I’ll start with a disclaimer! I am not a Trump hater! It is none of his policy decisions that disqualifies him from the Presidency. It’s his technique! Politics is not roller derby, and the best past presidents didn’t try to ram everything through like a roller derby jammer. The best presidents knew how to get things done while staying in their political lanes.
I know the mistake a lot of us made six years ago. Disillusionment with politicians in general is nothing new. Many of us said, “Let’s elect somebody who isn’t a politician for a change, somebody from the business world.” Many angry Americans still believe that experiment worked. It didn’t.
The hearings into the January sixth, 2021 rioting at the Capitol start this coming week. Mr. Trump and his followers will claim it’s another “witchhunt.” There sure were a lot of claims of witchhuntery during the Trump administration. Way too many! Instead of pointing a partisan finger at the upcoming proceedings, try to see them for what they are, a mild corrective instituted to restore civility and order.
In politics, when things don’t go your way, the best course of action for all concerned is to comply and then complain, not to allege an evil conspiracy! That is true in politics and in life.
In regard to the final few days of ex-president Trumps term in office, the phrase bull in a china shop comes to mind.
Other than executive orders, what exactly were “his policy decisions that disqualifies him from the Presidency?”
Obama with a Democrat majority in Congress 2009-2010 enacted legislation without any Republican votes. Is this a ram-through or simply electoral politics?
In 2017 Trump signed a Republican bill that cut the business income tax from 35% to 21%. This is by far the greatest federal policy factor that enables low unemployment now. Biden and his party want to raise that tax.
The main mode of operation in politics is to win. This is a huge consideration in any hearings conducted by politicians. Politics is competition for power, and so is war. This is why the most livable societies have a constrained political class.
Did anyone go to jail for deceiving a judge to warrant spying on the Trump campaign and presidency?
Where are the hearings on the Russia collusion hoax?
For Democrats and their followers, every day is January 6, 2021.
Marxist Democrats routinely slander, and it becomes mainstream, such as Hilary Clinton, et, al, saying, that Republicans seek to deny the vote to People of Color. Opposition to Obama’s policies were racist. The rich get wealthy by exploiting the poor, racism is the main cause of all problems great and small for brown people, Gore really won in 2000, Hilary really won in 2016, Republicans want to destroy the environment and on and on and on.
Trump sassed back and won. Then he lost.
So shut up and comply. And if we complain, then we are racist bigot homophobes to be cancelled.
Richard: You have misread what I said! You asked, “Other than executive orders, what exactly were “his policy decisions that disqualifies him from the Presidency?” My statement was, and still is, that none of his policies disqualifies him but his techniques do.
You have used my post as a springboard to deride the Dems. That’s off target, but I will admit the Dems are no better than the Publicans. That’s why I am neither.
Richard, pardon me for saying so, but your visceral reaction is part of the problem. The two big parties have us at war with each other. It is not good for the country I love.
I will remind you that my post attempts to take issue with the January 6 shenanigans and the lack of civility that caused them. Apparently, you have mis-interpreted my comments to be anti-Publican. They are not!
The best thing you said, in my opinion, was “This is why the most livable societies have a constrained political class.” I agree! As I said to ed daly, give me an old-fashioned moderate next time. Please!
Politics does not have to be war. It’s been much more civilized in the past, not always, but at times! Rest assured, if the Publicans present us with the right kind of candidate, I will vote for him or her.
i have no regard for donald trump as a decent person or politician. he is neither!! career “politicians” on both sides of the aisle have screwed this county up to the point where folks are chasing the next shiny bauble. i totally disagree with defining the 1/6 hearings as”a mild corrective instituted to restore civility and order”. as defined, it has a noble and just objective. it is, however, a dog and pony show with the hiring of a television director to coordinate the opening this evening. the word civility and adam schiff being on the committee destroy ANY sense of creditability remotely attached to this circus. if bull in a china shop define the final days of trump, what phrase can we apply to the first 17 months of the current occupant of the oval office.
ed said, “career “politicians” on both sides of the aisle have screwed this county up to the point where folks are chasing the next shiny bauble.”
Your point is well taken. The populace is frustrated and willing to try almost any alternative, as was the case 6 years ago.
ed also said of the hearings, “it is, however, a dog and pony show.” I am only slightly more optimistic. It is a bi-partisan panel, but if the Dems see an opportunity to politically damage the Publicans, they historically jump at the chance. The partisan divide is killing us, and you may be right that the Dems will turn this into a political circus. I hope not!
Ed asked, “What phrase can we apply to the first 17 months of the current occupant of the oval office?” That’s a completely different topic ed, but let me say that I am certain, at this point, that the two major parties have so completely diverged that neither one seems capable of nominating a decent candidate. Give me an old-fashioned moderate next time. Please!