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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNever thought I'd type these words but Maureen Dowd wrote a hell of a column for Sunday's NYT
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/25/opinion/sunday/donald-this-i-will-tell-you.html?_r=0
An excerpt:
Weve 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?
Dont worry. No one will ever mistake you for a politician.
After this past week, they wont even mistake you for a top-notch negotiator.
luvMIdog
(2,533 posts)SticksnStones
(2,108 posts)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
(32,628 posts)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
(3,739 posts)not a fan of Dowd either, but wow. She annihilated Trump.
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)SticksnStones
(2,108 posts)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
(57,349 posts)Get ready for tweets about FAKE NEWS!!! Or another lawsuit.
Neither Twitler nor his fan club understand the difference between news and opinion.
Soxfan58
(3,479 posts)only if they read it out loud on fux news.
SticksnStones
(2,108 posts)Raine1967
(11,589 posts)HE *might* read headlines.
calimary
(81,209 posts)Good times.
Hekate
(90,642 posts)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
(2,108 posts)Last edited Sun Mar 26, 2017, 07:06 AM - Edit history (1)
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
(26,618 posts)Sometimes Maureen is excellent.
SticksnStones
(2,108 posts)But this column is one of those moments. And the comments folks are leaving seem to agree with her.
Wounded Bear
(58,642 posts)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
(17,862 posts)$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
(22,893 posts)One reader commented...
WOW, thanks for being blunt. Your pen is a sharp
instrument, and never more deftly wielded.
NNadir
(33,512 posts)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
(13,772 posts)grantcart
(53,061 posts)Cha
(297,136 posts)crazylikafox
(2,754 posts)Pacifist Patriot
(24,653 posts)Tatiana
(14,167 posts)I loathe MoDo with the force of a thousand suns.
But this column is thing of beauty.
SticksnStones
(2,108 posts)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
(90,335 posts)CTyankee
(63,901 posts)what we've been saying all along.
Tatiana
(14,167 posts)I really hope she gets it. We could use someone like her on our side.
More_Cowbell
(2,191 posts)When she says that the "Massive transfer of wealth to rich people" agenda was not Trump's. That's ALL he cares about.
FakeNoose
(32,628 posts)... 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
(3,855 posts)Link to tweet
"Remember how you didn't like being identified as a politician?
Dont worry. No one will ever mistake you for one."
Kath2
(3,074 posts)She nailed it. Thank you.
Demonaut
(8,914 posts)SticksnStones
(2,108 posts)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 havent had to pass anything in a long time, and they have no aptitude for governing.
And my personal favorite, this
You knew that Paul Ryans vaunted reputation as a policy wonk was fake news.
Raster
(20,998 posts)Paul Ryan to a fucking tee!
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)Maru Kitteh
(28,339 posts)SticksnStones
(2,108 posts)Demsrule86
(68,543 posts)Raster
(20,998 posts)[font size=3]Take that Paul Ryan!
SticksnStones
(2,108 posts)You knew that Paul Ryans vaunted reputation as a policy wonk was fake news.
Oh Paul...no longer the great republican wunderkind ~
Freddie
(9,259 posts)"the G.O.P. falls into clover with a lock on the White House and both houses of Congress, and whats the first thing it does? Slip on a banana peel."
Keep slipping! I love bananas 🍌
uponit7771
(90,335 posts)NNadir
(33,512 posts)...sneering fluff with no real substance.
SticksnStones
(2,108 posts)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
(33,512 posts)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
(6,974 posts)Totally agree with you
Moron Dowdy who?
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,988 posts)David Frum tweet: ?"Regular reminder that Donald Trumps core competency is not dealmaking with powerful counter-parties. It is duping gullible victims."
Stuart G
(38,414 posts)thanks for the post...
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)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
(128,831 posts)ancianita
(36,023 posts)cilla4progress
(24,726 posts)👍
TheFerret
(629 posts)It's been awhile, but that one was sharp.
Perseus
(4,341 posts)"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.
"Youre all about flashy marketing so you didnt 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
(4,973 posts)I'll put her in that cagegory.
BainsBane
(53,029 posts)She worked to put him in office. She owns this mess.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Wish I were that clever and good a writer.
SticksnStones
(2,108 posts)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
(37,648 posts)I can also agree with someone and think they're writing skills suck and they're none too swift in the head.
kwassa
(23,340 posts)Takedowns by some of the Republican columnists that hate Trump are priceless. Michael Gerson, George Will, Kathleen Parker. Devastating.
Fantastic Anarchist
(7,309 posts)She's smarter than that. Bannon doesn't fit with anarchist philosophy at all. Shame on her.