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MrRodgers -> RE: Trump staff risking exacerbating GOP tensions (12/27/2016 2:43:32 PM)
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From your link:
“He wants to be a legislative president, who gets legislation on his desk to sign into law.”
Hard-line House conservatives appear to have a direct line to Trump chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon and senior political aide David Bossie, both of whom spent years in the conservative media railing against the GOP establishment.
Big questions remain about Trump’s personal approach to Congress: Will he be a bipartisan schmoozer and dealmaker? Or will he sit back as Republicans power through a long-deferred wish list ?
For instance, members of the hard-right House Freedom Caucus claimed to have Trump’s backing when they defied Ryan and launched an early-December bid to impeach Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen.
The Freedom Caucus was emboldened and encouraged behind the scenes by Bannon, whose former website, Breitbart News, wrote favorably about it, and by Bossie, who supported the impeachment push as president of Citizens United. Impeachment was effectively buried in the end, handing GOP leaders the win.
In my opinion Trump may not cowtow to congress but in the end, he will not have much choice and will get a taste now and then of what Obama got...resistance and even outright obstructionism.
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