Squirrel-Hair comes down with a case of Reasonable Gentleman Syndrome

His rudderlessness has always been a core reason LITD can't work up the first subatomic particle of enthusiasm for him.

It was on full display today:

President Trump struck a deal Wednesday with Democratic leaders to raise the federal debt ceiling and fund the government for the next three months while also providing Hurricane Harvey relief money -- hours after House Speaker Paul Ryan blasted such a plan as “unworkable” and “disgraceful.”

The president, meeting with congressional leaders from both parties, effectively brushed off calls from GOP leaders for a longer-term plan.

Those lawmakers had pushed first for an 18-month debt-limit hike and then floated a six-month plan, Fox News is told – but Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., held firm on calls for a three-month deal.

Trump agreed.

“We had a very good meeting with Nancy Pelois and Chuck Schumer,” he told reporters aboard Air Force One. “We agreed to a three-month extension on the debt ceiling, which they consider to be sacred, very important.”

The announcement was striking considering just hours earlier, Ryan warned such an arrangement could put Harvey relief funds at risk.

“To play politics with the debt ceiling like Schumer and Pelosi apparently are doing, I don’t think is a good idea,” said Ryan.

The House on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved an initial $8 billion in funding for Harvey relief, on a 419-3 vote.

The plan all along was for the Senate to attach a debt-ceiling hike to the bill and then send it back. But Ryan and other top Republicans objected to Democrats’ push to only raise the debt ceiling for a three-month period.

Yet following the Trump meeting, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell acknowledged they had all agreed to a three-month deal – saying he would be adding that to the Harvey bill.

“I’ll be supporting it,” McConnell said.

Schumer called the arrangement “a really good moment of bipartisanship."
Not everyone thinks so.

Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., issued a brief statement saying only: "The Pelosi-Schumer-Trump deal is bad." 

So, all of you who were drooling slavish devotees from the get-go, as well as all you New Trumpers, tell me again what the big attraction was, since it wasn't a set of core principles to which this guy had consistent fealty?

Oh, that's right. It was that he was a "fighter." Yes, indeed, some fighter.