Ryan IS the swamp.

Thanks Dino,
America needs a wake up call. These sleaze bags
Want to destroy US All.
Ryan is a RINO. Trump needs to bite the head off of that snake. Forget about drain the swamp ,flush the toilet.

"Ryan's budget brinkmanship strategy is to wait until the government is about to run out of spending authority, then demand that conservatives cave in on the Democrats' priorities"
SOP for the GOP for 30 years.
Not a nickle's worth of difference between the major parties.

Of course our Dino is correct. But it starts one to wonder, why does the swamp need draining on both sides at all? Have we become so inured to corruption that we expect it as a matter of course? Shouldn't we be more outraged instead of shrugging our shoulders as if to say that's the way it is, and has been for many decades? The ultimate result is that we get Senators like comedy writer Al Franken reciting questions put together by his staff and read to the person he is questioning as if he never saw the questions before. Congressmen and Senators should be paragons. Not only better and more honest but knowledgeable in the Constitution and history of our country. What do we have instead? A motley crew of mostly people who couldn't tell you anything without their staff figuring it out for them. People who cannot string two sentences together in order to form a paragraph. We don't have what we need in Washington, but what we are willing to settle for.

I have a different perspective. The Democrat base is feverishly demanding that the congressional Democrats refuse to even meet with Trump or any Republican, so this budget is partly a sop to Democrats so they can convince their supporters that they are still relevant, even if they did negotiate with the evil Trump. Since Obama failed to provide a coherent budget to close out his term, this is in part an end to his administration, with holdover programs that are likely to not survive the next fiscal year.

Planned Parenthood does see funding, but the states now have the authority not to accept those funds for their state. That's just one example of Trump's intent to return more control to the states. Green energy programs are funded in much the same way, with states having control over how those funds are managed.

The border fence is funded, but not "the wall." The fence is a steel barrier that can stop a tank, with openings too narrow for human passage, but allowing animals to cross. This is a compromise that allows the Democrats to declare "victory" in stopping construction of an Israeli style massive concrete structure, but gives DHS Secretary Kelly the barrier he wanted, lower cost but effective when backed by more Border Patrol and surveillance technology.

So much of this is Kabuki theater, with Senator Schumer trying to hold off the Sandernistas by pandering to the hysteria-ridden extreme left in hopes of party survival. It would not surprise me to see a later tell all book that discloses this is all a sham, and that Trump and Schumer staged their public warfare while working together behind the scenes.

Perhaps ALL the snakes need to be exposed and the Dims be replaced, the RINOs can be the secondary targets.

Someone aptly said after Trump was elected that his detractors took him literally and not seriously. While his supporters took Trump seriously, but not literally. In no way do I think Trump is a stupid man. It's just been 3 1/2 months so far. I think it's way too early to abandon and, certainly, way too early to start overly criticizing him. His "deal-making" maneuvers with the "help" shouldn't be questioned too closely yet. I'm willing to wait the whole term because I am not there with him and I do not know the personalities nor the circumstances he has to deal with. This continuing resolution "budget" is finishing out Obama's last fiscal year. That is how I am going to continue to look at this one until the time has passed and the final results are in.

I love Ted Cruz and I would have happily voted for him. I don't happen to think this was his time, however. His children are still too young and his family would have suffered terribly under the current vitriol of the left. I'm not sure they and he would have been able to withstand it at this time.

The current polarization of this country really needed a person with his foot in both camps. Trump was that person. Rush says he's not ideological. That he doesn't look at the world that way. Maybe that is what was needed at this time and place. A more rigid person of principle like Ted Cruz would probably not have the needed diplomacy to get the cooperation needed. Trump may still have the better chance.

In the meantime, we need to continue to vote out the commie left and continue to find good people of principle to run and be voted in to replace them during each election season.

The drain at the bottom of the swamp is clogged with mostly republican hacks who only have their own interests in mind. I expect to see Trump call these bastards out in a very public forum and fairly soon.

Trump's budget priorities don't really come into play until Fiscal Year 2018, which begins October 1. The current agreement simply continues to fund spending that was previously authorized by Congress. The upcoming Trump budget proposal looks very different from what we have now:

"Trump federal budget 2018: Massive cuts to the arts, science and the poor"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/busine...

"What Trump cut in his budget"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphi...

I think Trump is more likely to play hardball once the budget he is crafting is on the table.

The tough part about Congressional Leadership is they are ultimately subject to the voters in their home districts. Ryan hails from Wisconsin, a state that went red for the first time in a generation. Voting red (for the first time) doesn't mean that they are not blue-leaning at home, and probably are. Ryan is in a tough spot to keep his seat and I think he's a decent man at heart.

The reality is, the Republicans need a Speaker from a safer district. John McClintock would be a good - excellent orator, solid conservative, from California but never has a capable challenger and his district is about 70% registered Republican (and high-income / highly conservative).

I'm sure there are others - from Texas, etc. point being, it needs to be someone from a solidly conservative district with no threats at home for being their own person.

I heard a different version of that "snake" thing a few years back: A scorpion was tryin to get a turtle to give him a ride on his back across the river Jordon. "C'mon," says the scorpion, "if i were to sting you, I'd drown." So the turtle agreed and let the scorpion on his back and began to swim. Half way across the scorpion stung him. The turtle asked, with his dying gasp, "Why did you sting me? Now we'll both die!" And the scorpion replied, "What can I say? Its the Middle East."

Trump may want to try to drain the swamp, he also will keep the plug in his hand so he controls the flow. Much like Obama, you just had to look and listen to know what Trumps course would be. And in a totally unrelated issue...my healthcare premium just went up $40 a month,(to $500) with a $6000 deductible - but by all means, let` s not submit the repeal bill that was sent to Obama 6 times....and Heaven forbid the president ask for it. We get what we allow.

Frustrating to say the least. Are we willing to take the chance by not reelecting those in our party that are proving to be weaklings and cowards? The primaries are just as, if not more, important as the general elections. And somehow we need to put a stop to this prejudiced media that really should be in our courts trying to defend themselves for their treasonous "reporting". I find nothing in the constitution that allows the media to slander and put forth so much prejudiced and false information. And there's got to be a law against a people's representative calling our president a scumbag (a very unpleasant person who has done something dishonest or unacceptable) without spelling out specifics, other than dishonest and cowardly rhetoric. Are these the kind of people anyone wants representing them? Unfortunately the other side does. What can we do to enlighten them (the voters) without becoming like them ourselves?

Ryan is a Thino for whom I would NEVER vote. His wife is a big one worlder, Soros friend - and you know what they say about lying down with dogs and fleas! He has to go. We need a real conservative in that position, not a pretend one.
I will give Trump no more donations, despite the almost daily requests, as long as he increases funding for global warming,w hich is a myth, and climate change is caused by UN and government tinking with the atmosphere! I admit, that I am not pleased with Trump's caving to the Rhino's. And what about Hillary, who says still it was Russia and the FBI which lost her the election. I know the woman has brain damage, but is she insane as well? She has just admitted, without realizing it, that when the truth is told about her, people do not want or trust her, and won't vote for her! I hope Trump gets it together, and stops catering to the" green" idiots.I like Ivanka, but not sure how conservative she really is to be putting ideas in his ear, daughter or not.

It is shocking how tiny the stated policy differences all these machinations are supposedly about are. Most all politicians agree on massive borrowing, a huge armaments industry, a complicated tax code, a huge social entitlement system, a war on drugs, an alphabet soup of federal agencies, and having 1 in 20 citizens under the supervision of the criminal justice system. All this nonsense and name-calling is supposedly a dispute over the crumbs. The histrionics would make perfect sense if we had one powerful person/party pushing for an amendment that would limit gov't spending to 10% of GDP.

So what's this all about? It might look like it's a proxy argument for redneck jerks who just want an excuse to be jerks because they're angry about their lives. I don't think so, though, because I recently drove through Kentucky, through the places where supporters of President Trump live. In many ways they're nicer than people in my urban world where Clinton received 90% of the vote, so I don't believe name-calling politicians or their name-calling supporters represent real people. What's it all about? I don't know. I think it's just people with careers in gov't and people who are jerks being a attracted to it the same way they were attracted to pointless name-calling in elementary school.

t's too late. The RINO camp is securely ensconced in the Trump administration, all the phony "conservatives" who want to jump on Arabs who have oil and coincidentally are Israel's neighbors. My guess is, the bankers control the Democrats enough, to put Hillary on the ticket, and she was easy enough to blow out of the water. a) Stop her vote fraud racket; b) Let America know how rotten and corrupt she is. IT was not necessary to put the child trafficking out there, the Satanism, sex abuse, nor even narcotics trafficking. These are all things the ruling elite keep to themselves so the less we know about it, the better (for them). Peter Townsend put it like this: "A dead dog would have done better at the polls."

Markets are reacting to this...

We may be on the cusp of another recession. Keep doing the same thing over and over and guess what happens... Either way - I still give thanks every day that Hitlery isn't in there.

Trump has no power. His own party continues to appease the Left. No principles to stand on.