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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Weekly Standard "gives up" on Two Scoops
It's a good summary of the first 6 months.
Playing Defense
"So far, the president is the picture of a failed leader. His administration is a disaster.
In just the past two weeks, Trump only reluctantly signed a Russia sanctions bill that passed overwhelmingly in both houses of Congress (98-2 in the Senate, 419-3 in the House). He tweeted a policy reversal on transgender individuals serving in the U.S. military that neither the Joint Chiefs of Staff nor the secretary of defense knew was coming. He allowed his communications director falsely to accuse his chief of staff of committing a felony by supposedly leaking a document that was already officially publicand then, after the fallout consumed his administration, dismissed them both. He repeatedly attacked his attorney general for his necessary decision to recuse himself from the probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election. He gave a highly inappropriate speech to 40,000 boys participating in the Boy Scouts 20th National Jamboreea speech for which the organization felt compelled to apologize. He followed that up with a speech to law enforcement officials in which he suggested it was okay to rough up accused criminals. Police departments across the country and the acting director of the Drug Enforcement Administration publicly rebuked the president.
These sorts of fiascos and misadventures began the moment this presidency began, with the new presidents bizarre insistence that his inaugural crowds were larger than Barack Obamas. Despite majorities in both houses of Congress, his policy agenda is at a standstill. Hundreds of high-level positions throughout the administration remain unfilled. Members of Congress report to us that the president cant hold a conversation at even a rudimentary level about issues supposedly high on the presidents agendatax reform, for instance, and health care. He lies about matters both large and small and is obsessed with perceived slights in the news media."
http://www.weeklystandard.com/playing-defense/article/2009135#!
MichMary
(1,714 posts)The Weekly Standard or National Review, or possibly both, that was NEVER on board with Hair Fuehrer, so this isn't a huge surprise.
EL34x4
(2,003 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)with the help of the russian mobs, one had the sense it would begin and end in utter ugly - with lots of KGOP pissing on the best of American democracy.
winetourdriver01
(1,154 posts)The Fourth Reich does seem to be off to a rocky start...
Sneederbunk
(14,291 posts)QED
(2,747 posts)but didn't truly understand the price they paid. They own this clusterf*ck.
The GOP hasn't had a soul since LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act and the GOP decided to go all in as the party of hate.
oasis
(49,389 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)They thought they could direct tRump and that he would happily use his negotiating "skills" to advance their agenda.
Trump (Republican) has really only advanced in any lasting meaningful way only one part of their agenda: Appointing conservative judges rapidly and abundantly.
bucolic_frolic
(43,176 posts)can't get fat when you work so hard. more butterfat is good for your arteries
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)dalton99a
(81,515 posts)underpants
(182,826 posts)I think it was the Weekly Standard.
dalton99a
(81,515 posts)underpants
(182,826 posts)Thanks.
KG
(28,751 posts)why did they expect him to suddenly become a rational human being?
Skittles
(153,169 posts)assholes, all of them
I do not trust ANYONE who ever fooled by Donald Fucking Trump
Eyeball_Kid
(7,432 posts)The Russians love the chaos, and the fact that they've got Trumpy by the balls, because they can expand territory and resources with little cost to themselves. The Fanboys wanted chaos because they're just stupid fucks who think that chaos is freedom and taxes are slavery. Brilliant.
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)Be careful of what you wish for, you might just get it. Well, they got it all and can't do a damn thing with it.
Mountain Mule
(1,002 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,442 posts)A shitload of Congress Critters are experiencing tight sphincter muscles thinking about the albatross they are saddled with.
salin
(48,955 posts)from the sentence: Members of Congress report to us that the president cant hold a conversation at even a rudimentary level about issues supposedly high on the presidents agendatax reform, for instance, and health care.
Trump: I am not Rude. I am the least Rude person in the world. I have the world's best mood. Lyin' fake weeklystandard. Sad.
(of course he won't understand they are calling him an uneducable moron.)
QED
(2,747 posts)Two Scoops is out of his league.
Eyeball_Kid
(7,432 posts)Katie Johnson won't forget. Nor will those who knew "Maria". And Eric Schneiderman will bring it all home with one of his GJs that's targeting Trumpy's Model Management and Escort companies.
And let's not forget this one happy fact: Trumpy's business has just been granted a trademark for a Trumpy ESCORT service in... wait for it... CHINA! Now that's what the Fanboys call "Presidential"!
Danascot
(4,690 posts)but not as much fun!
MiddleClass
(888 posts)This is ominous
RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)Unfortunately, not enough of Trump's base reads the Weekly Standard, probably. And I'm not sure if they'd be swayed by these arguments anyway.
But someone - forget who - floated the idea a while back that if we could get that Loser narrative going, that's something that would erode his support. Bigly.