By DEXTER DUGGAN
Developer Donald Trump’s construction project to restore the United States continues wall by wall, whether a stimulus to raise up new structures, law enforcement to secure citizens’ safety brick by brick, or some other element of renewal.
Touching base with some of the working class that was of such help in his election, Trump spoke to about 3,000 attendees at the legislative conference of North America’s Building Trades Unions (NABTU) in Washington, D.C., on April 4.
“I’m calling on all Americans, Democrat, Republican, and Independent, to take part in the great rebuilding of America,” a news release from the organization quoted Trump.
NABTU president Sean McGarvey brushed aside complaints that traditional union backers of Democrats were engaging with a Republican administration and pointed to accomplishments by Trump in his early presidency, according to a report in the Washington Examiner.
The report quoted McGarvey citing such wins as “pulling out of the Trans Pacific Partnership and executing swift approval of the Keystone XL and Dakota pipelines, along with putting down a marker that ‘Buy America’ matters again.”
This Republican administration has been rolling back environmental and energy burdens that leftist President Barack Obama fastened on Americans’ backs.
How much longer could many traditional Democrats ignore that their national party is run by destructive elitists out to cause ruin on many fronts, from the economy to the maternity ward?
And before any construction had begun on Trump’s wall projects along the southern border, reported numbers of new illegal entrants were down, perhaps in part because they knew official U.S. government policy is no longer to welcome their slipping in and breaking laws.
Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said indications are that Trump’s policies to enforce the law already have caused some to stop trying to cross northward, according to an April 4 Washington Examiner report headlined “Border apprehensions hit 17-year low in March.”
The Trump administration also is proving true to its promised commitments to oppose facilitating abortion and other immorality.
Pro-life women’s-rights international activist Reggie Littlejohn celebrated in an April 4 news release that the administration “has announced that it will cut off U.S. funding for the United Nations Population Fund, on the basis that the UNFPA’s activities in China are complicit with that nation’s coercive population-control program, the implementation of which includes forced abortion and involuntary sterilization.”
“The blood of Chinese women and babies will no longer be on our hands,” she said.
Although pro-abortion militants draw no condemnation from dominant news media that seethe with anger against Trump, Littlejohn noted the suffering their coercive policies cause: “Some of these forced abortions have been so violent that the women themselves have died, along with their full-term babies. There have been brutal forced sterilizations as well, butchering women and leaving them disabled.”
Another administration win occurred when the U.S. Senate in late March joined the House and voted to overturn an Obama rule that prevented states from denying funding to abortion providers.
The resolution passed narrowly in the closely divided Senate, with GOP Vice President Mike Pence casting the tie-breaking vote. The measure easily had passed the House in February, with almost all of the majority pro-life Republicans voting for it, and almost all the Democratic pro-death minority voting against it.
On April 4, the “Restore D.C. Catholicism” blog, noting the various pro-abortionists and population controllers that Pope Francis’ Vatican has invited to speak there, said: “Never have I thought that I’d see the day when the White House would be more pro-life than the Vatican, but such seems to be the case these days.”
Trump’s pick of federal Judge Neil Gorsuch to assume the Supreme Court seat vacated last year by the sudden death of conservative Justice Antonin Scalia also seemed to be on track.
After Gorsuch won a party-line majority vote from the Senate Judiciary Committee on April 3, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) vowed that his chamber would approve the judge by April 7 — the day after this hardcopy issue of The Wanderer went to press.
Although McConnell lacks the reputation of a staunch conservative, apparently he got a strong message that he needs to superintend this nomination to victory, even if he has to seek a Senate rules change to overcome fierce pro-death Democrat opposition to a judge they fear is a pro-lifer.
In 2006, Princeton University Press brought out a scholarly book Gorsuch authored that took the pro-life view, The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia.
Expressing gratitude that Trump won the presidency, conservative national radio talk host and columnist Dennis Prager wrote that Trump “not only surpassed many of our expectations but also thus far governed in a manner more consistent with conservative principles than any president since Ronald Reagan, and arguably Calvin Coolidge.”
In his column posted April 4, Prager recalled that he originally opposed the Manhattanite’s candidacy, in part because of a lack of a history of conservatism.
But once Trump won the GOP nomination, Prager said he supported him because, even if no one could be certain how the nominee would govern, “we were all certain about how Hillary Clinton would govern — as a leftist. And I truly believed that another four years of left-wing rule would mean the end of America as it was founded to be.”
Prager listed some of Trump’s achievements to make conservatives proud but noted the widespread astounding bias against him in supposedly objective news media.
“The American media — most particularly, its elite — no longer even feigns objective reporting. It is solely an arm of the left and the Democratic Party, its task being the delegitimization of the Trump presidency,” Prager wrote.
It’s more than strange to see dominant media crowing over polls that say Trump has low popularity after they’ve blindly pounded him fanatically as a bad man and a madman for months. What other result would they expect? And it’s all the stranger after these same media organs worshipped for years at the feet of lying radical leftist lawbreaker Obama.
This makes support for Trump all the more necessary, Prager said, concluding, “Whether you like his tweets or not, his fate is our fate.”
The last thing Trump needs is to drive away his solid base of supporters, but he took some risky steps in that direction when he threw his backing to the secretly written Obamacare replacement bill that was thrust on Congress in early March by Republican leadership, but quickly collapsed for lack of support.
No doubt much of Trump’s support during the presidential campaign came from people oppressed by Obamacare and dying to throw it off before it actually killed them. They were impressed when Trump said repealing and replacing it was at the top of his list.
Yet the legislation sometimes called Ryancare, for establishmentarian House Speaker Paul Ryan (R., Wis.), seemed to be almost as grotesque as Obama’s medical monstrosity, not the desperately needed whiff of oxygen.
Trump not only adopted the bill as his own but even ended up threatening to defeat conservative Republican congressmen in 2018 who pointed to its errors and to work with liberal Democrats to make it into law.
As this is written, Ryan and other lawmakers are trying to devise substitute legislation, but unless they entirely reject the premises of their earlier effort, they’re not only wasting their time but also imperiling Trump’s political clout.
One problem coming up fast is the need to have a government spending agreement before the end of April or else face a government shutdown. And there’s not much time to maneuver with Congress taking two weeks of time off for Easter.
What’s Up?
The vehemently left-wing Washington Post thinks this means an opportunity for its Democrat pals.
On April 1, the newspaper posted: “The fact that Republicans need Democrats to vote for a temporary spending measure to avoid a shutdown gives Democrats leverage to force the GOP to abandon plans to attack funding for environmental programs and Planned Parenthood. And it also allows Democrats to block Trump’s top priority — the wall along the U.S.-Mexico border — which the president seeks to factor in to this latest round of budget negotiations.”
Later the Post added: “Republicans have also hinted that they will not attempt a fight on Planned Parenthood. House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R., Wis.) told reporters last week he did not think a spending bill was the right place for the abortion fight and suggested conservatives take up the fight under special budget rules known as ‘reconciliation.’
“ ‘We think reconciliation is the tool, because that gets it into law,’ Ryan said. ‘Reconciliation is the way to go’.”
What’s up? Even after voters have delivered both the House and Senate to GOP majorities, then added control of the White House, the shrunken Democrats still think they can insist on obtaining their twisted priorities for baby slaughterhouse Planned Parenthood and a continued lawless invasion into this nation?
Senate GOP leader McConnell assumed his familiar surrender tactics, saying in an April 2 interview that “nobody wants a government shutdown,” and the blame will be on Congress if this occurs!
Once again McConnell seemed to be handing Democrats the whip to beat the GOP with: Everyone is terrified of “shutting down” government, and Republicans will do anything to avoid blame for it.
The next day, April 3, conservative national radio talk host Laura Ingraham was exasperated about the GOP giving up this bargaining weapon. She asked, “Why do we always take that off the table?”
Ingraham’s guest, Cong. Jim Jordan (R., Ohio), a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, commented, “No one wants a shutdown, but we have to do what the voters sent us here to do.”
Ingraham and Jordan agreed the last shutdown certainly didn’t hurt the GOP.
McConnell made his comment to calm financial markets, Ingraham said.
The terrors of a “shutdown” that doesn’t really shut all government operations seemed to be another of those left-wing media myths conjured up on handy demand.
Conservative GOP consultant Constantin Querard told The Wanderer on April 4: “It’s never a surprise to see Mitch McConnell not wanting to draw a hard line when it comes to the debt ceiling, but now you have the added consideration that it’s a Republican in the White House, and President Trump doesn’t want to draw a hard line on it either.
“If the Senate and the president both agree that they’re not open to a shutdown, then the Democrats know they have a strong bargaining hand, with or without McConnell making public pronouncements. Which means McConnell’s public comments may have been more to warn other Republicans that there is no point taking a hard line on the debt ceiling this go-around,” Querard said.
A Democrat’s Dark Deed
Meanwhile, Trump probably enjoyed the revelation that Obama White House national security adviser Susan Rice had been involved in “unmasking” the names of Trump officials as a ploy to help Democrats.
After months of Democrats and their media allies trying desperately to link Trump to dark deeds by the Russians, here was one of their own, Rice — who blatantly lied for Obama in 2012 that a video caused the deadly terrorist attack in Benghazi — caught in a severely compromising position.
As Fox News Radio’s John Gibson commented: “In other words, was Susan Rice the one who passed the illicit material around, committing the felony herself? Or did she just unlock the door and let the character assassins into the vault?”
Reporters who’d been panting for leaks to hurt Trump suddenly recoiled at the idea that Rice had her hands dirty.
A caller to a program on Phoenix talk radio station KKNT (960 AM) on April 4 said, “You don’t have to see the whole staircase to take the first step.”
This program wasn’t even asking for comments about Rice, but just for people’s pithy sayings. However, it seemed applicable to a lot of Trump’s unlikely political journey, including so many tries including Rice’s to trip him up, and how their own misplaced feet may leave them sprawling in his shadow.
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