Conservatives support Mulvaney as permanent because they know no one else would want this stinking’ job.
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Quid: CoS
Quo: pardon
Cui bono : Trump
Quod rem: coverup
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The letter praises Mulvaney for being “the most successful chief of staff in this administration to advance the Trump pro-America agenda,” …
Hell, even I might agree with that.
However, I’m sure that we would disagree on whether or not this so-called “pro-America agenda” actually benefits our country.
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Those are the ones who are always and inexplicably given the login credentials to their boss’s social media accounts, right?
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Mulvaney support?
Is that like a Mick Strap?
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More like what he’ll say about what he knows. Mulva showed us all last week what is possible when he runs his mouth.
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No he doesn’t - those were the decisions of the producers. Shithead just delivered the line.
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There was an odd tweet from Maggie Haberman of NYT about there being a fight between Mulvaney and the WH Counsel about his staying.
I interpret that as follows (fwiw…pure speculation):
Javanka want Mulvaney out. They’ve wanted this for a while. They also feel like Trump needs a fall guy, one who is big enough that it ‘plays’ to satisfy the media and political climate (similar to this season of HBO’s Succession). But it also appears that the WH Counsel’s office wants him to go too.
Mulvaney is looking to stay in b/c the alternatives aren’t great for him. His public career is probably ruined and he might face jail or be dubbed a turncoat and ostracized from GOP land forever.
However, Trump needs a fall guy. If he gets rid of Mulvaney, he can blame him in the process and tell folks he was ill served and it’s all good now. The problem with that obviously is whether you’re talking about Barr, Mulvaney, Pompeo, Sondland or Rudy, each of them managed (manages) a prong of Trump’s illicit conspiracy to solicit a bribe from the Ukrainian gov’t by way of extortion, but it all redounds to Trump. He’s the center of it all. He directed it all. There’s nothing Trump did that was legal and there are no illegal acts committed here that weren’t authorized and directed by Trump.
In fact, so many big GOP figures and their very party establishment (wait until the Parnas/Fruman + inaugural fund and other scandals come out) are at risk, that they’d actually all be better off if Trump were the one to take the fall.
That Mulvaney needs this show of support tells you Trump is contemplating firing him. The WH Counsel’s office probably believes that Mulvaney made a clear cut violation of law when he froze the military aid (it’s why he mentioned it in the presser and almost called it ‘a little bit illegal’). I think WH Counsel gave him and Trump a breakdown. To circle the wagons around Trump, they need a fall guy. Even Graham said that while he doesn’t think the phone call is impeachable he also said that he’s not saying Trump didn’t do anything wrong. Oh really? What did he do wrong? Well, Mulvaney did it. Trump’s error is that it happened on his watch but Mulvaney is the primarily responsible party. It might play in GOP land…for a few weeks until the next shoe drops.
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Also want to comment on Josh’s editorial. I don’t think I quite agree with it. ‘The GOP is a failed state and Donald Trump is its warlord’ is a fairly accurate description of the GOP circa 2015-18, but that’s not been the case in 2019. Trump is responsible for losing the House and 2 key Senate seats in AZ/NV. He’s the one who can’t manage better than a 41% approval rating amidst a good economy. He’s the one that torched some key GOP constituencies with an unnecessary trade war. He’s the one that has made gun control, Obamacare, immigration and immigrants more popular. He’s the one who has burdened them with the Russia, Ukraine and emolument scandals. He’s damaged their brand. He’s the reason that Texas’ path to purple status is accelerating.
I believe that if the GOP did find a way to force Trump’s resignation behind the scenes, most would forget about him after 3 months and they’d go back to focusing on stopping Dems and getting more judges through. I put the chances of resignation at 33%, that means there’s a 67% chance that he gets impeached but isn’t removed from office. However, I think it’s much more plausible to think that the GOP could kick Trump to the curb and recover fairly quickly. They’d probably be in the minority for a few years, but they’re headed that way now with Trump. I believe there is a minority of Republicans who believe this. That view could take hold more quickly as more information comes to light.
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Why are they trying to send a letter to someone who can’t read?
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We saw what happened last time they tried this…
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None of these people (to use that word somewhat loosely) is a conservative.
They’re far-right-wing nutbar nihilists without a functioning brain cell among them.
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They are just following the lead of House Republicans: they want to institutionalize incompetence.
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The Peter Principle in action.
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In the New Yorker profile about the show, one of the editors who worked on “The Apprentice” said that Trump sometimes “fired” the wrong person.
“The Apprentice” was built around a weekly series of business challenges. At the end of each episode, Trump determined which competitor should be “fired.” But, as Braun explained, Trump was frequently unprepared for these sessions, with little grasp of who had performed well. Sometimes a candidate distinguished herself during the contest only to get fired, on a whim, by Trump. When this happened, Braun said, the editors were often obliged to “reverse engineer” the episode, scouring hundreds of hours of footage to emphasize the few moments when the exemplary candidate might have slipped up, in an attempt to assemble an artificial version of history in which Trump’s shoot-from-the-hip decision made sense. During the making of “The Apprentice,” Burnett conceded that the stories were constructed in this way, saying, “We know each week who has been fired, and, therefore, you’re editing in reverse.” Braun noted that President Trump’s staff seems to have been similarly forced to learn the art of retroactive narrative construction, adding, “I find it strangely validating to hear that they’re doing the same thing in the White House.”
ETA: I want Mark Burnett to be up against the wall when the Revolution comes.
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A great passage in the destructive potential of television.
The show would have done just fine showing off terrible decisions by him that the audience was left scratching their heads over.
And he might just not have gotten as far as he did without that fake aura of being a “good businessman” on TV.
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Yes. I had not watched the show but reading the article (1) made me feel sick, and (2) helped me understand why so many dumb asses think he is a great “businessman”.
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I’m with the cons on keepingMulvaney. First, he’ll continue to embarrass gop. Second, NO ONE wants to be tramp’s chief of staff.
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