We object. On principle.
3 objections so far. We have not yet found anything about White House that we agree with.
The president has replaced his chief of staff within days of a midterm drubbing. The commentariat calls it deafness. I call it the most literal act of listening Washington has seen in a generation.
Everyone else: Promoting the hardliner straight after voters rejected the hard line shows the president simply is not listening.
After years of perfecting the craft of disapproval, the party now faces the gravest threat to any opposition: being asked to do things. Somebody should have warned them.
Everyone else: Democrats' sweep of the House and Senate is a triumph for the party and a clear repudiation of Trumpism.
Critics fear that a fight promoter at the podium would turn the White House briefing into a brawl. They have not been watching closely enough. It has been a brawl for decades. What it has lacked is a scorecard.
Everyone else: Appointing a cage-fighting promoter as press secretary turns the briefing room into a circus and signals a combative, unserious White House.