Coming February 6, 2024 . . .
MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Analysis by Aaron Blake @ WashingtonPost.com, 11:33 am
President Trump is now openly attacking the GOP leaders of both the House and the Senate. In tweets Thursday morning, he blamed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) for having “failed” to replace Obamacare, and he said both McConnell and House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) created the current debt ceiling “mess” by using the wrong tactics [....}
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The Finance 202: Trump sets Wall Street on edge with shutdown threat
by artappraiser on Thu, 08/24/2017 - 3:44pm
The obvious solution is Trump sends the SS on vacation, they've maxed out payroll anyway, has his private security lock up Mmunchump in the Oval office, close the government and default until Congress, the EU, China, the Saudis or somebe pays for The Wall.
by NCD on Thu, 08/24/2017 - 3:56pm
you have the kind of mind where you could be the sausage maker par excellence if you really wanted to, king of the world, yuge But keep in mind: he doesn't have the brain power you do.
by artappraiser on Thu, 08/24/2017 - 4:00pm
I'm getting an inkling from this with McCain and Mattis that the grownups are going to start ignoring the terrible twos egomaniac antics in the White House, plan to not feed the troll and get on with their own program. Because all he is doing is feeding the rock solid base who will also go along with what they eventually end up doing just fine.
What would be happening then, actually, is a slow motion coup. One could certainly call it that if one was a very leftie peacenik type, with any other administration there would be outrage at the hawk types being able to advance their agenda. One could even claim Kelly was in on it.
As far as Congress, one thing I sense with a lot of the activities of McCain & Graham et. al. is a will or sort of plan to marginalize the remnants of the Tea Party that is in the Freedom Caucus and Trump fan base, and so that goes for Mercer as funder, too. I dunno about Koch bros, don't know where they fit in with that. Certainly preference for Russia is a big divide, and they won that, they got a near unanimous sign on to the Russia sanctions.
Welcome any input from you, especially any bright parodies
Edit to add: I think it is important to keep in mind the on-site reports from the Arizona rally that Trump couldn't even keep his own supposed fans attention to the whole rant, they started leaving or at least fiddling with their email on their cell phones. I think that was a cue for other GOP leaders that they might be able to start ignoring him. The fans don't really listen much to anything he says on policy, only a few of the all time favorite symbols of the campaign like "the wall."
by artappraiser on Thu, 08/24/2017 - 4:31pm
I take a different message from this piece. Many of the anti-Trump Republicans may get drummed out of Washington--either in the primaries or by losing to Democrats due to lackluster support from the base. If so, who does that leave in control of the party?
by Michael Wolraich on Thu, 08/24/2017 - 6:27pm
There is "control" of the Republican Party?
Now that they can't rally round Stop Obama or Crooked Hillary, and actually have to govern? With a malignant narcissistic wanna be Mango Mussolini Moron in the White House?
by NCD on Thu, 08/24/2017 - 6:56pm
Well It has always been my point that both parties are too big tent to have a unifying governing ideology. You need a brilliant centrist like Bill Clinton or Obama as president to get anything done? Hillary had those chops BUT then she could not ever shake the labelling as the bete noire, if she had won I dare say there would have been nearly as much chaos as now, because as you aptly point out the persona called Hillary is the one GOP rallying point to make it appear they are unified. And Trump would not have gone quietly into the night...
by artappraiser on Thu, 08/24/2017 - 10:12pm
With Sen. Flake as the standard bearer of anti-Trumpism, having a book out, basically proclaiming it in writing,I would think following how he's polling among AZ GOP through the fall would give a clue? There were more than a few reports out on how Trump met with primary challengers before the AZ rally. Then the rally ended with people leaving and not paying attention by the end. And those were the people who really wanted to see him.
Just checked the title of Flake's book: Conscience of a Conservative: A Rejection of Destructive Politics and a Return to Principle. Maybe I should read up on it more before I speak (but nooo I am not going to read the whole thing, not that interested. )
by artappraiser on Thu, 08/24/2017 - 10:05pm
Here's Politico:
Agitated Trump lashes out at McConnell, Ryan, Clapper, media
Trump goes on a Twitter attack Thursday morning, just days after telling a Phoenix crowd, ‘I don’t do Twitter-storms.’
by artappraiser on Thu, 08/24/2017 - 4:01pm
leakers speak >
White House Memo: Kelly’s Mission: Controlling Information Flow to Trump
By MAGGIE HABERMAN @ NYTimes.com, 21 minutes ago
by artappraiser on Thu, 08/24/2017 - 4:43pm
Extensive analysis & reporting tonite @ WaPo with leaks from "Congressional aides" and obviously tons of phone calls to sources like "a senior Republican" trying to cobble together what is really going on; recommended:
By Philip Rucker, Sean Sullivan and Mike DeBonis
some excerpts for a taste:
by artappraiser on Fri, 08/25/2017 - 12:50am
meanwhile Alexander Bolton @ The Hill is hearing only angst from GOP aides, strategists and former senators.
GOP taken aback by Trump’s verbal bombs
by artappraiser on Fri, 08/25/2017 - 12:58am
Needed a flic/musical accompaniment.
by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 08/25/2017 - 7:08am
Oops he just realized he left out Bob Corker! Pulls out magic primary twitter wand and shazzaam:
President Proves He’s Stable by Trying to Humiliate Key Senate Ally Over Twitter
By Eric Levitz @ NYmag.com, Aug. 25
by artappraiser on Fri, 08/25/2017 - 7:37pm
Very interesting E.J. Dionne piece from May 31 about the think tank types, neo-conservatives et. al.:
The anti-Trump right is becoming a breed of its own
by artappraiser on Sat, 08/26/2017 - 3:26pm
Adding a link to thread on Trump throwing the Arpaio pardon into the RNC's face hours after they tried to fix some of the damage he did with the whole Charlottesville thing.
by artappraiser on Sat, 08/26/2017 - 3:28pm
Is there a strategy to Donald Trump's attacks on Republican politicians?
David Smith @ The Guardian, Aug. 26 trying to answer that question, runs through a lot of stuff, so includes things one might have missed.
by artappraiser on Sat, 08/26/2017 - 5:41pm