Trump has rightly talked a lot about "the swamp", but can he ever figure out where it is and how it works, and how to save us from the extinction it is on course to bring us?
My previous post on electric power problems, which could become as big on mainland US within the year as they now are on Puerto Rico (watch the example closely folks). That's more urgent than this post.
But even so, it was amazing to see on CNN just a few minutes ago the woman who now runs DHS explaining why the request for a special waiver allowing foreign help was ignored in the case of Puerto Rico, when it was approvcd quickly for Texas and Florida.
Since she did the work, I tend to think that the White House rationalization was just post hoc PR, which we have seen a lot of this past year. (Not invented by Trump, of course, but also not something a sane observer would not be aware of.)
WHY did the two previous requests get immediate attention, but not this one?
This one just came from Congress. the others cam,e form industry (from large stakeholders).
Some folks imagine that the President runs the executive branch, and Congress provides just budget and oversight. Authoritative academics can find lots of authoritative books saying that this is how it works. But we live in a new world now, folks. Those who have seen at ground level know better. In ever more agencies, instructions come from visiting "stakeholders," empowered by selected members of Congress. No, it's not those civil service folks who do this (except when they are too scared to let anyone know, but the new whistle blower systems point back to the folks who represent the stakeholders.) Roughly speaking, actual power is proportional to the size of large campaign donations, and there are numbers out there for those who watch closely, like certain intelligence agencies.
The Moslem Brotherhood itself is actually bigger there than Russia, but their friends steer us elsewhere, and poor Trump believes a lot of what certain folks tell him.
All for now.
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