monitoring Trump and relevant contemporary events

Of course it can be rated already. You do realize that polls rate presidents continuously on all aspects of their [resodentoing. Nobody waits til they're out of office. And on pretty much every aspect Trump is clearly in the lead for worst. At the rate he has been destroying the country, there may be no country left by the time he is impeached and convicted.

Do you have some source material for that? Or do I have to believe you on the strength on your argument, your big, blue, eyes (presumably), and overlook the fact that you are clearly biased against Obama, given that he apparently attacked the holy grail that is the NRA??

Usually presidents with a new Congressional majority try to figure out if there is anything that the two branches can do together. The governing Republicans have a strong incentive to pass legislation. The obvious thing is to start out with the easiest things, if only to show that Washington can function on some elemental level.

But the White House has not privately engaged with Congress on the legislative areas where there could be agreement. Instead, the president has been superaggressive on the one topic sure to blow everything up: the executive order to rewrite the nation's immigration laws.

The president was in no rush to issue this order through 2014, when it might have been politically risky. He questioned whether he had the constitutional authority to do this through most of his first term, when he said that an executive order of this sort would probably be illegal.

But now the president is in a rush and is convinced he has authority. I sympathize with what Obama is trying to do substantively, but the process of how it's being done is ruinous.

Republicans would rightly take it as a calculated insult and yet more political ineptitude. Everybody would go into warfare mode. We'll get two more years of dysfunction that will further arouse public disgust and antigovernment fervor (making a Republican presidency more likely).

This move would also make it much less likely that we'll have immigration reform anytime soon. White House officials are often misinformed on what Republicans are privately discussing, so they don't understand that many in the Republican Party are trying to find a way to get immigration reform out of the way. This executive order would destroy their efforts.

Sara Sanders is not just a supporter, she is the lady whose job it is everyday to tell lies and defend the indefensible while changing rationales twice as much. She should get another job or face the consequences.
The owner of the Red Hen was not impolite, she merely asked her to leave after consulting with her staff if they were comfortable with her there are not.

Brandon9000 wrote:

blatham wrote:

...Who I, if I were Pharoah here, would boot out are those who demonstrated a continuing lack of commitment to honesty and intellectual carefulness...

I may not agree with what you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.

Heh, what he doesn't say there is that his standard for determining whether any given poster demonstrates a"commitment to honesty and intellectual carefulness" is whether or not you (quickly) concede that he is right. Any person who doesn't agree with him is, by (his) definition, ipso facto dishonest and/or careless.