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In reply to the discussion: The President has finally given up on trying to work with the Republicans. [View all]patrice
(47,992 posts)separate themselves as much as possible (especially in light of everything he & other policy-makers ***DON'T KNOW*** about what went down behind the scenes of the WORLD Derivative Crash). So the problem is to let the issues develop as fully as possible all of the positions, without telegraphing too much about where you personally are headed, so various elements can re-position themselves however they're going to do that and, then, BRING! your posse and do whatever you're going to do. The questions are about how big that posse is and who has signed on (and I don't mean Congress). Yes, I wish it were different, but it isn't!
This is why I have been trying to promote support in face of some really concerning stuff. What's actually going to come out of this, as distinct from all of the hypothesizing, depends upon his support. Yes, there ARE things that he, the executive, is doing himself, but it's a definite mistake to think that we and some unknown others have no part in what's going to happen.