The Big Question

Once again, there is so much going on in Washington that it’s hard to figure out what to watch. So many people saying so many things. So much live reporting of people walking down hallways, so many self-serving statements being recorded by the media and endlessly repeated.

So much pontificating on the right and on the left, with much of it ending with people saying they just don’t know what is going to happen next.

Well, I think that what is going to happen soon - not just yet, but soon - is that the party in power will have to do something that it has avoided doing since Donald Trump was nominated as its candidate for President.

They have to decide, and then act on, the big question. Just who is in charge here?

Either the Donald has become the Republican Party, heart and soul, or the Republican Party is not Donald Trump, heart and soul. The Republican Party either stands for precisely what the president wants or it is something different.

And, if that is true, it will sooner or later become the enemy of the Trump Party. Different is wrong to someone who sees everything as a net sum game, where he wins and someone else loses.

Now, our president has shown that there is some room for independent action by his underlings - including those members of Congress who rode his coat tails to victory last year - because The Donald is a big picture guy. He really doesn’t sweat the details. That’s what he has other people do for him.

Take health care. All our president wants is to get rid of the job-killing Obamacare that is already dead - and which he is trying best to kill by administrative fiat - and replace it with something better and less expensive and which will cover everyone. At the same time it will also let people decide not to get any health insurance and let insurance companies sell thick, complicated policies which are cheap and which cover very little...just like the good old days before the Affordable Care Act.

Or take Russia. The efforts to get Trump elected.

You know, the thing that the fake news keeps harping about. All of the commentators on the right say nothing happened. The people who work for the president say it never happened. The thing that those weak-willed enemies in Congress keep holding hearings about.

Oh, did I say “enemies?”.  Yes. It has come down to this. The question, again.

Since Donald Trump got elected, he has charted the course for the Republican Party. And you are either with him or disloyal and against him. Perhaps you are a Republican in Name Only, expressing some kind of loyalty to your voters back home, or to something else which does not follow the Trump agenda, which we all know comes directly from the President himself, even if he can’t explain exactly what he wants it to be.

Yes, after all this time in office, the president is finding it really hard to get his work done,  and not because all those government jobs are still not filled - we all know that a lot of what goes on in government is unnecessary red tape, otherwise something bad would be happening - or because of some disloyal people keep leaking things about him.

No, the only reason that the Trump presidency is having a rough time right now is that he needs to spend so much of his time dealing with his number one problem, the one that he defeats and defeats and somehow never stops.

Look there. On the lawn of the White House itself. 

The sun is setting, the shadows are getting longer. And there, in the Rose Garden is the very shadow of Crooked Hillary.

Quick. Gotta Tweet.