Sentences with phrase «basic lack of competence»

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D - N.Y.) told ABC that if the president hopes to succeed with tax reform, he must overcome a «basic lack of competence.

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Pardon while I retch recalling Republican derision of suggestions ranging from those of George Washington to Hillary Clinton that the US needs its own university devoted to maintaining standards of competence for US public officials, particularly administrative appointees, who often seem to lack even a basic understanding of the laws governing municipal basics like utilities.

It is hard to imagine a bigger or more embarrassing error in a field that puts the existence and dominance of AGW as its basic credo and speaks directly to their competence (or lack of).