“Get over it,” Mulvaney told the assembled journalists.
“Elections have consequences,” he also said.
Allow me to translate: American voters gave Trump the presidency, so it’s his to use and abuse as he wants. If you’re looking for an apology, you might as well be looking for the yeti. What you should really be doing is looking the other way.
We tried to tell everybody who was shocked when Bush didn’t, you know, do anything different when his approval rating dipped below 50, that the real Bush Doctrine was that approval ratings and the howling of the public and the neverending protests (and there were, in fact, protests) didn’t matter. He had the presidency.
He could do what he wanted with it.
But now he’s pals with Ellen, so. I mean, honest to Christ.
We tried to warn you this was leading nowhere good, but you couldn’t begin to reckon with what he’d understood, which is that your “norms” don’t mean shit and your DC rituals don’t mean shit faced with somebody who don’t want none unless you got guns, hon. People forget but this is the kind of thing Bush was faced with on a daily basis:
And if after that Bush didn’t resign in disgrace, honestly could you blame the next guy for thinking he could do whatever he wanted? Including, let’s be fair, drone-bombing however many Pakistani schoolchildren and wedding guests he thought he needed to while Republicans accused his wife of covering the White House Christmas tree in crack pipes?
Those revelations of rottenness that I mentioned before? They’re no longer an inadvertent tic. They’re an advertent tactic. Done with denials of wrongdoing, administration officials are reframing it as right-doing — as a president’s prerogative, even his entitlement, pre-emptively authorized by voters themselves.
If only he’d put such things in the mouths of his admin-adjacent Super PACs, instead of using the sacred White House podium for it. Jesus tits, Bruni, where have you BEEN?
We tried to warn you we were heading right exactly here, and you didn’t listen, and don’t get me wrong, we’ll fight them til we can’t no matter how many of you are late to the party, but come on, you can’t possibly tell me you’re shocked. Bush plugged this destination into the GPS. All the GOP did recently was let Trump drive.
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To criticize speaker Pelosi’s and president Obama’s non-prosecution of the Cheney-Bush junta us pure bigotry. Noone on our side has any responsibility, ever.
Pelosi should have resigned for taking impeachment off the table, among other things.
Obama, Pelos & Reid are cowards who destroyed this country by inaction in the face of an assault in our democracy.
The first step to a new step is to retire the old guard. Pelosi’s idea of message control is raising money from rich people to waste on overpaid (nepotistic) consultants.
Lemme get this straight. You’re blaming Frank Bruni for only “lately” being contemptuously critical of Drumpf and his presidency? Have you read even one of his editorials before?