What about ME, Zeb???
(I’m hurt…!)
Gingrich walked it back because he was wrong and Trump straightened him out. Draining the Swamp is a curious phrase is it not? To you it means one thing to me another. For example, draining the could mean getting rid of all the left wing kooks that Obama put into power in various agencies. And if that is the case he will Drain the Swamp.
As for the wall it will be built for reasons I sated in my previous post. What it will look like is anyone’s guess but I bet at least parts of it will be magnificent.
To be very honest with you Mufasa you are one of the pillars of this PWI community. The place would not be as good without you. I look forward to your posts and quite honestly admire your spirit and apparent character.
Your Friend,
ZEB
Confirmation Bias at it’s worst (best?), Zeb.
He spelled it out; and even named some Company Names…(Goldman Sachs being one).
(OH! And he as already named 3-4 Goldman Sachs executives to his Cabinet?)
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"…To be very honest with you Mufasa you are one of the pillars of this PWI community. The place would not be as good without you. I look forward to your posts and quite honestly admire your spirit and apparent character.
Your Friend,
ZEB…" [/quote]
LOW BLOW, my Friend!
Same to you!
Do you remember a show called “Crossfire”? It was supposed to be this back and forth between Liberal and Conservative Moderators.
It only became a show worth watching when a Firebrand of a Conservative named Robert Novak came on the show…and everyone knew that. Without him; the show was nothing.
You learn nothing by simply hanging around a bunch of people who always agree with you.
So I’m glad you are here also.
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Curious indeed. DTS was used mainly because it played so well in Peoria, so to speak. DT readily admitted as much himself:
However, when his team realized how popular it was, they knew they had to flesh it out. So:
“[T]he core of [DTS] was a five-point ethics reform plan unveiled under the “Drain the Swamp” headline on Oct. 17, the first time he publicly used the phrase. Trump promised to ban executive officials from lobbying for five years; ask Congress to do the same for its own members and staff; expand the legal definition of lobbying “so we close all the loopholes that former government officials use by labeling themselves consultants and advisers when we all know they are lobbyists”; ban senior administration officials from lobbying for foreign governments; and stop foreign lobbyists from raising money for U.S. elections.”
I won’t copy-and-paste the entire link here, but as it makes clear, Trump’s actions vis a vis ‘the swamp’ have thus far made a mockery of the above plan.
Then he jolly well better do it huh? If he doesn’t he will just be one more politician who said something and never followed through. Ha ha…Obama closing GITMO is a good example. But his followers never cared, not really.
I think we can both agree that Trump is a politician. In fact, the best of the bunch!
I agree completely.
Um…want to ride bikes together?
LOL
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I’d actually like to talk to you guys all day today. But duty calls and I must get back to work. I always say “lead by example” and I won’t have my employee’s working and have them think I took an extended vacation.
Have a good chat without me.
Peace brothers
Zeb
You have admonished others in the past to ‘be fair’ in their criticisms of Trump, and I have to do the same to you here. As you well know, Obama did his absolute damnedest to close Gitmo, but Congress simply refused to allow it.
It’s kinda like this!
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The Republican controlled Congress will impeach Trump by 2018. How’s that.
Are Goldman Sachs executives evil?
Yeah, I don’t get this. He took pennies in term of donations from Wall Street pre-election.
He also said he’d stack his cabinet with “killers” from the business world.
Funny thing, I was watching that movie Sully the other day and I noticed the executive producer was Steve Mnuchin a member of Trump’s cabinet.
If memory serves me correctly I only admonished two other posters for attacking Trump. It had to do with them claiming that Trump was an idiot who knew nothing about business. Anyway, that is all I can remember. I don’t believe I have ever been critical of anyone claiming that Trump is big mouth bragger with an ego the size of the grand canyon.
Yeah he was constantly mentioning Carl Icahn and a few others. Why in the world anyone criticize him for following through with his word. Granted there will be plenty of times he doesn’t keep his word…after all he is a politician and he’s also Trump. That is a volatile combination.
Not necessarily. But they are most definitely swamp rats.
The point is, will you acknowledge that the failure of Gitmo to close is due to congressional recalcitrance, not a lack of effort or will on Obama’s part.
Yeah but he did tell everyone where he was going to be hiring. It wasn’t a secret.
“In November three former senior Obama administration attorneys argued that the president had the constitutional power to ignore the legal restrictions Congress has placed on bringing dangerous detainees to the United States. Presidential aides suggested that the White House was taking the argument seriously.”
“President Obama’s long equivocation on this issue implies that he understands these consequences. His least bad option, it seems, is to appear to want very much to close Guantanamo (which he does), and to talk and act as if he is doing all he can, but to capitulate in the end. So expect that long-promised plan finally to come out soon; expect Congress to reject it; expect the President and his Team to publicly anguish over closing Guantanamo unilaterally; expect them to decide in the end that the rule of law — which the President holds dear and will play up in his memoirs — forbids it; and expect fifty or so dangerous terrorists to be locked up in indefinite military detention in Guantanamo when the next President assumes office on January 20, 2017.”