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Donald, This I Will Tell You

Discussion in 'Political Debate & Discussion' started by Crabtownboy, Mar 27, 2017.

  1. Crabtownboy

    Crabtownboy Well-Known Member
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    The following editorial is an instant classic in the Will Rodgers tradition. Go to the following link to read the entire editorial. Enjoy and laugh.

    WASHINGTON — Dear Donald,

    We’ve known each other a long time, so I think I can be blunt.

    You know how you said at campaign rallies that you did not like being identified as a politician?

    Don’t worry. No one will ever mistake you for a politician.

    After this past week, they won’t even mistake you for a top-notch negotiator.

    I was born here. The first image in my memory bank is the Capitol, all lit up at night. And my primary observation about Washington is this: Unless you’re careful, you end up turning into what you started out scorning.

    And you, Donald, are getting a reputation as a sucker. And worse, a sucker who is a tool of the D.C. establishment.

    Your whole campaign was mocking your rivals and the D.C. elite, jawing about how Americans had turned into losers, with our bad deals and open borders and the Obamacare “disaster.”

    And you were going to fly in on your gilded plane and fix all that in a snap.

    You mused that a good role model would be Ronald Reagan. As you saw it, Reagan was a big, good-looking guy with a famous pompadour; he had also been a Democrat and an entertainer. But Reagan had one key quality that you don’t have: He knew what he didn’t know.

    You both resembled Macy’s Thanksgiving Day balloons, floating above the nitty-gritty and focusing on a few big thoughts. But President Reagan was confident enough to accept that he needed experts below, deftly maneuvering the strings.

    You’re just careering around on your own, crashing into buildings and losing altitude, growling at the cameras and spewing nasty conspiracy theories, instead of offering a sunny smile, bipartisanship, optimism and professionalism.

    You promised to get the best people around you in the White House, the best of the best. In fact, “best” is one of your favorite words.

    Instead, you dragged that motley skeleton crew into the White House and let them create a feuding, leaking, belligerent, conspiratorial, sycophantic atmosphere. Instead of a smooth, classy operator like James Baker, you have a Manichaean anarchist in Steve Bannon.

    You knew the Republicans were full of hot air. They haven’t had to pass anything in a long time, and they have no aptitude for governing. To paraphrase an old Barney Frank line, asking the Republicans to govern is like asking Frank to judge the Miss America contest — “If your heart’s not in it, you don’t do a very good job.”

    You knew that Paul Ryan’s vaunted reputation as a policy wonk was fake news. Republicans have been running on repealing and replacing Obamacare for years and they never even bothered to come up with a valid alternative.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/25/opinion/sunday/donald-this-i-will-tell-you.html
     
  2. MennoSota

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    Some more pompous attitude from the progressive left wing.
    These types of editorials hurt progressives when it comes to hearing their ideas. It's really no different than the extreme right wing that posted racist comments about President Obama. In both situations the only people strutting around like roosters is the writer and the small radical group that thinks the article is of any value.
     
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  3. Crabtownboy

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    The comic truth hurts, doesn't it?
     
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    The slim challenged lady has yet to sing!
    :)
    HankD
     
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    No one will confuse me as being an advocate or supporter of President Trump, but this is not constructive. There is truth here - that Trump needs to realize that he is not competent to govern without significant expert assistance and advisors and that he needs to LISTEN TO THEM and trust their judgment enough to follow their advice in most circumstances.
     
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  6. Lewis

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    Enjoy the gloating from NY Times CTB. Good for you and the Times.

    I seem to recall that "the most intelligent president ever", Barrack Hussein Obama, failed to get his signature issue Cap and Trade passed early in his administration. At a time when Dems controlled the executive and both houses of Congress. Hmm, it didn't seem to impact the rest of his term, and his supporters certainly didn't think of it as a fiasco. Just politics as usual.
     
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    It looks like President Trump is being abandoned by the RNC itself apart from the close and tight handful of his cabinet and WH loyalists.

    He will have to go it alone as an independent distributed populist soon perhaps to be a quantitative populist in spite of the fake polls.

    HankD
     
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    Or maybe just certain factions. Tex Representative Poe of the Freedom Caucus resigned from that caucus saying that it continued to move the goalposts on the healthcare legislation. He says, "There comes a time when you have to say Yes" - LINK
     
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    It seems come heck or high water the Republican Party remains the party of NO!

    HankD
     
  10. Lewis

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    There is no lack of hard-headedness among politicians as a general rule.
     
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    Let's get real.
    Did the health care proposal look ANYTHING like what the president promised on the campaign trail?
    He promised, cheaper, cover more, and everyone would be covered. The Ryan plan was going to increase the debt, increase costs, cover less and cover fewer people. It was going to provide a huge tax break for the wealthiest Americans while increasing costs and decreasing coverage on the middle class and the poor. He can say he repudiates Ayn Rand and he can claim to be a faithful Catholic but his actions show he is a dog eat dog Randian.

    The Republican Party won by seeing the Ryan plan go down in flames. If it had passed, there would have been a tidal wave of seats lost in 2018.
     
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