Edith Grove wrote on Nov 29^th, 2016 at 7:31pm:




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http://www.wsj.com/articles/trumps-a-team-1480551204




" Trump’s A-Team  "

" The president-elect is assembling a who’s who of conservatives for his cabinet.   "


By DANIEL HENNINGER



" The day before Thanksgiving in New York, I bumped into a Trump adviser who actually knows what is going on inside Trump Tower, as opposed to rumors inhabiting the media such as this Tuesday headline: “Trump’s Team Frays Over Romney.” The message I got was different: “It’s going to be fine. It’s going to be just fine.”

In the seven days since Thanksgiving, President-elect Trump has named the respected schools reformer Betsy DeVos from Michigan as Secretary of Education. Rep. Tom Price of Georgia, the chairman of the House Budget Committee and a committed reformer of ObamaCare, is Secretary of Health and Human Services. Elaine Chao, who was George W. Bush’s reformist Labor Secretary for eight years, is the new Secretary of Transportation.

Two businessmen will enter the cabinet. Former Goldman Sachs banker Steven Mnuchin is Treasury Secretary and Wilbur Ross, an investor in distressed industries, will be Commerce Secretary.

Retired Marine Gen. Jim Mattis, one of the most able officers to serve in Iraq and later head of the U.S. Central Command, is within a hair of being Secretary of Defense.

Going deeper into the policy weeds, Mr. Trump selected Indiana Medicaid reformer Seema Verma to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid. The main Supreme Court adviser visiting Trump Tower has been Leonard Leo, executive vice president of the Federalist Society.

Bob Woodson, one of this generation’s smartest and most productive black conservatives, has been in to discuss with Mr. Trump how to make good on his campaign promise to champion the inner cities.

If instead of these individuals, the visitors to Trump Tower had been the alt-right activists of so many progressive night sweats, it would have been reported across the New York Times’ front page and on CNN round the clock, as if Godzilla and Mothra were trundling up Fifth Avenue.

Instead, the Trump transition has been talking to and appointing some of the most accomplished and serious individuals in Republican and conservative politics. Donald Trump isn’t pulling rabbits out of a hat. Somebody at team Trump has a first-rate Rolodex.

By now, it should be obvious that the Trump operation exists in two parts. One half is the operation’s face, Donald Trump. The other half is the operation behind the face. Mr. Trump’s persona has often made it difficult to take the entire Trump phenomenon seriously. That, we learned, is a mistake.


Months ago, Mr. Trump’s small team got hold of what is essentially a transition textbook—“Presidential Transition Guide” published earlier this year by the Partnership for Public Service. Its contributors worked on pre-election transitions for John McCain,Mitt Romney and Barack Obama. The Trump preparatory group began to come together in Washington last spring.

In fact, both the Trump and Clinton transition teams were in the same building at 1717 Pennsylvania Avenue, a few blocks from the White House. Hillary’s people were on the 17th floor and the Trump planners were on the eighth. They rode the elevators together—and understood that one of them would fold up shop. Life is full of surprises.

This Trump transition operation is filled with specialists and veterans extending back to Ronald Reagan’s transition, such as Ed Meese. While New York conducts auditions for the cabinet’s speaking parts, the Washington policy shop is now recruiting the under-, deputy- and assistant secretaryships.


I’m told calls are arriving from solid people in the private sector who want to work on the Trump project, without pay, and then get out. That is the private-to-public expertise model created by Gov. Mitch Daniels in Indiana and followed by Govs. John Kasich in Ohio and Bill Haslam in Tennessee.

Presumably this is the intention in naming Messrs. Mnuchin and Ross. I would have preferred seeing House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling get Treasury, on the assumption that his ability to get tax reform and the overhaul of Dodd-Frank through Congress would have all but guaranteed a revived economy and a successful first Trump term. Mr. Mnuchin will benefit from having Chairman Hensarling as a lodestar in the House.

If Mr. Trump’s foreign-policy goal is to “kill ISIS,” it would be hard to design a more effective partnership than Jim Mattis at Defense and David Petraeus at State. They know what to do and how to do it, but that’s not the most important thing.

As former commanders in Iraq, Gens. Mattis and Petraeus have seen enough sacrifice from American troops in the Middle East for two lifetimes. These are men who will not argue for committing ground troops unless the U.S. is going to win and then secure the durability of its dear investment there.

As for Kellyanne Conway’s supposed anti-Romney rampage Sunday morning, I’m more inclined to see it as Thomas Cromwell going on television to explain the requirements of loyalty to Henry VIII’s associates. "

No foolin'. Talk about status quo and the establishment. Mnunchin was known as the "foreclosure king" when he was at OneWest bank, taking $814 million in bailout money in 2009 to kick people out of their homes.

http://nypost.com/2009/11/25/judge-blasts-bad-bank-erases-525g-debt/

The you've got Wilbur Ross, who's made a fortune buying up distressed manufacturing companies (Steel, Textiles, Coal) -then "restructuring", which included slashing pay and benefits, and then flipping the companies to foreign firms for huge profits. He's known as the "bankruptcy king".

Real champions of the average working stiff, these guys.

Looks like somethin' I seen on Bourbon St. 

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http://www.wsj.com/articles/democrats-send-their-regrets-1480638965





By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL





" Regrets? Delaware Sen. Chris Coons has a few—and not too few to mention. At the top of his list is his party’s decision in 2013 to blow up the filibuster for most presidential nominees.

“Many of us will regret that in this Congress,” a dejected Mr. Coons told CNN on Tuesday. “Because it would have been a terrific speed bump, potential emergency brake, to have in our system to slow down the confirmation of extreme nominees.”

Cue Sinatra and “My Way.” That’s how former Senate leader Harry Reid, House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi and President Obama ruled for eight years. They planned each charted course, each careful step. Now, they’re not finding it so amusing.

Mr. Coons is regretting giving up his tool to stop Donald Trump’s march of reformers. It’s a cabinet parade of charter-school-lovers, and law-and-order prosecutors and tax-cutters and ObamaCare-slayers, of the sort to give a good Delaware liberal night sweats. There was a day when not one of these nominees could have hoped to squeeze past a Senate filibuster. But Mr. Reid did it his way, and Mr. Trump keeps tweeting.

Former veep candidate Tim Kaine in October threatened that Republicans would be really, really sorry if they tried use what filibuster tools were left against a Hillary Clinton Supreme Court nominee. If Republicans “stonewall,” then a “Democratic Senate majority will say we’re not going to let you thwart the law,” he declared in October. Incoming Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer is now regretting that belligerence, and insisting that the Supreme Court filibuster is inviolate, and that his party never did kill it, you know, and that should count for something, and . . . blah, blah, regrets.

It would be hard to stall the confirmation process, at least after Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s regretful September news conference, the one where she stood tall and hit Republicans for refusing to confirm Mr. Obama’s end-of-the-road nominee, Merrick Garland. “This is not just some TV show [like] ‘Eight is Enough.’ Eight is not enough on the United States Supreme Court,” she railed. She’s joined in regret by the activists behind those trendy Twitter campaigns: #weneednine. #doyourjob. Bring on Mr. Trump’s own Tweetbomb: #likeyousaid.

Mr. Schumer is also regretting those dozen interviews before the election, the ones he gave as he measured his majority-leader office curtains. He explained to Politico that his party was on the verge of electoral dominance and that this meant it would have “a mandate.” He elsewhere warned all those mulish Republicans that they’d have an obligation to work with his world-dominant party. “If we’re gridlocked for another four years, the anger and sourness in the land will make that of 2016 seem tame,” he lectured.

Some might describe electoral dominance as owning the White House, and the Senate, and the House, and 33 governorships and 68 (of 98) state legislative chambers. But Mr. Schumer now regrets his definition. In a recent ABC News story, he said Mr. Trump’s victory is “not a mandate” and that his Democratic Party remains free to “go after him tooth and nail.”

At least 11 senators, led by Oregon’s Jeff Merkley would appear to regret staying silent while Mr. Reid pioneered the art of hateful speech—routinely calling opponents un-American, tax cheats, liars, losers, tools, first-class rats, and embarrassments. How else to read the senators’ recent letter to Mr. Trump complaining that he’s a big meanie? Meanies do as meanies see, and Mr. Merkley never said a peep as Mr. Reid set a new low standard for public behavior.

House Democrats, those with a brain, now regret that they didn’t can Nancy Pelosi when they could—say, back in 2010. After the liberal Mrs. Pelosi was this week elected leader again, in a rout, Arizona Rep. Kyrsten Sinema complained, and not in a shy way, that her party was doubling down on its “failed strategy of recent years.” But Ms. Sinema did nothing two years ago when Mrs. Pelosi ran unopposed after her third-straight House loss.

The entire Democratic Party is regretting its call for masses of infrastructure, now that there are indications Mr. Trump won’t do it their way. It is regretting it refused to work with Republicans on important bills, now that it’s not likely to get asked.


More than a few Democrats are regretting listening to that piper of the alt-left, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who danced them into indefensible voting records. That regret was on display this week when—despite Ms. Warren having railed against a medical-innovation bill as a giveaway to Big Pharma that made her “gag”—every member of her Massachusetts delegation voted with House Republicans to pass it. In fact, 174 Democrats ignored Ms. Warren.

Let’s hope that’s because now—as the end is near, as Mr. Obama faces his final curtain—at least some have had their share (and fill) of losing. Maybe “my way” wasn’t so smart after all.  "

Some Guy wrote on Dec 2^nd, 2016 at 6:10am:


Still working on that one. Let me call his boss first - I'll get back to you.

Cool Calm Collected HILLARY
"I remember landing under sniper fire...."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SfnYQOb_lM

Edith Grove wrote on Nov 26^th, 2016 at 6:57am:



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     " And he had lost none of the quality  --  the capacity for hatred  --  that had made Joe Kennedy begin to respect him . After his brother's defeat at the Bay of Pigs , Robert Kennedy's determination to  ,  in Bowles' phrase  ,  ' get Castro ' was so intense that one of his key advisers on Cuba said he seemed to regard the failed invasion as ' an insult which needed to be redressed rather quickly . '   ' It was almost as simple as goddammit , we lost the first round , let us win the second ,  ' McGeorge Bundy was to say .  ' We were hysterical about Castro ,  '  Robert McNamara says . Setting up a special CIA operation , later code - named ' Mongoose , '  Bobby kept pushing the CIA  . Over Thanksgiving weekend in 1961 , he repeatedly telephoned CIA Director of Operations Richard Bissell at home to tell him to ' get off his ass ' on Cuba . Following Bissell's replacement by Richard Helms , Kennedy made it clear to Helms , as he records , that Castro was ' the top priority of the United States Government   -- all else is secondary  -- no time  , effort , money or manpower is to be spared . '  That directive was followed  , with the CIA ceaselessly trying to set up raids by Cuban exiles , blow up bridges and factories . There were efforts of another type as well . The CIA would carry out eight separate assassination attempts on Castro's life  , continuing into 1965  . Did Robert Kennedy authorize them  , or know about them ?  ' The Kennedys made clear their desire to  ' get rid  ' of Castro , ' Evan Thomas wrote . But did they authorize his assassination ?  ' The truth is unknowable , '  Thomas concludes . 
     Despite his coolheadedness and caution during the Cuban Missile  --- and his delicate and successful negotiations beginning a month later to free the Bay of Pigs prisoners  -- Robert Kennedy's attitude toward Castro did not change ; in April 1963 , for example  , he was proposing sending a five - hundred - man raiding party into Cuba , a proposal which somehow , luckily , faded away . Over and over during that year he would telephone Helms . ' My God , these Kennedys keep the pressure on about Castro , '  he recalls . "    

You guys should quit with the typical Monday morning "ass-grab" around here and pay attention.  You may just learn something.

So Telecaster is back, huh?  That's got to be good news for a lot of you paradiddles.  Bombadiddles.  Diddle eye Joe to damned if I knows.

Telecaster - the prodigal son returns.  Alleged prodigal son.  Purported prodigal son. Proverbial prodigal son.  Biblicalist prodigal son.  Prodigal son of yore. 

Telecaster worked at Bagel World last I heard.  Mopsmith.  He worked the hot mops, often along the interior walls.  Hot mops, bristle mops, trash mops, sponge mops, scour mops, elbow mops, nit mops, purge mops, flat mops.  All that stuff.

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gimmekeef wrote on Dec 1^st, 2016 at 12:17pm:




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No, it's the real Tele. Has to be. He's been off learning to read.