GOP Already Back-Peddling on Campaign Promises

A call to christians, conservatives, libertarians, and republicans everywhere to not go to sleep just because we have a republican president elect, and a republican controlled house and senate.

Yes, it will be better than having Hillary or Obama in office.

However, any ground we might think we have gained or hope to gain is lost if we allow ourselves to be blind to reality, if we don't stand guard, if we rest on our laurels just because Trump won the election.

Where Hillary would have unwavering marched forward the moral and economic destruction of the US, Trump might listen and waffle our way from time to time.

A difference can only be made if we take advantage of this last open window of freedom and ability to influence how we are governed.


1. Fine with sodomite "marriage"

Before Election: During the Republican presidential primaries, Trump said the gay marriage issue should have been left to the states and that he would consider appointing judges to overrule the Supreme Court’s marriage decisions.

After Election: Republican President-elect Donald Trump said he’s “fine” with same-sex marriage as the law of the land, calling the issue “settled” by the Supreme Court.  “It’s law,” he said in his first interview after the election with CBS’ “60 Minutes”. “It was settled in the Supreme Court. I mean, it’s done.”

Trump is also "fine" with perverted men using same bathroom as your wife, daughter, and mother.

Trump, who has spent his life in liberal New York City, referred to LGBT Republicans at the Republican National Convention and said during his campaign that transgender people should use whatever bathroom they feel comfortable using.

2. Obamacare

Before Election: “On day one of the Trump Administration, we will ask Congress to immediately deliver a full repeal of Obamacare"

After Election: After his meeting with President Obama, Trump said he would consider alternatives to an all-out appeal.  Trump told the Wall St. Journal “Either Obamacare will be amended, or repealed and replaced."

Trump's presidential transition website also omits Trump's call to allow Americans to import prescription drugs from other countries where they are sold at lower prices


3. The Wall

Before Election: "I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will make Mexico pay for that wall" Trump said repeatedly. “Mark my words.”

After Election:

Three days after Trump, in an appearance on “60 Minutes,” indicated he might build a fence instead (though in “certain areas, a wall is more appropriate”), congressional Republicans are hedging on whether they’ll support building the border wall, suggesting it may turn out to be some combination of wall, fencing, and “invisible fence” technology such as patrolling by drones.

Newt Gingrich—who’s reportedly being considered for Trump’s Secretary of State—admitted the president-elect’s promise to get Mexico to pay for it may have been a “campaign device.”  “He may not spend much time trying to get Mexico to pay for it,” Gingrich said. “But it was a great campaign device.”



4. End war on coal

Before Election: The Democratic Party does not understand that coal is an abundant, clean, affordable, reliable domestic energy resource. Those who mine it and their families should be protected from the Democratic Party’s radical anti-coal agenda.

After Election: Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Friday told the Lexington Herald-Leader it’s “hard to tell” if the government will be able to expand the coal industry in a meaningful way.


5. Deport illegal aliens

Before Election: "We’re rounding ’em up in a very humane way, in a very nice way. And they’re going to be happy because they want to be legalized. And, by the way, I know it doesn’t sound nice. But not everything is nice." Trump in interview with CBS’s Scott Pelley

After Election: Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said of Trump “He’s not calling for mass deportation,” Priebus said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “He said, ‘No, only people who have committed crimes.’ And then only until all of that is taken care of will we look at what we are going to do next.”

Wait, isn't everyone who is in our country illegally already broken the law and committed a crime?!?!??!?!!   Why wait for them to break in and steal and/or murder before deporting them?


6. Support for Israel

In September 2015, Trump said that under his administration he would “renegotiate” the Iran peace treaty. Trump called the deal the “stupidest deal of all time” and running mate Mike Pence said that the deal would be “ripped up.”

The Times of Israel reports that Trump may not scrap Obama’s Iran nuclear treaty after all.

“Appearing to walk back statements made by president-elect and other advisers,” senior Trump adviser Walid Phares claims that the treaty will instead be “renegotiated.” He also said that Trump might not actually move the US Embassy to Jerusalem immediately.


7. Investigation of Hillary's high crimes

Before Election: Trump said he would appoint a special prosecutor to investigate -- and convict Hillary over her use of a private email server.  His campaign rallies were also marked by chants of "Lock her up" as supporters clamored for Trump to jail his opponent.

After Election: In a Wall Street Journal interview, Trump seemed to be less committed to the idea.  "It's not something I've given a lot of thought, because I want to solve health care, jobs, border control, tax reform," he said.

Trump recently said: "THEY’RE GOOD PEOPLE. I DON’T WANT TO HURT THEM"

8. Trump says humans may be causing global warming

In Trump's past statements he said climate change is a "hoax" perpetrated by the Chinese to make U.S. manufacturing less competitive. Trump has also cited winter cold snaps as evidence that climate change is a "con job" and a "myth."

In an interview with editors and reporters at The New York Times, Trump said he would "keep an open mind" about the Paris accord, which he has repeatedly said he planned to either renegotiate or cancel if elected.  Trump was also reported to have affirmed in the interview held two weeks after the election that human activity and global warming may be linked. "I think there is some connectivity," he said. "Some, something. It depends on how much."

9. Common Core supporters are on the short list for the next Secretary of Education

So much for "draining the swamp", two individuals reportedly on Trump’s short list for the education secretary post are Common Core supporters Democrat Michelle Rhee and Republican donor Betsy DeVos.


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