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Republicans could lose U.S. House in 2018 over immigration fight - Bannon

 

FILE PHOTO: Former White House Senior Counselor Steve Bannon arrives at Joint Base Andrews outside Washington, U.S., after a day trip to Lynchburg, Virginia with President Donald Trump, May 13, 2017. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas/Files

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican infighting over the fate of immigrants brought illegally to the United States as children could be so vitriolic that the party loses control of the U.S. House of Representatives next year, Steve Bannon, a former adviser to President Donald Trump, said in an interview airing on Sunday.

 

Bannon, whose far-right views on immigration, climate and trade helped shape Trump's presidential campaign and his first months in office, was fired by the Republican president last month in a push to end factional fights within the White House.

 

In an interview with the CBS program "60 Minutes," Bannon predicted Republicans could lose control in the House in the 2018 congressional elections because of a looming battle over what to do about 800,000 immigrants known as "Dreamers."

 

Trump said last week he would scrap a program called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, that allowed the young immigrants to live and work in America.

 

Bannon supported ending the program, which had been put in place by Democratic former President Barack Obama.

 

Trump gave the Republican-controlled Congress six months to come up with an alternative, saying he would "revisit this issue" if lawmakers could not agree.

 

"I'm worried about losing the House now because of this," Bannon told CBS.

 

"If this goes all the way down to its logical conclusion, in February and March it will be a civil war inside the Republican Party," he said. "And to me, doing that in the springboard of primary season for 2018 is extremely unwise."

 

Republicans are divided over the Dreamers. Some believe they are illegal immigrants who are taking American jobs, while others say they contribute to the country and deserve compassion.

 

Bannon, who said he left the White House on his own terms, lashed out against "establishment" Republicans who have at times grappled with Trump, a real estate celebrity who had never before held elected office.

 

"The Republican establishment is trying to nullify the 2016 election," Bannon said, saying it was an "open secret on Capitol Hill" that many Republicans did not support Trump's agenda, and singling out Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan for criticism.

 

"They do not want Donald Trump's populist, economic nationalist agenda to be implemented," Bannon said.

 

He called Republican national security officials who had served in the George W. Bush administration "idiots," including former secretaries of state Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell, and former Vice President Dick Cheney.

 

"I hold these people in contempt, total and complete contempt," Bannon said, blaming them for U.S. trade problems with China and involvement in Iraq.

 

"They're idiots, and they've gotten us in this situation, and they question a good man like Donald Trump," Bannon said.

 

(Reporting by Roberta Rampton; Editing by Peter Cooney and Mary Milliken)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2017-09-11

[dunroaming]

Does anyone listen or care what Bannon says?

[ELVIS123456]

Bannon could be right, but I think Trump is keen to show the People which Republican members are 'real' Republicans and that is why he did this.  He has literally thrown the cat amongst the pigeons, and it should be entertaining to watch.  2018 is going to be a clean out - many Dems and some anti-Trump Reps wont be there after the mid-terms. 

[iReason]

6 hours ago, dunroaming said:

Does anyone listen or care what Bannon says?

 

The occupier of the White House listened to Bannon, his Senior Advisor for a year and a half. 

 

Bannon also said this in the same interview:  "Bannon confirmed he opposed President Donald Trump's decision to oust Comey, calling the FBI 'an institution."

 

"I don't believe that the institutional logic of the FBI, and particularly in regards to an investigation, could possibly be changed by changing the head of it,' Bannon said."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4871592/Bannon-confirms-opposed-firing-FBI-Director-Comey.html

[Dumbastheycome]

The  world   will be a  changed  place   before  the  next  US  election  circus !

 

[stevenl]

53 minutes ago, iReason said:

 

The occupier of the White House listened to Bannon, his Senior Advisor for a year and a half. 

 

Bannon also said this in the same interview:

"Bannon confirmed he opposed President Donald Trump's decision to oust Comey, calling the FBI 'an institution."

 

"I don't believe that the institutional logic of the FBI, and particularly in regards to an investigation,

could possibly be changed by changing the head of it,' Bannon said."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4871592/Bannon-confirms-opposed-firing-FBI-Director-Comey.html

Banning also said it was a mistake to fire Comey, because that firing was the reason for the appointment of Mueller, with a broader investigation than the FBI's would have been.

Edited September 11, 2017 by stevenl

[Srikcir]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

they question a good man like Donald Trump,"

It's more like "they question a good liar like Donald Trump."

[Pib]

I thought Kellyanne Conway (Alternative Facts Girl) is the real President and Donald (Twitter Boy) is her puppet.

[ilostmypassword]

59 minutes ago, stevenl said:

Banning also said it was a mistake to fire Comey, because that firing was the reason for the appointment of Mueller, with a broader investigation than the FBI's would have been.

That was a dig at his son-in-law, who pushed for that move and is no friend of Bannon.

[ilostmypassword]

1 hour ago, iReason said:

 

The occupier of the White House listened to Bannon, his Senior Advisor for a year and a half. 

 

Bannon also said this in the same interview:

"Bannon confirmed he opposed President Donald Trump's decision to oust Comey, calling the FBI 'an institution."

 

"I don't believe that the institutional logic of the FBI, and particularly in regards to an investigation,

could possibly be changed by changing the head of it,' Bannon said."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4871592/Bannon-confirms-opposed-firing-FBI-Director-Comey.html

According to at least one report, he still does communicate with Bannon via phone, whenever General Kelly isn't around to spank him.

[funandsuninbangkok]

Bannon is cleaver and understands the man of the street. Trump should listen to him

 

[ilostmypassword]

2 minutes ago, funandsuninbangkok said:

Bannon is cleaver and understands the man of the street. Trump should listen to him

 

If the man is white and lightly educated.

[funandsuninbangkok]

8 minutes ago, ilostmypassword said:

If the man is white and lightly educated.

 

8 minutes ago, ilostmypassword said:

If the man is white and lightly educated.

Wrong

 

54% of white men with college education voted for Trump

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/09/white-voters-victory-donald-trump-exit-polls

 

 

[ilostmypassword]

6 minutes ago, funandsuninbangkok said:

 

Wrong

 

54% of white men with college education voted for Trump

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/09/white-voters-victory-donald-trump-exit-polls

 

 

Times have changed

Among white men with a college education, Democrats have gained virtually no ground: They attracted 38 percent last fall and draw 40 percent in the new survey. But more of those voters are now undecided: Republican support with them has fallen from 60 percent in the exit poll to 47 percent in the new survey.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/07/republican-midterms-democrats/534258/

[Ruffian Dick]

5 hours ago, Dumbastheycome said:

The  world   will be a  changed  place   before  the  next  US  election  circus !

If Trump, Bannon and the like are canny politicians, they will have prepared the ground for an alt-right takeover in the mid-term election. There's no sign that they know what they are doing, however, and Bannon, think what you want about him, is probably right that they screwed the pooch. The Dems are drooling over their chances in late 2018.

[Jingthing]

1 hour ago, funandsuninbangkok said:

 

Wrong

 

54% of white men with college education voted for Trump

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/09/white-voters-victory-donald-trump-exit-polls

 

 

A very sad commentary on the state of the U.S. "higher" education system. The truth is the main reason the clown potus one was that he stirred up racism / WHITE resentment. Among different education levels of white people, especially men. 

[JHolmesJr]

10 hours ago, webfact said:

"They do not want Donald Trump's populist, economic nationalist agenda to be implemented," Bannon said.

 

well…that is for sure.

[Jingthing]

Considering Bannon's key role in the white supremacist "Alt Right" here's an interesting theory about his twisted psychology. Failed "artists" have a special place in the history of fascism.

 

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Clooney continues: "Here’s the truth: if Steve Bannon had Hollywood say, ‘Oh, this is really great, and a really good script,’ and had they made his movie, he’d still be in Hollywood writing his fuckin’ movies and kissing my ass to be in one of his fuckin’ films! That’s who he is. That’s the reality. Someone in Hollywood should’ve given him a script—or approved one of his scripts—just to keep him out of the right wing."

 

http://althouse.blogspot.com/2017/09/steve-bannon-is-pussy-steve-bannon-is.html

[Foozool]

 

10 hours ago, webfact said:

He called Republican national security officials who had served in the George W. Bush administration "idiots," including former secretaries of state Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell, and former Vice President Dick Cheney.

 

"I hold these people in contempt, total and complete contempt," Bannon said, blaming them for U.S. trade problems with China and involvement in Iraq.

I guess Bannon speaks of the truth in this case❗️

Edited September 11, 2017 by Foozool

[Jingthing]

It's easy to get how sleazeball Bannon and sleazeball trump became good old buddies. 

[Jingthing]

Relevant to the question about what trump is relative to republicans.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/09/11/im-not-buying-the-new-conventional-wisdom-about-trump/

 

 

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Oh, puh-leez. President Trump is not an “independent,” as right-wing Republicans now would like to believe. (Didn’t they spend the campaign trying to convince fellow Republicans that he was really a conservative?) Trump ran for the GOP nomination, captured the party and now hypes every bad idea that the party’s most extreme elements have espoused — tax cuts for the rich, anti-immigrant hysteria, fear-mongering on crime, know-nothingism on climate change, anti-government animus, and bigotry toward the LGBT community (hence the totally unnecessary ban on transgender recruits to the military). Much as Republicans might like to disown him, they cannot. They remain responsible for nominating the most unfit person ever to hold the office.

 

Edited September 11, 2017 by Jingthing

[Jingthing]

Colbert on Bannon --

 

 

[selftaopath]

OH I hope so. I'm looking forward to the day the world is rid of an orange bimbo.

[craigt3365]

8 hours ago, funandsuninbangkok said:

Bannon is cleaver and understands the man of the street. Trump should listen to him

 

Sad times when people think this.  Bannon's a nut.

[ilostmypassword]

"They do not want Donald Trump's populist, economic nationalist agenda to be implemented," Bannon said.

6 hours ago, JHolmesJr said:

 

well…that is for sure.

 

His "populist" program that includes massive tax cuts for the .01%. Remember when Trump denounced the 23% income tax rate that hedge fund managers got? His new tax proposal pushes that down to 15%.

 

 

 

Edited September 12, 2017 by ilostmypassword

[craigt3365]

6 hours ago, Jingthing said:

A very sad commentary on the state of the U.S. "higher" education system. The truth is the main reason the clown potus one was that he stirred up racism / WHITE resentment. Among different education levels of white people, especially men. 

I think a lot has to do with voting party lines.  White, educated males tend to vote Republican.  Sadly...LOL

[craigt3365]

2 minutes ago, ilostmypassword said:

"They do not want Donald Trump's populist, economic nationalist agenda to be implemented," Bannon said.

 

His "populist" program that includes massive tax cuts for the .01%. Remember when Trump denounced the 23% income tax rate that hedge fund managers got? His new tax proposal pushes that down to 15%.

I'm not going to watch 60 minutes, just can't handle listening to Bannon.  Same with Trump.  But this is an interesting read.  I posted one interesting comment.  Bannon's a total nutcase.

 

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/09/11/politics/bannon-60-minutes/index.html

Quote

 

5. "The swamp is a business model. It's a successful business model."

He's not wrong.

But it's also worth noting that draining the swamp is a business model, too. Lots of outside groups and political consultants have raised lots of money and gotten very rich by promising to drain the swamp.

 

Sadly, people fall for this rhetoric.

[kamahele]

He may be right but I don't think so. The Republican have so rigged (legally) voting districts that there would have than immigration to F them up. Oh , wait. Trump and Ryan are their leaders so Dems might just have a chance after all.

[stevenl]

7 hours ago, Foozool said:

 

I guess Bannon speaks of the truth in this case❗️

I hardly ever agree with their policies, but Rice and Powell are far from idiots.

Edited September 12, 2017 by stevenl

[Stargeezr]

I fugure that after 4 years of Trump, when the rust  belt is still the rust belt.

Donald will    be gone as well..

Geezer