Oh man, I'm back in the "can't listen to NPR anymore" camp. Even Marketplace
which has traditionally been a favorite. Every frickin story is "Trump
something something".
Actually I listened to "Word of Mouth" last night which was pleasant as I was
far enough north to pick up Vermont public radio. Fortunately it was on late
enough there weren't a bunch of "news" updates mucking it up.
-Curt
From: Floyd Thursby via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
To: mercedes@okiebenz.com
Cc: Floyd Thursby <buggeredbenzm...@gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, January 20, 2017 2:18 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Hip Hip Hooray!
I am not particularly a Trumpster but will watch what happens with a
detached interest. I do find it somewhat intriguing.
One thing that seems will be different, even with pissing off the
congresscritters, is that he is a wheeler dealer (apparently). I never
saw BHO as much of a politician, engaging with other pols in Congress
unless they were just ideological partners on stuff that would have been
done whether he was engaged or not. Seemed like he basically outsourced
whatever to the Ds in Congress, and where stuff was too hard to work
politically he relied on EOs. Never did much of anything to work the R
Congress to get things done. He seemed to spend a lot of time whining
about stuff rather than dealing with it. Clinton and Reagan were
politicians, worked all sides and got stuff accomplished, for better or
worse. Bushes maybe to some extent. So it will be interesting to see
him applying the New York real estate/casino developer mode to these
guys. My sense is he will shake things up severely trying to buck the
entrenched interests, but if he uses the BHO "pen" to get some stuff
done that will wake them up. And if they want to do stuff they will
need DT to approve it. And I bet he has some vocal popular support for
it all, along with some extremely vocal and active opposition, that will
egg him on. It is going to be interesting.
I have noticed Chucky Shumer howling in outrage lately, I guess we will
have to listen to 4 years of that grating whining from him and Nancy P
too. Turnabout is gonna be a b*tch. They need to rehabilitate Anthony
"Little" Weiner and that will make a 3fer.
NPR have been having fits for the last 2 months, they are in full
meltdown today. The PBS "news" shows tonight will be draped in black
and there will be a lot of Weighty Intoning from Learned Commentators.
Half of it will likely be an Obama retrospective and coverage of their
departure and new vacation, along with grief counseling.
"May you live in interesting times"
--FT
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