In thinking about the passing of former House Minority Leader Bob Michel at the age of 93, I couldn't help but wonder how President Trump would have treated him if he were in Congress today.
I suppose if Michel had worked to implement Trump's agenda as he did with President Reagan then Trump would call the late Illinois Congressman terrific.
But if things went south, I suspect Trump would call him a loser as he spent his entire Congressional career in the minority (he retired before the 1994 mid-terms).
I'm sure that a WWII veteran like Michel would recoil in horror at Trump's rhetoric especially his assertion that "we have a lot of killers". In turn, I'm sure Trump would retort that he likes soldiers who didn't get wounded. Michel was wounded during D-Day.
While a case could be made the MSM are bestowing the sort of kindness towards Michel in death that he never received during the budget battles in the early Reagan years, the fact is that Michel knew how to make a deal and knew how to make it work. For all of his talk of great deals, President Trump hasn't made one. Robert Michel could have shown Trump a thing or two. R.I.P.
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