=660-150x102.jpg 150w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/trump+meme+bills+passed.jpgimgmax=660-650x442.jpg 650w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/trump+meme+bills+passed.jpgimgmax=660.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Well, Donald, TGIF! It&#8217;s been a busy week, and while it looked for a while that your tweeting the last 24 hours would turn out to be just the normal stuff one might expect from a calm, deliberative President &#8212; hurricane warnings, and visits to military installations, and your son speaking before party leadership &#8212; it&#8217;s good to see you diving deep into the shallow end of the political rhetoric pool and making a big splash.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s see what&#8217;s got you hot and bothered &#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If Senate Republicans don&#39;t get rid of the Filibuster Rule and go to a 51% majority, few bills will be passed. 8 Dems control the Senate!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/901029770401546243?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 25, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s kind of an odd way to put it, Donald.<\/p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/115th_United_States_Congress\">current Senate<\/a>, the GOP has 52 votes. The Democrats have 46. Independents have 2. For most legislation, <a href=\"https:\/\/rule22blog.org\/what-is-rule-22\/\">the Senate requires 60 votes to close debate (3\/5 of sworn Senators)<\/a>. So, assuming that all Republicans vote as a block, they also need to get 8 votes from Democrat and\/or Independent Senators to invoke cloture. Or, if any Republicans &#8220;defect,&#8221; more are needed.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not quite the same &#8220;8 Dems control the Senate&#8221;. Any eight votes beyond 52 will do. Put another way, Donald, if the criticality of a bill is not sufficient to pull in not just the full Republican caucus (which also seems kind of a big sticking point) but eight additional Senators, then debate can continue.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure that&#8217;s terribly frustrating, Donald, but some previous great Presidents have managed to live under that burden &#8212; are you suggesting your salesmanship and leadership aren&#8217;t up to the challenge?<\/p>\n<p>Especially when you couldn&#8217;t even be bothered to wrangle a mere <i>50<\/i> vote majority (even counting the Vice President) for &#8220;Repeal &amp; Replace&#8221;?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">General John Kelly is doing a fantastic job as Chief of Staff. There is tremendous spirit and talent in the W.H. Don&#39;t believe the Fake News<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/901031532164468736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 25, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>And, yet, here you are, Donald, tweeting away.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly certainly seems to have cleaned up at least some of the act in the White House, changing it from a political viper pit to something that seems to be functioning decently without the constant drama of the Bannon\/Priebus struggle. And the press seems to generally agree upon that, despite your claim otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, most of the drama coming from there since Kelly&#8217;s installation has come from <em>you<\/em>, Donald.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Few, if any, Administrations have done more in just 7 months than the Trump A. Bills passed, regulations killed, border, military, ISIS, SC!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/901032475111116800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 25, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>If all that incredible achievement has taken place, why do you keep turning around and saying nothing can happen because of Democratic obstructionism, Donald? I mean, <a href=\"http:\/\/theweek.com\/speedreads\/720660\/just-minutes-after-complaining-about-how-few-bills-are-being-passed-trump-brags-about-how-many-bills-have-been-passed\">both can&#8217;t be true<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/politics\/wp\/2017\/08\/25\/trump-i-pass-a-lot-of-bills-also-the-democrats-wont-let-me-pass-bills\/\">Either you are achieving record-breaking accomplishments, or else you&#8217;re being stymied<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also, since you keep bringing it up. how is appointing a Supreme Court Justice something to brag about? The position was already open. You had a list of names provided to you by a conservative think tank. It only required a simple majority of Senators that you hadn&#8217;t yet alienated and that were clearly already going to go along with anyone you chose. It&#8217;s something that <em>happened<\/em>, certainly, and it&#8217;s something that will have a tremendous impact for decades &#8230; but it&#8217;s not like you, personally, <i>did<\/i> that much to make it happen.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nick Adams, &quot;Retaking America&quot;  &quot;Best things of this presidency aren&#39;t reported about. Convinced this will be perhaps best presidency ever.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/901044579750825985?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 25, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Well, yes, certainly I&#8217;m convinced that a conservative author who&#8217;s previously said nice things about you is still saying nice things about you.<\/p>\n<p>The question is &#8212; why should I be convinced that what he says is true, and, more importantly, why are <i>you<\/i> spending <i>your<\/i> time trying to convince us that some people think you are a great president? How is that at all normal, let alone presidential?<\/p>\n<p>Sad.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Strange statement by Bob Corker considering that he is constantly asking me whether or not he should run again in &#39;18. Tennessee not happy!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/901057864516734978?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 25, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Okay, well, maybe that&#8217;s why you&#8217;re so eager to tout a conservative book writer, since there seem to be a growing chorus of people within your own party who <i>don&#8217;t<\/i> think this is a particularly great presidency. Like Bob Corker from Tennessee, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/post-politics\/wp\/2017\/08\/25\/trump-slams-another-republican-senator-warning-bob-corker-that-tennessee-not-happy\/\">the latest GOP Senator to incur your wrath<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Corker&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bob_Corker#Political_positions\">highly reliable conservative vote,<\/a>\u00a0and was reportly on your short lists to be VP or Secretary of State, but he had the audacity to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/08\/17\/politics\/bob-corker-criticizes-trump-charlottesville\/index.html\">question your performance around Charlottesville<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The President has not yet been able to demonstrate the stability nor some of the competence that he needs to demonstrate in order to be successful. He has not demonstrated that he understands what has made this nation great and what it is today, and he&#8217;s got to demonstrate the characteristics of a president who understands that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, that sounds like something that would kind of tick you off, Donald, even if Corker over-uses the word &#8220;demonstrate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The funny thing (well, one of the funny things) is that he said that a <i>week<\/i> ago, last Friday. So you&#8217;ve been nursing this grudge for a <i>week<\/i> to slap back at him as someone who not only keeps consulting you about his career (oh, yes, of course we all believe that) but who is making Tennessee &#8220;not happy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For someone who keeps forgetting comments he made about Charlottesville (&#8220;many sides&#8221; and &#8220;very fine people&#8221;), you sure have a good memory for slights, Donald.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p>You and\/or your Social Media Minion tweeted under your name &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; about a visit to the CBP site in Yuma, AZ. (3 times) (and retweeted on @POTUS)<br \/>\n&#8230; warnings about Hurricane Harvey. (twice) (and retweeted on @POTUS)<br \/>\n&#8230; retweeting your son, Eric, speaking to the RNC Summer Meeting in Nashville.<span style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/hMrWuUcWoXV\">View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, Donald, TGIF! It&#8217;s been a busy week, and while it looked for a while that your tweeting the last 24 hours would turn out to be just the normal stuff one might expect from a calm, deliberative President &#8212; hurricane warnings, and visits to military installations, and your son speaking before party leadership &#8212; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/25\/tweetizen-trump-2017-08-25-schrodingers-bills.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tweetizen Trump &#8211; &#8211; 2017-08-25: &#8220;Schrodinger&#8217;s Bills&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,1071],"tags":[1163],"class_list":["post-134430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-trump","tag-political_positions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/trump+meme+bills+passed.jpgimgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":132686,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/29\/candidate-for-life-donald-trump.html","url_meta":{"origin":134430,"position":0},"title":"Candidate-for-Life Donald Trump","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 29-Jan-17 12:39pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Yes, if you watch live TV, you may run into what looks like a campaign ad for Donald Trump. 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