{"id":78308,"date":"2017-07-20T19:11:53","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T23:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=78308"},"modified":"2017-07-20T19:12:22","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T23:12:22","slug":"now-the-rinos-are-blaming-trump-for-gridlock-the-most-dysfunctional-congress-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=78308","title":{"rendered":"Now the RINOs are blaming Trump for gridlock after being labeled the most dysfunctional Congress in history"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>GOP Lawmakers Blame Trump &#8220;Distraction&#8221; For Why They&#8217;re Getting Nothing Done, Fears Debt Ceiling Debacle<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>Despite years of gridlock, this year&#8217;s legislative achievements are de minimus to say the least, and\u00a0<strong>according to at least one congressman, it&#8217;s all Trump&#8217;s fault<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/342884-gop-lawmaker-i-dont-pay-attention-to-what-trump-does-anymore\"><em>As The Hill reports,<\/em><\/a>\u00a0Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho) says President Trump and his family are a \u201cdistraction\u201d from the GOP&#8217;s attempts to enact its legislative agenda.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2017\/07\/16\/20170720_trump1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2017\/07\/16\/20170720_trump1_0.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"287\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Simpson on Wednesday told\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2017\/07\/20\/gop-lawmakers-despondent-as-recess-approaches-240731\">Politico\u00a0<\/a>that<strong>\u00a0he doesn\u2019t \u201ceven pay any attention to what is going on with the administration because I don&#8217;t care.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"quote_start\">\u00a0\u201cThey&#8217;re a distraction. The family is a distraction, the president is a distraction,&#8221; Simpson said.<\/div>\n<p><strong>&#8220;At first, it was &#8216;Well yeah, this is the guy we elected. He&#8217;ll learn, he&#8217;ll learn.&#8217; And you just don&#8217;t see that happening.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>GOP lawmakers are beginning to express frustration with Republicans\u2019 inability to pass major legislation since Trump took office, after their attempts to repeal and replace ObamaCare in the Senate collapsed this week.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"quote_start\">\u00a0<strong>\u201cWe\u2019re in some quicksand right now. We just can\u2019t seem to free ourselves,\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>said Rep. Steve Womack (R-Ark.).<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2017\/07\/20\/gop-lawmakers-despondent-as-recess-approaches-240731\">Senator David Purdue added, rather ominously<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"quote_start\">\u00a0<strong>\u201cWe haven\u2019t started the debt ceiling; we have to fund the government; we have to do the budget.&#8221;<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"quote_start\"><strong>\u201cI\u2019m the one counting the days. I\u2019m very nervous.&#8221;<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And, as we noted yesterday, the market is starting to pay attention&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2017\/07\/16\/20170719_EOD4_0.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-07-20\/gop-lawmakers-blame-trump-distraction-why-theyre-getting-nothing-done-fears-debt-cei\">http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-07-20\/gop-lawmakers-blame-trump-distraction-why-theyre-getting-nothing-done-fears-debt-cei<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOP Lawmakers Blame Trump &#8220;Distraction&#8221; For Why They&#8217;re Getting Nothing Done, Fears Debt Ceiling Debacle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}