Midknight Review -- new and revised: Here is another story we should not believe, coming out of the NY Times:

Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:

Trump and Paul Ryan Head for a Clash Over the Budget, and Ideology — WASHINGTON — President Trump's proposal to slash domestic spending in order to preserve the two biggest drains on the federal government — Social Security and Medicare — has set up a battle to determine who now controls the Republican Party's ideology.

Notes: Understand that Jennifer Steinhouer is an anti-Trumpster. Throughout her article, she never calls him President Trump. Instead it is Mr. Trump That should tell you where she is coming from, within itself.

But more than this, she does not have the insided track on anything. Ryan and Trump meet nearly every day. Steinhouer pretends that Ryan is just now realizing that Prez Trump not only saved the GOP from a terrible end, he has political clout that is overwhelming.

Understand that Trump is the ideological center of the GOP, today. Ryan knows this. And Trump has the power of the veto. I do not believe a Trump veto is something that can be defeated, as things stand today.

But the veto will not be the card Trump plays. Instead, he will take what he can get, and come back for more. Now, it might take a year, into the next legislative season, but I believe that this is what he will do. And if he is correct with his tax reduction policies, GDP will be improved. So too, his political cashe. Success in politics adds to one's popularity and, then, to his political muscle.

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The Stated Nonsense from the Left now includes these Progressive goals:

July 2, 2008, Obama had this to say: "We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."

MICHELLE OBAMA: "Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we're going to have to change our traditions, our history; we're going to have to move into a different place as a nation."

“ . . . . . . they have become a generation of activists possessed with that most American of ideas – that people who love their country can change it.” -- Obama the Radical

On September 30, Van Jones told MSNBC "I think everybody should hold onto your seats. October is going to be the turning point when it comes to the progressive fight back."