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What ‘President Promise-Keeper’ should say on Tuesday night


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d8c3d6ee-fbaf-11e6-be05-1a3817ac21a5_stoWashington Post:

Hugh Hewitt

February 26 2017

 

“Ghostwriting” isn’t really what happens in a presidential speechwriting shop. There’s too much back and forth between the president and his writers to say a speech was actually ghosted for a president when it’s a big one like President Trump’s first address to Congress Tuesday night. Having helped edit speeches and books for Richard Nixon, Dan Quayle and Mitt Romney, however, and having worked next to the speechwriters’ row in the Reagan White House, I have a good enough feel to offer this draft to the president for use in preparing for Tuesday night. It’s his style, but it’s very much the content of what a Reagan Republican would love to hear:

 

"Thank you. Thank you very much. Very, very much. You are very kind. Thank you. Thank you. How great is this? Isn’t this great? And a special thanks to the speaker and the vice president [turn, gesture, pause for applause]. How about these two guys, Paul and Mike, aren’t they great? Aren’t they good guys? You folks from the House already know Mike Pence, and know how great he is, and now you folks in the Senate are getting to know him and he’s terrific. The whole country saw that when Mike went down to St. Louis and helped repair the damage to the Jewish cemetery desecrated by terrible people. Thank you, Mike. We won’t have that in this country. We won’t. It’s gotta stop. It’s going to end, and Mike, you are a big part of that. Thank you.

 

(Snip)

 

Speaking of coming together, this is a little informal, but I’m not a politician — I mean I’m standing here in the Congress and talking to a joint session and I say to myself, “Wow, not bad for a guy who isn’t a politician” — so this is a little informal but I want to clear up a matter. Members of the Congressional Black Caucus: To each member wherever you are in here tonight, I just want to say, come on over on Saturday. Nothing formal. Bring your families. The White House, well the catering is pretty good, very good in fact at this. Call Reince. Tell him you are coming and how many, and just come down. We will have a get-to-know-each other picnic if it’s nice — inside if it’s raining. But bring the kids, the family. Let’s have some time to say hello, chat. Plenty of time for business later. We will have a lot of business to do because I am really and truly concerned for your districts. I’m concerned for all districts but trust me, trust me, I am going to help you help your districts and everyone in them. We are going to rebuild roads and bridges and schools. Trust me. We are going to get a lot done. But let’s start by having a little get together. Everyone in this country has got to get along, even if they, maybe, they disagree a little, or maybe a lot. We need to get along

 

(Snip)

First, and I mean first, we need a supplemental appropriation for the military. Got to have it. They are starving. They aren’t training. We are putting these guys in danger because too many people in Washington have forgotten them. This has to stop. The days of our military being a bargaining chip end now. I want the supplemental. Next week maybe. We all know we need it, but this isn’t a deal making thing. This is our troops. And Chuck, where are you sitting, Chuck Schumer? Okay, there you are. Stand up, give a wave Chuck. Good guy ladies and gentleman. Good guy. We disagree on things, of course, but Chuck knows I’m a counter-puncher. But we are going to get things done, starting with the troops. You love our men and women in uniform, Chuck. I know you do. No tricks on this one Chuck. Just a straight bill. If your colleagues say “Hey, let’s leverage this,” say “No, I know this guy,” cause ya do. And you know I’m serious about this. We aren’t going to hold the military hostage anymore. We get them what they need and then we argue out the rest of the stuff. And if anybody tries to filibuster that Mitch, I want you to use that thing Harry Reid used, the Reid Rule, and just change the rule for Defense Department appropriations so they can’t be filibustered.

 

(Snip)"

 

 

 


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Red_Ruffensore
2/26/2017 10:26 PM CST
Hugh, you're a lightweight. A sycophant. And, thanks to your columns in the Washington Post, a national embarrassment.

You need a ghostwriter.
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Marc Lerner
2/26/2017 10:41 PM CST
Yup, Hewitt is nothing more than a Trump flunky now who has sold whatever principles he ever might have had in the name of getting a supreme court justice. Hewitt feels that conservatives have a God-given right to control the court forever. I'd like him to show me where in the Constitution it says that. He's a clown.
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MC Giant Bug
7:24 AM CST
Here's what I'd like to hear: "I resign in disgrace. Russian influence caused Hillary Clinton, the rightful president, to lose the election, and she should be here now."

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