‘I Alone Can Fix It’ Becomes ‘It’s Not My Fault’ “I have joined the political arena so that the powerful can no longer beat up on people that cannot defend themselves,” said Donald Trump in the acceptance speech at his nominating convention. “Nobody knows the system better than me, which is why I alone can fix it.” None of those claims have turned out to be true. First, helping the powerful beat up on the defenseless has turned out to be the overriding thematic goal of his agenda. Second (and mitigating the first), everybody knows the system better than Trump — at least everybody in politics. And he has proven so unable to fix it he is already shifting his message toward assigning the blame elsewhere.
The people who voted for Trump are not complaining. Mainly it is leftists and big business/establishment drones in both parties who are upset. Not at Trump's failures to do things but because of things he has done, eg block mass immigration from muslim countries, start deporting illegals, move toward building a wall, stop DACA, cut off insurance company payoffs under obamacare, pull out of Paris environmental accords, pull out of UNESCO, pressure big companies to keep jobs here, appoint outstanding judges, force Europe to start paying its own way in NATO, etc etc. The economy is booming, he handled three disastrous hurricanes adroitly and in his spare time, he slapped around the NFL/BLM idiots who thought disrespecting our flag was a good idea.
Big business is not upset. Think about all the stuff you wrote (basically all anti-immigrant). That's what you care about. In the meantime WaPo (the "fake newspaper") exposed that he tried to make a pharma puppet the drug czar.
Actually it was CBS 60 Minutes really having the lead in the story that brought out the opioid pharma relationships between Tom Marino and the pharma industry that led to Marino withdrawing his name for consideration (under pressure) for Drug Czar. http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-...g-czar-withdraws-after-damaging-opioid-report
That is correct... you caught me in the middle of updating most post with the link & updated text. I pressed post reply too early.
This opoid story is not as cut and dried as you want to make it. From the NPR article: "In the Senate, the drug enforcement bill was sponsored by Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah — who also saw it through the markup process. In Congress and on Twitter, Hatch has defended his role this week, calling the Post story "flawed" and "one-sided." Hatch also said the bill was supported by patient groups who "were concerned about DEA's unfettered enforcement authority." "I spent months negotiating with DEA and with DOJ until they were at a point where they were comfortable allowing the bill to proceed," Hatch said Monday on Capitol Hill. "If they had asked me to hold the bill or to continue negotiations, I would have done so." Hatch noted via Twitter that "President Obama signed this bill into law. DEA and DOJ, who work for the President, could have urged him to veto it. They did not." We have a situation where there are unscrupulous doctors writing large numbers of scrips for painkillers, which the DEA would like to shut down. Unfortunately, they have swept up legitimate doctors who have lots of patients in chronic pain. Now doctors are wary of getting on the DEA's list because of prescribing painkillers and legitimate patients suffer. I don't know enough about the issue to say if this Marino is a good guy or a tool of evil drug companies. I do know that Trump is fervently anti-drug. Neither he nor his kids even drink. He is no friend of the drug companies either, repeatedly accusing them of price gouging. The idea that he appointed a guy in the expectation that he would facilitate the opoid racket is ridiculous on its face.