A roundup of Monday's editorials include a look at President Donald Trump's new chief of staff, White House communications manager Anthony Scaramucci, and Sen. John McCain, (R-Arizona).
Here are some opinions from the Right and from the Left.
Opinions from the Right
1. Trump's troubles are far from over with Kelly as new chief of staff. They might even get worse
President Trump’s announcement Friday via Twitter that he is replacing White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus with retired Marine Corps General John F. Kelly could bring more drawbacks than benefits.
Broken windows encourage social chaos, or so the theory goes. The aim of broken-windows policing is not to beautify neighborhoods, but some reduction of their ugliness may be necessary if their safety and functionality are ever to increase beyond a certain threshold.
3. From the Wall Street Journal
American Action Forum President Doug Holtz-Eakin speaks on proposed corporate rate cuts and middle-class tax relief.
4. I’m a conservative – and I now see voting Republican is a waste of time
What would you conclude if you voted for a candidate or a party because of a promise to repeal or change a law that you strongly felt was harmful and unjust, but once in office the party refused to do it? You might conclude, rightly, that those politicians didn’t really work for you, and the party didn’t care what you thought.
Opinions from the Left
5. Hobbling along with a bully president
Where is first lady Melania Trump’s anti-cyberbullying campaign when Jeff Sessions needs it? That question came to mind as her husband used Twitter last week to beat his attorney general like a Zulu drum.
6. McCain revives his maverick label
It was John McCain playing the Jimmy Stewart role in "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" on the Senate floor early Friday morning, as he rejected his Republican Party's scheme to repeal Obamacare. In casting the deciding vote against its totally irresponsible bill to emasculate the health insurance...
7. We deserve better than Trump's presidential reality show
President Donald Trump has finally done it. He has turned his administration into a B-level reality show. A cross between "Celebrity Apprentice" and "Jersey Shore," the characters in this White House drama even have theatrical nicknames like "Mad Dog," or Secretary of Defense James Mattis, and "The Mooch," referencing Anthony Scaramucci, the newest director of communications.
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