Political Theatre category archive
Wow. Just Wow. 0
In The Roanoke Times, a Radford University history professors takes a wingnut to the cleaners.
An excerpt from the first paragraph:
It gets better.
What Ailes Fox News? 0
Thom suggests that the sexual harassment charges against Roger Ailes, though headline-grabbing, are hardly the worst thing about Fox News.
Heh 0
Juanita Jean notes that Presidents have ad “czars” (that’s a term invented by the press for special advisors) all the way back to Reagan and asks the question:
Why is it that Donald Trump doesn’t have a Czar?
I dunno. Maybe he is gonna have comrades instead.
Still in Search of That Elusive Buck 0
Daniel Ruth considers Donald Trump’s reaction the the failure of Paul Ryan’s “they laughing call it a health care” bill. A snippet:
Despite all the finger-pointing and Trump’s efforts to blame the United Nations, the Brownies, the Peace Corps, Saturday Night Live and Ted Cruz’s father for the failure of the Think of Dead as Just a Chronic Condition Act, the measure was supported by only 17 percent of the public. And that was probably the membership at the Mar-a-Lago Golf Club.
Meanwhile, TPM reports that Republicans are considering trying again, apparently because being against the Affordable Care Act seems to be all they know how to do.
Afterthought:
We have traded the “rule of law” for the “rule of flaw.”
High Nunes (Updated) 0
Keith Olbermann rants about Russia and the Trumplings. The delivery is vintage Olbermann, the facts are what they are.
Addendum, Later That Same Day:
Field has a timeline.
A Diet of Worms 0
Warning: Language.
A Picture Is Worth, the Art of the Con Dept. 0
Dick Polman comments on the notion that you can “run the government like a business”:
I marveled at this naivete for two reasons: Trump was a terrible role model, having been bailed out of six bankruptcies by a dwindling number of indulgent investors; and there’s no historical record of any businessman successfully running America as a business.
The sole career businessman ever elected to the presidency was mining magnate Herbert Hoover. He was touted in 1928 as a problem-solver who’d bring his engineering skills to the public sector. You know what happened next. The stock market crashed, and as the Great Depression deepened, Hoover made things worse because he couldn’t communicate, cajole, compromise, or inspire. He fatally lacked the political skills required of a president.
More Polman at the link.
Image via PoliticalProf.
Misty Water-Colored Memories 0
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Second Thoughts? 0
I fear not enough persons are having them.