Trump, The Whiney-Baby

Donald Trump, last night:

For FAR TOO LONG Senate Democrats have been Obstructing more than 350 Nominations. These great Americans left their jobs to serve our Country, but can’t because Dems are blocking them, some for two years-historic record. Passed committees, but Schumer putting them on hold. Bad!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 2, 2019

Mitch McConnell is still Senate Majority leader. He still calls the shots in the Senate. Perhaps the orange vulgarity doesn't understand that.

But let's look at some context. Before I show you what Politico wrote in 2016, let me set their opening scene. It's late January, 2009 and the GOP just got beat (and beat badly) in the 2008 election. And yet at a GOP retreat, the mood was upbeat. Eric Cantor (remember him?) got those attending to their feet, cheering a failing vote by the republicans. And now back to Politico:

The Republicans were pumped because they saw a path out of the political wilderness. They were convinced that even if Obama kept winning policy battles, they could win the broader messaging war simply by remaining unified and fighting him on everything. Their conference chairman, a then-obscure Indiana conservative named Mike Pence, underscored the point with a clip from Patton, showing the general rallying his troops for war against their Nazi enemy: “We’re going to kick the hell out of him all the time! We’re going to go through him like crap through a goose!”

This strategy of kicking the hell out of Obama all the time, treating him not just as a president from the opposing party but an extreme threat to the American way of life, has been a remarkable political success. It helped Republicans take back the House in 2010, the Senate in 2014, and the White House in 2016. This no-cooperation, no-apologies approach is also on the verge of delivering a conservative majority on the Supreme Court; Republicans violated all kinds of Washington norms when they refused to even pretend to consider any Obama nominee, but they paid no electoral price for it—and probably helped persuade some reluctant Republican voters to back Donald Trump in November by keeping the Court in the balance.

And so let us not disabuse ourselves of the notion that whatever the democrats in Congress are doing (and considering that the tweet is from the reality-challenged Donald Trump), they're not doing much of anything that the GOP didn't already do.

But for the oval office it's bad because the widdle baby isn't getting his widdle way.

Aww, poor thing. Poor poor thing.