No surprise that Tweety takes credit for getting "No" votes switched to "Yes" votes on the Republican Health Care bill. I wish and want to believe him, but it is a challenge to believe anything coming out of his mouth, especially when he takes credit rather than receives it. Who does what he does?
Tweety has taken credit for so many things he does not deserve credit for that he has NO CREDIBILITY. Tweety supporters know what I am talking about even while they continue to support him. That is OK for the Tweety supporters, but I have to speak truth to power..
Tweety has taken credit and misstated statistics on jobs or price reductions for the F-35 and after 44 years in defense contracting I tell you $600M contract changes take at least 18 months so I KNOW he had nothing to do with the price reduction, and the auto company decisions to not move out of the US had little to do with Tweety bad mouthing and threatening them.
The natural course of events begun before Tweety was elected are being announced as tho Tweety did something. It is hard to believe him, ESPECIALLY when he continuously says "believe me" WITH NO EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT HIS TAKING CREDIT.
Tweety's speech to Congress was written very well, and he read it well, but he went off the rails almost immediately when the topic of Russia came up again the next day.
Tweety went off message again in his news conference with Germany's PM, Merkel, talking about Obama Care!
Spooky, scary confusing, secretive, illusory, vindictive, even ugly at times . . .
I am not used to getting up every morning to watch the news, and read stories about the WH. I am 70 years old and have never seen so much foolishness. America wants to read the "tea leaves," we all want to know where we are going, where Tweety is taking us with his staff of inexperienced people, but the WH unpredictability makes that impossible.
The "madman theory" might explain Tweety's efforts so far, but I personally think Tweety is ill, and he is making Sean Spicer and his surrogates say and do very stupid things.
"Is Trump Trying to Fail?"
Kevin DrumMar. 16, 2017 1:00 PM
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/03/trump-trying-fail
"So far we have:
A health care bill so gratuitously brutal it seems almost intended to fail.
A budget that's very plainly just a piece of performance art designed to outrage liberals.
A new immigration order so similar to the first one that Trump must have known it would be blocked in court.
A funding request for a border wall that's basically a demand for a blank check that Congress will never pass.
A string of conspiracy theories (illegal voting, Trump Tower wiretaps, Obama is masterminding leaks) seemingly designed to waste congressional time.
And, of course, an endless series of hollow executive orders, bombastic tweets, and sob stories about the media mistreating poor Donald.
Incompetence is the obvious explanation for all this, but you gotta wonder. Is Trump trying to fail so he can blame everyone else when things go to hell while he remains a populist hero? Just by accident you'd think he'd do a few things that might actually work."
Maybe the answer is that he appears to think he has to campaign more, still . . . Forever seeking confirmation? Is the campaign his level in Dante's "Inferno?"
"Trump, Defeated Again on the Travel Ban, Is Still Trapped in His Campaign"
By Benjamin Wallace-Wells
March 16, 2017
"Nearly two months into Trump’s Presidency, his Administration is still reënacting the central dramas of the campaign. In the hearings and protests over the Muslim ban, Trump’s insistence that the United States is in a civilizational struggle has been met by a basic alarm about religious discrimination, just as it was during the general election. In the spasmodic arguments over health-care reform, the question is how much Trump owes to orthodox Republican beliefs and how much he will fight for them, just as it was during the primary campaign."
"Businesswoman Who Bought Trump Penthouse Is Connected to Chinese Intelligence Front Group"
The president's company won't explain this $15.8 million deal.
Andy Kroll and Russ ChomaMar. 15, 2017 10:25 AM
Just so Americans who do not understand how appearances matter in Government, after 44 years in defense contracting, I can tell you appearances are exactly as important as reality when it comes ot doing the American people's work. If Tweety does not care about appearances, I am not surprised. But he works for America, not for himself any more.
"To sum up: An influence-peddler who works with a princeling tied to Chinese military intelligence placed $15.8 million in the pockets of the president of the United States.
Mark Stokes, executive director of the Project 2049 Institute, a Virginia-based think tank that focuses on national security policy with respect to Asia, says CAIFC's leadership consists largely of retired (and some current) Chinese military and government officials. Stokes, who has written about Chinese political warfare, says CAIFC has become "an important channel of access to [Chinese Communist Party] princelings." He adds that "by influencing perceptions" of China (especially in connection to controversial issues, such as China's stance toward Taiwan), CAIFC hopes to "influence policies of foreign governments, particularly related to defense and national security.""
Americans also know that Steve Bannon has sway with Tweety as each strange action rolls out. While many Americans are not afraid to criticize Tweety on a large scale, some of the resistance is going so far as to lose credibility as they shout down any conservative views. That isn't helpful in protesting against Tweety.
"Stephen Bannon Is a Fan of a French Philosopher...Who Was an Anti-Semite and a Nazi Supporter"
Charles Maurras was sentenced to life in prison for complicity with the Nazis.
Pema LevyMar. 16, 2017 1:22 PM
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/03/stephen-bannon-fan-french-anti-semite-who-sided-nazis
"In an article on Bannon's interactions with European right-wing nationalists who want to break apart the European Union, Politico reported last week that Bannon has "expressed admiration for the reactionary French philosopher Charles Maurras, according to French media reports confirmed by Politico." Recent articles in French media claim Bannon favorably cited Maurras to a French diplomat. Politico describes Maurras as a Catholic nationalist—like Bannon—and notes that Bannon has parroted several of Maurras' ideas. A hero to members of Europe's far right, Maurras is a natural fit for Bannon, who has expressed support for Brexit and France's National Front movement and is known to hate the European Union."
