CILLIZZA: Trump is playing zero-dimensional chess. LIEU: No, it's Solitaire without a full deck.

[highplainsdem]

Link to tweet

http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/08/politics/trump-corker-attack/index.html

[Buns_of_Fire]

1. Playing baseball with an inflatable bat.

Playing soccer with a bowling ball.
Playing hockey with a warped puck.
Swimming in a suit of armor.

[Iliyah]

2. Right on - LOL

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Six bricks short of a full load. . . . nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. Frum: Trump skill is not deal-making with powerful counterparts. It's duping gullible victims -tweet

[sharedvalues]

7. Love this quote

ps "counterparties". minor quibble

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. Yeah, Frum wrote it your way, but

1) I edited slightly to fit DU title length

2) Counterparts is actually the more correct English. Counterparties is a modern American formation that adds letters.

66 million hits for counterpart (includes musical counterpart)
6 million hits for counterparty

coun·ter·part
ˈkoun(t)ərˌpärt/
noun
plural noun: counterparts

1.
a person or thing holding a position or performing a function that corresponds to that of another person or thing in another place.
"the minister held talks with his French counterpart"
synonyms: equivalent, opposite number, peer, equal, coequal, parallel, complement, analog, match, twin, mate, fellow, brother, sister; formalcompeer
"the minister held talks with his French counterpart"

A counterparty (sometimes contraparty) is a legal entity, unincorporated entity, or collection of entities to which an exposure to financial risk might exist. The word became widely used in the 1980s, particularly at the time of the Basel I in 1988.
Counterparty - Wikipedia

[Tommy_Carcetti]

5. I like to say he's playing "checkers", but his idea of "checkers" is....

just throwing the pieces at the other player and laughing at him/her.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. tRump is a pigeon

[LonePirate]

6. Cillizza is a horrible pundit. Hes only good for one thing: giving hope to other talentless hacks.

[meow2u3]

8. A couple of eggs short of a dozen

And the rest of them are broken. That also describes the Toxic Tangerine.

[snort]

9. Ranching without a fence.

BIL from Queens told me that one about 40 years ago. It still makes me chuckle.