Good job, Mr. President!

[Originalist]

Below is the text of an AP article outlining and bemoaning the dismantling of the Obama agenda by Trump. As for his low poll numbers, I believe much of that is because of the anger conservatives have toward him over backing the Ryan Obamacare bill and attacking the Freedom Caucus. If he will mend some fences his numbers will rise quickly. The revelation of the Donna Rice surveillance scandal will also help him and completely discredit the Democrats ..

CLIMATE CHANGE

Trump signed an executive order last week to deliver on his pledge to unravel Obama's efforts to curb global warming. The order launched a review of the Clean Power Plan, Obama's chief effort to curb carbon emissions by restricting greenhouse gas emissions at coal-fired power plants. Trump also lifted a 14-month-old halt on new coal leases on federal lands. The Obama administration had imposed a three-year freeze on such leases in January of last year.

The executive order covers a range of other Obama-era rules, including requirements to factor the "social cost" of carbon emissions into all regulatory actions and to crack down on methane emissions at oil and gas wells. Business groups had complained to Trump, himself a businessman, that the rules were intrusive and expensive.


INTERNET PRIVACY

Trump is expected to sign a measure soon to block online privacy regulations the Federal Communications Commission issued during Obama's final months in office. It's a first step toward allowing internet providers to sell information about their customers' browsing habits. The FCC rule was designed to give consumers more control over how companies like Comcast, AT&T and Verizon share information. Critics complained that the rule would have increased costs, stifled innovation and picked winners and losers among internet companies.

White House spokesman Sean Spicer says the rule represents the type of "federal overreach" that Trump pledged as a candidate to reverse.



ABORTION/FAMILY PLANNING

Trump is expected to sign legislation erasing another Obama rule, one that barred states from withholding federal family planning funds from Planned Parenthood affiliates and other clinics that provide abortions. The rule was finalized shortly before Obama left office in January.

The measure cleared the Senate last week with Vice President Mike Pence, who is also president of the Senate, casting the tie-breaking 51st vote in the 100-member chamber.


KEYSTONE XL OIL PIPELINE

Trump greenlighted the long-delayed project on March 24, reversing Obama's decision less than 18 months earlier. After Trump invited TransCanada, the Canadian company building the $8 billion pipeline, to resubmit its application, the State Department approved the project, saying it would advance U.S. national interests. Obama had said the project would not.

Approval came nearly a decade after TransCanada applied to complete the 1,700-mile (2,735 kilometers) pipeline to carry oil from tar sands in Alberta, Canada, to refineries along the Texas Gulf Coast.
Trump says the project will reduce costs and reliance on foreign oil, and create thousands of jobs. Obama had said it would undercut U.S. credibility in international efforts to tackle climate change.


DAKOTA ACCESS PIPELINE

Under Obama, the Army Corps of Engineers had declined in December to allow pipeline construction under South Dakota's Lake Oahe on grounds that alternate routes needed to be considered. Native American tribes had sued to block construction, arguing that the pipeline threatened their water supply and cultural sites.

The project has moved forward again under Trump, who acted shortly after taking office. In February, the Army Corps of Engineers abandoned further study and granted an easement that was needed to complete the pipeline. Energy Transfer Partners immediately began drilling under the lake.


FUEL EFFICIENCY STANDARDS

The Trump administration is re-examining federal requirements governing the fuel efficiency of cars and trucks. In 2012, the Obama administration set fuel economy regulations for model years 2017-2025 and agreed to complete a midterm evaluation by next year. Then, days before Obama left office, the Environmental Protection Agency decided to keep stringent requirements it had set in place for model years 2022-2025.

The auto industry balked. Trump announced in Michigan that he's putting the midterm review back on track. His decision has no immediate effect but requires the EPA to determine no later than April 2018 whether the 2022-2025 standards are appropriate.


TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP

Obama was his administration's biggest cheerleader for the sweeping agreement involving the U.S. and 11 other Pacific Rim nations. But the Senate needed to ratify it, and bipartisan opposition basically doomed it before he left office.

As a candidate, Trump railed against this agreement and pledged to withdraw from it, saying he was a better negotiator and could strike better deals. Shortly after taking office, he directed the U.S. trade representative to withdraw and said he would pursue individual deals with the other countries.


ABORTION/MEXICO CITY POLICY


Trump reinstated a ban on providing federal money to international groups that perform abortions or provide information about them. Obama had lifted the ban when he took office in 2009.

Known as the "Mexico City Policy" or, by critics, as the "global gag rule," the regulation has been a political volleyball, instituted by Republican administrations and rescinded by Democratic ones since 1984. Trump signed it one day after the 44th anniversary of the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision that legalized abortion in the United States. The policy also prohibits taxpayer funding for groups that lobby to legalize abortion or promote it as a family planning method.


PERSONAL FINANCE

Trump has instructed the Department of Labor to delay an Obama-era rule that would require financial professionals who charge commissions to put their clients' best interests first when advising them on retirement investments. The "fiduciary rule" was aimed at blocking consultants from steering clients toward investments with higher commissions and fees that can eat away at retirement savings. The rule was to take effect this month. The financial services industry argued that the rule would limit retirees' investment choices by forcing asset managers to steer them to low-risk options.

Undoing the rule was part of a promised assault by Trump on banking rules enacted after the Great Recession. He has directed the Treasury secretary to review the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial oversight law, which he has said is a disaster. The law's aim was to keep banks from repeating practices that many blamed for the financial meltdown.

[n david]

I hope Trump changes his tune about the HFC, if so, there could be some good happen in DC.

I don't agree with XL or Dakota - mostly because it's a single company reaping the benefits of the government taking sides. I don't believe the gov't should take sides with single companies.

I also don't agree and am concerned about the internet privacy bill which allows info to be sold. Not surprised it received overwhelming support from the GOP. GOP has turned into an anti-privacy, anti-civil liberties party.

Other than that, he's done some good things.

[Esaias]

Seriously? Trump is going to win hearts and minds with conservative Americans because he is going to allow ISPs to sell their customers' online records to the highest bidders?

O, if you actually are defending this erosion of privacy, then all I can say is you have, indeed, gone to Jonestown.

[Originalist]

Originally Posted by Esaias

Seriously? Trump is going to win hearts and minds with conservative Americans because he is going to allow ISPs to sell their customers' online records to the highest bidders?

O, if you actually are defending this erosion of privacy, then all I can say is you have, indeed, gone to Jonestown.

All he did was take the Federal Government out of the decision making. There is nothing in the Constitution that forbids it and any State that wants to can make their own laws on this issue.

[Originalist]

Originally Posted by n david

I hope Trump changes his tune about the HFC, if so, there could be some good happen in DC.

I don't agree with XL or Dakota - mostly because it's a single company reaping the benefits of the government taking sides. I don't believe the gov't should take sides with single companies.

Actually, the Obama order forbidding XL was to benefit Warren Buffet's company.

I also don't agree and am concerned about the internet privacy bill which allows info to be sold. Not surprised it received overwhelming support from the GOP. GOP has turned into an anti-privacy, anti-civil liberties party.

Other than that, he's done some good things.

[Esaias]

Originally Posted by Originalist

All he did was take the Federal Government out of the decision making. There is nothing in the Constitution that forbids it and any State that wants to can make their own laws on this issue.

A state cannot make any enforceable law regarding internet, since internet is an international form of communication.

If the federal government has no authority to regulate ISPs and their use of private data, then they have no authority to regulate telephones, tv, radio, either. In fact, the same reasoning would demand that all federal wiretapping prohibitions be dropped, so the federal government is 'taken out of the decision making process'.

But maybe you are right. By dropping these regulations, even more people will discover that the entire world is a scam out for money, and ISPs will suffer as people migrate away from them and go to mesh networks or other more privacy oriented ISPs.

(I still haven't figured out why ISPs are even needed. We have DNS, everyone could just direct connect to whatever server they want to to call. Yet another scam.)

[Jermyn Davidson]

Why anyone would praise the dismantling of internet privacy as a good thing is so bent on being partisan that it is IMPOSSIBLE for that person to have an objective opinion-- an opinion based in facts.

[Originalist]

Originally Posted by Jermyn Davidson

Why anyone would praise the dismantling of internet privacy as a good thing is so bent on being partisan that it is IMPOSSIBLE for that person to have an objective opinion-- an opinion based in facts.

That isn't exactly what happened. But of this list, that one is not my favorite.
What about the others?

[Esaias]

How about Trump being no different the neocons? Apparently Trump's (((bosses))) have told him to get busy with WW3. After all, there's a lot of money to be made and the peoples are getting uppity again...

http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/a...s-war-in-syria

[n david]

Originally Posted by Esaias

How about Trump being no different the neocons? Apparently Trump's (((bosses))) have told him to get busy with WW3. After all, there's a lot of money to be made and the peoples are getting uppity again...

http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/a...s-war-in-syria

Every POTUS is changed after they receive the oath of office. It doesn't matter the party.

Woke up this morning to Tweets that the administration is considering military strikes against BOTH Syria AND N. Korea.

I was against military force in Syria when obama was POTUS. I'm still against military force in Syria. It's a civil war. The US has no business sending our men and women over there to die.