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Today’s another in which news reports clearly illustrate the huge gap between a rudderless leftist agenda and the practical realities of effective Republican leadership.

On one side, California Democrat  Rep., Maxine Waters, has risen in status. She was  recently declared as "the newest hero of the anti-Trump” movement by leftist website BuzzFeed and an “icon of the Trump resistance” by MSNBC. 

According to Pam Key @breitbart.com, “on Tuesday evening in Los Angeles at the Westchester-Playa Democratic Club, while discussing President Donald Trump’s budget, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) said she hoped Trump is impeached so he cannot build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border."

Waters said, “We are in church you all. We have got to do what God would have us do. And I believe we are the kind of people that would do that. So I’m hoping and praying the wall will never be built and if we impeach him we know it is not going to get built.” 

What stands out about Waters denunciation of Trump is the consistency with the Democrat agenda of hostility toward the new POTUS with not a hint of positive alternatives of their own. 

The Democrat approach, however, does seem to be working effectively elsewhere. That can be seen in several other items today that indicate while Republican voters don’t traditionally involve themselves in politics until actual election days draw near, it appears that the dramatic upward change of the nation’s direction since Trump’s election has made them aware of his continual need for their support.       

And as reported by Mark Hensch @thehill.com, those voters are delivering whereas: “The Republican National Committee on Friday announced it raised $41.5 million in the first three months of 2017, its strongest-ever total for the first quarter following a presidential race. 

“Our record-setting fundraising pace has been fueled by grassroots enthusiasm for President Trump and the Republican Party,” RNC Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel said in a statement. 

“The RNC is in a strong position to make an impact in key races in 2017 and 2018 as we plan to take a leading role in preserving our congressional majorities and prepare to reelect President Trump in 2020.” 

“The RNC said it brought in $12.2 million in March, breaking its record for biggest haul in the March after a presidential race. The committee has $41.4 million total cash on hand. 

“RNC finance chairman Steve Wynn said the robust totals are proof voters approve of Trump and the GOP majorities in both chambers of Congress.” 

While the rising economic tide in the U.S. is welcomed heartily by the public, others elsewhere are enthused by Trump as well.  

Pete Kasperowicz writes @washingtonexaminer.com today, that: “Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday welcomed the more aggressive foreign policy stance taken by President Trump, and said that change from President Obama's position is greatly "appreciated" by Israel.

"We sense a great change in the direction of American policy," Netanyahu said in a joint press appearance with Defense Secretary James Mattis. 

"We noted the very clear and forthright words, Mr. Secretary, that you had to say about Iran," Netanyahu said. "This follows very strong and forthright words on the part of President Trump, and very forthright deeds against the use of chemical weapons by Iran's proxy, Syria." 

"This has been appreciated around the world and in our region," Netanyahu said. "I think this is welcome change, a strategic change of American leadership and American policy." 

In this case, while Trump's decision to bomb Syrian assets weapons against its own people was seen as a long-over due step by Republicans, “even many Democrats” are quite pleased as well. They envision it as an enforcement of President Obama's "red line" that he never enforced himself. 

At the same time, the European Union’s opinion of Trump has changed significantly toward the positive as well. 

Howard Schneider and Jan Strupczewski, Reuters reporters @ca.news.yahoo.com via Drudge inform us that Trump’s important initial decisions have been far more centrist than might have been expected by European policy-makers. “The European Union's commissioner for economic and financial affairs, Pierre Moscovici, summed up a widely shared sentiment as he highlighted how two people at the top of Trump's economic team - Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Gary Cohn, director of the National Economic Council - have curbed the worst fears over the young U.S. presidency.” 

Moscovici told Reuters in an interview: "We have the feeling that Mnuchin and Cohn are sensible people with whom we can discuss things, who are conscious of what an open economy requires." 

And then, most surprisingly it was further reported that: “The European Union's view of a more pragmatic administration was shared by Mexico, which attracted some of Trump's greatest ire. Trump's threat to impose punitive tariffs on Mexican exports sent the peso currency tumbling, but it has since recovered. 

“Mexico's finance undersecretary, Vanessa Rubio Marquez, said discussions with the Trump administration so far have become "anchored" around a handful of issues "that Mexico would be able to deal with." 

"There is still a lot of uncertainty," she said in a seminar on Wednesday. But "dialogue has been more structured, more constant." 

Following the article, readers once again demonstrated that the general public is also well aware of what’s transpiring in the nation’s economy.  

Reader Al commented: “Well, we now have a President that actually understands business rather than a person who was (and is) not qualified to be an assistant manager at a Taco Bell.”

Charlie added: “Trump approval rating up to 50%. Voters are sticking with him despite the propaganda the media is pumping out.” 

Joseph opined: “This is only news to moron liberals. Trump voters understood what he was doing on the campaign. For liberals who have never held jobs - its called negotiation -- something normal Americans have to do day in an day out.” 

Then peter offered a premise fitting for the close of today’s posting which began quoting Maxine Waters: “I think we Americans have just found that professional politicians are not the best choice for America.” 

That’s it for today folks. 

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