usmbguest5318
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For the benefit of the "peanut gallery," let's get this out of the way, nothing I'm saying has anything to do with liberal or conservative. It has to do with one's, my if not your, recognizing a mess when I see it. Even conservative observers, at least the ones who are both intelligent and have some measure of integrity, can recognize a mess when they see it, and in turn say so. And it's not just the WH that's dysfunctional.
As one conservative writer, Neah Lekan, put it:
Politics has always been about image, but now the election of the ultimate image of American corporate and personal luxury, Donald J. Trump, has helped to turn the political arena sharply away from policy.
Our political discourse has been colored by a new kind of distortion of reality, one that, whether you are liberal or conservative, is detrimental to continued policy discussions. The Trump Administration has played into these new politics of distortion as has the media. It is this distortion of facts in favor of sound-bytes, of substantive policy in favor of rhetorical posturing, that has lead to perhaps the greatest ill effect of this administration. My family has been a conservative one for generations, and yet we traditional conservatives of the Republican Party have found ourselves hard-pressed to agree with or justify some of the administration’s policies.
Turned "sharply away from policy!" If that didn't yield a mare's nest during the campaign, it unequivocally does now when the time to govern is past nigh.
Trump today tweeted that there's no chaos in the WH. Really? To believe that, one needs more willing suspension of disbelief than I can muster. Did you write that tweet while at a seance with a swami channeling Taylor Coleridge, Donald? Maybe you're channeling him yourself? To wit...
As one conservative writer, Neah Lekan, put it:
Politics has always been about image, but now the election of the ultimate image of American corporate and personal luxury, Donald J. Trump, has helped to turn the political arena sharply away from policy.
Our political discourse has been colored by a new kind of distortion of reality, one that, whether you are liberal or conservative, is detrimental to continued policy discussions. The Trump Administration has played into these new politics of distortion as has the media. It is this distortion of facts in favor of sound-bytes, of substantive policy in favor of rhetorical posturing, that has lead to perhaps the greatest ill effect of this administration. My family has been a conservative one for generations, and yet we traditional conservatives of the Republican Party have found ourselves hard-pressed to agree with or justify some of the administration’s policies.
Turned "sharply away from policy!" If that didn't yield a mare's nest during the campaign, it unequivocally does now when the time to govern is past nigh.
Trump today tweeted that there's no chaos in the WH. Really? To believe that, one needs more willing suspension of disbelief than I can muster. Did you write that tweet while at a seance with a swami channeling Taylor Coleridge, Donald? Maybe you're channeling him yourself? To wit...
- Scaramucci -- As if "The Mooch's" vulgar diatribes last week weren't enough...:
I had a few friends and acquaintances over for brunch yesterday where gauche guffaws broke out about "The Mooch's" apparent affinity for a gay porn performer. I'd forgotten about it until just now hearing that Mooch is gone for the WH staff. Lo and behold, Mooch does/did indeed follow the performer. Maybe he has a "thing" just for Blake Mitchell? What is one to say of that? Mooch is young-ish, reasonably handsome and very wealthy; he can probably get away with being choosey about porn performers in whom he expresses interest. ??? (It's not clear to me that "The Mooch" follows any other porn performers. One website ascribes his doing so to his fascination with Superman, whom the performer is reputed to resemble.)
Perhaps it's just as well, at least for Republicans. Were "The Mooch" to stay, surely chaos would have ensued given his "charismatic" personality and his singular attention to Mitchell. I think it'd be more fitting to say there'll be less chaos with "The Mooch" gone....Maybe that's what Trump meant by his remark???
That notwithstanding, it's clear Trump's team still have not learned how to vette people. Do they even bother doing so?
- Kelly says that in protest against the Comey firing, he was on the verge of resigning from his DHS Secretary role
- Russia is now showing Trump about as much loyalty as he shows his staff.
- Trump's one-sided battle to remove his Atty. General, a guy who stuck his neck out for Trump well ahead of any other Republicans doing so.
- Trump issues empty platitude regarding the DPRK. It will be handled Trump claims. Yeah, and "mistakes were made." At the rate Trump's going, it'll be handed by the North Koreans, and much as it already has been thus far, quite to their satisfaction. Any wagers on how long before their next ICBM launch? Will the next one be a test, or will it actually explode somewhere over the U.S?
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