A Cabinet full of sycophants …
SYCOPHANT
DEFINITIONS:
Merriam-Webster: “a person who praise's powerful people in order to get their approval.”
Random
House: “a self
seeking, servile flatterer, fawning parasite.”
Wikipedia: “obedient
flattery.”
Well,
you get the idea and a
cabinet full of sycophants was exactly what we witnessed this week as
Trump introduced us to them on
TV. Their lavish
praise and fawning obsequiousness may have been a balm to Trump but
it left many of us shaking our heads.
The
Cabinet is the part of the government that acts as an ADVISORY board
to the President. Theoretically it is filled
with strong minded experts in
their field who have
the good of the country as their driving force. Sadly, since Trump
feels he knows more than all of them combined, there will be little
advising going on.
It
is obvious that the Cabinet sycophants know they live under the
threat of dismissal at the whim of the President and they demean
themselves by acquiescing to
him. Is there not one
Republican in
Washington with the guts to address
this? What a sad commentary.
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Addendum: I wrote this entry on Monday. On Tuesday we were shocked when a man full of hate toward the Republican party shot Rep. Steve Scalise from Louisiana. Six years earlier another, full of hate for the Democrats, shot Rep. Gabby Giffords. THIS CANNOT GO ON !
All the comforting words being bandied around in Washington now must be followed up by action.
It's time for both sides of the aisle to grow up. Stop the rigid stonewalling and have honest debates that end up with agreements rather than shouting matches. If we are, once again to thrive as a nation, I believe that we must reject the "art of the deal" and bring back the "art of COMPROMISE".
All the comforting words being bandied around in Washington now must be followed up by action.
It's time for both sides of the aisle to grow up. Stop the rigid stonewalling and have honest debates that end up with agreements rather than shouting matches. If we are, once again to thrive as a nation, I believe that we must reject the "art of the deal" and bring back the "art of COMPROMISE".
posted by Ginnie at 7:15 AM
6 Comments:
Yes, I saw that, too. And since what I really want to say is just not nice, I will stop now.
Power corrupts, Ginnie. That's what we're seeing I think.
That cabinet meeting was a scripted joke. A resounding AMEN to your last paragraph.
It is rather pathetic: so childish.
Trump cannot abide anyone near him who does not profess adoration and total loyalty. Your lat paragraph is spot on.
That round-the-table fawning was hard to watch. We must progress to a point in which one administration is not undoing what the previous one did, when legislators do not hide in out-of-the-way rooms to craft new laws and policies, afraid of input, not only from those across the aisle but also from members of their own party.
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