If Obama did the exact same thing, why exactly weren’t Obama’s orders overturned by the courts?
The real answer is that the travel ban could have gone through without a hitch, if only Bannon had trusted the lawyers enough to let them look over his order before he had Trump sign it.
And, you know, not tried to exclude green card holders. And not tried to exclude people already in transit. And gave the people who were supposed to carry out this order some advance notice.
Now, why is it that Bannon didn’t trust anyone to look over the order?
The hit to Trump is not about the court’s ruling on the travel ban. The hit is that his Administration is being continuously reported as incompetent, and he’s getting fed up with it.
He presented himself as being the guy who could cut through all the bullshit in Washington, and so quickly after taking office, a lot of people are thinking that Washington bullshit is vastly preferable to him.
Or to say it another way, the hit to Trump isn’t that he’s now producing a reality TV show of poor quality. It’s that so many people want the show off the air as soon as it began its run.
Nah, that would only sow chaos. The best thing that can happen now is that Trump facilitates the transfer of wealth from the 1% to Red County America posthaste. Get them jobs, get them happy, let’s let the election have consequences and help the needful. Let 'em win, give 'em some spoils. Put the winners first.
Heh this ‘hit’ is a drop in the bucket. It’s only one of many. The Flynn thing. The ‘2-for-1’ fantasy. The childish and puerile tweets. The transparent lack of truth from other Trump mouthpieces and Trump himself. The ignorance of even the most simple governmental concepts.
Belittle it all you want, the watchwords for the Trump administration have been ‘incompetence’ and ‘dysfunctional communication’ on a number of fronts.
What in the world makes you think Gorsuch will fail confirmation? If the Democrats filibuster, the GOP goes nuclear and confirms him anyway. Then, as soon as they lose the Senate (probably in 4 years, not 2), they put it back in as lame ducks.
You have to remember that Democrats get motivated because they want things to be better, a significant portion of the GOP base feels like it’s in an existential battle and their elected reps are*.
*Not in the literal sense, but in the “I lose my cushy job and money and influence and I’d rather be dead” sense. The GOP has so poisoned it’s brand with the up-and-coming majority of voters that it might 10-15 years before they become relevant again and that’s too long for a lot of these guys.
I read today that it beat the record by 5 days or so. Ford’s press secretary resigned in protest of Ford pardoning Nixon, about 30 days in. I think this was 25. But I didn’t do the counting myself.
24 days vs. 30, I think, but is that important? Compared to the fact that Ford’s press secretary resigned as a matter of conscience and integrity, while Flynn was forced out under a cloud of ethics violations, lying, and potentially undermining national security? And somehow this is supposed to be equivalent, or even remotely comparable?
But Ford can be forgiven for inheriting a God forsaken mess; Trump inherited a partisan congress that he really didn’t have to worry about given that he was supposedly in agreement with what the congressional majority wanted to pass. All Trump had to do was to sit there in a high chair with a thumb up his ass and rubber stamp the GOP agenda within his first 100 days and that, by itself, might have given him, at minimum a 50/50 shot at re-election – or Pence if Trump decided he wasn’t interested.
This is just colossal incompetence, the likes of which hasn’t been seen since the 19th Century – if ever. Trump is already proving himself to anyone with half a fucking brain that he’s utterly incapable of the job.
No, someone just posted a comparison that made it seem like it might be equivalent.
Fair enough that no claim of equivalency was actually made.
Also fair, I think, for me to point out that the reasons and circumstances were vastly different. Ford made a decision that was widely unpopular, and a senior official resigned in protest. This administration is out of control with its wheels falling off in the first three weeks.
Yah well there is more than one objection to wishing death on people. Harrison took a “big hit” to his “program” all right. That observation was to the OP question, not a model.