The First Hundred Days - disaster or success?
He may not have gotten his legislative agenda on track but he has gotten a lot done.
To not recognize this is to hide ones head in the sand, a Pollyanna viewpoint.
We have a very regressive cabinet, a new regressive SC Justice, and the dismantling of EPA regulations, labor and consumer protections with a new Justice department cheering on and enabling these policies.
What good are consumer rules, EPA rules, Labor laws or equal rights protections when we have a Justice department that will "reinterpret" the rules or simply not enforce them?
BG9 said:
He may not have gotten his legislative agenda on track but he has gotten a lot done.
To not recognize this is to hide ones head in the sand, a Pollyanna viewpoint.
We have a very regressive cabinet, a new regressive SC Justice, and the dismantling of EPA regulations, labor and consumer protections with a new Justice department cheering on and enabling these policies.
What good are consumer rules, EPA rules, Labor laws or equal rights protections when we have a Justice department that will "reinterpret" the rules or simply not enforce them?
So both a disaster and success.
a disastrous success. And of course, BG9 is correct. He is well on his way to dismantling the federal government.
LOST said:
BG9 said:
He may not have gotten his legislative agenda on track but he has gotten a lot done.
To not recognize this is to hide ones head in the sand, a Pollyanna viewpoint.
We have a very regressive cabinet, a new regressive SC Justice, and the dismantling of EPA regulations, labor and consumer protections with a new Justice department cheering on and enabling these policies.
What good are consumer rules, EPA rules, Labor laws or equal rights protections when we have a Justice department that will "reinterpret" the rules or simply not enforce them?
So both a disaster and success.
drummerboy said:
a disastrous success. And of course, BG9 is correct. He is well on his way to dismantling the federal government.
I wouldn't say dismantling.
He'll strengthen the federal government to make it a more proactive and effective tool for the forced implementation of his policies.
Not the policies he speaks of to his base, but the business and big money friendly policies of people desired by the Goldman Sachs executives and lobbyists he's appointed.
Think states rights and local home rule will be honored by his administration? Only in a token manner when they agree with him. The sanctuary communities already see on how much their self-determination rights are respected when there is disagreement.
well, some of what he's doing is definitely in the dismantling vein, from appointing people like DeVos and Price and many others, to neglecting to staff up some departments, like State. Even Justice, where on the one hand you have Sessions talking like a mad man about changes and priorities, while on the other hand they haven't appointed any US attorneys, from what I understand. Without the Federal attorneys, Sessions won't get far with his priorities.
BG9 said:
drummerboy said:
a disastrous success. And of course, BG9 is correct. He is well on his way to dismantling the federal government.
I wouldn't say dismantling.
He'll strengthen the federal government to make it a more proactive and effective tool for the forced implementation of his policies.
Not the policies he speaks of to his base, but the business and big money friendly policies of people desired by the Goldman Sachs executives and lobbyists he's appointed.
Think states rights and local home rule will be honored by his administration? Only in a token manner when they agree with him. The sanctuary communities already see on how much their self-determination rights are respected when there is disagreement.
A very conservative Supreme Court Justice. A number of regulations disapproved by Congress in a procedure that makes it difficult to ever institute similar regulations. A significant change in tone in law and immigration enforcement. Much is extremely different from where we would be 100 days into a Clinton administration.
Yes, "much is extremely different"
An understatement. 
The headlines these days would probably be about Chaffetz's investigations into Hillary Clinton.
ska said:
A very conservative Supreme Court Justice. A number of regulations disapproved by Congress in a procedure that makes it difficult to ever institute similar regulations. A significant change in tone in law and immigration enforcement. Much is extremely different from where we would be 100 days into a Clinton administration.
Somewhere there is a ledger documenting the net positive of the company's CEO being in the White House. That is the first only scorecard he cares about.
Obama is on CNN now, leading a discussion with young people. Remember the good old days when we had a president who could speak extemporaneously in full sentences. And not sound like a mental patient?
in contrast, here is the transcript of Trump's interview with the AP, in which he sounds like a complete imbecile
https://apnews.com/c810d7de280...
I disagree that Trump is going to cause long term damage, more like medium term damage that can be rectified by the next congress/administration - with the caveat being that he does not cause us to go to war or cause another world wide depression.
Reputationally if thats a word, the damage is also medium term. Remember how horrible the US rep was after Bush II? Obama rebuilt that very quickly.
Exec orders plentiful; legislation, not so much.
Still waiting for FBI to save us from this guy.
For a great example of DJT's mental illness, see the transcript of the AP interview. Makes Palin sound like Lincoln.
Borowitz:
ml1 said:
Obama is on CNN now, leading a discussion with young people. Remember the good old days when we had a president who could speak extemporaneously in full sentences. And not sound like a mental patient?
in contrast, here is the transcript of Trump's interview with the AP, in which he sounds like a complete imbecile
https://apnews.com/c810d7de280...
CHICAGO ()—In an appearance at the University of Chicago on Monday, former President Barack Obama unloaded a relentless barrage of complete sentences in what was widely seen as a brutal attack on his successor, Donald Trump.
Appearing at his first public event since leaving office, Obama fired off a punishing fusillade of grammatically correct sentences, the likes of which the American people have not heard from the White House since he departed.
“He totally restricted his speech to complete sentences,” Tracy Klugian, a student at the event, said. “It was the most vicious takedown of Trump I’d ever seen.”
“About five or six sentences in, I noticed that all of his sentences had both nouns and verbs in them,” Carol Foyler, another student, said. “I couldn’t believe he was going after Trump like that.”
Obama’s blistering deployment of complete sentences clearly got under the skin of their intended target, who, moments after the event, responded with an angry tweet: “Obama bad (or sick) guy. Failing. Sad!”
The AP interview is a remarkable document.
Thanks Republicans! This generation of R's will be remembered well in history for their disastrous choices, from Reagan to Bush II to Trump. Each one worse than the last.
Associated Press: And that's one of the difficulties I think presidents have had is that you can have these personal relationships with people from the other party, but then it's hard to actually change how people vote or change how people —
Trump: No I have; it's interesting; I have, seem to get very high ratings. I definitely. You know Chris Wallace had 9.2 million people; it's the highest in the history of the show. I have all the ratings for all those morning shows. When I go, they go double, triple. Chris Wallace, look back during the Army-Navy football game; I did his show that morning. It had 9.2 million people. It's the highest they've ever had. On any, on air, [CBS News' "Face the Nation" host John] Dickerson had 5.2 million people. It's the highest for "Face the Nation" or, as I call it, "Deface the Nation." It's the highest for "Deface the Nation" since the World Trade Center, since the World Trade Center came down. It's a tremendous advantage.
The World Trade Center coming down and a Trump Presidency. Two tragedies.
Far from it. Several of the late night shows have gone with it already. Heard the clips on Imus.
Beats Boomer & Carton. You want to pay for me to get a Sirius subscription?
Gilgul said:
Far from it. Several of the late night shows have gone with it already. Heard the clips on Imus.
Never heard it and was prompted to make it by GL2's post above. Not exactly a brilliant joke at any rate but kind of screamed out to be made given the comparison.
Palm Beach 2017 (Heard the Clips Came Out on Imus)
Heard the clips came out on Imus
I heard, 'cause Gilgul said it's so
Still, high up here behind the balustrade
Won't heckle bettyd
This ain't "The Muppet Show"
Cringe worthy is how I feel when I hear him speak off the cuff. He's a fine speaker when scripted, though (gotta give him credit since the word on Conspiracy Street is that he can't read).
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The liberal media and the talking heads on my TV keep on telling me how little Trump has gotten accomplished in his almost first 100 days.
If that's true, why am I so upset about all that he has done so far?