The first two years if not the whole four of an administration are going to be spent focusing on the damage this administration has done to every aspect of government. Literally every agency will have to be rebuilt and structured as they try to get back to a normal functioning status. Literally every agency is going to be in disarray as a new administration that has access to documents and information on how the agencies were being run comes to light..

And before jumping to the donald's defense, keep in mind that every agency has been headed by people who are against the agencies they are put in charge of. Agency heads have been chosen by a president who has brought the lowest levels of actual experience and expertise to agencies that take seasoned and experienced people with a lifetime of large organization administration skills. Agency heads have been chosen because they are against the agency they are in charge of, it was literally their job to implement their destruction if not elimination entirely. Agencies have been defunded, their best people fired or resigning in disgust of an incompetent management that didn't want them to do their jobs.

The incoming administration will be inundated with reports of corruption and crimes that need to addressed by federal prosecutors, many of the trump state and federal prosecutors will need to be replaced, far more than is typical.

But here is the benefit of running on fixing the mess trump created, it gives dems a chance to air specific things trump has screwed up by discussing what needs to be done to fix it.

Forget universal healthcare, the fight will be keeping the ACA and tuning it up over five to ten years heading it toward more and more coverage. Forget green new deals, just evolve energy the right direction, it takes decades. Run on rejecting the worst of the unqualified judges McConnell has jammed through, not all, just the most glaringly bad according to the ABA.

To hell with changing the world in one term, just work on righting this sinking ship.

The first two years if not the whole four of an administration are going to be spent focusing on the damage this administration has done to every aspect of government. Literally every agency will have to be rebuilt and structured as they try to get back to a normal functioning status. Literally every agency is going to be in disarray as a new administration that has access to documents and information on how the agencies were being run comes to light..

And before jumping to the donald's defense, keep in mind that every agency has been headed by people who are against the agencies they are put in charge of. Agency heads have been chosen by a president who has brought the lowest levels of actual experience and expertise to agencies that take seasoned and experienced people with a lifetime of large organization administration skills. Agency heads have been chosen because they are against the agency they are in charge of, it was literally their job to implement their destruction if not elimination entirely. Agencies have been defunded, their best people fired or resigning in disgust of an incompetent management that didn't want them to do their jobs.

The incoming administration will be inundated with reports of corruption and crimes that need to addressed by federal prosecutors, many of the trump state and federal prosecutors will need to be replaced, far more than is typical.

But here is the benefit of running on fixing the mess trump created, it gives dems a chance to air specific things trump has screwed up by discussing what needs to be done to fix it.

Forget universal healthcare, the fight will be keeping the ACA and tuning it up over five to ten years heading it toward more and more coverage. Forget green new deals, just evolve energy the right direction, it takes decades. Run on rejecting the worst of the unqualified judges McConnell has jammed through, not all, just the most glaringly bad according to the ABA.

To hell with changing the world in one term, just work on righting this sinking ship.

Woody, you can refer to "the sinking ship" all you want but real, intelligent voters are going to be looking at the jobs reports, the DOW, the unemployment figures, their own bank accounts and paychecks and dozens of other gauges and they are not going to be crying over bureaucratic problems that shouldn't have been here in the first place. If you want to talk about the real sinking ship, you need to be looking at the Democrat party. They are about to go down for the third time. Why don't you stop trying to convince people that the big problem is not the big problem. Climate change my fanny!

You are absolutely right that the agencies need to be rebuilt. That is what President Trump has been trying to do. We have seen the mismanagement of the agencies from past administrations, not just from Obama's, but from other administrations over the decades. The agencies became more political than functional. Admittedly President Trump has put outsiders into leadership roles because they put the agency operations ahead of doing things just because they were politically correct. A good example is reforming the VA to make it more responsive to the needs of veterans. Another example is requiring the science to backup EPA and other agencies proposed rules. It takes time to turn massive agencies around and also to right size them.

You are absolutely right that the agencies need to be rebuilt. That is what President Trump has been trying to do. We have seen the mismanagement of the agencies from past administrations, not just from Obama's, but from other administrations over the decades. The agencies became more political than functional. Admittedly President Trump has put outsiders into leadership roles because they put the agency operations ahead of doing things just because they were politically correct. A good example is reforming the VA to make it more responsive to the needs of veterans. Another example is requiring the science to backup EPA and other agencies proposed rules. It takes time to turn massive agencies around and also to right size them.