AlterNet: 'A fiasco by any measure': Wall Street Journal turns on Trump over budget 'blundering'

[Dennis Donovan]

AlterNet - 'A fiasco by any measure': Wall Street Journal turns on Trump over budget 'blundering'

Tom Boggioni and Raw Story
December 22, 2024

Following a last-minute deal in the House which kept the government running until March, the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal placed the blame for the House budget chaos on Donald Trump and not House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) who was undercut at every turn by the president-elect.

In a scorching editorial, the editors got right to the point and asserted that Trump's reliance on billionaire Elon Musk as an advisor is a bad omen for how he will run the country after being sworn in on January 20.

Claiming "There are bad omens here for 2025 and the ability of Republicans to govern," the editors declared, "The immediate result has been a fiasco by any measure. Mr. Musk, and then Mr. Trump, delivered a social-media barrage against Mr. Johnson’s continuing resolution to fund the government through March 14."

Needling Trump by pointing out, "Democrats are chortling about 'President Musk,' which can’t sit well with the President-elect," the editors took aim at Musk's ignorance about how Congress operates.

"This is how Congress works, and for all Mr. Musk’s brilliance, he hasn’t figured that out. He’s also supposed to be a math whiz, so he can probably count to 218, the votes needed for a House majority when everyone is present. Memorize it," they wrote before adding, "In 2017 Republicans had a large majority and experienced hands with policy chops like Paul Ryan and Kevin Brady. They had an outline for tax reform that they had spent years socializing among Members. Today’s House GOP has little such institutional or policy memory, and its majority is small and divided. Its majority will probably be 219-215 when Republicans take over in January. Bullying Members will have a short shelf-life if it works at all."

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[2naSalit]

1. Just as...

pendjo45 is no genius, leon is not brilliant.

[Midnight Writer]

2. So they are waking up to the fact that the conman and his crew have no idea how to deliver on their promises?

Isn't that special?

[tanyev]

3. It's like the WSJ has completely forgotten the four previous years of blundering,

incompetence and ineptitude. Why are they surprised?

Oh, and what did they actually accomplish with Paul Ryan and Kevin Brady? Ryan bailed after two years of dealing with Trump.

[bluesbassman]

5. Well they did pass the biggest tax cut for the wealthy the country's ever seen.

But other than that they were pretty much useless.

[dutch777]

4. Totally predictable. Suck it WSJ and all you business types that enabled this.

[doc03]

6. I saw two articles on Yahoo this morning blaming Biden for the

Republican's shit show on the budget. One from Politico and one from The Hill, both using the
a same headline that "Biden was AWOL" on the budget fight. It's like both were written in Mara Lardo.

[dweller]

7. THE FAKE AND FAILING WALL STREET URINAL , WHO BY THE WAY NEED TO RECOGNIZE

THAT I , ME , MYSELF AM THE PRESIDENT AND NOT ANYONELON ELSE …


blah blah blah incoming



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