MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
By Mike DeBois, Kelsey Snell, Philip Rucker & Elise Viebeck @ WashingtonPost.com, Sept. 6, 6:29 PM
President Trump, a man of few allegiances who seized control of the Republican Party in a hostile takeover, suddenly aligned himself with Democrats Wednesday on a series of key fiscal issues — and even gave a lift to North Dakota’s embattled Democratic U.S. senator.
Trump confounded his own party’s leaders when he cut a deal with Democratic congressional leaders — “Chuck and Nancy,” as the president informally referred to them — on a short-term plan to fund the government and raise its borrowing limit this month.
Trump’s surprise stance upended sensitive negotiations over the debt ceiling and other crucial policy areas this fall and further imperiled his already tenuous relationships with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.).
The episode is the latest turn in Trump’s extraordinary separation from his own party [....]
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by artappraiser on Wed, 09/06/2017 - 7:54pm
The bizzarro acting-like-a-mad-king excerpt:
Whatever his whim of that day, that's how the country will go? Worked fine for a lot of royal rulers of the past, until it didn't. The stuff of nursery rhymes and doggerel and guillotines....
by artappraiser on Wed, 09/06/2017 - 8:46pm
One does not have to be a financial genius to predict that the markets are going to go crazy and gold will continue to go up...
by artappraiser on Wed, 09/06/2017 - 8:58pm
Paul Ryan: A short-term debt ceiling hike is ‘disgraceful.’ Trump: Let’s do it.
Analysis by Amber Phillips @ WashingtonPost.com, 5:41 pm
GOP livid after Trump cuts deal with Democrats
Congressional Republicans say the move will only embolden Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi in future talks
@ Politico.com, 09/06/2017 07:25 PM EDT
GOP worries about whether Trump will be a reliable force for the midterms.
Trump’s flirtation with Democrats makes Republicans nervous about 2018
Trump shocks GOP by siding with Dems
The Memo: Trump pulls off a stone-cold stunner
by artappraiser on Wed, 09/06/2017 - 9:08pm
The New York Times:
Deal with Democrats Is a Nightmare Come True for the G.O.P.
By JEREMY W. PETERS and MAGGIE HABERMAN 35 minutes ago
The president’s move further destabilized a volatile situation for his party, which many Republicans now believe is headed toward a reckoning it can no longer avoid.
Trump Backs Democrats to Seal Stopgap Budget Deal
By PETER BAKER, THOMAS KAPLAN and MICHAEL D. SHEAR 7:40 PM ET
by artappraiser on Wed, 09/06/2017 - 9:22pm
BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE heresy! "BREAKING NEWS" headline @ WaPo:
by artappraiser on Thu, 09/07/2017 - 12:52pm
p.s. yes, I know, a “gentlemen’s agreement" with Trump is worth less than 2 cents, but still. What is clear is that he is on a tear to piss off the GOP. If there's any strategy behind freaking them out, as opposed to just knee jerk, that's the interesting question. And, of course, how they react. I.E., will congressional GOP be more open to getting on board with any Mueller accusations because he's been so erratic towards them?
by artappraiser on Thu, 09/07/2017 - 12:59pm
If this is a Mexican standoff, Trump could be threatening the GOP to squash the investigations for him or else he is going to go bipartisan on their hind parts big time.
by moat on Thu, 09/07/2017 - 1:09pm
for today he's still playing Mr. Bipartisan
Trump Says He’ll Pursue More Deals With Democrats
By PETER BAKER and SHERYL GAY STOLBERG 3:04 PM ET @ NYTimes.com
President Trump continued to wage peace with the opposition party, calling party leaders in hopes of finding more areas of agreement.
Maybe only because it gets him new fans, a whole new set of them from the Faux media, doncha know; rave reviews, yuge:
Here's Ryan trying to spin the situation:
and Ryan may still be be hopeful about charming him but McConnell may be a lost cause?
And here's Mnuchin trying to spin what Trump did to him:
by artappraiser on Thu, 09/07/2017 - 4:17pm
Soap operas with their shocking plot twists are an extremely popular form of entertainment. Joe and Sarah are deeply in love only to break up and see Sarah and Bruce fall in love. They might eventually get married only to see Sarah fall in love with Jake. After divorcing Bruce to marry Jake Sarah might divorce Jake to end up with her true love all along, Joe. Lather, rinse and repeat.
by ocean-kat on Thu, 09/07/2017 - 4:47pm
Cue the Twilight Zone music:
Trump, jovial after debt deal, turns meeting into a freewheeling affair
by artappraiser on Fri, 09/08/2017 - 3:15am
Sue Halpern , The New York Review, June 8 2017.
Which also includes
.....On election day.....Trump bought all the ad space on YouTube........once viewers watched one of the
thirty-second video to the end , they landed on a screen with a polling place locator. "We had hundreds of thousands of people use the 'find your polling place' locator. When you're talking about winning by thousands of votes this stuff matter"
....(In March (they) won an...award for its "Can't Run Her House" ad ,which used a clip from the 2008 ..primary of Michelle Obama criticizing Clinton.)
And
One post featured....Hillary Clinton using her 1996 remarks in which she called ...young black men "super predators"
"We're modeled this......"It will dramatically affect her ability to turn these people out ."
Trump's team "understood that some numbers matter more than others- in this case the number of disenfranchised potential Trump voters.
" What our Facebook president has discovered is that it actually pays only to please some of the people some of the time, The rest simply don't count."
He's still doing it.
by Flavius on Fri, 09/08/2017 - 7:58am