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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Coming Incompetence Crisis ( hilarious satire)
from, of all people, David Brooks.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/07/opinion/the-coming-incompetence-crisis.html?_r=0
I just read that the Trump administration has filled only 22 of the 553 key positions that require Senate confirmation. This makes me worry that the administration will not have enough manpower to produce the same volume and standard of incompetence that weve come to expect so far.
Granted, in its first few months the administration has produced an impressive amount of ineptitude with very few people.
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But still, I worry that at the current pace the Trump administration is going to run out of failure. So far, weve lived in a golden age of malfunction. Every major Trump initiative has been blocked or has collapsed, relationships with Congress are disastrous, the presidents approval ratings are at cataclysmic lows.
But can this last? By midsummer, during the high vacation and indictment season, we could see empty hallways in the West Wing and a disorienting incompetence shortage emanating from Washington.
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The Coming Incompetence Crisis ( hilarious satire) (Original Post)
kwassa
Apr 2017
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Sculpin Beauregard
(1,046 posts)1. I think it would be
fucking SPECTACULAR if the entire Secret Service could come down with the 'blue flu' or some such, for the entire summer, forcing Dump to hide. God knows they are probably understaffed and underpaid. And enduring of much vexation.
ffr
(22,669 posts)2. Recommend. Bookmarked. What a mockery!!!
...and a disorienting incompetence shortage emanating from Washington.
The executive branch could simply go dark. CNNs ratings will plummet. Columnists will wither and die. Liberals will have to go without the delicious current of schadenfreude and their daily ritual baths of moral superiority.
rpannier
(24,329 posts)3. I was unaware that David Brooks had hired a ghost writer
Either that or there are two David Brooks out there
kwassa
(23,340 posts)4. Kick for daytime.