1890 Ronald Ray-Gun
That’s what we called him in the
Liberal Media Newsroom on Rockefeller Plaza back when he was running for
President. Ronnie was brimming with bad ideas he tried to turn into bad
policies and sometimes he succeeded. His bolts may have started coming loose long
before we knew for sure. And he may have napped during cabinet meetings,
but with the exception of Iran Contra and the HUD bid rigging case, Deaver the
liar, he ran a pretty clean ship.
Oh, and the Meese scandals and a
small number of others.
That is to say there were
relatively few high ranking officials who landed in prison, if you take the
figure as a per capita percentage.
And the people who weren’t jailed
were relatively well credentialed and tried to more or less stay the course in
keeping with American values as they saw them.
There were no Dulles Brothers.
There were none of the German Shepherds of the Nixon years. There
was no lurking constitutional crisis. And no one who made his bones in
the Reagan years considered a 25th Amendment takedown, at least in public.
Whatever else he was -- or wasn’t
-- Reagan was presidential. If he was an egomaniac in need of constant
adulation from his subordinates, it didn’t show.
Fast forward to today.
There’s wide speculation about trump’s bolts. He may or may not
implode. His crime family/immediate family may end in the witness
protection program and/or behind bars any day now. And that’s a problem.
There is no bench. There is no net.
The people he’s hired are to a man or woman zeros. Does the brilliantly
hand-eye coordinated Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Ben Carson,
MD, know Thing One about housing and urban development? Does the
Secretary of Education know anything about education that’s not in the bible?
Does the Secretary of State, perhaps the most important cabinet member know
anything about anything?
Secretary ReXXon seems to be trying
to do the right thing without honking off The Boss. But his main
qualification for the job is that he accepted the nomination.
The president has put in a lot of
cronies with the word “acting” before their titles. These are positions
where the Senate has to confirm a real nominee but any worm in the garden can
do the job as long as he (or she) is merely “acting.”
If we become trumpless, there is no
one who knows anything who will be in a position to run the country’s business.
Pence? A failed talk show
host who sent a wrecking ball through the halls of the Indiana state house.
All this is far more of a worry than what tweety does or doesn’t state.
All this is far more of a worry than what tweety does or doesn’t state.
Our friend and fellow observer
Ellis Henican called Twitter “trump’s virtual primal scream room.” He’s right.
And running the country from a cell phone and bragging about his
intelligence does not inspire public confidence. Not even among his ignorant
and gullible base.
Ronald Reagan, for all his flaws, did not degrade America in the eyes of the rest of the world. You can’t make that case for trump and his merry band of future jailbirds.
Book ‘em, Danno.
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