Milbank: Hey, Sarah, Im thankful that Trump is a failure

[babylonsister]

https://www.columbian.com/news/2017/nov/25/milbank-hey-sarah-im-thankful-that-trump-is-a-failure/

Milbank: Hey, Sarah, I’m thankful that Trump is a failure

By Dana Milbank

Published: November 25, 2017, 6:01 AM


“So this is how it’s going to work today,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders informed the press corps Monday. She told reporters that “if you want to ask a question,” you should “start off with what you’re thankful for.”

Like good little girls and boys, several obliged. I prefer to share my thoughts of gratitude with my family at the Thanksgiving table, rather than when commanded to by a Trump mouthpiece. But maybe Sanders was onto something with her infantilizing of the press corps. Maybe in this week of Thanksgiving, we all should speak about what we are grateful for in public life. I’ll start.

Sarah, I am thankful for the checks and balances the Founders put in place, for they are what stand between us and despotism when a demagogic president’s instincts would take us there. And I am profoundly grateful to the many men and women who, often at great personal cost and risk, have stood up to the authoritarian in the White House.

I’m thankful for James Comey, who was fired because he refused to be bullied by Trump into curtailing the FBI’s probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

I’m thankful for Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, who after an initial stumble redeemed himself by naming a special counsel to carry on the Russia probe.

I’m thankful for Robert Mueller III, like Comey a veteran of both Republican and Democratic administrations, who is pursuing the probe without yielding to Trump’s trash talk.

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And I’m profoundly thankful that Trump and so many of his appointees have turned out to be incompetent, unable to implement some of his most dangerous ideas.

In short, Sarah, I am thankful that a combination of brave people, brilliant Framers and dumb luck have prevented your boss from doing much worse.

[Kath2]

1. Thank you.

And I am thankful that this is sure to be a one-term presidency.

[Ferrets are Cool]

2. Sorry Dana, it's not doing a good enough job of keeping this garbage from damaging our country.....

Evidently, if our "rulers" don't want to read or follow the damn thing, it's not worth the parchment its written on.

[Solly Mack]

3. Just wait. She'll make them say "Merry Christmas" to ask questions in a few weeks.

The press should never indulge these egomaniacs.

[DangerousUrNot]

4. Thats not too far fetched.

It would not surprise me one bit if she made reporters greet her with “Merry Christmas” before taking questions. What a fucking lunatic.

[Solly Mack]

5. That's the scary part. It's not too far fetched. :(

[Wounded Bear]

6. Pretty well stated...

[spanone]

8. K&R...