01-19-2017, 04:00 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-19-2017, 04:08 PM by Eric the Green.)
(01-19-2017, 03:30 PM)Mikebert Wrote:(01-19-2017, 10:54 AM)Anthony Wrote: But don't you think that the fact that they are incompetent means that this is going to be a one-man show -
No. If they are incompetent, it means Trump will get much less of what he wants done that Congress opposes. As partisanship increases, Republican legislators increasingly become independent actors, with their own brand that will ensure re-election. They don't need Trump and in four years (or 8 at most) he will be gone and they will still be here.
So that means Trump will likely be just another Bush, unless he achieves a major war or similar one-off event.
This of course assumes that the Trump appointees in those areas he cares about (i.e. not education or HW) are incompetent. Neither Tillerson nor Mathis strike me as incompetent.
Tillerson has no experience whatsoever as a diplomat. Big business is not diplomacy. And the business he ran is the business we don't need, and is killing the planet. No-one who is aware of what's going on would trust him to carry out the Paris accords or negotiate good climate deals, not to mention stand up to Putin. His answers to the committee were pathetic and dishonest in the extreme.