Rush on the terrible spending bill: "Why is anybody voting Republican, if this is what happens when we win?" - Hot Air Hot Air

Rush on the terrible spending bill: "Why is anybody voting Republican, if this is what happens when we win?" - Hot Air Hot Air:
"It’s a fair question.
I know the headline makes it sound like he’s criticizing Trump, but after a year and a half of Rush applauding him at every turn, you should know better than that by now. 
He sort of criticizes him. 
It’s the special interests who are responsible for this garbage spending bill, he insists, aided and abetted by the corrupt Republican establishment. 
All true enough, but how about the superhero whom America elected to impose his will on Washington and to drain the swamp? 
Does he bear any blame? 
Would Obama bear any blame on conservative talk radio if Democrats controlled Congress during his presidency and produced a bill like this?
Limbaugh concedes that Trump should be more proactive, writing his own legislation and sending it to the Hill. 
But what if, and bear with me here, what if Trump … just doesn’t care much about the details of legislation? 
That might explain why we ended up with a bizarrely anti-populist health-care bill and a series of surreal reversals on core campaign points like NATO’s obsolescence and China’s currency manipulation. 
What if his main concern is popularity, in the form of averting any shutdowns for which he might be blamed, instead of major policy gains?

But the dirty little secret is that there isn’t any evidence that anywhere in Washington is there any aspect of the Trump agenda on display. It doesn’t seem to be that in the House of Representatives that there is a desire to implement any of the Trump agenda. It doesn’t seem in the Senate that there is a desire to implement any of the Trump agenda. It does seem in the House that there is a lot of energy devoted to stopping a Trump agenda. Ditto in the Senate…