re: #142 Stanley Sea

It was evidence that there were people around the president who were doing the work required to govern and make decisions, but it was also evidence that the president was not at the center of that process, and that a significant amount of their work involved deciding when to ignore him. That pattern has of course repeated over and over in the two years that have followed.

This is the very sort of President they set out to elect.

What was Grover Norquist’s comment about “as long as he can hold a pen and sign our legislation, we will do the rest”, or suchlike?

But this was a risky proposition, they did not reckon with such a completely loose cannon.