Ingraham: The Resistance Is ‘Hurting the American People’

LifeZette editor-in-chief Laura Ingraham said “the American people are being hurt” by the resistance and Senate Democrats’ obstructionist tactics, during an appearance Tuesday on Fox News’ “Fox & Friends.”

The White House noted yesterday that of Trump’s 197 nominations, the Senate has only confirmed 48. Out of the president’s 23 judicial nominations, only two have gotten through the Democrats’ obstruction. Noting that the American people “cannot get effective government if the key players in each department are not in place,” Ingraham blasted the Senate Democrats for slow-rolling Trump’s right to fill his administration.

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“It’s the resistance. And you have to hand it to Schumer. I mean, they can’t do a lot, but they can slow things down, and they can make departments virtually not unworkable but really crippled in their ability to do their mission. That’s resistance,” Ingraham said, “And so the president is right to raise this. I hope he speaks about this, gets his surrogates out there to speak about this.”

The president raised the issue in a tweet Tuesday morning, saying, “The Senate Democrats have only confirmed 48 of 197 Presidential Nominees. They can’t win so all they do is slow things down & obstruct!”

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Noting that the Democrats “are pushing resistance 24/7” while armed with the mainstream media and Hollywood, Ingraham mocked them for refusing to accept the results of the 2016 presidential election.

“We didn’t vote for Obama’s holdovers. We voted for fundamental transformation of government and an economy that works for a broad base of Americans,” Ingraham said. “The American people are being hurt because we don’t have the players on the field. We have to expose Schumer on this.”

LifeZette’s editor-in-chief also criticized anti-Trump Republicans in Congress who “spend 24/7 trashing Donald Trump on foreign policy” and other issues.

“[Sens.] John McCain [R-Ariz.], Lindsey Graham [R-S.C.], Jeff Flake [R-Ariz.], Ben Sasse [R-Neb.] — all these people who spend 24/7 trashing Donald Trump on foreign policy — it would be nice on occasion if they stood up and said, ‘You know, we have some disagreements with the president, but he deserves to have his team in place at the Energy Department, Defense, State, White House employees still not in place,'” Ingraham observed.

“That is resistance that is intolerable and hurting the American people,” she added. “On occasion it would be nice if some of these guys who are always trashing Trump would help on this. But it’s like crickets. You don’t hear from them at all on this.”

Ingraham also rebuked Senate Republicans for their continued failure to agree on a path forward to repeal and replace Obamacare.

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“And now when they can govern, they choose not to, or people can’t take a little haircut on what they want, it’s going to raise serious questions on the part of American voters on whether these — or else these Republicans — are the right Republicans to go forward,” Ingraham said.

The inaction on Obamacare repeal has been perhaps the most damaging factor impacting perceptions of the GOP’s ability to govern. Moderate Republicans and their conservative colleagues have been unable to agree on a path forward. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell plans to release a revised version later this week.

“You have two or three senators who are liberal Republicans, who are happy with expanded Medicare and have become, frankly, like a lot of these governor guys. They’ve become like drug addicts. You have to wean them off of their narcotics with something like methadone or something because they became addicted to expansion of Medicaid dollars,” Ingraham said. “So the states are addicted to the federal dollars. The federal dollars are drying up, and health care costs have got to come down. If they don’t, forget it.” (go to page 2 to continue reading)[lz_pagination]