Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Michael Bloomberg has fulfilled an earlier promise by commiting to paying $4.5 million dollars to the United Nations, money which federal taxpayers would have paid had President Trump kept the USA in the Paris Agreement.
Bloomberg gives $4.5 million to help U.S. keep Paris climate accord commitment
APR 22, 2018 10:58 AM EDT FACE THE NATION
BY EMILY TILLETT / CBS NEWS
Former New York City Mayor and philanthropist Michael Bloomberg says he has a responsibility to help the environment as the Trump administration has backed down from its role in the Paris climate agreement. He said on “Face the Nation” he will write a check for $4.5 million this year to fund that mission.
“America made a commitment and as an American if the government’s not going to do it we all have responsibility. I’m able to do it. So, yes, I’m going to send them a check for the monies that America had promised to the organization as though they got it from the federal government,” said Bloomberg.
“It’s dangerous to keep doing what we’re doing,” he said.” If everybody would do the right thing, yes, it would be better. But if some people or some countries do the right thing we all benefit from that.”
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Bloomberg’s empty political gesture seems unlikely to win over many of the people who voted for President Trump. From what I have seen most Trump supporters are utterly fed up with pointlessly lavish handouts of US taxpayer’s money to foreigners, money which should be used to address pressing problems back home.
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Bloomberg and Soros are such packed in cotton bubble dwellers that they are clueless to the fact that they are enemies of humanity.
No ! Far from clueless !
They know EXACTLY WHAT THEY ARE DOING and WHY THEY ARE DOING IT !
They are positively evil people and they subscribe to “The Green Agenda”.
Just Google it and it will tell you ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THEM AND THEIR SCALEY MATES !
The NRA thinks Bloomberg et al are trying to take over the nation. link
Trevor,
Agreed, but that doesn’t mean that the Bloombergians don’t think that they are superior beings saving the Earth from us clingers to guns, gold and the Constitution.
+10
The Paris Agreement is MEANINGLESS! Go to http://www.sg-climate.com and be educated on what the Paris Agreement
is all about- just a lot of good intentions. NOTHING IS BINDING!
Trevor … you are exactly correct! +10
Why in the world do people need assault rifles?
Bryan, read and try to understand the U.S. Constitution’s 2nd Amendment and the discussions surrounding its adoption. It’s all about one’s natural right to self-defense and, additionally, the need to protect our Constitutional rights from any form of usurpation. The writings of the Federalists and Anti-Federalists are instructive, if you truly want to know things beyond those provided by your current sensibilities and prejudices.
The U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled that I have an individual right to keep and bear arms. Additionally, that I also have a right to any weapon in common use. As AR15 variants are the most popular rifles in America, they seem to meet that “common use” requirement.
Also, wouldn’t you want to be armed at least as well as your attacker? Remember: “The police are only minutes away when seconds count.”
A prior Supreme Court ruling held that sawed-off shotguns could be regulated because they had no military value. The recent SCOTUS ruling said that only “dangerous” AND “unusual” weapons could be regulated. Military grade small arms are precisely those contemplated under the 2nd Amendment.
Did you not realize that one may acquire an automatic weapon by filling out the paperwork and paying a nominal Federal tax? Get a grip, man.
Be honest: Demand that your favorite Democrat Party hero run on a platform of repealing the 2nd Amendment!
Because one day the government might be run by people like Bloomberg and Soros and you wouldn’t be able to depend on them to protect you!
I should have waited for this comment before responding to your prior comment, Bryan. Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa, Mea Maxima Culpa!
NOTE TO BLOOMBERG…
The $4.5m yet unpaid dollars isn’t from the USA, it’s from Bloomberg.
AND
America didn’t make a commitment, Obama did! That Treaty didn’t pass through Congress for the ratification OF THE PEOPLE.
commieBob, looks like jta really knows how to lie with half truths in their headlines.
The Jewish media in general seem to be in an uproar about LaPierre’s rant. Verrry interesting. That said, it looks like a rabbit hole and I have better things to do with my time. 🙂
NO, Obama made a commitment, and most deliberately circumvented Congress. So NO , America DID NOT make a commitment
IIRC it was for $1bn per year so Bloomer’s paltry $4.5 million is far from the mark. If he wants to step up to the plate he needs find another $496.5 million for last year and another BILLION for this year …. and another BILLION for next year ….
Bryan A April 23, 2018 at 5:41 am
Why in the world do people need assault rifles?
Troll much. Trying to change the topic of Bloomburg’s stupidity and progressive agenda.
No one in the US owns an assault rifle(The Nazi Sturmgewehr, or the M-15 and similar). A relatively few people own fully automatic weapons after paying hefty fees to BATF for the permits.
Is Bloomberg a private citizen attempting to conduct foreign policy? Maybe he should be prosecuted.
http://green-agenda.com They know exactly what they are doing.
White guilt payment. The money would be far more useful if donated to needy people anywhere and everywhere on the planet … however … that would just encourage more breeding … which is anathema to Gaia. These Billionaires are mental patients. Ghouls with massive offshore bank accounts.
agreed – he could have done far more good with this money just buy getting it dollar bills and dropping it out of a helicopter over the poorer area of any major American city.
What he has done is literally worse than just throwing his money out a window.
Not necessarily.
Give a poor man a dollar and he will eat a free meal.
Teach him how to print his own money and he will eat free for the rest of his life.
Not just that. Bloomberg is actively subverting the foreign policy of the United States.
Sure Bloomberg could afford the fine, but a felony conviction would remove that over priced worm from ever plaguing the country by running for political office again.
That’s worth the price of admission.
If Bloomberg & Soros et al are so concerned, they can pay 100% of the largess themselves.
Absolutely. But no way they should get a nickel in tax write-offs for doing so!
Bloomberg is a living example of the old saying that “A fool and his money are soon parted”. Hopefully he will continue his foolish ways.
If you don’t live what you believe, chances are you really don’t believe it
Sure, but bar it from being on our countries name !
Sounds like a violation of the Logan Act. A mayor trying to usurp the president’s foreign policy, and paying to a potentially or likely enemy or terroristic group.
Arrest Bloomie and others.
I don’t expect for one minute he’ll be using his own money but that said it’s a cracking bit of virtue signalling, unlikely to be bettered for some time.
IF he actually writes the cheque and sends it…
No, it’s even better virtue signaling if he doesn’t write it, and just gets credit for having done so. That’s how “signaling” modifies “virtue.”
😉
He will probably deduct it on his taxes.
Of course! It will be listed as a ‘business expense’!
I imagine we can count on one hand the number of true believers willing to back their commitment this much.
Bloomberg is reputed to be worth several billion dollars, so 4.5 million is not a major expense, and the dear boy probably tried to take a tax write off on the “donation”.
“America made a commitment and as an American if the government’s not going to do it we all have responsibility. I’m able to do it. So, yes, I’m going to send them a check for the monies that America had promised to the organization as though they got it from the federal government,” said Bloomberg.
Nope. America made no such commitment. Obama made a “commitment” which included no legal standing from the “federal government”, which never approved either the Paris Accord or the expenditure.
If Bloomberg wants to send the UN $4.5M, that’s his right to spend his money. I’m happy it is not coming from taxpayer wallets, or, more accurately, being borrowed by Americans to send down a drain of worthless spending.
See? Our government isn’t as stupid as we take it to be, when idiots like Bloomberg will waste their own money instead.
Our government is absolutely stupid. Congress and Trump just gave 1.9T to the rich and corporations over the next 10 years, with no impact on GDP growth. That’s industrial strength stupid.
Chris…………….THAT is MUCH BETTER than giving it to the corrupt and crooked UN and their IPCC !
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Perhaps it WILL boost employment in the US ! Let’s hope so !
Ah yes. I love the theory that, by not taking it, it is giving. Perhaps, if those who wish that governments would take more from its people were to actually pay up to that which they want others to pay, the government’s inability to have $3.5 trillion pay for its programs would be solved. If the likes of Bloomberg, Schultz, Buffet, and even you Chris, wish to pay higher tax, scratch out a check to the federal government.
Chris, I take it, therefore, that by extension: the American people, WHO ELECT OUR GOVT, are “absolutely stupid” … as, apparently, we do not elect many candidates who offer alternative policy views.
Ultimately, in a free society — in which I believe we remain, somewhat — We The People are responsible for our national policies, and, more importantly, who we elect and how these representatives act to express said policies at home and abroad.
PS: I will agree with your sentiment; however, I would prefer to use the word “ignorant” rather than “stupid”; where many of us have forsaken our foundational American values and have surrendered voluntarily[!] our critical thinking skills — even, in many cases, those of our young citizens — to globalist-oriented brainwashing … which results in our overall ignorance.
IOW, in so many ways, many of us have voluntarily permitted ourselves to be duped … by clever and ambitious politicians. Such has been the history of humanity.
As usual, George Carlin said it all (paraphrasing): You know how dumb the average American is? Well, half of them are dumber than that.
Thank you, Tail Spin.
The tax process is not a zero sum game except for those paying the tax.
And finally, how can the “models” used to guess at “x” $$$ less in government income be any better than the IPCC climate models?
Gums ponders…
I love the way socialists actually believe that everything belongs to the government.
Allowing people to keep some of their own money, because a gift.
Gums, Chris is concerned that if the government has less money, that means he’ll be getting less from the government.
That is where you are absolute wrong. The economy will boom as long as the democrats are kept at arms length away from it.
Trevor, hope and $5 will get you a cup of coffee. Go ahead and live in hope land, I’ll pass. The non partisan CBO just released their 10 year estimate of the impact of the tax cut. Average GDP growth is expected to be 1.9%, same as it’s been the last several years. But the rich (who of course own a lot of shares in companies) will get a double benefit. A tax cut for them, and more dividends from their investments. The middle class and working poor? Not so much, a very slight reduction during the next few years, then their tax burden will become higher than what it is now. Shameful.
Johnny, yes, I agree that many voters are stupid, or at least don’t do their homework. Trump is a rich guy who campaigned on a tax cut and draining the swamp. But if you look at his track record as a businessman when it comes to the working class, it is abysmal. 1) shafting small contractors who worked on his casinos, offering them 70 cents on the dollar – see you in court if you want more. 2) hiring foreigners for Mar al Lago – even now – rather than paying a bit more and hiring Americans. 3) forcing out renters in his NYC buildings in the 80s by doing terrible maintenance and giving out veiled threats in order to empty the buildings so he could tear them down and build expensive condos. So why on earth would a rich guy who has behaved that way for 50 years do a 180 and look after the little guy? His support base got played, big time.
MarkW, nah, I’m busy with my job and paying lots of taxes. Unlike you, who is probably on the dole (including SS and Medicare, since outflows are > inflows), and apparently has time to make 100s of comments on WUWT on a weekly basis. Sad.
Chris,
By your logic, the government gave me $70,000 last year, then they took $20,000 back.
Over the next 10 years they will give me a total of $500,000 if I continue to work two jobs and 60 hrs/week.
Given 380 million people in the USA, the fed government would be “giving” 380,000 people like me that same 1.9 Trillion over the next 10 years.
Does that make me part of the disgusting 10% ?
Chris,
You also say that the middle class tax burden will be higher in the future. Why do you say that?
I understand why the poor tax burden might be higher … BECAUSE THEY PAY NONE NOW ….
DonM – the figures, as prepared by the CBO, are here: https://www.salon.com/2018/04/23/pulitzer-winning-reporter-david-cay-johnston-the-evidence-suggests-trump-is-a-traitor/
Wrong post, that’ll get some replies! https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/11/27/16704664/senate-republican-tax-bill-health-cut-poor
Chris,
Hopefully, one last time:
1) Less taxes paid by me does not mean that the government is giving me (or anyone else) money.
2) Less government money given to me (directly or indirectly) , does not mean more there is a greater tax burden on me (or anyone else).
Do you seriously believe items 1 & 2 above are wrong?
Do you truly believe that by me claiming a deduction this year, one that I missed last year, that the government is GIVING me more money this year.
Do you truly believe that, if the government offers me less services, my tax burden is greater?
If you hand me a dollar and I hand you back five dollars every day for a year, and then all of the sudden in the second year I only give you three dollars back (in return for the dollar you gave me) why the hell would someone feel cheated? Why wouldn’t someone just be grateful that they got the 5:1 NET the previous year? Ignorance or greed or some combination of both?
(pay attention to the word “NET”)
DonM, I look at the net impact. I know folks on WUWT love to call scientific grants the dole, ripoffs of taxpayer money, etc – even though they are being paid for work, the same as a guy that writes software or does accounting. And a reduction in taxes or a tax credit is somehow completely different than the government sending you a payment.
In any case, the link I posted showed that the middle class and working poor will be paying MORE in taxes by 2027 than they would have if the so called tax cut would not have been put into law. That is a tax increase, there is no other way to refer to it.
Nope, doesn’t say that.
Apparently you haven’t read your link.
There are parts of the UN that need to be labelled terrorist or enemy…
Also the Logan Act would still apply to “usurping” federal policy whether to allies or enemies.
Trevor: Boost employment? Your unemployment rate is at an all time low at around 4%. You don’t need jobs, you need people to fill them.
Trebla,
You are looking at the fake politician-inspired unemployment number. The workforce participation rate should still grow by another 10 million people before I would grant your point.
Trebla : You seem well informed ! Nationally ( Seasonally adjusted etc etc ) it’s about 4.1% in USA.
In Western Australia it is about 7%…..not good…..and no …….we DON’T NEED MORE IMMIGRANTS.
What we need are more jobs ( apprenticeships , trainee-ships ) for youths .(teenagers ).
I was actually referring to the USA , which I understand has high pockets of unemployment or
under-employment in some places…………….but you are right…………..you MAY need immigrants to meet
YOUR labour needs. Fortunate !
Trebla, the Unemployment rate counts only people who are actively looking for a job. The labor participation rate is at an all time low while unemployment is at historic lows. We would have enough workers if we did not pay people to stay out of the job market and accept available jobs. Of course I believe that employers will have to increase wages as well.
$4.5 million, huh? I think I’ll send Mikey Bloomerberg a bill ‘for services rendered’, meaning having to see his face plastered in the media again. Begging letters can be fun. I will even enclose a self-addressed stamped envelope.
This guy has a problem: not getting enough attention. I’m sure there are people in NYC who could quickly and easily help him find a solution to his problem, and it might save him a little cash, too.
I thought our commitment was $3 billion every year. Where did this number come from?
Good question.
We never legally agreed to it. The commitment from President Obama held no legal standing because it was never approved by congress.
It’s the bill for the lobster and champagne.
LOL
The commitment probably amounts to $4.5 million for every American – so he’s just doing his bit .
Unfortunately I’m about $4.49999 million short on change lying around .
Have you looked under the cushions on your sofa?
No, neither have I.
Bloomberg intends to violate the Logan Act. A felony. viz.,
Ҥ 953. Private correspondence with foreign governments.
Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.”
+10 …we can only hope.
Ed, the rules are different for the likes of Bloomberg.
The UN has not yet achieved its desired status as a global government. Therefore, the Logan Act probably does not apply in this case.
It’s not a treaty with the U.N., it’s a treaty with numerous other nations, so it is a clear violation of the Logan Act.
It is not a treaty at all, otherwise it would have required Senate ratification.
Bloomberg would be sending the check to the UN, not to each of the Paris Accord signatories.
Bloomberg’s apparent lack of engineering/science skill has made him gullible to assertions by people who stand to benefit by continuing to misguide the public.
Delve deeper into the engineering/science with an understanding of thermalization and use of Quantum Mechanics (Hitran does the calculations) and discover why CO2 does not now, has never had and will never have a significant effect on climate. http://energyredirect3.blogspot.com
Bloomberg must feel so noble.
and Virtuous, bought with what for him is chump change.
From the article: “America made a commitment and as an American if the government’s not going to do it we all have responsibility. I’m able to do it. So, yes, I’m going to send them a check for the monies that America had promised to the organization as though they got it from the federal government,” said Bloomberg.”
To be accurate, substitute “Obama” for “America” in the above paragraph.
Obama is the one making all the promises, *not* America. I just hate it when socialist billionaires presume to speak for all of America.
You forgot to include Marxist, Communist, Agenda 21, virtue signaling and rent seeking in your post.
And we forgot to include “useful idiot” in our responses.
Chris, do you actually have a point somewhere under that verbal vomit you’ve been spewing?
Or are you still upset that people are permitted to disagree with you and your gods?
MarkW, I’m not upset at all. I just call out rubbish posts when I see them, which is why I often comment on yours. Calling Bloomberg a socialist is just silly. He’s a hard core capitalist who built a great company from nothing. And he did not say he spoke for America, now did he? He said he was taking this action as an American – please point out where Bloomberg said he spoke for all Americans. You know, surprise us by posting a link for the first time ever.
Michael Bloomberg is a do-gooder authoritarian with contempt for the civil rights of other persons. A case can be made that he is not a Marxist, but not all anti-democratic(lower case democratic!) and anti-constitutional tendencies are Marxist.
Bloomberg notoriously put into place the so-called Big Gulp ban, accepting a dubious theory of obesity. Similarly, he is heavily into funding gun control and global warming advocacy, both causes what are even more political and questionable enough to make his obesity model look reasonable.
Bloomberg may be channeling William Jennings Bryan more than any European tyrant.
Did I say that Bloomberg claimed to be speaking for all Americans?
As to my links, I post them when necessary.
Not surprised you need to lie about that as well.
It’s what you do best.
“Bloomberg notoriously put into place the so-called Big Gulp ban, accepting a dubious theory of obesity.”
It’s not dubious in the slightest. https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/sugary-drinks-fact-sheet/
Gun control is questionable? Only if you choose to ignore data and facts. https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2015.302749
Zero links to support your points, Tom. You can do better.
The AJPH “study” is absolute garbage. Without controlling for confounding factors and, especially, for differing county-level data, the results are nonsense.
Read some of John Lott’s work to get a perspective on gun violence facts.
MarkW said: “Did I say that Bloomberg claimed to be speaking for all Americans?
As to my links, I post them when necessary.”
My comment about Bloomberg was aimed at TA, whose comment I initially replied to. You say you post your links “when necessary”. That’s a good one. I guess it’s necessary only once every thousand MarkW posts or so, because I have yet to see one. You make definitive comments all the time (for example, in the recent post about batteries) yet don’t back up your assertions with evidence. Normally I wouldn’t say anything, but I’ve seen you call out others for not providing links to support their assertions. Shouldn’t that apply both ways?
Dave Fair – What a joke of a retort. Your go to source is a discredited economist. And you provide exactly zero links to peer reviewed papers by him. Nah, I’m not going to rummage around through the garbage dump of Lott’s work. If you’re too lazy to find and post links to his papers, that’s your problem, not mine. https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/02/13/why-new-york-times-publishing-discredited-gun-researcher-john-lott/219352
Chris, your citing Media Matters reveals quite a lot. It is exactly parallel to a rightie quoting Alex Jones.
Dave Fair – even the conservative Cato Institute calls Lott’s work trash. He either lies or is incredibly lousy at research.
If I posted that water was wet, Chris would whine that I failed to link to a site proving that.
The 2020 Presidential campaign is now under way.
If Bloomberg is their candidate, it will be an easy win for conservatives. Mainly because Bloombergs skeletons will come flying out of the closet.
Ben Gunn
I think you nailed it! He is setting out his stall already!
Is it cooler over here?
I’ve got a cooler in the closet.
It’s very encouraging to see Michael Bloomberg wasting his (or other friend’s) money on an empty political gesture, which would otherwise have cost normal people in America $4 billion. Over the 4-year Trump Term, this could well cost them $22 billion if they continue the folly. Trump supporters will be encouraged to see that savings in government expenditure can be made with no loss of outcome. Lavish and pointless government handouts of US taxpayer’s money to foreign Quangos can now be ruthlessly pared back.
With 14 homes around the world and a fleet of private jets, Mikey isn’t willing to make any sacrifices himself. That’s the job of the poor who are to be deprived of the cheap and plentiful energy that powers his own lifestyle and business.
Sure, he’s a fool when it comes to climate. But it’s the hypocrisy that makes him despicable.
When you think about it, he’s ending his life on a pathetic note, obsessed with signalling virtue on an issue that’s quickly becoming a farce.
This is exactly how this kind of thing should work. Stop all foreign aid that is paid by tax dollars taken from current taxpayers by force or taken from future generations through borrowing, and let those individuals or organizations who care make voluntary contributions.
I agree, I have no problem with him spending private money on the “Paris Climate Agreement” because it means taxpayers won’t have to spend money on that farce.
While he’s at it, he can pay my bills too.
Well, perhaps if ALL the “true believers” with deep pockets paid for the “global warming” nonsense, the rest of us would not have to. Yeah, tax the ignorant “believers” who would impose this con upon the ordinary folks, get them to pay for it, it’s their hobby horse after all. Instead, it seems the likes of Gore are making money out of the con, but not contributing to the imposed costs.
PT Barnum had something to say about this …
If you’re referring to the “sucker” phrase, no he didn’t. Myth.
4.5 million $?
That is not much. What is that for? Air tickets for the US attendees to the useless yearly conferences?
$4.5 million wouldn’t cover their dry cleaning expenses.
Nice virtue signal. The big fat useless UN bureaucrats will appreciate it surely.
Just to remind you about the essential part of the Paris climate agreement. Every year 100 BILLION dollars should be donated by industrial countries to be used for energy investments in developing countries. The tool in this operation is the Green Climate Fund. The pledged money from 2013 to day is totally 10.3 billion dollars. Three billions donated by president Obama (not his own money).
Bloomberg’s donatiaon will increase this sum just like this: 10,3 + 0.0045 = 10.3 billions. No practical effect.
The Paris climate agreement is dead. Its fate has been a cradle death. The mass media of the world has not noticed this – yet. The scientific basis of the Paris agreement is almost non-existing and therefore there it cannot be found in the Paris agreement at all:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/04/16/challenging-the-science-basis-of-the-paris-climate-agreement/
Dr. Antero Ollila
Agreed! Which brings up the absurdity of Boomberg’s irrational stunt, Dr. Ollila!
Blooberg’s alleged payment is not the payment the greenfund, IPCC, UNFCCC, along with the myriad of funds established by UNFCCC:
e.g. Global Environment Facility (GEF): Donor country contribution pledges are expected May-June 2018.
39 donor countries, $4.43 Billion total; works out to a $113.590 million dollars if the contribution is evenly split. Except all things UN, except the USA to foot a substantially heavier burden.
There is an additional twist to this “contribution”. UNFCCC expects “contributions” to be paid in SDRs (Special Drawing Rights), a currency hodgepodge currency conversion calculation prepared by the IMF.
Christine Lagarde is currently Chief of the IMF; who recently at Davos stated “IMF chief urges more wealth distribution to fight populism”
The GEF fund is simply one of many funds the UNFCCC expects contributions towards, along with direct payments; Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF), Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF), Capacity Building Initiative for Transparency (CBIT), Nagoya Protocol Implementation Fund (NPFI), Adaptation Fund, etc.
Leaving Bloomersberg’s paltry $4.5 million as simply the first round ante towards a corrupt shell game that is masks a huge insatiable cash hungry maw.
When discussing Bloomberg, always keep in mind his criminality and hypocrisy . . .
Michael Bloomberg is a transnational tax avoidance criminal . . .
https://www.theinvestigativefund.org/investigation/2010/04/20/bloombergs-offshore-millions/
Re: “America made a commitment….
Uhhhhmm – No!
Obama made a personal commitment that was never submitted to United States of America Congress for congressional authorization or ratification. Bloomberg told an out right lie!
Because the Paris Obama Climate memo was never voted on or ratified by the US Congress, President Trump was entirely justified in rejecting Obama’s illegal and unconstitutional personal attempt to supercede the authority that belongs only to the US Congress. And Bloomberg damn well knows this!
J Mac : Your comment is SPOT ON !
WHEN are Americans going to START THANKING POTUS TRUMP for acting IN THEIR INTERESTS
do you think !?
This won’t happen until the left and its lackey press stops spinning all the good Trump is doing as the nefarious plot of a mad man ceding control of America to the Kremlin.
The current regime of obstructionism accelerated when GW Bush succeeded the Clintons. The right didn’t respond in kind with Obama, rapidly approved his appointments and let him get away with far too much of his radical, socialist agenda.
I don’t think the right will be as accommodating when the next Democrat comes to power, even if he/she/it is the most moderate Democrat in the bunch, just as Trump was the closest to the center among all the Republican contenders. The political left is leading the way to its own self destruction. Unfortunately, they are too consumed with Trump Derangement Syndrome to foresee the longer term consequences of their inane actions.
The Dems will then pull a “Harry Reid” and just use a 50/50 rule for appointment approvals.