{"id":2124,"date":"2017-02-28T09:20:51","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T15:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/?p=2124"},"modified":"2017-02-28T09:20:51","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T15:20:51","slug":"now-something-president-grassroots-wont-stand-nothing-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/2017\/02\/now-something-president-grassroots-wont-stand-nothing-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Now that we have a &#8220;do something&#8221; President, the grassroots won&#8217;t stand for a &#8220;do nothing&#8221; Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/461092634\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.666667% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/461092634?et=pLCIHT90Q3NLfSl2kbt7cA&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=hUIU0py-NMxquZWNA6eUb6FL60dbM_j3amuS7JEZyV8=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">It\u2019s a great time to be alive, isn\u2019t it? \u00a0So far, 2017 is living up to its promise to be an unpredictable, exciting year in politics\u2026 \u00a0but not if you listen to the main stream media. \u00a0The hand-wringing reporters are doing their best to undermine the trust our citizens have in our newly elected President, Donald Trump.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not working.<\/p>\n<p>No matter what the media says, grassroots activists?see President Trump as a man who\u2019s not afraid to take?action to keep his campaign promises.?(Are politicians even?allowed?to keep their promises? ?Who knew?)?Largely, Americans are satisfied with the new President\u2019s bold, controversial actions. ?In fact, the more the media freaks out, the higher Trump\u2019s approval ratings soar amongst his base.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonpost.us2.list-manage1.com\/track\/click?u=c5adbd4783d227c40313eb002&amp;id=b243ad5f73&amp;e=4df5f536f2\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">new NBC-Wall Street Journal poll<\/a> shows that Trump\u2019s message \u2013no matter how hard the press tries to undermine it \u2013 appeals to normal Americans. Chris\u00a0Cillizza\u00a0of the Washington Post writes, \u201cfor all the stumbles and bumbles in his first month in office, his fundamental message of change continues to appeal to a good-sized chunk of the population.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Heh.\u00a0 He goes on to point out that 77% of people who responded to the poll said Trump would bring about real change; 40% said he would \u2018very\u2019 likely bring about change. \u201cThat\u2019s, broadly speaking, a good thing for Trump considering how much people dislike Washington and politics more broadly,\u201d\u00a0Cillizza\u00a0writes.<\/p>\n<p><em>Read all of this piece on <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/markmeckler\/2017\/02\/28\/happy-with-a-do-something-president-grassroots-wont-stand-for-a-do-nothing-congress-n2291467\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">TownHall.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"aside-wrapper pr\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">\n<\/p><\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Congress, we weren&#8217;t buying it then and we certainly aren&#8217;t buying it now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2673,"featured_media":2125,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Now that we have a &quot;do something&quot; 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