SOMETHING'S GOTTA GIVE... SOON

Fed up with the "business as usual" Washington establishment, we Americans banded together and put Donald Trump in the White House.  Not only did we want things to change and get better, we had high expectations that by giving both the White House and the Congress to the Republicans, they could get things moving in the right direction.  

But, here we are 30 days down the road and it is obvious that things are not going as well as we hoped.  For one thing, Trump is still trying to get his cabinet approved by the Senate; the Democrats are being obstinate and stalling and Mitch McConnell doesn't seem to have the wherewithal to bulldoze past them.  As if that wasn't bad enough, the House doesn't seem to be able to get everybody on the same page so that essential and meaningful legislation can be passed and put on Trump's desk.  

In other words, the first few weeks of this new presidency seem to portend another epic failure of the Republicans to respond proactively to the people who put them in charge.  

They need to figure it out pretty damned fast, or they're going to be on the outside looking in come 2018 and our country is going to get flushed down the toilet.

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.