Remember this? It’s from a 2012 Speech at CPAC. Apparently, trump* has enough working digits to work a pen!
“All we have to do is replace Obama. … We are not auditioning for fearless leader. We don’t need a president to tell us in what direction to go. We know what direction to go. We want the Ryan budget. … We just need a president to sign this stuff. We don’t need someone to think it up or design it. The leadership now for the modern conservative movement for the next 20 years will be coming out of the House and the Senate. […]
Pick a Republican with enough working digits to handle a pen to become president of the United States. This is a change for Republicans: the House and Senate doing the work with the president signing bills. His job is to be captain of the team, to sign the legislation that has already been prepared.”
— Grover Norquist
So the question now becomes, who’s really in charge? Speaker Paul Ryan or Putin’s puppet, donald trump*? Get ready, it’s going to be an exceptionally rough ride over the next 2-4 years. I say 2-4 because we do have a chance to mitigate the damage the GOP can do to our nation and our collective commons in 2018 by taking back one or both houses of Congress. It’s now up to us to rise up and stop the carnage and pillage.
* lost the popular vote in an election were just about as many people didn’t vote as did, by almost 3 million votes, but still won.