I guess it wasn't the first thing out the gate this morning in the morning news cycle, but it does not come at all a shock to me when John Thune had this to say on Trumps backing of the house budget bill:
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) told reporters on Wednesday that he was surprised by President Trump’s support for the GOP-controlled House’s one-bill spending plan as Congress navigates crucial budget negotiations.
“Did not see that one coming,” Thune said of Trump’s post on Truth Social hours earlier.
Well, let me tell you, I saw it coming as far back as when Kelly Ann Conway said this two years ago in my op "Hooked, Lined and Sinkered: The True Underbelly of Trump, , if I saw it, he knew it.:
"If President Trump decides to run, I think, he'll clear the field," former Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway said. "But if he doesn't decide to run, I guarantee you the dozens of men and women who do run for president, and indeed the Republican nominee and winner of the 2024 election, will be someone who is proudly and loudly carrying the mantle of the America First policy agenda."
"I guarantee you the dozens of men and women who do run for president, and indeed the Republican nominee", meaning regardless of who wins but most but not exclusively assured Republican nominee, the America First agenda policy agenda will go through. I've been saying it for the last two years but no ones paid any attention that the America First Institute has had both democrats and republicans going in and out of side doors in NYC deciding who will get hired in the next Trump administration and who will be nominated and pass the vetting, the process for positions where candidates have to be vetted. That is why you seen all these unqualified candidates pass the vetting process. One of the things that Kelly Ann Conway said was that to much time was being lost spent on bickering over which positions would get filled by who after a president was sworn in. They came together with party members of like minded thinkers and decided to overhaul the way the government functions. This, as we see playing out now, is not about Americans, it's about America. It's never been about Americans and their constitutional rights as such. This is about changing up the structured mechanism of the constitution, or as one article put it a few months back, upgrading the constitution for this day in time, not what happen decades ago that formed the foundation of the constitution for that day in time. This is more along the lines of what I quoted Sean Duffy saying to Hillary Clinton the other day, "you had your chance", or Jared Kushner's "we've been over the history of the last seventy five years and seen what worked and what didn't work".
John Thune, further down in the article made the statement:
“I think we’re all heading in the same direction. We all want to get to the same result and ultimate destination. How we get there is still a point of discussion,” the Senate GOP leader said. “It’d be really boring if we had a unicameral system, wouldn’t it?”
You'd better believe it because that is why you don't see hardly anyone in congress trying to stop them from changing the government from what you once knew it as. An institute that safeguarded the rights of Americans. Obviously, somewhere over that last seventy five year period of scouring over all that history, they decided that the framers of the constitution got it all wrong along with everyone who came after them to busy trying to protect the feelings of American voters clinging to the constitutional rights afforded them decades ago. Bypassing their own misgivings of how they've mismanaged the mess they've gotten themselves into, they've decided they'd rather do incomprehensible things to you if you object to their new way of likeminded thinking, that it's you who got it all wrong and no blame rest upon them. You will now pay for having ever voted for them in the first place, that was your first mistake. It's all your fault that it was gotten so wrong, it's time to break you of your habit of being all touchy feely about your constitutional rights. The very essence of him saying “It’d be really boring if we had a unicameral system, wouldn’t it?”, the wouldn't it is like adding salt to the wound because the framers never intended that a unicameral system, after much debate, labeled "The Great Compromise", was the fairest way for representation of the people. That the bicameral system, where two separate bodies of governing held for the needed checks and balances despite the gridlock that could be involved was a fairer system for all.
In a unicameral system of governance, special interest and group think supersedes the rights of individuals, and often times laws, unpopular ones, are easier to pass and so would the agenda of the elected leader involved.
In his post, the president praised both the House and Senate for “doing a SPECTACULAR job of working together as one unified, and unbeatable, TEAM,” but urged Senate Republicans to look to the House, rather than trying a piecemeal approach to enacting his sweeping agenda.
“House Resolution implements my FULL America First Agenda, EVERYTHING, not just parts of it!” he wrote. “We need both Chambers to pass the House Budget to ‘kickstart’ the Reconciliation process, and move all of our priorities to the concept of, ‘ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL.'”
Both men have basically said the same thing, it's a done deal, we just need a few minutes to pretend we are still a bicameral system still instead of unicameral one where they are the team, you're just the audience and they could care less if you end up booing them all.