It is probably not a good idea to brag that you are the world’s best negotiator when your only experience was in the real estate world. Apparently those skills do not transfer to government, where you have to deal with wily veterans of both parties and a complex set of procedural rules that you do not know.
Democrats and Republicans agreed on a budget to avert a shutdown, and Trump didn’t get anything he asked for.
The budget doesn’t include a deep cut for the Environmental Protection Agency; not one job will be lost.
Trump wanted to cut the National Institutes of Health, but it didn’t happen.
The budget maintains funding for Planned Parenthood.
There is no funding for a border wall.
Read the story and understand that the real estate negotiator’s skill set doesn’t work in D.C., where a knowledge of legislative history helps, as well as personal relationships, and some sense of the importance of the programs that are funded.
Trump’s first lesson in Washington, D.C., is that he can’t go it alone; he needs to work with other people. He was not elected to be a dictator or autocrat. That’s very different from being the owner of a private firm where your decisions override the wishes of everyone else.
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Andrew Jackson would’ve gotten a much better deal.
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I hear he spoke to him the other night right after he asked Frederick Douglass to mop up the urine on the mattress.
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That explains why he said Douglass was doing some amazing things.
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So I needn’t buy Art of the Deal?
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I just read this article from The New Yorker and found it informative.
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The Constitution offers two main paths for removing a President from office. How feasible are they?
BY EVAN OSNOS
…More than fifty thousand mental-health professionals have signed a petition stating that Trump is “too seriously mentally ill to perform the duties of president and should be removed” under the Twenty-fifth Amendment.
Lance Dodes, a retired assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, believes that, in this instance, the Goldwater rule is outweighed by another ethical commitment: a “duty to warn” others when he assesses that a person might harm them. Dodes told me, “Trump is going to face challenges from people who are not going to bend to his will. If you have a President who takes it as a personal attack on him, which he does, and flies into a paranoid rage, that’s how you start a war.”
Like many of his colleagues, Dodes speculates that Trump fits the description of someone with malignant narcissism, which is characterized by grandiosity, a need for admiration, sadism, and a tendency toward unrealistic fantasies….
“This issue is not whether Donald Trump is mentally ill but whether he’s dangerous,” James Gilligan, a professor of psychiatry at New York University, told attendees at a recent public meeting at Yale School of Medicine on the topic of Trump’s mental health. “He publicly boasts of violence and has threatened violence. He has urged followers to beat up protesters. He approves of torture. He has boasted of his ability to commit and get away with sexual assault,” Gilligan said.
Bruce Blair, a research scholar at the Program on Science and Global Security, at Princeton, told me that if Trump were an officer in the Air Force, with any connection to nuclear weapons, he would need to pass the Personnel Reliability Program, which includes thirty-seven questions about financial history, emotional volatility, and physical health. (Question No. 28: Do you often lose your temper?) “There’s no doubt in my mind that Trump would never pass muster,” Blair, who was a ballistic-missile launch-control officer in the Army, told me…
Endgames
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/08/how-trump-could-get-fired
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Diane, if this goes through, I just got this message concerning an article from The New Yorker:
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May 1, 2017 at 4:53 pm
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“Trump’s first lesson in Washington, D.C., is that he can’t go it alone; he needs to work with other people. He was not elected to be a dictator or autocrat. That’s very different from being the owner of a private firm where your decisions override the wishes of everyone else.”
That seems to be the same problem that Bruce Rauner has encountered in Illinois. Being governor is slightly different than private equity. Compromise does not seem to be part of his skill set and he sees everything through the eyes of a venture capitalist. He went the folksy root and runs TV ads trying to pretend that “gosh darn” he is just an ordinary guy rootin’ (he drops the “g” in -ing) for the ordinary guy. Puke.
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There used to be this course of study in college called Political Science. It was geared to folks wanting to pursue a career in politics. It covered lots of issues….economics, history and it’s impact on policy, trade etc. First the lawyers decided that they could be really good politicians because they were lawyers and they knew how to make laws, then businessmen decided to get a piece of the pie because they knew how to make money. Where are all the political science majors with their knowledge of history and tact and policy making skills? Government has become a business and it was never structured to be a business. Our Democratic government was designed to do what was right for all people. It just doesn’t make sense to have people running a government with no political training at all.
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Goody! Goody! Goody! Let him eat cake.
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Chocolate cake. He likes it.
(Ugh!)
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Only when it comes with fired missiles.
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Trump doesn’t negotiate. He bullies, he lies, and then he ends up in court. That’s why he’s been involved in more than 4,095 court cases in three decades (according to USA Today). If Agent Orange, the Greatest Ignorant Malignant Narcissist of all time, was such a great negotiator, he wouldn’t be in court this much.
If we averaged his court cases for the last thirty years, he’d end up in court every two to three days for a different case.
https://www.usatoday.com/pages/interactives/trump-lawsuits/
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Trump is getting no traction only because Republicans fear they are in Yamamoto’s position. The massive and continuing demonstrations are cutting into their ambitions . They do not want to go down with the ship. That sleeping giant may have finally awoken.
Trump can cripple federal agencies but for now they want him taking the heat.
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Trump has appointed people in every agency who are opposed to the mission of the agency
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The chutzpah gets chutzpah-ier: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/teresa-manning-contraception-hhs_us_5907582ae4b05c397680d921?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
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Figured the pols would eat him alive.
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West Coast Teacher,
As the old saying goes: Revenge is best served cold.
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