Yep that competent āmoderateā is what is holding Trump and his administration back. Mick is right, he needs more like Stephen Miller. Energetic stupid people who donāt know how to listen or think, but āimposeā their will at every opportunity, and accomplish exactly nothing.
Yep. We donā want no stinkinā moderates here.
The Brown Shirts are in charge and Shitler is cool with it.
Canāt get him out fast enough, as far as I am concerned.
If she does go, Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney will reportedly try to fill her spot with a more aggressive figure.
This surprises no one. As long as that person doesnāt try to get on newscasts, itāll be great. Canāt have competition with the boss for clicks and air time.
If she truly is a moderating influence, she obviously is having zero impact on Spanky so why hang around? She may be able to get a job outside this dumpster fire of an administration if she gets out now.
If she does go, Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney will reportedly try to fill her spot with a more aggressive figure.
I guess Mulvaney will have to make a trip down to the strip mall.
<img src="/uploads/default/original/4X/0/b/2/0b2f9339d15187d083ba977366b1baf95e9c72df.png" width="450" height="254">Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney
Has this been made permanent? I was under the impression he was still one of our āactorsā
If she does go, Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney will reportedly try to fill her spot himself.
Yep, thatās a Trump denial for you. A few folks vigorously denying the reports while the others brag at how the replacement will be tons better than the loser headed out the door.
Well, sheās a she, so thatās surely a problem for the Trump team. If Mulvaney + Miller + Jarvanka really constitutes a āteam.ā
When Nero was āfiddlingā at this Antium Ranch outside Rome during the Great Fire of 64 AD, he had already lost his aide Burrus, likely to poison, a couple years earlier. Without his stabilizer, well, things didnāt go particularly well for the Empire. Maybe Bannon or Mattis was supposed to be Burrus, but these exits remind us that we may need to go back a couple millennia to find parallels to the current chaos. And, of course, while these characters leave the stage, we havenāt seen a power behind the throne show his or herself, the modern equivalent of Agrippina, Neroās last remaining adviser, going at it with Trump.
Quiet retirement did not suit Agrippina and she never accepted it. She agitated against Nero constantly, setting up factions of senators still loyal to her and trying to use Britannicus as a threat against him. Eventually, Nero decided to kill her, because as emperor he could. Suetonius claims that Nero attempted a number of entertainly elaborate schemes to have her killed, including a collapsing roof in her bedroom and a collapsing boat that would toss her into the sea and drown her. Unfortunately for Nero, Agrippina was both canny and an excellent swimmer so he was forced to resort to low measures: sending a soldier to stab her.
Also this ā¦
Seems like a good time to get the hell out of Dodge
ETA This Gem:
So, roughly the same percent of the adult population that put Trump in office.
Beginning to notice the same numbers time after time.
These are the minions, folks. Nothing he does will shake their faith in him,
You nailed this. Some people have compared Donald Trump with a realty television show producerā¦he canāt get out of that mode. Now I understand why he keeps giving people acting titles. He is the producer and they are the actorsā¦
How does one measure an āeffectiveā legislative director with this mob? How difficult can it be to simply follow the cons in the Senate. Letās see how she does with the House.
Thanks, but my point was really that with all the people jumping ship or being thrown overboard, there are quite a number of acting heads of agencies right now. Acting Attorney General, Acting Defense Secretary, Acting CoS, ā¦
Knight is considered a relatively competent and moderate voice within the Trump circle,ā¦
In this case āmoderateā means sheās a John Bircher vs. whatever Stephen Miller is.
I think itās time for senior members of the Democratic caucus with some standing (like Feinstein, Durbin, Warner etc) to walk into McConnellās office, bring a bottle of whiskey and talk to him about what he really wants and hopes to get out of this shutdown.
The truth is that by hewing so closely to Trump, he has significantly raised the negatives for all of his Senate incumbents running for re-election and has all but guaranteed that they will face very well funded, quality challengers in a year that will likely be a good climate for Democrats. Already, Stacey Abrams looks like she will enter the GA-Senate race and her favorables are the best that any Dem has had in that state in a long while. She has elevated herself from underdog, probably to a slight favorite. She has already softened up the white electorate in GA to accept a quality black candidate. Sheās going to do better among white voters in 2020. If she does, Perdue is not a favorite to win.
The other thing is that sticking with Trump on this shutdown hasnāt helped him much either. Heās sinking, and heās sinking with movable white voters. Our party has won the popular vote in 5 of the last 6 elections. Weāre likely to do so again in 2020. Now, if you give our side more white voters in strategic locations like the midwest, weāre going to run over Trump in 2020.
And letās just say for the sake of argument that Dems listen to worry warts in the media like Mike brezinsk, Jake Tapperi or others who say, ājust give Trump his wallā or āTrump compromised with his bad faith offer, so why donāt you give him his wall.ā, would the GOP be better off? No. People would still hate them for having done this to get something that will not be built and will be a wasteful boondoggle.
Mitch needs someone to keep it real with him. Thereās no one on the GOP side able to do that. Theyāre all wimps.