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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMaureen Dowd writes an open letter to the orange cheeto
WASHINGTON Dear Donald,
Weve known each other a long time, so I think I can be blunt. You know how you said at campaign rallies that you did not like being identified as a politician? Dont worry. No one will ever mistake you for a politician. After this past week, they wont even mistake you for a top-notch negotiator.
I was born here. The first image in my memory bank is the Capitol, all lit up at night. And my primary observation about Washington is this: Unless youre careful, you end up turning into what you started out scorning. And you, Donald, are getting a reputation as a sucker. And worse, a sucker who is a tool of the D.C. establishment.
Your whole campaign was mocking your rivals and the D.C. elite, jawing about how Americans had turned into losers, with our bad deals and open borders and the Obamacare disaster. And you were going to fly in on your gilded plane and fix all that in a snap You promised to get the best people around you in the White House, the best of the best. In fact, best is one of your favorite words.
you dragged that motley skeleton crew into the White House and let them create a feuding, leaking, belligerent, conspiratorial, sycophantic atmosphere. Instead of a smooth, classy operator like James Baker, you have a Manichaean anarchist in Steve Bannon.
You knew the Republicans were full of hot air.
You knew that Paul Ryans vaunted reputation as a policy wonk was fake news. Republicans have been running on repealing and replacing Obamacare for years and they never even bothered to come up with a valid alternative.
As The Timess chief Washington correspondent Carl Hulse put it, the G.O.P. falls into clover with a lock on the White House and both houses of Congress, and whats the first thing it does? Slip on a banana peel. Incompetence Inc.
Youre all about flashy marketing so you didnt notice that the bill was junk, so lame that even Republicans skittered away.
You were humiliated right out of the chute by the establishment guys who hooked you into their agenda a massive transfer of wealth to rich people and drew you away from your own.
You sold yourself as the businessman who could shake things up and make Washington work again. Instead, you got worked over by the Republican leadership and the business community, who set you up to do their bidding.
Thats why theyre putting up with all your craziness about Russia and wiretapping and unending lies and rattling our allies.
Theyre counting on you being a delusional dupe who didnt even know what was in the bill because youre sitting around in a bathrobe getting your information from wackadoodles on Fox News and then, as The Post reported, peppering aides with the query, Is this really a good bill?
You got played.
It took W. years to smash everything. Youre way ahead of schedule.
And I can say youre doing badly, because Im a columnist, and youre not. Say hello to everybody, O.K.?
Sincerely, Maureen
Read the full article here :
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/25/opinion/sunday/donald-this-i-will-tell-you.html
meadowlark5
(2,795 posts)Because every bit of it is true.
dalton99a
(81,485 posts)so I suspect she gave him a heads-up
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Are you acquainted with one or the other of them?
meadowlark5
(2,795 posts)dumpy demands loyalty and lots of fawning accolades from his "friends".
GP6971
(31,146 posts)sane piece I've seen from her in awhile.
Fla Dem
(23,661 posts)She come from a staunchly conservative family, and while she may have some liberal social opinions, I think she is conservative to the core. I don't doubt she is close to tRump, they probably ran in a lot of the same social circles in NY. So this is a strong departure for her. It will be interesting to see if he does react.
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)not fooled
(5,801 posts)comes from this article, on the mercers and their role in the con's ascension:
http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/mercers/[link:http://|
Reveals that this rolling clusterf*ck represents the outcome of machinations by a dimwitted control freak modern-day Cruella de Vil.
Basically, the con is the plaything onto which the mercers and assorted associated creeps and sociopaths have projected their "what 'Murica should be like" fantasies.
implosion couldn't happen to a more deserving band of villains.