Trump: the Art of Incompetence

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In a Republic, actually
‘The Trump administration is increasingly showing itself to be breathtakingly incompetent, and that’s the real lesson of the collapse of the G.O.P. health care bill. The administration proved unable to organize its way out of a paper bag: After seven years of Republicans’ publicly loathing Obamacare, their repeal-replace bill failed after 18 days.

Politics sometimes rewards braggarts, and Trump is a world-class boaster. He promised a health care plan that would be “unbelievable,” “beautiful,” “terrific,” “less expensive and much better,” “insurance for everybody.” But he’s abysmal at delivering — because the basic truth is that he’s an effective politician who’s utterly incompetent at governing.

It’s sometimes said that politicians campaign in poetry and govern in prose. Trump campaigns in braggadocio and governs in bombast.’

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/24/opinion/sunday/trumps-triumph-of-incompetence.html?_r=0

And Trump’s incompetence is compounded by his reprehensible attempt to ‘blame’ Democrats for the failure of truly bad legislation, and his desire to see millions of Americans lose access to affordable healthcare.
 
Negotiations 101: The best deals you can make are the ones you walk away from...and then get them with better terms.
 
‘The Trump administration is increasingly showing itself to be breathtakingly incompetent, and that’s the real lesson of the collapse of the G.O.P. health care bill. The administration proved unable to organize its way out of a paper bag: After seven years of Republicans’ publicly loathing Obamacare, their repeal-replace bill failed after 18 days.

Politics sometimes rewards braggarts, and Trump is a world-class boaster. He promised a health care plan that would be “unbelievable,” “beautiful,” “terrific,” “less expensive and much better,” “insurance for everybody.” But he’s abysmal at delivering — because the basic truth is that he’s an effective politician who’s utterly incompetent at governing.

It’s sometimes said that politicians campaign in poetry and govern in prose. Trump campaigns in braggadocio and governs in bombast.’

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/24/opinion/sunday/trumps-triumph-of-incompetence.html?_r=0

And Trump’s incompetence is compounded by his reprehensible attempt to ‘blame’ Democrats for the failure of truly bad legislation, and his desire to see millions of Americans lose access to affordable healthcare.
says the guy who breathtakingly never answers what is asked of him about what he posts.....care to breathtakingly reply jones?.....
 
Ah...Jonesy sources the NY Slimes.....no partisan bs there at all.

Soon they will finally go belly up and America will have one less left loon rag
 
‘The Trump administration is increasingly showing itself to be breathtakingly incompetent, and that’s the real lesson of the collapse of the G.O.P. health care bill. The administration proved unable to organize its way out of a paper bag: After seven years of Republicans’ publicly loathing Obamacare, their repeal-replace bill failed after 18 days.

Politics sometimes rewards braggarts, and Trump is a world-class boaster. He promised a health care plan that would be “unbelievable,” “beautiful,” “terrific,” “less expensive and much better,” “insurance for everybody.” But he’s abysmal at delivering — because the basic truth is that he’s an effective politician who’s utterly incompetent at governing.

It’s sometimes said that politicians campaign in poetry and govern in prose. Trump campaigns in braggadocio and governs in bombast.’

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/24/opinion/sunday/trumps-triumph-of-incompetence.html?_r=0

And Trump’s incompetence is compounded by his reprehensible attempt to ‘blame’ Democrats for the failure of truly bad legislation, and his desire to see millions of Americans lose access to affordable healthcare.

The post has merit...if you don't lose sight of the fact that this kind of "politicking" only works on/against extremely weak opposition [none of this would have worked on a Kerry or Biden type candidate] then the democrats have a real shot at turning things around.
 
‘The Trump administration is increasingly showing itself to be breathtakingly incompetent, and that’s the real lesson of the collapse of the G.O.P. health care bill. The administration proved unable to organize its way out of a paper bag: After seven years of Republicans’ publicly loathing Obamacare, their repeal-replace bill failed after 18 days.

Politics sometimes rewards braggarts, and Trump is a world-class boaster. He promised a health care plan that would be “unbelievable,” “beautiful,” “terrific,” “less expensive and much better,” “insurance for everybody.” But he’s abysmal at delivering — because the basic truth is that he’s an effective politician who’s utterly incompetent at governing.

It’s sometimes said that politicians campaign in poetry and govern in prose. Trump campaigns in braggadocio and governs in bombast.’

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/24/opinion/sunday/trumps-triumph-of-incompetence.html?_r=0

And Trump’s incompetence is compounded by his reprehensible attempt to ‘blame’ Democrats for the failure of truly bad legislation, and his desire to see millions of Americans lose access to affordable healthcare.
I honesty can't disagree with everything you stated, just most of it. It isn't nearly as causational as you present it. The free market of "bad apple" insurance was stripped out each year that O-care was in place. It is a fundamentally stark market for getting out of the hc exchanges into what was in 2009 a viable option. Should the the GOP have taken measures to restore the market place before attempting to foist their horrible bill upon us... Yes absolutely.
 
Remember that whole 'constitutionality' hubbub from 7-8 years ago... forcing citizens to buy a 'goods' / service... Have we devolved to the point where that is no longer an issue?
 

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