Which suggests Frank may stop at nothing, fresh wars included, to win in 2016. To be fair, Frank had something different in mind – he conceived Amworks not so much as a socialistic raid on cash-strapped youth, more a crypto-Reaganite rolling back of the US welfare state in the manner beloved of ordinary God-fearing, tax-terrified Americans (think: Ron Swanson from Parks and Recreation), though with the neo-Keynesian twist that all those entitlement savings would bankroll jobs, many of them in the military.
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Too few TV presenters’ sentences contain ”wherein”, “lamprey” and “crouton”. “So it’s a socialist raid on the wealthy,” suggested Colbert, “wherein the baby boomers will latch on to the millennials like a lamprey and just keep sucking until they’re as dry as a crouton?” Marvellous. Frank was there to announce America Works, his new jobs programme, which he claimed would eclipse Roosevelt’s New Deal. Foolishly, he allowed himself to be interviewed on TV by Stephen Colbert, who proved himself an eviscerating interrogator. On the domestic front, the president’s policies are similarly poised. Really, Frank? Crypto-Reaganite attack on the welfare state? We don’t know yet whether this bombing amounts to the president taking out the terrorist trash or, rather, will result in him becoming known as a child killer.
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Which is, quite possibly, why he agreed to the drone strike on the Yemeni terrorist even though his military advisers weren’t entirely sure that the kill zone around the target was free of children. If Frank is to be elected in 2016, he’ll have to risk a bold manoeuvre to woo back voters. Underwood is in so much trouble he dare not accept the resignation of a Supreme Court judge because of his early onset Alzheimer’s in case the resultant brouhaha over a replacement might allow the Republicans to exercise damaging leverage. Six months into the job and eight out of 10 Americans think Frank lacks leadership and effectiveness his approval ratings are now below those of the milksop he replaced in the Oval Office. And, if this was a treacly photo op, why weren’t the media allowed to take pictures of Frank at the graveside? The scene didn’t make a lick of sense, but for the chance it gave us to hear Frank wax hubristic, resume his confidential mugging to camera – and unburden himself before his father.Īfter the credits, we learned that things aren’t going well for the unelected leader of the world’s greatest democracy. But all the security crew who lingered by their cars, while the president wandered, quite possibility in snipers’ crosshairs, on a graveyard hilltop, would surely have been fired for gross dereliction of duty. This pre-credits scene nicely established the looming season’s concerns. And they’ll have to wait in line to pay their respects.” “When they bury me it won’t be in my backyard.
“I’ll tell you this, Pop,” he told the grave, before turning to face us. His funeral would be very different, and would not take place in his hometown of Gaffney, South Carolina. In the opening scene of season three, Frank disclosed that he was the only mourner at his father’s funeral (even Mrs Underwood found she had something better to do) and had paid for that gravestone from his scholarship money.
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