{"id":6055,"date":"2017-04-28T11:32:09","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T15:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=6055"},"modified":"2017-04-28T11:32:09","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T15:32:09","slug":"the-99th-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=6055","title":{"rendered":"The 99th<\/sup> day"},"content":{"rendered":"

What do you know? Earlier this week, with health care, tax reform, financing for the border wall and a possible government shutdown on this week’s agenda, I made a modest prediction<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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I bravely predict that the only bit of it that might actually happen is the shutdown, and Trump might order something blown-up in order to change the subject.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The tax plan is a bullet-list on a half-sheet of paper, health care reform\/repair\/whatever has been shelved again, the wall has been put off till next year’s budget, Congress is debating a resolution to continue funding right now, and The Orange One is ominously warning of a “major, major conflict” with Pyongyang.<\/p>\n

I am<\/i> a very smart guy, but I can’t see into the future. All it takes is to see this bunch as they actually are: A pack of empty bumblers whose lives are cheap theater, lives all about seeming<\/i> rather than know-how and doing<\/i>.<\/p>\n

I still marvel that Trump fooled so many people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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