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kleinbl00  ·  2568 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Capitol Hill Republicans not on board with Trump budget

The way I interpret it is that for about four weeks, everyone was sort of going "...no... you can't do that. Uhm, no seriously... you're the president? And you can't do that. I know you're new at this but... you, like? Can't do that? And, uhh... you're not acting presidential."

Then for another week we were at "Yeah you can't do that. I know you think you can do that but you can't. Look - it's been a month. You should know you can't do that by now. Also - you can't do that."

Now? Now we're at "you can't do that, assclown. Okay, we'll run the country without you."

"A senior administration official told CNN that Spicer and McMaster offered what amounted to an apology to the British government."

This is literally the National Security Advisor forcing the White House Press Secretary to say sorry as if he were an errant toddler. He's not - he just works for one.

Rex Tillerson is an executive, not a statesman. You're damn skippy we've got preemptive strike strategies and warplans and contingencies and wargames going back to the 1953 armistice. A diplomat would know not to show them to the daylight because our relationship with North Korea is one of pomp, circumstance and rattled-saber nuance but the fact that Tillerson didn't "rule it out" says more about his skill in front of a microphone than it does about our military posture. Remember - this is a company man who started working for Exxon straight out of college. Odds are good he knows more about oil than the rest of us combined ever will and that he rose from "dude who surveys oil wells" to CEO without ever leaving Exxon says a lot about his competency. But he's also a guy who's used to having a PR person speak for him.