Never thought I'd type these words but Maureen Dowd wrote a hell of a column for Sunday's NYT

[SticksnStones]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/25/opinion/sunday/donald-this-i-will-tell-you.html?_r=0

An excerpt:

WASHINGTON — Dear Donald,

We’ve known each other a long time, so I think I can be blunt.

You know how you said at campaign rallies that you did not like being identified as a politician?

Don’t worry. No one will ever mistake you for a politician.

After this past week, they won’t even mistake you for a top-notch negotiator.

[luvMIdog]

1. heeheehee

[SticksnStones]

4. Yup.

Although she does seem to absolve herself from any involvement in getting him in to the WH.

She was brutal when writing about the Clintons.

Trump is her fault too.

Still, the column is spot on...like a dem wrote it!

[FakeNoose]

64. NYT commenters are even funnier

I skimmed the first 50 or so comments on this article (in the NY Times) and not one had a positive thing to say about Donald Trump or the GOP. Those commenters all sounded like they were DU regulars!

[skylucy]

2. I was a little wary about reading the entire column because I'm

not a fan of Dowd either, but wow. She annihilated Trump.

[beam me up scottie]

3. Credit where credit is due - Dowd nailed it.

[SticksnStones]

5. It was brutal...

I wonder if he'll read it?

Certainly hope so... Although I know his weekends are rather full with all his tee times that perhaps he won't see it until Monday or so ~

[beam me up scottie]

9. Oh I certainly hope so. They do know each other so it's possible it'll catch his attention..

Get ready for tweets about FAKE NEWS!!! Or another lawsuit.

Neither Twitler nor his fan club understand the difference between news and opinion.

[Soxfan58]

29. READ?

only if they read it out loud on fux news.

[SticksnStones]

30. ..

[Raine1967]

49. Assuming he reads at all is a big leap.

HE *might* read headlines.

[calimary]

60. True that, AND she referred to Paul Ryan as the "Irish undertaker." ROFL!!!

Good times.

[Hekate]

6. MoDo has a sharp pen dipped in acid. She's still calling Ryan "the Irish Undertaker," I see...

Somebody else (Charles Pierce, I think) calls him "the zombie-eyed granny starver," but I recall MoDo's impressions from several years back and they were not kind. He reminded her of a "type" from her own Irish-American community -- an undertaker just oozing insincerity as he metaphorically picks your pockets.

[SticksnStones]

7. She has so often pointed that pen at dems...

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And the Clintons in particular. It's interesting to have her take aim at anyone who's not named Clinton.

And in such a brutally honest fashion.

I applaude her~

[mountain grammy]

8. Not being a fan, I will rec this anyway, because it's excellent.

Sometimes Maureen is excellent.

[SticksnStones]

10. Her excellence is rare, I agree

But this column is one of those moments. And the comments folks are leaving seem to agree with her.

[Wounded Bear]

11. I'll give her credit for one thing...

she's one of the few who pointed out that the real reason the Deplorable Care Act failed was because it was a crap bill.

They didn't even really try to disguise what it really was, and huge tax cut for the top 1%.

[exboyfil]

26. And it still was within 20-30 votes of passing

$35B/yr. taken out of the system which is equivalent to 400,000 nurses. I tried to explain it my mom (a Trump voter) this week, but it didn't register.

[ailsagirl]

12. Wow-- quite a piece!!

One reader commented...

WOW, thanks for being blunt. Your pen is a sharp
instrument, and never more deftly wielded.

[NNadir]

13. I despise this woman, but sometimes, despite being an ass, she can be witty.

I stopped reading her years ago, around the time she offered her mindless opinion that the 2000 election was more about Al Gore's suit than about the lives of human beings - the tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqis might beg to differ.

I did glance at her hatred of Hillary Clinton a few times - it was unsurprising, and boring - but, maybe I'll take a look in tomorrow's Times.

[SharonAnn]

14. That's really something! Thanks for posting.

[grantcart]

15. Going to leave a mark, didn't know you could tattoo in neon.

[Cha]

16. she points out the truth in this one..

[crazylikafox]

17. "And I can say youre doing badly, because Im a columnist, and youre not. "

[Pacifist Patriot]

40. My favorite line!

[Tatiana]

18. Wow! That is some kind of EPIC burn...

I loathe MoDo with the force of a thousand suns.

But this column is thing of beauty.

[SticksnStones]

28. I'm thinking of having it framed, suitable for hanging

And perhaps print out copies and have them at the ready to tuck on the windshield of every car with a Trump bumper sticker I see in parking lots around my very red county.

[uponit7771]

38. +1, she torched his ass... Spot on calling him a flim flam man

[CTyankee]

47. now that she sees what has happened, she might have sobered up and FINALLY understands

what we've been saying all along.

[Tatiana]

55. That column does have a sense of sobriety, doesn't it?

I really hope she gets it. We could use someone like her on our side.

[More_Cowbell]

19. She's wrong

When she says that the "Massive transfer of wealth to rich people" agenda was not Trump's. That's ALL he cares about.

[bigtree]

33. +1

[FakeNoose]

61. Paul Ryan wrote the healthcare bill

... before Trump was even chosen as the GOP candidate.

So in a way she's right, it's Ryan's shame and disaster more than Trump's.
But really Trump and Ryan are partners on this failure.

[StrictlyRockers]

20. "Remember how you didn't like being identified as a politician? ...

Link to tweet

"Remember how you didn't like being identified as a politician?
Don’t worry. No one will ever mistake you for one."

[Kath2]

21. Right on.

She nailed it. Thank you.

[Demonaut]

22. wow, still have an issue with her over Iraq

[SticksnStones]

25. I'm no fan of hers by any stretch but she takes down the whole crew

in this piece~

Like this

...you dragged that motley skeleton crew into the White House and let them create a feuding, leaking, belligerent, conspiratorial, sycophantic atmosphere.

and this

You knew the Republicans were full of hot air. They haven’t had to pass anything in a long time, and they have no aptitude for governing.

And my personal favorite, this

You knew that Paul Ryan’s vaunted reputation as a policy wonk was fake news.

[Raster]

39. my favorite "...that Irish Undertaker..'"

Paul Ryan to a fucking tee!

[Lucinda]

23. KNR

[Maru Kitteh]

24. OH my.

[SticksnStones]

27. ( I always hear 'oh my' in George takei's voice)

[Demsrule86]

31. Excellent column. Thanks

[Raster]

32. "...you sold the D.O.A. bill the Irish undertaker gave you..."

[font size=3]Take that Paul Ryan!

[SticksnStones]

34. Bam! Pow! Kaboom!

You knew that Paul Ryan’s vaunted reputation as a policy wonk was fake news.

Oh Paul...no longer the great republican wunderkind ~

[Freddie]

35. And

"the G.O.P. falls into clover with a lock on the White House and both houses of Congress, and what’s the first thing it does? Slip on a banana peel."

Keep slipping! I love bananas 🍌

[SticksnStones]

36. ..

[uponit7771]

37. +1, she torched his ass

[NNadir]

41. Got around to reading it. It's anti-Trump enough, but frankly, it's Dowdy Dowd...

...sneering fluff with no real substance.

[SticksnStones]

43. I wouldn't ever expect a deep dive from Dowd. That's not her beat.

The interest in her column this week is its thoroughness in trashing the current administration and majority holding party.

That's all, I believe.

[NNadir]

50. Her problem is that she trashes everyone.

What she wrote here isn't particularly more skewering that what she wrote about Hillary Clinton or Al Gore.

If she turned up the heat on Trump to the exclusion of the people she's mocked - mindlessly mocked - it might be impressive.

But it isn't.

The problem is that she writes from a self assumed position of superiority when in fact, she lacks even a shred of substance.

We can figure out who Trump is quite nicely without Moron Dowdy.

[LenaBaby61]

63. "We can figure out who Trump is quite nicely without Moron Dowdy."

Totally agree with you

Moron Dowdy who?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

42. Yup. Trumps skill is not dealmaking with powerful counterparts. It is duping gullible victims.

David Frum tweet:   ?"Regular reminder that Donald Trump’s core competency is not dealmaking with powerful counter-parties. It is duping gullible victims."

[Stuart G]

44. Brilliant Column...well written.

thanks for the post...

[NastyRiffraff]

45. I too never thought I'd admire a Dowd column

but this one is brilliant. She hits Dump where it hurts: his ego. I wish she would have mocked his tiny...um...hands, but we can't have everything.

I have to admit she's a good writer. I just wish she could have aimed her writing skill at people other than Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, and many other Democrats.

[BumRushDaShow]

46. Tweet-to-come: "Failing New York Times..." in 5..4..3..2..1

[ancianita]

48. Haven't liked her, but this is probably in her top three.

[cilla4progress]

51. Bee-yoo-ti-ful!

👍

[TheFerret]

52. Yeah

It's been awhile, but that one was sharp.

[Perseus]

53. She gives him too much credit...

"You were so concerned with the “win” that you forgot your “forgotten” Americans, the older, poorer people in rural areas who would be hurt by the bill."

He did not forget, he has never cared.

"A negotiator"??? Anyone who was paying attention knew he was not a negotiator, but a con man.

"You’re all about flashy marketing so you didn’t notice that the bill was junk, so lame that even Republicans skittered away." Lets be real, he never read it...He would not be able to safe his life if he had to explain what was in that bill.

"You sold yourself as the businessman who could shake things up and make Washington work again. Instead, you got worked over by the Republican leadership and the business community, who set you up to do their bidding." Nobody set him up, he stayed in the race just to win to feed his ego, he set himself up by not understanding his huge shortcomings.

I am still trying to understand how anyone could have fallen for that guy, it had to be hate for Hillary and nothing else.

[mdbl]

54. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day

I'll put her in that cagegory.

[BainsBane]

56. Fuck Dowd

She worked to put him in office. She owns this mess.

[Honeycombe8]

57. She's an excellent writer with a brilliant mind.

Wish I were that clever and good a writer.

[SticksnStones]

58. Well, I don't know that I'd go quite that far...

She beats up on the Clintons relentlessly...that makes her less than brilliant in my book.

But this particular column was impactful I think.

Perhaps it's as close as she can get to a penance of some sort ~

[Honeycombe8]

59. I can disagree with someone and still think the person is brilliant & a good writer.

I can also agree with someone and think they're writing skills suck and they're none too swift in the head.

[kwassa]

62. I found this column mildly amusing. Others have done better.

Takedowns by some of the Republican columnists that hate Trump are priceless. Michael Gerson, George Will, Kathleen Parker. Devastating.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

65. I like her but she lost me at "Bannon is an anarchist."

She's smarter than that. Bannon doesn't fit with anarchist philosophy at all. Shame on her.