Happy New Year!!!

And It’s Only Year One

                It’s probably not a real shock that I’m accustomed to disagreeing with the left whose agenda makes no sense to me whatsoever unless I accept that their main goal is the destruction of the United States. So it’s no surprise that I am feeling pretty darned good right now about what President Trump and the conservative agenda have been able to accomplish in 2017 in spite of the liberal media’s wailing, teeth gnashing and puzzled wondering about what the left should tell their daughters.

                I choose to feel good about what we’ve accomplished although the media is wearing itself out trying to turn every single positive into a negative because admitting Trump is doing a great job is harder for them than suicide. I’m thinking of Susan Rice being offended by Trump’s desires to Make America Great Again and to put America first.  Oh well. Whose got that kind of energy?

                So in spite of them we’re getting it done although you’d never know it if your primary news sources are CNN, MSN, The Washington Post or The New York Slime.

                Here is an incomplete list of the President’s accomplishments about which I feel terrific. If you disagree, knock yourself out feeling sad and depressed.

                Let’s start with The Tax Cut Bill. The biggest piece of tax legislation since 1986 which also eliminates Obama’s health care mandates and should benefit 85% of the population according to the guys who wrote it.

                Those finding fault in the CNN version of the bill, which predictably focuses on what the bill takes away really need to look at the real version of the bill and consider everything that it gives.

The corporate tax cut alone resulted in bonuses and or raises immediately for employees of Comcast, AT&T, Boeing, Wells Fargo, Fifth Third Bank, Washington Federal, and Sinclair Broadcasting and those are just the guys too big for even the screwed up media to ignore.

                Not everyone was lucky enough to be alive when Reagan was president. This stuff works.

                There’s also the judiciary overhaul, or at least the beginning of it. The appointment of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court was huge but Trump’s first-year, record replacement of 12 appellate court judges may have been bigger. I can see how that much conservatism in the judicial system could be depressing to my liberal friends but I couldn’t be happier.

                Trump’s rollback of nearly 800 Obama-era regulations (800!!!!) resulted in over one million new jobs and is a good start in reducing the size of a government that has overreached into far too much.

                Additionally, the President has stopped the growth of Federal Government by freezing federal hiring and he personally met with several business leaders to encourage them to keep and create jobs in the United States.

                ILLEGAL immigration has been reduced by over 70% in just a year and now stands at a 17-year-low. I do still hope Ann Coulter gets her wall but I’m happy with the progress we’ve made so far.

                By executive order Trump issued a five-year lobbying ban preventing legislators from setting themselves up with private interests in the D.C. swamp should they find themselves term-limited by their voters or lured by the bigger paycheck.

                Maybe you’ve noticed the stock market is at an all time high despite predictions of the imminent and permanent crash if Trump were elected. Experts on the left are dumbfounded.

                That goes hand-in-hand with consumer confidence being at a 16-year high and the unemployement rate at a 16-year low and mortgage applications at a seven-year high.

                There was also Trump’s approval of the Keystone and Dakota pipelines and all the jobs those will create in addition to their contribution to energy independence. I still get a chuckle out the criticism that those are only “temporary jobs” from people who must have never worked a day in contracting or any sort of free enterprise where your success depends on one job or sale or client after another. Well, you know, community organizing or academic or government employment can qualify some people to think they’re economic experts even though they’re often dumbfounded.

                Also don’t forget that Food Stamp recipients are at a seven-year-low.

                President Trump is extracting us from that ill-conceived Paris Climate Accord that would have cost this country trillions of dollars subsidizing countries who continue to pollute and destroy the environment in the name of not polluting and destroying the environment.

                Trump has also gotten us out of the Trans Pacific Partnership and is currently trying to negotiate deals that will be much more favorable to the United States.  I have a lot more faith in his ability to do that than I would have in the community organizer's.

                Likewise, Mexico and Canada are on notice to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement so that it benefits us as well as them or we’re out of that too.

 
               Toss in that the President has cut $600 billion from our UN commitment and has other UN members and NATO members alike starting to pay their fair share of all the fun activities they used to think up at our expense.

                We have rolled back Cuban relations since Obama’s agreement was only benefiting the Cuban regime and establishment and not the people.

                ISIS has been driven from Mosul in Iraq and Raqqa in Syria and they are on the run and in hiding from an American president who is more interested in destroying them than laughing them off as the al Qaeda JV team while partying with JayZ and Beyonce.

                And after the last three presidents have promised it, this one has acknowledged that Jerusalem is the rightful capitol of Israel and agreed to move our embassy there in spite of the fact that this will anger groups dedicated to terrorism and the destruction of the Jewish people and cause them to commit acts of terror and try to destroy the Jewish people. (Does anyone on the left listen to themselves?)

                There are so many other things that my space and your willingness to keep reading prohibit me from listing but I have to mention Trump’s support of The Women in Entrepreneurship Act, resanctioning Iran over their missile program so we don’t create another even more dangerous N. Korea, and beginning to fix the VA.

And one of the President’s acts I will always be most grateful for is his executive order to protect and support police officers as opposed to inviting #onlyblacklivesmatter leaders to the White House and going before a microphone to announce, “Until the police accept responsibility for their discriminatory behavior toward people of color, there can be no peace.”

                That’s was as close to a declaration of war on police as I ever care to hear and I am grateful to President Trump for restating the government’s position as one of support of law enforcement instead of antagonism.       

                According to Rasmussen, Obama had an approval rating of 46% with 53% disapproving on 12/29/09. Rasmussen says Trump has an approval rating of 45% with 53% disapproving on 12/28/17. Of course, the media is losing their minds over the obviously biased polling of Rasmussen since they only poll likely voters, pointing to #’s from Politico, Newsweak, The Washington Post, and New York Times as being much more supportive of their view of President Trump’s first year in office because their polling demographic doesn’t vote.

                Do I need to remind anybody which polls said HRC was going to win the presidential election by an unprecedented landslide?

                I think this is a very, very Happy New Year.