Three of the five priorities listed are not policy priorities, they're basic functions of the federal government. https://t.co/77F9JXMUpE pic.twitter.com/B48MHkVxGv
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) July 1, 2017
This is like me saying that my personal priorities are eating, writing another book, sleeping, teaching, and breathing. https://t.co/ONfMWa7Prt
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) July 1, 2017
Alexandra Petri, in the Washington Post — “After the president’s tweet, I must withdraw my support for everything but his agenda“:
… The president has at last done the unthinkable: He has insulted a morning television personality in crude and ghastly terms and I must — in consequence of this hideous and vile breach of the dignity of the office — withdraw none of my support from his legislative agenda. (If you can call it a legislative agenda and not a ragtag collection of bad ideas quickly stapled together with a dead pigeon in the middle.)
His remark about Mika Brzezinski is absolutely shameful and I do not stand with him, except insofar as it is necessary to stand with him so that we can make sure infants get access to pesticides, as the Founders would have wished.
I am shocked and appalled by his behavior. And I am not afraid to say so. At a fundraiser. For him. Before asking for more donations.
Everything else the president has done is fine — the continued attacks on the media’s legitimacy, the carelessness toward history and diplomacy, the harmful rhetoric about Muslims, the — well, it is all fine. This is too much, though, and I am putting my foot down, here, on my way to vote against icebergs…
I am glad that at long last we legislators are standing up to President Trump by going to Twitter and typing stern words into a little box… Some have even gone so far as to stand up in front of reporters and offer the ringing denunciation that, “Obviously, I don’t see that as an appropriate comment,” as House Speaker Paul D. Ryan did. Fiery rhetoric, and appropriately so!
By God, this is not what George Washington would have wanted, and I am thus withdrawing my support for everything but the legislation Trump would like us to pass. His words are a shame, but it is too important that we end health insurance for indigent seniors in Ohio….
(I privately imagine Tom Cotton reading about the ‘dead pigeon stapled in the middle’ and thinking, Huh, so that’s where my lunch ended up.)
Is there nothing the Combover Caligula can do that would cause the Repubs to break with him?…
This is the idea that would convince Paul Ryan to impeach Trump https://t.co/pDJKmmDMGt
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) July 2, 2017
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