Posted on 10/19/2017 12:22:25 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Permit me to confess: I am one of the very last people in the United States who does not consider the word “politician” to be an insult. On the contrary, the work politicians do is important because politics is a good and essential thing in a free society. It’s the degradation of politics in the Trump era we need to worry about, not politics itself.
President Trump has always prided himself on being an anti-politician. This is supposed to be one of his greatest assets. But he has thrown our government into chaos and our country into tumult precisely because his disrespect for politics and what it requires leads him to debase our public life. He offers a torrent of lies, willfully tries to tear the country apart.
Many of Trump’s lies are hideously personal. His false charge that President Obama failed to phone or speak to the families of members of the armed services killed in the line of duty was particularly sordid.
Sorry, but all Republican politicians who take their obligations seriously must stop rationalizing the irrational and say what has long been obvious, that Trump’s way of doing business is unproductive, erratic, mean and scary. Until this happens, Republicans deserve to be seen as enablers of a dangerous presidency.
Alas, you can count on GOP leaders to maintain their complicity until the tax cut that is their lodestar is enacted into law. On this question, Trump and his party are at one in offering misleading claims that their bill is designed primarily to help average Americans when in fact its largest benefits will flow to the very wealthy.
But is a tax cut worth the price of colluding to undermine an honorable profession?
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They need to be degraded.
With the RepE and the last 8 years, politicians cant be degraded any further.
He spelled EXPOSING wrong...
I thought Celine Dione was Canadian. Who knew she followed American Politics so closely.
(Yes,.... I do know)
Looks like a real putz.
I don’t want career politicians “degraded”.
I want them THROWN OUT!!!
Can he clutch his pearls any tighter?
LOL...I live in San Jose and trust me when I say this.....they are having trouble selling this rag they call a newspaper.
His picture is in the dictionary illustrating “wuss”
Even being a Pro Common Tater is no longer respectable, thanks to the likes of EJ.
As a parent, if my son had told me he wanted to run for
elective office; I would have beaten him to within an inch of
his life. Repeating as often as necessary until he banished
such ignorance from his mind.
THIS IS NOT SARCASM NOR HUMOR
US Politics = legal racketeering
Political Party = sophisticated gang
> “ It’s the degradation of politics in the Trump era we need to worry about, not politics itself.”
Monsieur Dionne, I must inform you that you appear, I am sorry to say, you appear to be ....oh it is so difficult ... you appear to have ...
Tu semble avoir ton pied dans ton cul.
Forgive me Monsieur. Byee-Byee! A bientot!
You and I are in telepathic harmony.
Just what I was going to say. Lowest unemployment claims since 1973, almost HALF A CENTURY ago, and all they do is give Trump sh*t!
But is a tax cut worth the price of colluding to undermine an honorable profession?
A prostitute is more honorable than the average politician. The latest revelations about the uranium deal with the Russians is showing just how corrupt modern American politicians are.
I elected Trump as the human-equivalent to setting off a neutron bomb in downtown D.C. I want the status quo nuked.
“... the work politicians do is important because politics is a good and essential thing in a free society.”
this has to be satire, no ?
Dionne probably is not aware that politicians may be corrupt or worse, liars. He should be aware that Obama lied when he told us that if we like our doctor we can keep our doctor. If we like our health plan we could keep our health plan. I guess that Dionne has not noticed how many time McCain promised his constituents that he would repeal and replace Obamacare, but did the opposite.
Having said that, Dionne might be clueless that President Trump is "smoking out" the corrupt politicians and replacing them with people who keep their promises and work for the people, not themselves and their sponsors.
There are some good courses on Political Science at the George Washington University, but you have to be able to connect the dots.
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