Former congressman Mickey Edwards, writing the New York Times, parses the shrunken role of Congress in the reign of Trump, noting how House Speaker Paul Ryan lets President Trump call the shots on Capitol Hill, as though the Congress were a subsidiary of the presidency rather than a separate branch of government—the legislative branch, as a matter of fact.
It’s a tribute to the painfully fractured state of the Republican Party that an apolitical sociopath, who lost the popular vote for the presidency by almost three million votes, can essentially turn the Speaker of the House of Representatives into his errand boy. And it’s a tribute to Donald Trump’s monumental ignorance that he still can’t get anything done, because he has no idea of what he wants to do. Well, except bomb Syria. Sadly, it’s way too easy to believe that we’re going to see a lot of Tomahawks in our future. Because they’re so much less complicated than health care.
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