Harley off

[Econoline]

[Lord Jim]

No problem...

Il Boobce will simply declare that 2017 came after 2018 and that any claims to the contrary are a fake news ruse, and the Trumpanzee Faithful will readily believe it...

[Lord Jim]

Well, it's not just Republicans enabling Trump's efforts to abuse Presidential power:

Democrat Helps Trump Block Move to Limit Tariff Power

A Republican-led effort to limit President Donald Trump’s ability to impose tariffs based on national security grounds was scuttled for a second time this month, after the president got some help from an unlikely ally: Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio.

Brown on the Senate floor Wednesday blocked an effort to get a vote on a bipartisan measure that would give Congress the power to overturn tariffs imposed on security grounds, as Trump did with recent levies on steel and aluminum imports from Mexico, Canada and the European Union. GOP Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee wanted to try to attach the measure to a farm bill, but he needed every senator to agree for a vote to occur.

“We should not pit farmers against steel workers,” Brown said, arguing that Trump’s tariffs are “long overdue actions” helping a steel industry reeling from China’s unfair trade practices.[Which involves imports from Canada, Mexico, and the EU.....how?]Limiting Trump’s power could doom prospects of the farm-subsidy legislation that will require the president’s signature, Brown said.

Trump’s trade moves are scrambling the political order, as illustrated by Brown’s support of the president. Some Midwestern Democrats back the president’s steel tariffs while many Republicans and business leaders fight him. Brown, a progressive who is up for re-election in a steel state that Trump won by 8 percentage points, has found an issue where he can agree with the president.

Brown’s action drew an angry outcry from Corker, whose measure has 14 cosponsors from both parties and the backing of more than 270 business groups, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Corker said senators should be asked to take a side on such an important issue impacting the economy.

The president has other powers to address China’s unfair trade practices that wouldn’t be affected by the amendment, Corker said.

“I don’t know what this body has become,” said Corker, who is retiring in January and is increasingly open about his frustration with Trump’s trade and other policies. “We can’t even vote on an issue that is current, that is damaging farmers more than 20 farm bills could help them.”

Senator Pat Toomey, a Pennsylvania Republican who is working with Corker on the issue, said Trump has abused his ability to install tariffs for national security grounds.

“We have this provision being invoked as a way to impose tariffs on some of our closest allies, closest friends and closest trading partners,” Toomey said.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... it-tariffs

Any Democratic office holder for whom opposition to Trump's abuse of power is transactional and based solely on the particular issue involved and how it affects them politically, is every bit as reprehensible and guilty of assisting Il Boobce's efforts to undermine the rule of law as the Vichy Republicans...

[Burning Petard]

Yes, it is all that unfair trade agreement stuff, like NAFTA, that is hurting USA farmers and steel workers. While in reality we have a trade surplus with Canada, even in steel.

snailgate.

[Econoline]

Also (re: the above-pictured tweet)...notice that, instead of reversing a move HE MADE which HURTS U.S. businesses and jobs, he is negotiating with FOREIGN companies to move to the US.

[dales]

MAGA!

Trump is such a clueless putz.

[Bicycle Bill]

Also (re: the above-pictured tweet)...notice that, instead of reversing a move HE MADE which HURTS U.S. businesses and jobs, he is negotiating with FOREIGN companies to move to the US.

Because with his Bizarro-world way of thinking, he probably believes that if he can entice a foreign company to set up shop in the USA they will shut down a corresponding facility in China or Japan or Korea or wherever, thus taking jobs away from them dirty foreigners.

So we've got Japanese car makers in Ohio, Indiana, and Alabama (Honda); Kentucky and Texas (Toyota); Indiana again (Subaru); and Tennessee and Mississippi (Nissan) — plus the Germans building VWs in Tennessee, Beemers in South Carolina, and Mercedes-Benzes in Alabama. I wonder how many factories were shut down back in der Vaterland or The Land of the Rising Sun once these were up and running.....

-"BB"-