After eight months, you need to understand why Trump decided to actually try to get things done.

After nearly eight months of watching the GOP violate its own agenda,  this past week Trump made a deal that included the Democrats.   According to Steve Bannon,  almost immediately after taking office,  House and Senate leadership met with the new President and presented this agenda:  


"We've done this for seven years. We've voted on this 50 times. We understand this issue better than anybody. We know how to repeal and we know how to replace, and this is ours. That's what we're gonna start with Day One, and we will have something on your desk by Easter. By the Easter break, we'll do repeal and replace. Come back from Easter, and all the way up to the August break, taxes. Come back from the summer break, on Labor Day, and we drive home to the end of the year on infrastructure. We accomplish all three big legislative goals in the first year." 

That was their statement  . . . . .   leadership.  Instead, leadership was grossly unprepared,  and,  has gotten next to nothing done in terms of legislation that supports and defines the stated agenda.

Go back and read the above agenda summary again,  and,  know that this statement embraced the campaign promises made to us by the President.  Problem for leadership (in both parties):  He did not run as a GOP party loyalist,  but,  as a disruptor and businessman used to actually getting things done.  He did not (and does not) care about a legislative tradition that allows for getting nothing done.  In this,  Trump is John McCain's worst nightmare   . . . . .   McCain and all his do-nothing cronies in both political parties.  

Today,  you can find a number of headlines that declare:  "GOP trying to re-establish its agenda."  

Well,  Trump is done with leadership's excuses.  Leadership's more immediate problem?  It is not used to being told what to do by someone who is their boss.  In fact,  impostors like Sen. Flake and John McCain actually deny that Trump is the boss.  "We don't take orders from the President."  That is their response   . . . . . .   just 13plus months from the coming midterm elections.  

Turns out,  the stated agenda was never the plan for the GOP Establishment.  That is why McCain killed ObamaCare reform.  His intention,  all along,  was to save ObamaCare as he pushed for a return to "regular order."  

Understand that "regular order," to the likes of John McCain,  is a return to working with Democrats,  a return to months and months of parliamentary procedure, never ending debates  (especially in the Senate),  and excuse after excuses.  Never mind lying to the GOP voter.  After all,  those lies were only "campaign promises."  Obama wrote the book on campaign lies.  Sadly,  we now know far beyond debate,  that there is little difference between the promises of GOP leadership and the outright lies told to the people by the Obama Collective  . . . . . . .  and the people are done with all that.  Hence Donald Trump   . . . . . .   and he is not going away  . . . . .    and,  we,  his supporters,  are increasing in numbers.   

Now you know.