{"id":34894,"date":"2016-05-24T03:00:59","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T07:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=34894"},"modified":"2016-05-23T11:09:43","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T15:09:43","slug":"trump-is-probably-thinking-how-hard-can-it-be-to-run-a-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/05\/24\/trump-is-probably-thinking-how-hard-can-it-be-to-run-a-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump is probably thinking “how hard can it be?” to run a government"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Monday’s Morning Jolt<\/em> newsletter, National Review<\/em>‘s Jim Geraghty overheard Donald Trump Jr.’s breakfast conversation and wrote about what he heard:<\/p>\n

We live in a world where congressional Democrats voted to pass Obamacare without reading the full text of the legislation<\/a>, Representative Sheila Jackson Lee thinks the U.S. has already landed astronauts on Mars<\/a>, Congressman Hank Johnson fears the island of Guam will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize<\/a>, Maxine Waters warns that because of spending cuts, \u201cover 170 million jobs could be lost<\/a>\u201d; Nancy Pelosi asserts that \u201cevery month that we don\u2019t have an economic recovery package, 500 million Americans lose their jobs<\/a>,\u201d Harry Reid contended<\/a>, \u201cEverybody else [besides GOP members of Congress], including rich people, are willing to pay more [in taxes]. They want to pay more,\u201d Republican senator Thad Cochran declared in 2014 that \u201cthe Tea Party is something I don\u2019t know a lot about,\u201d and of course, Representative Todd Akin proclaimed, \u201cIf it\u2019s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.\u201d<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no shortage of lawmakers who seek to make sweeping changes to laws, without understanding the basics of the topic at hand. Take Representative Diana DeGette of Colorado<\/a>:<\/p>\n