Posted on 09/06/2018 9:54:53 AM PDT by Hojczyk
lthough the internet tells me that Richard Darman, the éminence grise of the “deep state” during the Reagan-Bush years, died in 2008, apparently he is alive and working in the Trump White House.* Or at least his ghost is haunting the White House mess.
As I have said repeatedly here in past, Trump is no Ronald Reagan, yet I can’t help but notice that many of the very same complaints made now about Trump were made about Reagan, especially his supposed lack of focus, uninformed views, or irrelevant interjections in meetings. Most of which turned out to be wrong.
Several things about this op-ed are odd, starting with the timing. First, what is the top priority of Democrats this week? Stopping the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh. Their only slim hope was to generate momentum in the court of public opinion in their direct questioning of him in the second day of the hearings. The Times op-ed blew the Kavanaugh hearings off the lede of the evening news and above-the-fold in the morning papers. I see this morning that the op-ed is the story of the day. Senate Democrats can’t be pleased with this.
Second, is there anything in this op-ed that isn’t aligned with the sensational parts of the Woodward book that is out this week? Is this a pure coincidence? Doesn’t the coincident appearance of these two media sensations cancel each other out to a certain extent? (Note especially that about the only detailed example given in the article was Trump’s resistance to new Russia sanctions, which was widely reported last year.) At the very least, the op-ed follows the old PR adage of getting your bad news out all at once.
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Right out of Alinskey. Its the left’s SOP!
He’s the guy who talked Bush into breaking his “no new taxes” pledge.
Hollywood and Democrats never have new fresh material.
Hollywood and Democrats never have new fresh material.
Steven Hayward and Paul Mirengoff can go collectively soak their heads.
They are the Never Trumper weak links over at Powerline.
I supported Ronald Reagan, I shook his hand. He was my favorite POTUS of my life until Donald Trump was elected.
Could someone in Trump’s team have planted the NYT editorial to divert attention away from the Supreme Court nomination hearings? Disinformation and distraction?
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