Award Worthy Observations of the Day

The first is from Daniel Lazare at Consortuim News called How the Press Serves the Deep State:

As (NY TImes) reporters Glenn Thrush and Michael M. Grynbaum put it: “This New York-iest of politicians, now an idiosyncratic, write-your-own-rules president, has stumbled into the most conventional of Washington traps: believing he can master an entrenched political press corps with far deeper connections to the permanent government of federal law enforcement and executive department officials than he has.”

Thrush and Grynbaum add a few paragraphs later that Trump “is being force-fed lessons all presidents eventually learn – that the iron triangle of the Washington press corps, West Wing staff and federal bureaucracy is simply too powerful to bully.”

Iron triangle? Permanent government?…

Entrenched interests are nothing new, of course. But a major news outlet bragging about collaborating with such elements in order to cripple a legally established government is. The Times was beside itself with outrage when top White House adviser Steve Bannon described the media as “the opposition party.” But one can’t help but wonder what all the fuss is about since an alliance aimed at hamstringing a presidency is nothing if not oppositional.

The second award-worthy observation of the day is from a Jack Perry LRC Blog post earlier on Trump’s SOU speech:

This guy has been in office a few days over a month and he already wants one trillion dollars! Who does he think he is? Barack Obama?

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5:21 pm on March 2, 2017