The First 100 Days

In the last blog we discussed how a non-politician became President. However, can someone with no political experience actually govern. The President of the
United States is the Leader of the Free World. We are not talking about Mayor, Governor or Senator of a city or state. During the campaign, President Trump talked about his skills as a negotiator which according to him was the basis of his tremendous wealth. Those skills were put to the test immediately when Republicans
 tried to repeal the Affordable Care Act or what was more commonly known as Obama Care. Their proposed legislation did not even get out of Committee and the
 President could not convince enough Republicans to vote for it. Where are those
 Negotiation Skills when you need them. What a joke. I believe some sane Republicans if there are any left realized that you could not repeal Obama Care without something closely resembling it.  Otherwise, the Republicans would have targets on their back in the next elections. It was estimated that nearly 30-50million people would lose their healthcare coverage under the proposed repeal. Many of them had voted for President Trump. I agree that Obama Care had problems and in my opinion not very well thought out. However, gutting it without a better plan was ludicrous. The President is next trying to tackle tax reform. Let's see if his so called superior Negotiation Skills finally work. Tax reform is probably one of the hardest areas to actually reform. Too many special interest groups
Signing off

It has been a very long time since my last blog. Did anyone miss me. Apparently not as I only have four followers. So Why am I back. Well, we have a new President and I believe the next four years at the very least will be interesting if not catastrophic. Why so gloomy. Has anyone seen the new circus in town called the White House. It's replacing Barnum & Bailey. Everyday some new gaffe is being sputtered by the one it's clowns. I better watch what I write as I may be attacked on Twitter. The first question one has to ask is how did this come to be. Wasn't the plan that Queen Hillary was supposed to be coronated. Well as they say the Emperor or in this case the Empress has no clothes. As usual her campaign blew it. They failed to see the prevailing tides. The sea change of attitudes in this country, especially from Main Street USA was not supporting her message. We had a glimpse of this revolt in the previous elections. It was called the Tea Party. However, they didn't have a strongman who could pull all those disparate elements together and still appeal to mainstream voters. One man stepped forward and his name is Donald J. Trump. No one is talking about the Tea Party anymore. We slapped a new label on it. "Alt-Right". What bothers me the most is the prevailing attitudes of these supporters. Anti-(Immigrant, Woman, LGBT, Muslim, Jews) etc. I feel like this country has gone back in time to the 1950's. Did I go to sleep one night in a time machine and wake up and it is 1956 all over again when our life seemed to be an episode of Ozzie and Harriet. What I still can't fathom is how many woman and Jews unfortunately voted for him. In the end I feel like our country is going thru some profuse changes from a social, economic and cultural standpoint. Many people long for the good old days. I guess it depends on what your memories are from those times. Although I was a young child at the time, this period also has the feel of the 60's as well.
Signing off