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Normally What Happens In A New Presidency Is The President Has A Big Agenda, And Congress Is Full Of People With Human Weaknesses. And So The President Indulges The Human Weaknesses Of Members Of Congress In Order To Pass His Agenda. This Time It's The Other Way Around. Donald Trump Does Not Have Much Of An Agenda. Congress Burns With This Intense Republican Agenda And So Does Congress That Has To Put Up With The Human Weaknesses Of The President In Order To Get A Signature On The Things It Desperately Wants To Pass.

The System We Have Is One That Protects My Rights Under A President I Don`t Approve. That Tomorrow We`ll Do The Same For You. And What People Have In Common Is Their Commitment To Those Shared Rules. And If You Have Someone Who Was A Challenger To The Shared Rules, That`s Unacceptable. And We`ve Never Seen That Before. Not In A Long, Long Time But We See It Now.

I Was In The White House, Probably The Only Administration I'll Ever Work For. The Administration Was Not A Success, Neither At Home Nor Abroad. The Iraq War Was Not A Success. The Condition Of The Average Person Was Not Enough Better At The End Of Seven Years Of George Bush Than It Was At The Beginning, And Certainly It All Ended In The Collapse That Was The Great Recession. So I Feel A Sense Of Karmic Obligation To The Universe Because Of That.

The System Has Evolved To Protect Parties From People Like Donald Trump. It Really Is True That People Without Well-established Public Records, Without Proven Capability In Public Service, Without Tested Beliefs And At Least Apparently Under The Influence Of A Foreign Power, Such People Are Screened Out By Major Parties.

One Of The Things That Always Drives Any Practitioner Of Journalism Crazy Is You'll Run It People Who Say Why Doesn't The Media Cover This Or That? Well Of Course The Media Covered It. Why Didn't You Read About It? And, You Know, It's, You Know, There You Are, It's Not The Journalist's Job To Knock Down Your Door, You Know, Punch The Url Into Your Computer And Force You To Stop Watching The Kardashians And To Read, You Know, A Report On Integrity In Government Instead, It's Your Job.