Amazing how Republicans can make a kabuki dance look just like a clown-car pile-up - where the audience gets hurt.
And yet, never overestimate Trump, the GOP, or the Freedom Caucus. I have full faith in their inability to govern competently, and every expectation that they’ll manage to shut down the government through the sheer gravitational inertia of wingnut stubbornness and idiocy.
So, tee up one forthcoming “self-own for the ages”.
We pay these fools?
I like the description of their empty posturing as kabuki. All show, no substance.
Over the weekend there were many articles and interviews about the slim list of accomplishments during president* 45’s first 100 days. But if you look at it from his viewpoint, he’s done quite a lot!
He got the government to say there was no conflict with his hotel contract, ivanka got her Chinese trademarks, he got Mar-a-lago established as his southern office, the boys went on a world tour at government expense to set things up. He got the bankers and oilmen and generals and cronies appointed to run the government (into the ground in some cases). In short he got all the mechanics in place for 4 years of graft…the bigliest, greatest graft the world has ever seen.
A real piece o’ work.
Ryan is the most dangerous man in America. Unlike Trump he fools many, and desperately wants to be president.
Tim Mak at The Daily Beast is reporting that there is really no Senate investigation to speak of. They’ve delayed long enough to kill it. The House investigation is dead. And the FBI is admitting to being blackmailed by the Russians, according to the NYTimes, and by people within the department trying to obstruct the investigation, according to Christopher Steele.
Excellent.
Nobody knew governing was this complicated.
If you break it, you own it. Seven words we need to make Republicans aware of.
(Oh and there is no can to kick down the road, I picked it up for recycling money)
If Ryan is a policy wonk, we’re in trouble. As for Trump, the more he doubles down, the more he screws up. Sad + Clueless.
Whatever happens, even if nothing happens, it will be characterized as a win by Trump/Spicer. Up is down, white is black and through the looking glass we go.
What saddens me is how this is playing out in some states. For example, Scott Walker is likely to win another term as governor of Wisconsin because the D’s can’t find a viable candidate. WTF!
I wonder how many potential candidates are staying out of politics in order to avoid the no-holds barred politics of personal destruction.
There’s nothing in one’s past which is exempt from scrutiny if you run as a Dem.
“Kabuki Dance.” Great headline!
Shut it down! Shut it down!
But is it Kabuki or Noh?
There are major similarities to both…
It would be easy to sit back and chuckle about this mess, to pop up a bunch of popcorn and enjoy the show; however, this is our country going down the drain. This is our grandchildrens future being determined. This is the survival of our representative government. Some would say it is the survival of the planet at stake. Georgia’s final vote needs to go D to really wake up the ill informed, uneducated weasels currently setting the agenda.
Paul Ryan shows America he doesn’t even understand how insurance works. At this point in his life.
Sad + Clueless. And Mean. Why should a healthy person pay for a woman who gets Breast Cancer in her 40’s? In Ryan’s America, no healthy person should ever pay for a sick person. Mean to the core.
There’s a story about Ryan going around. He was such a mean greedy piece of garbage in college that he used to go to keg parties and dream about the day when he could throw people off welfare and Medicaid. He was such a loser at 20 that his political dreams had to do with creating a population of destitute Americans.
A “like” for the story, and for Alice Ollstein’s reporting.
I love the phrase “self-own for the ages.” It feels just a bit wishful, by assuming an eventual restoration of sanity that is not exactly guaranteed. But a lot of us are probably feeling a bit wishful right now. Can we please start arresting these criminals already??!!