Resistance in the White House: Holding the Line Against Trump's Base Instincts

[g5000]

The Beltway's newest pastime. Gossiping about who penned the letter.

Like who authored Primary Colors, or who Deep Throat was.

 

[g5000]

anyone within Trump's orbit that sees Trump as unfit for office has a patriotic duty to notify Congress of said concerns.

The nation is bigger than ANY one president, no matter whom that president may be.

Patriotism is to the nation; NOT to any goddamn president.

Define "unfit for office".

Section 4 of the 25th Amendment:

Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.

Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.



I just don't see Mike Pence declaring the hellbound horse to which he hitched his evangelical wagon as "unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office".

 

[WaitingFor2020]

In an Op-Ed in the New York Times a high-level insider in the Trump White House explains the danger Trump poses to our republic and the attempts of a few patriots to how Trump's baser instincts in check:

From the Op-Ed:

To be clear, ours is not the popular “resistance” of the left. We want the administration to succeed and think that many of its policies have already made America safer and more prosperous.

But we believe our first duty is to this country, and the president continues to act in a manner that is detrimental to the health of our republic.

That is why many Trump appointees have vowed to do what we can to preserve our democratic institutions while thwarting Mr. Trump’s more misguided impulses until he is out of office......


To be clear, ours is not the popular “resistance” of the left. We want the administration to succeed and think that many of its policies have already made America safer and more prosperous.

But we believe our first duty is to this country, and the president continues to act in a manner that is detrimental to the health of our republic.

That is why many Trump appointees have vowed to do what we can to preserve our democratic institutions while thwarting Mr. Trump’s more misguided impulses until he is out of office.

From the White House to executive branch departments and agencies, senior officials will privately admit their daily disbelief at the commander in chief’s comments and actions. Most are working to insulate their operations from his whims.......

There is a quiet resistance within the administration of people choosing to put country first. But the real difference will be made by everyday citizens rising above politics, reaching across the aisle and resolving to shed the labels in favor of a single one: Americans.

Opinion | I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration

Thank heaven there are still patriots who put country before loyalty to the Orange menace.

God Speed to them.

If true, it’s just another idiotic neo-con. He complains about his trade policies, which have been on point against the globalist Agenda. The rest of it is just nonsense you hear from any idiotic liberal. Hopefully the traitor will be found so he can be hanged out to dry for the coward he is. Why can’t these deep state moles be upfront and honest? Oh yea, because they are cowards.

More deep state nonsense. These people are Trump's own appointees. These are his people.

The traitor is the Orange Menace who seeks to destroy out institutions and reek havoc in the nation. This just confirms Woodward's book that Trump is an out-of-control maniac.

It is too bad there are so many people who still under the Orange one's spell. Trump is a rogue. A danger to the nation and the world.

Yet the “anonymous OP-ED” and yourself can’t identify exactly how he is a “danger to the world”. He isn’t starting unnecessary wars, and he has the economy booming. So feel free to point out how it’s the end of the world.

He isn't starting wars because the Pentagon won't oblige him.
They won't indulge his request to kill Assad.
They are ignoring his order so make a pre-emptive strike on North Korea.
They ignored his request for a war plan for Iran.
And they ignored his Tweet about banning gays from the military.
Thank God somebody is protecting us from this shit stain.
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[OldLady]

Woodward may have pried something loose.

Yep, the letter is congruous with Woodward's reporting in his new book.

A little too congruous.

True, but it doesn't mean Woodward & Co. wrote it, does it? The NYT may have had the editorial awhile and decided to run it when all the hoopla about Fear came out?

 

[g5000]

Woodward may have pried something loose.

Yep, the letter is congruous with Woodward's reporting in his new book.

A little too congruous.

True, but it doesn't mean Woodward & Co. wrote it, does it? The NYT may have had the editorial awhile and decided to run it when all the hoopla about Fear came out?

I'm not saying Woodward wrote it. I'm saying whoever wrote the op-ed definitely had Woodward's book in mind when they wrote the letter.

 

[WaitingFor2020]

Woodward may have pried something loose.

Yep, the letter is congruous with Woodward's reporting in his new book.

A little too congruous.

Which means?
Woodward's allegiance is to the NYT's rival: The Washington Post
Remember, Ben Bradlee was the editor at WaPo who took Woodward and Bernstein's story about Nixon seriously.
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[WaitingFor2020]

Woodward may have pried something loose.

Yep, the letter is congruous with Woodward's reporting in his new book.

A little too congruous.

True, but it doesn't mean Woodward & Co. wrote it, does it? The NYT may have had the editorial awhile and decided to run it when all the hoopla about Fear came out?

I'm not saying Woodward wrote it. I'm saying whoever wrote the op-ed definitely had Woodward's book in mind when they wrote the letter.

Must have gotten an advance copy then, like others in the media.
Which means it might be someone within communications at the WH or someone who at least got a copy of the book from a journalist.
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[g5000]

Trump has turned our country into a fucking reality TV show, and one of the characters in his Big Brother House just entered the isolation booth to give their opinion of the show so far and reveal their true thoughts to the camera.

 

[koshergrl]

In an New York Times Op-Ed a high-level insider in the Trump White House explains the danger Trump poses to our republic and the attempts of a few patriots to keep Trump's baser instincts in check:

From the Op-Ed:

To be clear, ours is not the popular “resistance” of the left. We want the administration to succeed and think that many of its policies have already made America safer and more prosperous.

But we believe our first duty is to this country, and the president continues to act in a manner that is detrimental to the health of our republic.

That is why many Trump appointees have vowed to do what we can to preserve our democratic institutions while thwarting Mr. Trump’s more misguided impulses until he is out of office......


To be clear, ours is not the popular “resistance” of the left. We want the administration to succeed and think that many of its policies have already made America safer and more prosperous.

But we believe our first duty is to this country, and the president continues to act in a manner that is detrimental to the health of our republic.

That is why many Trump appointees have vowed to do what we can to preserve our democratic institutions while thwarting Mr. Trump’s more misguided impulses until he is out of office.

From the White House to executive branch departments and agencies, senior officials will privately admit their daily disbelief at the commander in chief’s comments and actions. Most are working to insulate their operations from his whims.......

There is a quiet resistance within the administration of people choosing to put country first. But the real difference will be made by everyday citizens rising above politics, reaching across the aisle and resolving to shed the labels in favor of a single one: Americans.

Opinion | I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration

Thank heaven there are still patriots who put country before loyalty to the Orange menace.

God Speed to them.

Fake media trying to start a war, nothing new.

There's no resistance in the white house. It's just the media and the left doing what they do. Lying. Sedition. Etc.

 

[g5000]

Woodward may have pried something loose.

Yep, the letter is congruous with Woodward's reporting in his new book.

A little too congruous.

True, but it doesn't mean Woodward & Co. wrote it, does it? The NYT may have had the editorial awhile and decided to run it when all the hoopla about Fear came out?

I'm not saying Woodward wrote it. I'm saying whoever wrote the op-ed definitely had Woodward's book in mind when they wrote the letter.

Must have gotten an advance copy then, like others in the media.
Which means it might be someone within communications at the WH or someone who at least got a copy of the book from a journalist.
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No, they already know what is in the book because they are in the book. It's one of Woodward's sources.

 

[my2¢]

The situation described in OP really hit home in describing a period of time in the department where I worked during the 90's. We tried protecting the manager at first but she though herself as smarter than everybody, figured everybody was against her (which eventually came about), and perpetrated lies to staff and upper management. Knowing the tension the situation generated in our lowly organization, if that's taking place in the White House the tension there has to be a zillion times worse.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Woodward may have pried something loose.

Yep, the letter is congruous with Woodward's reporting in his new book.

A little too congruous.

True, but it doesn't mean Woodward & Co. wrote it, does it? The NYT may have had the editorial awhile and decided to run it when all the hoopla about Fear came out?

I'm not saying Woodward wrote it. I'm saying whoever wrote the op-ed definitely had Woodward's book in mind when they wrote the letter.

Of course. It's obvious. This is the same kind of thing as Orson Wells radio broadcast of War of the Worlds.

 

[Leo123]

It isn't a Trump appointee. It isn't a high level insider. It might be someone who has never been in the white house.

Yes and it certainly is someone who was never elected.

...by retards.

Ya... we know... you hate at least half of America.

 

[caddo kid]

anyone within Trump's orbit that sees Trump as unfit for office has a patriotic duty to notify Congress of said concerns.

The nation is bigger than ANY one president, no matter whom that president may be.

Patriotism is to the nation; NOT to any goddamn president.

Define "unfit for office".

Section 4 of the 25th Amendment:

Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.

Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.



I just don't see Mike Pence declaring the hellbound horse to which he hitched his evangelical wagon as "unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office".

We won't hear a squeaky fart out of anyone in Trump's orbit concerning Trump's inability to perform his duties.

Everyone within Trump's orbit is patriotic to Trump; to Hell with being patriotic to the nation.

 

[Leo123]

anyone within Trump's orbit that sees Trump as unfit for office has a patriotic duty to notify Congress of said concerns.

The nation is bigger than ANY one president, no matter whom that president may be.

Patriotism is to the nation; NOT to any goddamn president.

Define "unfit for office".

Section 4 of the 25th Amendment:

Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.

Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.



I just don't see Mike Pence declaring the hellbound horse to which he hitched his evangelical wagon as "unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office".

Dream on TDSers.

 

[sartre play]

What next? the hits keep coming.

 

[Leo123]

anyone within Trump's orbit that sees Trump as unfit for office has a patriotic duty to notify Congress of said concerns.

The nation is bigger than ANY one president, no matter whom that president may be.

Patriotism is to the nation; NOT to any goddamn president.

Define "unfit for office".

Section 4 of the 25th Amendment:

Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.

Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.



I just don't see Mike Pence declaring the hellbound horse to which he hitched his evangelical wagon as "unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office".

We won't hear a squeaky fart out of anyone in Trump's orbit concerning Trump's inability to perform his duties.

Everyone within Trump's orbit is patriotic to Trump; to Hell with being patriotic to the nation.

Trump has 'performed his duties' light years ahead of Obama....Where were you then?

 

[An@lDestroyer]

Interesting piece. I can’t wait for the movie

 

[g5000]

anyone within Trump's orbit that sees Trump as unfit for office has a patriotic duty to notify Congress of said concerns.

The nation is bigger than ANY one president, no matter whom that president may be.

Patriotism is to the nation; NOT to any goddamn president.

Define "unfit for office".

Section 4 of the 25th Amendment:

Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.

Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.



I just don't see Mike Pence declaring the hellbound horse to which he hitched his evangelical wagon as "unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office".

We won't hear a squeaky fart out of anyone in Trump's orbit concerning Trump's inability to perform his duties.

Everyone within Trump's orbit is patriotic to Trump; to Hell with being patriotic to the nation.

Trump has 'performed his duties' light years ahead of Obama....Where were you then?

Trump started his presidency on third base, and you tards think he hit a triple. Where were YOU when Obama started his presidency with jobs bleeding at the rate of 600,000 a month and a Dow which had plunged to 6000?

There's a reason the coward Trump changed his mind about running for President back then and waited until he could sit in the catbird seat and take all the credit for the heavy lifting done by his predecessor.

 

[OldLady]

Woodward may have pried something loose.

Yep, the letter is congruous with Woodward's reporting in his new book.

A little too congruous.

True, but it doesn't mean Woodward & Co. wrote it, does it? The NYT may have had the editorial awhile and decided to run it when all the hoopla about Fear came out?

I'm not saying Woodward wrote it. I'm saying whoever wrote the op-ed definitely had Woodward's book in mind when they wrote the letter.

I don't think so, and this is why: This op ed was written by a professional bullshitter. The platitudes abound. To me, it sounds more like an apology for sticking with Trump, a "please don't hate me; I'm here to protect the country" letter. Which is why I don't think either of the generals would have written it. They don't give a shit if anyone hates them.