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CNBC ^ | 5/3/2017 | Ron Insana

Posted on 05/03/2017 4:50:31 PM PDT by lescrane

Let's face it, and let's say what needs to be said, President Trump has rhetorically crossed the Rubicon. His jabbering has jumped the shark. His public pronouncements have passed the point of no return.

We are now beyond debating whether this president's policies have merit or whether he intends to "make America great again."

Having said that, his health-care and tax-reform proposals, such as they are, have not been sufficiently vetted, nor scored, and may well hurt the people he promised to help and would likely do more harm to the economy than good.

The courts have blocked his immigration bans. His wall has no funding. His regulatory rollbacks will make drinking water dirtier and national monuments murkier.

But policy debates should simply cease to matter now.

We should, however belatedly, be discussing whether President Trump remains fit and competent enough to remain the leader of the free world.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnbc.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: antitrump; cnbc; demsplot; horseshit; insana; media; msm; potustrumpunfit; president; second100days; sniff; trump; trump45; trumpimpeachment
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To: lescrane

Blah blah blah blah....

Just noise coming out the mouths of little men with little minds.

We need to find them a little kids table so they can sit away from the rest of the adults.


81 posted on 05/04/2017 12:07:10 AM PDT by Toughluck_freeper
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To: lescrane

“I do watch and read CNBC for business news”
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If you tune to Fox Business News I believe you will be far happier. FBN has surpassed CNBC in viewers for the past 9 months and there is good reason.I have watched FBN since it’s inception and I am well satisfied.

Also you may want to check out Lou Dobbs show at 7:00 P.M. EST if you have not done so already.


82 posted on 05/04/2017 1:36:30 AM PDT by billyboy15
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To: lescrane

I remember when candidate Trump would fire up huge crowds with his repeated promise to “improve 40 miles of border fencing”.


83 posted on 05/04/2017 1:47:03 AM PDT by Dagnabitt
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To: Gay State Conservative

LOL, so you give the president, duly elected by the people 6 months to apparently “do something” about how his own Party has hurt rather than help him.

Wonderful, now how about explaining the steps a President can take to stop his own traitorous Party from shooting down his attempts to actually HELP America?

You give him nine months total time to completely master a job of leading the most powerful and complex economy ever to exist. How very generous of you. I believe he has done much to date and if you would pay attention to his actual accomplishments instead of the mindless blaring of the liberal media you might see this.


84 posted on 05/04/2017 1:47:10 AM PDT by billyboy15
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To: billyboy15
You give him nine months total time to completely master a job...

No,I give him nine months time to achieve two absolutely achievable victories....ObamaCare and The Wall.If it takes promising every reluctant Republican Congresscritter a lifelong $250K/yr job at the Pentagon for an "aye" on those two matters so be it.

85 posted on 05/04/2017 5:43:16 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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To: lescrane

So, Ron Insana appears to believe that his disagreeing with Trump means Trump is unfit?

His last name, as has been noted by another poster, appears to be one letter off!


86 posted on 05/04/2017 5:47:14 AM PDT by MortMan (Children are blessings, no matter how God brings them into your life.)
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To: DoughtyOne

Rut row. Now THAT’s funny.


87 posted on 05/04/2017 5:47:20 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

The thing that amazes me about these libtards is that none of them seems to be smart enough to realize that if Trump was actually what they say he was they would not DARE to say so...


88 posted on 05/04/2017 5:48:54 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: lescrane

Switch to Fox Business.


89 posted on 05/04/2017 5:49:08 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: Gay State Conservative

Explain how be manages this with rino creep as House Leader?

President proposes and Congress disposes...right?


90 posted on 05/04/2017 6:00:42 AM PDT by billyboy15
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To: Gay State Conservative

Explain how be manages this with rino creep as House Leader?

President proposes and Congress disposes...right?


91 posted on 05/04/2017 6:00:57 AM PDT by billyboy15
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To: jackibutterfly

Yes...


92 posted on 05/04/2017 9:57:30 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Happy days are here again!)
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To: wastoute

“:^)


93 posted on 05/04/2017 9:59:15 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Happy days are here again!)
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To: DoughtyOne

An anecdote I recall fondly. I saw once, as a patient, an older gentleman who had an accent. I asked him about it and he said he had grown up in Italy and come to America after WWII. So this meant he grew up in Mussolini’s Italy. I asked him about this and he said Italy was horrible during the war. When I commented that “at least the trains ran on time” he laughed. When I looked bewildered he explained that the trains didn’t run any better it was just that once Mussolini declared “The Trains will run on time” it was “unhealthy” to point out they didn’t.

So what had happened was that the papers were running stories about how the trains were not on time on a daily basis just suddenly stopped these stories. There was no change in anything in reality at all. Just all of a sudden, once the Leader had said it would stop, the reporting of it did stop. Once ink that sells papers becomes ink that gets you killed or tortured that ink is pretty scarce.


94 posted on 05/04/2017 10:07:16 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: wastoute

That’s a good story and it is very reminiscent of the Obama administration. There wasn’t much really bad news concerning the nation. The media didn’t print/report it.

If they did, it wasn’t an issue. For instance they could cover the homeless, there just wasn’t any accusations concerning the Obama White House connected to it.

It will be a problem for Trump though. Rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer.

Look at the events surrounding Ambassador Steven’s death in Benghazi. None of that was reported as a problem for Obama, Clinton, or Rice. It was just a normal thing we have to expect once in a while.

“He who owns the media...”


95 posted on 05/04/2017 10:20:28 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Happy days are here again!)
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To: lescrane
78.6 Million people in the USA are taking psychiatric drugs for mental illness. That is the whole Democrat party.

It's time to seriously consider that Democrats are a real and present danger to themselves and the greater society, and that they should be locked away in padded cells.

96 posted on 05/04/2017 10:24:55 AM PDT by meadsjn
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To: DoughtyOne

As I mention to NathanBedford in another thread, I have recently been watching the documentaries of Adam Curtis. One of the things he goes into is this aspect of the role of media and the financial sector in events of the last couple of decades. Part of “the 1%” problem is that, no matter what our politicians claim they are up to, their main interest is their own. So it doesn’t matter what the initial next to their name is, “R” or “D”, the rich are going to simply get even richer, no matter who runs things.

There is no regulation that is going to be successful in “redistributing wealth” (see tag). None. The dumbest human will figure out a way to subvert the regulations for their own interest in milliseconds. I read something this morning that pointed out this idea was put into words in our own Declaration of Independence but at the moment I can’t recall the specific words.


97 posted on 05/04/2017 10:34:24 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: DoughtyOne

Here it is:

“... and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. “


98 posted on 05/04/2017 10:36:57 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: wastoute

Hi.

“pursuit of happiness.”

5.56mm


99 posted on 05/04/2017 10:38:11 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: DoughtyOne

So you can see that “as long as the evils are sufferable” folks will allow “those who profit from plunder” to justify their behavior, the wealthy will get even wealthier. It is inevitable. If the dumbest among us can figure out how to subvert regulation to their own benefit why should we be surprised that those with more money will accomadate any new regulation and make even more money.

So it is a mathematical certainty that any effort to reform is doomed to failure.


100 posted on 05/04/2017 10:42:53 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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