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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Thursday, September 14, 2017

Who The Hell Knows?

Maybe there's a deal to get the DREAM Act passed.  Maybe there isn't (Trump is denying it.).  Then again, maybe there is.

A few things ARE clear.

1) Trump, Schumer and Pelosi came to some sort of agreement on principles.

2) Trump likes this, because it makes him look like the "deal maker" he styles himself as.  It also allows him to look like he's not a total racist.

3) He's fed up with following McConnell and Ryan's plans that seem to go nowhere.

4) If this really is true, and it really passes, this would indeed be a pivot of a sort from Orange Julius Caesar.

Very early yet, and maybe it's just Trump extricating himself from the mess he made with DACA, but this is a very interesting sign.  I can already here the Wall Street Journal and Fox News say that Trump was a Democrat all along.

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