Perhaps Trump's poodles in Congress will finally rouse themselves - Geroge Will
Deferring gratification can be virtuous, but now is the time for an autopsy of Donald Trump’s presidency. The nation has experienced more than a few failing presidencies, but this flailing presidency is as uniquely unsightly as it is terminal. Trump’s plummet will intensify what is causing it, his self-absorption and self-indulgence. Recently, he has waged war carelessly, pursued a fixation incontinently, and named a building contemptibly.
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Trump launched this war eight months after declaring that last summer’s U.S. and Israeli bombing “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear weapon program. The general who led the Defense Department’s intelligence agency was fired after its report concluded otherwise.
In February, Trump implicitly affirmed the report’s conclusion by ordering another obliteration. But when, in May, the price of gasoline reached a national average of $4.47 a gallon (the price 70 years ago, adjusted for inflation, was about $3.70), he wobbled. Trumpeting Iran’s assurance, which it has reiterated for decades, that it would not acquire nuclear weapons, Trump accepted a “memorandum of understanding” under which Iran will be bribed (with reconstruction money from undetermined sources) to accept U.S. capitulation. Here are reasons why Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-Massachusetts) calls this “the most humiliating national security episode since the British burned the White House”:
Restrictions on Iranian exports will be loosened and at least $100 billion in frozen assets will be “fully available” to Iran. The MOU would codify that, contrary to international law, the Strait of Hormuz is “an Iranian river” (Auchincloss). Excluded from negotiations are Iran’s ballistic missile developments, its funding of Hezbollah and other terrorist proxies, and the regime’s slaughter of protesters by the thousands. (“Help is on its way,” Trump told them in January.)
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A figment of Trump’s imagination, the theft of the 2020 election, has produced a congressional train wreck. He is willing to sacrifice national security in order to get a voting-security law that is intended to prevent a repeat of what did not happen in 2020. A vital anti-terrorism law expired while he was toying with nominating (he retreated) another know-nothing — Bill Pulte, a real-estate mogul — as director of national intelligence.
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The only good that can come of this is if they are all eliminated in their next elections — which they goddamn well better be. These fuckers are allowing a mentally deficient, insane lunatic pedophile criminal run roughshod over this country and 99% of its citizens. ENOUGH ALREADY.
