To: Katelew who wrote (142805 ) 11/8/2019 8:07:30 AM From: Lane3 Respond to of 356147 Do you plan to answer my question about what the US policy re Ukraine was and how the State Department officials were supposed to know and implement it?Did you ever suspect how far they would go regarding immigration? I seriously doubt that most D's support the things you mentioned.How so and which ones? The FBI, the courts, the bureaucracy, the press, the House, the Fed, for a quick list. If Trump has a specific issue, he can't just challenge that particular incidence. He has to throw the whole institution out with the bathwater. And it's not only when he calls one out. He disparages institutions by simply being dismissive of them, cavalier. Here's an example from today's Post:Senior aides at the Commerce Department forced the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to publicly rebuke its weather forecasters in Birmingham, Ala., for contradicting President Trump’s comments about the threat Hurricane Dorian posed to that state, even after NOAA informed them that the agency’s meteorologists were not aware at the time they were contradicting the president, according to three officials familiar with the matter. As for Trump's "rants," you, yourself, know how extraordinarily inarticulate he is. Almost nothing intelligible comes out of his mouth unless he's reading words written by someone else. Not only does he say garbage, he says it with attitude. Often that attitude is anger. Much of it is just smarmy or deprecating or hyperbolic. or nasty. What exactly is a unitary attitude? The position stated by Barr when he auditioned for his job, the one posited in court filings that, if the president were to shoot someone on 5th avenue, the NY cops couldn't even investigate him. The position taken when he directs Executive Branch employees to not respond to the House on anything, period. As for Congress, let me remind you that Trump from day one had an uphill battle. All of the Democrat congress and half of the Republican viewed his very election as illegitimate. Really? After Boehner declared on day one of Obama's administration that Obama would not get anything out of Congress and followed through? Your illegitimacy bit was just a few loudmouths early on. Since then it has been just something for Trump to use as red meat. The guy was duly elected, sadly. Obama turned over the keys to the White House graciously. No one serious ever questioned that Trump was, indeed, president. What Obama did about those constraints, though, was a constant flow of executive orders. Yes, he did. And Trump has followed suit and then some, albeit, as you say, without the decorum. As for decorum, that is an institution, too.