I’ve been mulling over this New York Times op-ed from an anonymous “senior White House official” trashing President Trump. My initial response was contempt … and envy.

What a gig! Trash your boss while saluting the politician who trashed the people who put your boss in office, take credit for the President’s success, see yourself in the NY Times all while gladly pocketing the public’s cash.

Best part? You get to tell your friends in the Swamp and media how you and your inside cabal really loathe the guy too! You’re the star of Georgetown soirees. I’m sure there’s a choice table waiting for you at the Red Hen.

Sarah Sanders is ten times the person this yahoo will ever be and she was right to call him a coward.

But now, to my contempt I’ve added confusion.

Isn’t That Part of a Staff’s Job?

The anonymous writer, echoing a charge in Bob Woodward’s book, says officials often ignore or negate decisions made by the President. Yes, negating decisions made by the man elected by the people is horrible. Clearly, these staffers don’t like some of Trump’s public policy positions, some of what he was elected on, and never should have taken jobs at the White House. They are, in effect, nullifying the election and must be held to account. (John Zmirak has a spectacular take-down of these Swamp creatures. Read it here.)

However, it’s unclear whether in this case we’re really talking about decisions or ideas. And no doubt Trump spitballs some doozies.

Which gets to the point: Isn’t it part of a staff’s job to help vet ideas and move a leader away from decisions and ideas that won’t work? Isn’t that what a leader would want? I certainly do. Just yesterday a Stream staffer came into my office and explained why something I had asked him to do wasn’t nearly as cute and clever as I thought it was. Day before that, I had to express to a superior why something he wanted done had to be done differently. Neither I nor the staffer mocked our superiors or ran to the New York Times to brag about it.

How much more crucial is this for the President of the United States? It goes against the mainstream media meme, but as Nikki Haley pointed out in a scathing rebuttal to the anonymous op-ed, Trump will change his mind if you convince him your way is better. The op-ed writer seems to see this as a vice. We want people around a president who are able to say to his face, “Uh, maybe not” when he says “Here’s an idea.”

“Here’s an Idea”

Given Barack Obama’s very public attacks on President Trump Friday, let’s see how “Here’s an idea!” worked in his administration.

Here’s an idea: Let’s run a ton of guns to Mexican drug gangs … without having any way to trace the guns! We’ll call it something cool like, “Fast and Furious.”

Here’s an idea: Let’s load a billion dollars in cash and hand it over to a terrorist regime that’s yelling “Death to America.”

Here’s an idea: Let’s stop pursuing the terrorist group Hezbollah that’s killed hundreds of Americans and is now pumping drugs into the U.S. as a favor to that same terrorist regime.

Here’s an idea: Let’s run weapons to al-Qaeda-aligned rebels in Libya to overthrow a guy who’s actually been cooperating with us and handing over his WMD’s.

Here’s an idea: Now that he’s been sodomized and executed and his country is in chaos, let’s get those weapons back to give to more Islamic extremist rebels in Syria. But we don’t want to draw attention so we will ignore the ambassador’s request for more security at the Benghazi consulate.

Here’s an idea: Now that those al-Qaeda-linked terrorists blew that last idea up in our face and the ambassador and three others are dead, LET’S BLAME IT ALL ON A YOUTUBE VIDEO NOBODY’S SEEN!

Backstabbers in the White House are dangerous. Sycophants even more so, as we so tragically learned.