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::"Drain the swamp." What does that mean? Throw out a Republican controlled majority?
::"Drain the swamp." What does that mean? Throw out a Republican controlled majority?
::Read chap 5 of H.R. Halderman's ''Ends of Power'', The Hidden Story behind Watergate. It's only 9 pages. You'll learn all there is to know about Washington, and what Trump is up against now. And yes, it is probably true that most Tea Partiers who are too young to know Nixon probably have a favorable opinion of him. On Nov. 4th Nixon won a mandate with 63%, the largest in US history. On Nov. 5th he told the entire Excutive Branch of Washington, "You're fired," which was his right (this really did happen). He was finally gonna drain the swamp of every last New Deal and Great Society bureaucrat thst lurked there for 30 years. They responded, "No. You'll go before we go." [User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|''CIA v Trump updated score'':CIA 3, Trump 2]]</sup> 10:58, 4 April 2017 (EDT)
::Read chap 5 of H.R. Halderman's ''Ends of Power'', The Hidden Story behind Watergate. It's only 9 pages. You'll learn all there is to know about Washington, and what Trump is up against now. And yes, it is probably true that most Tea Partiers who are too young to know Nixon probably have a favorable opinion of him. On Nov. 4th Nixon won a mandate with 63%, the largest in US history. On Nov. 5th he told the entire Excutive Branch of Washington, "You're fired," which was his right (this really did happen). He was finally gonna drain the swamp of every last New Deal and Great Society bureaucrat thst lurked there for 30 years. They responded, "No. You'll go before we go." [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|''CIA v Trump updated score'':CIA 3, Trump 2]]</sup> 10:58, 4 April 2017 (EDT)
:::The problem with the swamp is not that they're experienced. It's that they support and advance left-wing policies no matter who's in office. I have no problem with experienced officials if they're conservative (and I don't mean John Kasich-style conservative). Draining the swamp means getting rid of the Obama holdovers who inhibit Trump's conservative agenda. Nixon found out how powerful the swamp was. He was unable to undo Johnson's and FDR's welfare state accomplishments. However, even when he was president, Nixon was very popular. Just look at the 1972 election. Not even Reagan surpassed that result. --[[User:1990'sguy|1990'sguy]] ([[User talk:1990'sguy|talk]]) 11:27, 4 April 2017 (EDT)
:::The problem with the swamp is not that they're experienced. It's that they support and advance left-wing policies no matter who's in office. I have no problem with experienced officials if they're conservative (and I don't mean John Kasich-style conservative). Draining the swamp means getting rid of the Obama holdovers who inhibit Trump's conservative agenda. Nixon found out how powerful the swamp was. He was unable to undo Johnson's and FDR's welfare state accomplishments. However, even when he was president, Nixon was very popular. Just look at the 1972 election. Not even Reagan surpassed that result. --[[User:1990'sguy|1990'sguy]] ([[User talk:1990'sguy|talk]]) 11:27, 4 April 2017 (EDT)
::::It's an expansion of government issue. Democrats always seek [[new spending]] for new programs. Republican's seek to maintain the line on existing program. Forget cutbacks. These programs are jobs, or real people's lives and income. Two examples follow.
::::[[Elizabeth Warren]]'s rise began as the first chairwoman of the CFPB, born out of the [[Crash of 2009]]. All born out of [[new spending]] to deal with a crisis. Prior to that, her qualifications and experience amounted to she delivering anti-corporate socialist rants to students as an [[Ivy League]] college professor for 30 years. [http://dailycaller.com/2017/02/07/exclusive-gravy-train-flows-wide-and-deep-at-elizabeth-warrens-consumer-agency/ The money flowed]. 8 years later she's the DNC frontrunner for president.
::::Like the CFPB, the TSA was created out of a crisis in the aftermath of 9/11, and a massive reorganization of the government, including creation of the $40 billion Dept. of Homeland Security, [[permanent spending]]. Odd thing is, it was created at a time [[privatization]] was accepted by both state and federal governments as necessary cause governments could not meet the commitments, nor carry the costs, of public sector union medical benefits and pensions. But the national Democratic party demanded the massive expansion of security guards at airports be federal jobs, not outsourced to the private, in exchange for votes to expand federal spending for the governments reorganization and the war on terror. Fast forward 16 years: [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dr-gridlock/wp/2017/02/13/tsa-and-airport-workers-indicted-for-allegedly-smuggling-20-tons-of-cocaine-through-puerto-rico-airport/?utm_term=.978032e31f0f it took Jeff Sessions 2 weeks to drain the swamp on an operation that was common knowledge in Washington for 16 years].
::::What do we learn from any of this? You never want to let a perfectly good crisis go to waste. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|''CIA v Trump updated score'':CIA 3, Trump 2]]</sup> 16:18, 4 April 2017 (EDT)