Can't you just sign what we put in front of you, stubby-hands?

It may have taken an entire year of their lives, but by golly it may be beginning to dawn on even Republican lawmakers are realizing that when a sitting president is 1.) known for openly and brazenly lying about even the most pointless things and 2.) cannot grasp more than a few bare phrases of his own supposed policy priorities and 3.) commonly and repeatedly contradicts those would-be policy statements in new statements days or hours or minutes later and 4.) may, in fact, be a latex puppet controlled by three cocaine-addicted housecats, he may not be a good negotiating partner when it comes to actually, you know, governing things.

It demonstrates once again to Democrats — and Republicans — that Trump is an unpredictable, unreliable partner who cannot be trusted to keep his word. To lawmakers on Capitol Hill, there may be no greater crime, since all members and senators know their word is their bond. Once you lose that credibility, you’re done as a deal-maker.

Well, I wouldn't go that far. Mitch McConnell has made a nice career for himself in demanding the Senate do one thing under Democratic control and another thing when under Republican control, so let's not go nuts on the theory that our current crop of lawmakers can be trusted to either keep their word or not run off with your silverware. But yeah, it turns out that Trump's uniform policy ignorance coupled with his failure to remember what the hell he was talking about a day earlier is a problem.

This has come to a head in the DACA "negotiations," in which Trump both apparently agreed with Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein about wanting a clean bill and the panicked Republican compatriots who reminded him that no he does not, with Trump both wanting a "bill of love" and for America to stop accepting so many people from "Haiti" and "Africa." So now even Republicans who have been kissing Trump's ass like they were finalists in a county fair ass-kissing contest are grousing that things aren't going to get anywhere until someone can convince Trump to have an actual policy stance: