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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIn the very worst of presidencies, there were always a few good guys.
In addition to administration people who turned out to be good guys, there was also a Congress that, even as there were terrible partisans, had more good guys than bad guys, even if you didn't agree with them..
Look where we are now.
I can't think of even one good guy who Two Scoops has appointed.
I find pretty much every well known congressional GOPeer to be Not A Good Guy.
Really, even in the Reagan and Little Boots eras - hell, even in the Nixon era - we were in nowhere near as dire straits as we are now.
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In the very worst of presidencies, there were always a few good guys. (Original Post)
Stinky The Clown
Jun 2017
OP
Was going to also mention him but knew his background was controversial. nt
BumRushDaShow
Jun 2017
#4
Any officer on the command staff (colonel or higher) during Shocking and
KingCharlemagne
Jun 2017
#5
dalton99a
(81,515 posts)1. They have nothing but crap that has risen to the top
BumRushDaShow
(129,096 posts)2. Some thought that McMaster would have been helpful
but he has been slimed and is swimming in the swamp with the rest of them now.
KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)3. Then there's "Mad Dog" Mattis, whose war crimes in Fallujah in 2004
would disqualify from office in more normal times but who now seems a stand-in for sanity.
BumRushDaShow
(129,096 posts)4. Was going to also mention him but knew his background was controversial. nt
KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)5. Any officer on the command staff (colonel or higher) during Shocking and
Awful should be tried for war crimes, imo.
BumRushDaShow
(129,096 posts)6. THIS
dalton99a
(81,515 posts)7. +1