Official Trump: Dems favorability down to 31%! All time low! Sad!

[avalon]

Bunch of morons https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/07/department-of-energy-risks-michael-lewis

Even in normal times the people who take over the United States government can be surprisingly ignorant about it. As a longtime career civil servant in the D.O.E., who has watched four different administrations show up to try to run the place, put it, “You always have the issue of maybe they don’t understand what the department does.” To address that problem, a year before he left office, Barack Obama had instructed a lot of knowledgeable people across his administration, including 50 or so inside the D.O.E., to gather the knowledge that his successor would need in order to understand the government he or she was taking charge of. The Bush administration had done the same for Obama, and Obama had always been grateful for their efforts. He told his staff that their goal should be to ensure an even smoother transfer of power than the Bush people had achieved.

I miss having people in charge who understood the enormity of their own responsibilities. Which is such a low bar.

 

[PhDeac]

I miss having people in charge who understood the enormity of their own responsibilities. Which is such a low bar.

Instead we have people who hate government and either realize government has a purpose or want to destroy government.

 

[WakeandBake]

That, and they are not qualified to run something. They don't know how to organize and manage, and they aren't interested in working hard and thinking hard.

 

[06deacon]

That's a horrifying article. Especially when you realize that similar stances of willful ignorance are occurring in every other department right now.

 

[dartsndeacs]

That's a horrifying article. Especially when you realize that similar stances of willful ignorance are occurring in every other department right now.

Yeah, that's a crazy article

 

[WFFaithful]

Next up: backing out of the Iran deal and having the Justice Department investigate the lamestream media for pushing fake news

 

[ImTheCaptain]

I'm beginning to think that Trump was not the best choice for president

 

[BarcaDeac]

Rumors John Kelly will be out soon

 

[ONW]

Rumors John Kelly will be out soon

Nah, he looks content.

 

[DeaconSig]

Zero chance

 

[dartsndeacs]

Rumors John Kelly will be out soon

Zero chance

I read my first "Kelly has never been disrespected by someone so much in his political career he says to friends" leak today, which only seems to make sense to be leaked (if true) if he was to get the narrative out there that he's gonna quit. Or to get sympathy if he's fired.

He's also a military dude, if he was opposed to backing out of the Iran deal and he's his Chief of Staff and Trump still did it, today's timing could make sense.

 

[PhDeac]

Why would he work for a guy who said he knows more than the generals and expect the guy to listen?

 

[WFFaithful]

Talk about disrespecting the military. Geeze

 

[cville deac]

Rumors John Kelly will be out soon

God I hope not. Kelly and Mattis are essential in keeping the world safe from Trump.

 

[avalon]

Scoop: CIA director Pompeo considered to replace Tillerson

After what Trump considered a strong trip to Vegas, he seethed when he got back and saw Tillerson's gaffe dominating cable-news coverage. Everywhere he flipped, there was Tillerson's face instead of his.

 

[bym051d]

I'd like to thank President Trump for his booming economy that did not lose any jobs for the first time in 7 years.

 

[WFFaithful]

 

[Newenglanddeac]

These stats are amazing given that the economy is actually on solid footing (which has nothing to do with trump except for the market pricing in a tax cut).



Poll: Just 24 percent say US is heading in the right direction


Poll: Just 24 percent say US is heading in the right direction

October 06, 2017 - 04:06 PM EDT
Poll: Just 24 percent say US is heading in the right direction
By John Bowden 43
Just under 1 in 4 Americans think the country is headed in the right direction, according to a poll released Friday.

An Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research survey reports that just 24 percent U.S. adults are optimistic about the country's future, a 10-point decrease since the same poll in June.

One of the biggest drops in the poll was among Republicans. In June, 60 percent of Republicans said they approved of the direction the country is headed in, but that number is just 44 percent now.

President Trump faces dismal job approval ratings in the survey. Sixty-seven percent of Americans, including about one-third of GOP voters, disapprove of the job Trump has done so far in the White House.

On specific issues, Trump fares even worse. Nearly 70 percent say Trump is not a "level-headed" leader, while more than 60 percent disapprove of his handling of race relations, foreign policy, and immigration.

When it comes to whether the president understands the issues facing everyday Americans, Trump does poorly as well. Ninety-two percent of Democrats and 69 percent of independents said Trump understands their problems "not very or not at all."

Just 42 percent of Republicans said Trump understands their issues "very well," while another 32 percent says he understands them "moderately well."

The Associated Press-NORC Center poll contacted 1,150 adults online or by phone and carries a margin of error of 4.1 percentage points.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brief...cent-say-us-is-heading-in-the-right-direction

 

[PhDeac]

So about 3/4 of Republicans believe Trump understands their issues.

 

[avalon]

The US men's team never failed to qualify for the World Cup when Obama was president.