This writer's commentary early on questioned whether President Trump's policies would move the country and its people forward and improve and or expand the positive accomplishments of President Obama's administration or would the President adopt a policy of regression. The first 100 days of the Trump administration tells us the answer is the latter one.
The only legislative success was the confirmation of Trumps supreme court pick and he and the party choose the nuclear option instead of the 60 vote rule previously used by the U.S. Senate for many years. It was a sad decision and a cowardly act by the President and the republican controlled senate who failed to give President Obama's supreme court nominee even a hearing. That regressive act will lead to future trouble to our system of government that Trump and the republicans hate when they can not get their way.
Trump's many executive orders reversed many of the safe guards in place concerning business regulations and the environment and are regressive. Those regulations did not handicap the business world under the Obama administration whose policies brought the country out of the great republican recession, created jobs, lowered the unemployment rate, reduced deficit spending and insured over 15 million Americans who had no health insurance.
The most recent reversal on offshore drilling regulations are the most regressive of all and Louisiana's representatives in congress are silent. They have already forgotten the BP oil explosion and spill in the Gulf of Mexico that killed 11 rig workers and the billions in damage to the environment, people and business. Like wise, they have also forgotten the trial produced evidence of regulations being violated and profit being put ahead of safety. Thank the good Lord President Obama was in office and held those accountable for their actions.
Trumps on going feud with the media and science, his constant lies and conflict of interest are all regressive. The repeal and replacement effort concerning the ACA has been a fraud from the very beginning and a scheme that will not be effective or affordable as the ACA if passed. And of course, their is Trump and his divisive attitude toward America.
David Gergen, republican journalist, adviser to several Presidents and a regular commentator on CNN said that Trump's speech in Penn. on Saturday was so divisive that it was the most divisive one of any President he could remember. A true statement but just a little too late. As President, Trump is still the same candidate Trump who was divisive during the whole campaign. In fact Gergen and most conservative journalists supported Trump during the campaign even though sometimes silently and this writer believes they voted for him which was their choice. But its sour grapes on the part of those conservative journalists who now try and say they thought Trump would change after being elected President. Give me a break.
The country and its people made progress during the Clinton administration, regressed during the George W. Bush administration, progressed during the Obama administration and now regressed in the first 100 days of the Trump administration. Does the future of the Trump administration based on his first 100 days tell us that the future will be like the failed republican past? Will history repeat itself as it so often has? 6000 years ago, the very first civilization on earth, that of the Sumerians taught that a failure to learn from the mistakes of the past, will bring about a future like the failed past.
We in the United States and other parts of the world have already seen a future like the past, but we mortals are not fated to fail, we have what it takes to make things better for the future. We can make our fate what ever we want, destiny has no role in that decision because we are only destined to die. Our fate is in our own hands. Trump's lifestyle and the republican's ideology is what stands in the way of a great future for our country and its people.
This commentary written by Joe Lorio
