Then:
Leadership: Whatever happens, you're responsible. If it doesn't happen, you're responsible.— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 8, 2013
Now:
"I think we're probably in that position where we'll let Obamacare fail...We're not going to own it. I'm not going to own it. I can tell you, the Republicans are not going to own it."Not that it was ever in doubt -- but he never was and never will be a leader.
BONUS: Charles Pierce --
Everyone is pretending that the president* continues to be credible as a national leader because they're too afraid not to point out that he's one rubber nose short of being a rodeo clown. The country is rudderless, lurching from one self-inflicted crisis to another, and it has become plain that handing the entire governing apparatus over to the Republican party as it is presently constituted is an open invitation to a complete governmental collapse.
