Thread: First 100 days
View Single Post
Old 03-04-2017, 06:05   #111
Badger52
Area Commander
 
Badger52's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Western WI
Posts: 7,006
Quote:
Originally Posted by GratefulCitizen View Post
Trump snookered the left by trolling them into frenzies which created low expectations.
He used this as a foil to make a decent SOTU address looks even better, and left them with nowhere to go.

They learn.
Expect occasional praise WRT their pet causes, as this will give them room to criticize when they need to undermine something important on his agenda.
True enough; I don't trust 'em either but 2 edges to that blade. I'd say this has a lot more substance than starting out one's legacy with "Clearly, the Cambridge police acted stupidly." The stakeholders in that room, who've been trying to get something like this done for a long time - plucking something neglected out of the bureaucratic dungeon - are going to carry that back. I imagine the business-model piece of the decision was a no-brainer and both he & the people he has around him probably saw that piece of it immediately.
__________________
"Civil Wars don't start when a few guys hunt down a specific bastard. Civil Wars start when many guys hunt down the nearest bastards."

The coin paid to enforce words on parchment is blood; tyrants will not be stopped with anything less dear. - QP Peregrino
Badger52 is offline   Reply With Quote