Posted on 01/03/2017 6:04:10 PM PST by artichokegrower
Normal leaders come up with policy proposals in a certain conventional way. They gather their advisers around them and they debate alternatives — with briefing papers, intelligence briefings and implementation strategies.
President-elect Donald Trump doesn’t do that. He’s tweeted out policy gestures in recent weeks, say about the future of the United States’ nuclear arsenal. But these gestures aren’t attached to anything. They emerged from no analytic process and point to no implemental effects. Trump’s statements seem to spring spontaneously from his middle-of night-feelings. They are astoundingly ambiguous and defy interpretation.
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Obama understood this? The man who would use "I" 3,700 times in a speech. The man who said elections have consequences? The man talking of running for a third term?
PO’d is possibly correct but panicked or near panicked is closer to the mark.
And that is why D.C. is a sprawling metropolis of 6 Million "souls," spends all the money and gets nothing done.
I posted the above before I realized that this whine was written by the infamous David Brooks.
Am I supposed to be impressed.
That is how he builds buildings - by posturing. Not picking the right location, surveying the market to develop a use strategy, and hiring architects and engineers for plans and paying the best protection to make sure that the construction contractor, the city counsel and the rest of the mob don't take him for a ride.
Lol, no one is impressed by Brooks.
I’d put the crease in Trumps pants up against that of Obamas anyday
There is no other word for it. Brooks is a dunce.
David Brooks, Buggy Whip Media denizen.
Brooks obviously assumes that Trump has not discussed these ideas with anyone; a very weak assumption.
Truth is, Trump has been involved in policy discussions for over a year as a presidential candidate. He surely has as much exposure to policy issues as Obama when he first entered office.
That Trump disagrees with Brooks on virtually every political question is a good thing.
Well they could ask a right leaning conservative. Any one of us understand. If President Elect Trump keeps going to the American public he will win every time. It’s called peer pressure . All these congressmen are going to come up for vote again. With Trump we hopefully will get the transparency
Government President Obama promised?
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