usmbguest5318
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Come midnight this Friday, either a spending bill will have been passed and signed, or not. We already have seen rumblings that presage how the "spin" will go if neither a budget bill or continuing resolution is enacted. That is what it is, and mostly mostly what it is is sophistic for one cannot credibly blame "the other party" for government operations' involuntarily (though temporarily) ceasing when one party controls both chambers of Congress and the WH.
But that's not what this thread is about because, quite frankly, I think it a banal and hackneyed theme. It doesn't take much thought or effort to formulate a way and means of "passing the buck." About the only thing easier to do is actually fall off a log.
The thread questions/topic and themes of discussion here are these:
I know what I'd do, but I'm 99.5% certain that's not what Trump and the GOP Congress will do. I would make nothing -- no "spin" and no unrequested mention of having done so -- of getting the bill/resolution passed. If I were POTUS and asked about it, I'd simply say something like "Keeping the government running is part of my and Congress' job. I did my job. So did Congress." That's all I'd say on the matter, and I wouldn't volunteer the remarks. Someone would have to ask me some sort of direct question for which that is a fitting answer.
Why would I handle it that way? Because for my entire life, my accomplishments have spoken for themselves. When one has legitimately accomplished something that one also fully understands the magnitude of that which one accomplished, the mere fact that one did it will loudly speak volumes. At that point, one simply lets others sing one's praises.
FWIW, it's an insanely efficient approach -- one doesn't spend any resources boosting oneself in the eyes of others -- but more interestingly, has much in common with one of the themes of "no money down" investing. Seeing as I know Trump is very familiar with that tactic as it applies to real estate, it surprises me that he's for nearly a century failed to deduce how to apply the idea to one of the other things he highly values: self promotion and image creation. For people having big egos, leaving much unsaid produces far more fulfilling "ego stroking" than does screaming one's own praises from the highest mountain, so to speak.
But that's not what this thread is about because, quite frankly, I think it a banal and hackneyed theme. It doesn't take much thought or effort to formulate a way and means of "passing the buck." About the only thing easier to do is actually fall off a log.
The thread questions/topic and themes of discussion here are these:
- How do you predict Trump and his Congress will "spin" it if they do enact a spending bill?
- How would you handle the matter were you the POTUS?
I know what I'd do, but I'm 99.5% certain that's not what Trump and the GOP Congress will do. I would make nothing -- no "spin" and no unrequested mention of having done so -- of getting the bill/resolution passed. If I were POTUS and asked about it, I'd simply say something like "Keeping the government running is part of my and Congress' job. I did my job. So did Congress." That's all I'd say on the matter, and I wouldn't volunteer the remarks. Someone would have to ask me some sort of direct question for which that is a fitting answer.
Why would I handle it that way? Because for my entire life, my accomplishments have spoken for themselves. When one has legitimately accomplished something that one also fully understands the magnitude of that which one accomplished, the mere fact that one did it will loudly speak volumes. At that point, one simply lets others sing one's praises.
FWIW, it's an insanely efficient approach -- one doesn't spend any resources boosting oneself in the eyes of others -- but more interestingly, has much in common with one of the themes of "no money down" investing. Seeing as I know Trump is very familiar with that tactic as it applies to real estate, it surprises me that he's for nearly a century failed to deduce how to apply the idea to one of the other things he highly values: self promotion and image creation. For people having big egos, leaving much unsaid produces far more fulfilling "ego stroking" than does screaming one's own praises from the highest mountain, so to speak.