My wife
and I are spending the week sailing. We've been blessed with some
great September weather and the summer is fading fast. Nevertheless
I beat back home to take care of our dogs and happened to check in on
the latest 'tweetstorm'.
Disgustus
cannot bring himself to take responsibility for anything. This time
he is recoiling from the stinging criticisms regarding the completely
incompetent federal response to last years' hurricane Maria in Puerto
Rico. Now he's feeding conspiracy theories, to his unhinged bucket
of deplorables, that the revised death total is a “total
fabrication” put forward by the Democrats to discredit him.
He
doesn't need the Democrats, or anyone else for that matter. Every
time Disgustus opens his mouth or goes to 'twitter' the birdbrain
defiles the office he holds while bringing about yet another national
humiliation. This is no exception.
By
this time in his presidency Barack Obama had taken full
responsibility for the federal recovery following the crash of
2007-8, saying that now he owned it. By this time in his presidency
John F. Kennedy suffering a serious setback at the Bay of Pigs said
that “success has a thousand fathers; failure is an orphan” and
took personal responsibility for it—even though the invasion was
planned during the Eisenhower administration. This is how real
presidents act, and these were the norms until this cringing,
ignorant, self-anointed, sniveling little coward came to office.
I am
currently reading a biography of Harry Truman written by his daughter
Margaret. With all due allowance for obvious bias, her account of
her father's forthrightness, courage, and consistency—as well as
his life-long ability to reach out and learn shines through.
Margaret's account of her fathers actions and the reasons for them
correspond with many other reputable biographies of her father.
Truman possessed courage and judgment and, yes manliness, and
was not afraid to have close associates disagree with him...in fact
he welcomed alternative points of view. Truman understood, as any
good executive at any level understands, that in order to make the
best decisions one must have as much information as one can
reasonably assemble. One rarely, if ever, gets all the evidence
before one can make a judgment, but if one does not act with at least
the best evidence available one risks being 'blind-sided'. Being
'blind-sided' by events is one of the treacherous possibilities in
any presidency. With the management style of Disgustus, relying
exclusively on façade, and preempting nearly all criticisms,
Disgustus runs the risk of being blind-sided by major events.
One of
these was Hurricane Maria and its impact on Puerto Rico. Disgustus,
as ever, rejects the facts on the ground, calling his performance
extraordinary. Disgustus is always giving himself excellent grades
regardless of the outcome. Only in his 'paper-doll' world can
throwing paper towels to the afflicted paper over the suffering.
Armed with his own set of 'alternative facts', he spins an
'alternative universe' that is becoming, by degrees, increasingly
disconnected from the real world.
In
this disconnect lie the underpinnings of looming disaster. Disgustus
is no lion. Disgustus is no paper lion. Disgustus is a paper
towel—in search of the next mess on the floor.
“An
Br'er Putin, he jus' laugh and laugh”
Impeach
and Imprison.
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