Posted on 01/01/2017 5:28:11 PM PST by AndyJackson
Panel Michele Norris of The Race Card Project; Jeffrey Goldberg, of “The Atlantic,” Michael Gerson of “Washington Post” columnist ; and David Frum of “the Atlantic."
MICHAEL GERSON: Well, I think there’s a pretty much even chance that we’re going to have a constitutional crisis or have a completely incompetent presidency that doesn’t know how to exercise power, which is, I think, another possibility in this circumstance. He has a White House-- Donald Trump has a White House with almost no skill at governing. ...He’s elevated people, generals and--a corporate heads, that have no experience in this extraordinarily complex business of how you put together an administration, run a bureaucracy, produce ideas. So there’s-- I think there’s a deep concern about the possibility of overreach. But I think we should be also concerned about the possibility of an entirely ineffective government that doesn’t value governing experience, that doesn’t value, you know, what government should do and what it can do under the right circumstances.
... or this...
DAVID FRUM: something we should all be very frightened of. .... It’s very bad when a president, as Barack Obama did, draws a red line and the red line isn’t actually there. That’s humiliating. That leads people to misunderstand. What is much more dangerous is if the president says the red line isn’t there and it really is. Trump is everyday signaling-- signaling that red lines aren’t there, that NATO doesn’t matter.
....There’s an American armored brigade taking up a position in Poland. There are NATO -- nuclear-capable NATO armies in Estonia-- and-- there are nuclear-capable NATO powers that are in Estonia, NATO armies in Latvia and Lithuania. There’s a big buildup happening in Bulgaria. You give the Russians the idea that the United States is not serious--
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These flacks of the Ministry of Propaganda are going to be flabbergasted when the Trump administration runs right over them and the Democrats when they hit the ground running.
Bunch of panty-waste sissies. Pathetic.
Yeah but a former Gov of a small southern state has all the world experience in the world, and a one term senator who hires academics who have never had a job in the real world is perfectly prepared right?
Trump haters say he doesn’t know what he’s doing.
Someone who ran a successful company knows what he’s doing. He created value.
What have Washington Beltway pundits done besides engaging in negative chattering up the wazoo?
Trump’s not even sworn in yet and they’re already declaring him a failure.
That says a lot more about them than it does about Trump.
Sorry Gerson, but we have had a constitutional crisis for the last eight years but you dem propagandist liked Kind Obama’s actions so you were silent. You have no ethics, character or credibility and shoudn’t be any where near a mic or TV camera.
These so-called “intellectual” liberals are showing more and more fear everyday...
Way to go, Trump!!!!
Not worth commenting on. These nutcase Obamabots do not have a clue how to run anything. They never managed any activity but thir own. Losers....all of them!!! I’d rather have my sixteen year old grandson running the country, then a low life, America hater like Obama!!! Shove it, deadbeat Obamabot, Democrat vermin!!!
probably 70% of what D.C. does makes no sense. If you just stop 1/2 of the nonsense that goes on you will have made a 35% improvement in the welfare of America.
Pretty funny stuff, if you can stomach a bunch of liberals in a fetal position whining about the end of the world as they know it.
The MSM thinks that having a Trotskyite, a Stalinite, a straight-up Marxist, and a hard socialist makes it a "balanced" group.
And this surprises you? What surprises me is that anyone watches them instead of turning them off. As long as they still get ratings there is no incentive to change.
Stop watching them and giving them tacit support. If enough follow suit then they will be come like the Democrat Party, in a world of hurt.
Yeah, sure. Obama went from State Senator to President in 4 years and no one batted an eye.
Yeah, sure. Obama went from State Senator to President in 4 years and no one batted an eye.
MICHAEL GERSON: Well, I think there’s a pretty much even chance that we’re going to have a constitutional crisis or have a completely incompetent presidency that doesn’t know how to exercise power, which is, I think, another possibility in this circumstance. He has a White House— Donald Trump has a White House with almost no skill at governing. ...He’s elevated people, generals and—a corporate heads, that have no experience in this extraordinarily complex business of how you put together an administration, run a bureaucracy, produce ideas. So there’s— I think there’s a deep concern about the possibility of overreach. But I think we should be also concerned about the possibility of an entirely ineffective government that doesn’t value governing experience, that doesn’t value, you know, what government should do and what it can do under the right circumstances.
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these drama queens did not realize that Hussein never had more responsibility than hanging curtains? Fools they are.
I prefer to apply Alinsky Rule #5 “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. ”
Obama stabbed Israel in the back and expelled 35 Russians on the basis of no evidence whatsoever.
Skill at governing value highly prized by the punditocracy.
Boy! They sure shut Jeffrey Goldberg up, fast, didn’t they? During the break, they must have cowed him pretty good. The whole premise of the program is an insult to Americans AND the Trump administration. What a bunch of evil ideologues.
LOL and whether their perm chemicals might catch fire under the cap!
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