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It’s been a few days, so let’s see what insights Maggie Haberman’s vaunted access has brought us.   Here’s a tweet from 2:46 PM yesterday :

Trump advisers are working on a series of events throughout next week to try to highlight what the administration sees as accomplishments, and areas where Republicans are going to try to draw lines on policy matters they will press the incoming Democratic administration on. According to a person briefed on the planning, the border trip that is likely on Tuesday. is now part of that effort.

In other words, infrastructure week.  Oh, hey, here’s one from 3:10 today:

I was told by administration officials yesterday when I asked about not lowering the flag that Bill Clinton hadn’t for two Capitol officers who died in 1998. A Bill Clinton spokesman tells me he did lower the flags, issued a public statement and spoke with then-Speaker Gingirch.

Is our Maggie learning?  She fact-checked a lie! Of course she put the fact check in the mouth of a spokesman for Clinton, since she could never proclaim something a fact.  Not her job, amirite?

Here she professes her considered opinion that the Q-Anon link to Wednesday’s violence should be investigated.  ORLY?  Does Dean Baquet know you went that far out on a limb?

And so on.  Where are her sources?  Why aren’t they giving her the inside scoop on what happened in the White House on Wednesday?  Why isn’t there a front-page anonymously sourced tick-tock telling us what the Trump family was doing while people were dying in the Capitol?

Could it be that she was lazy and she was greedy? Could it be that her sources used her as a fucking dupe, a pawn, a putz, a mug, a sap, a fool?  That they gave her a “scoop” once in a while so that she and the rest of her fucking useless bureau would hold back on the Trumps?  Could it be that she should be fired as a gross incompetent, and her salary split between two younger journalists who will actually do some fucking work other than texting Jared, Ivanka, Hope and the rest?

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  1. 1.

    PsiFighter37

    Maggie Haberman is a fucking legacy hire – no actual talent herself. She is the Judith Miller of the Trump era.

  2. 2.

    debbie

    Since she constantly refuses to reveal or even speak about her sources, I am beginning to think they’re all in her head.

  11. 11.

    Four Seasons Total Landscaping mistermix

    That flag quote took me over the edge for some reason.  I mean, my GOD, she has access to the entire NYT archives plus there are probably some old timers in her bureau who would know.

  16. 16.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Ray [REDACTED]@RayRedacted
    People who broke into the Capitol Wednesday are now learning they are on No-Fly lists pending the full investigation. They are not happy about this.

    (video)
    I didn’t think the gov’t would go to the No Fly list, not till after noon on 1/20

  17. 17.

    Mike in NC

    Just read that the PGA is going to prohibit any future events at Trump-owned golf courses. That will get his attention.

  18. 18.

    karen marie

    You forgot the kicker on Individual-1’s visit to his wall:  It will happen in Alamo, Texas.

    The press is being very helpful (to him) in rushing around saying “not THE Alamo!”

    I think everyone who is not the press is clear what Individual-1 is saying with his choice of rally location.

  19. 19.

    JPL

    Apparently there are some consequences to storming the Capitol.    You end up on a no fly list.   So sad.  hahaha

    LINK

  20. 20.

    Punchy

    I had to triple check the author of this post.  This is sooooo Doug J.   M^2 has mastered Doug J prose.

  21. 21.

    trollhattan

    My takeaway from this lovely bleacher seat is Maggie did everything necessary to keep her sweet WH access. Four years of tiptoeing around a minefield makes for some very shy reporting.

  23. 23.

    Wyatt Salamanca

    Fuck Maggie Haberman.

    I prefer to take this moment to offer condolences to Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin for his loss and express gratitude to him for the work he’s doing for us right now:

    On Tuesday, Jamie Raskin buried his son.

    On Wednesday, he and his daughter fled the Capitol rampage.

    On Thursday, he prepared articles of impeachment against the president.

     

    h/t https://twitter.com/JohnGHendy/status/1347629478827192320

  25. 25.

    JanieM

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: “They are not happy about this” made me laugh out loud. Hopefully that’s only the first of very very many things they end up not being happy about.

    “They called me a fuckin’ terrorist.” Poor baby.

  26. 26.

    Suzanne

    @Mike in NC: Everybody in the social echelon in which the Trumps wish to belong is grossed out by them. No way do any of the Trumps, perhaps with the exception of Don Jr., want to spend even a moment among the one-truck-contractor class.
    I still think Melania is going to file for divorce in short order and end up on Real Housewives. It’ll be the trashiest thing that ever trashed.

  27. 27.

    Jinchi

    According to a person briefed on the planning, the border trip that is likely on Tuesday…

    Please let him be caught begging for asylum at the Mexican border!

  28. 28.

    Brachiator

    Could it be that she should be fired as a gross incompetent, and her salary split between two younger journalists who will actually do some fucking work other than texting Jared, Ivanka, Hope and the rest?

    Maggie and her editors should all be fired.

  31. 31.

    Calouste

    @JPL: Good for the same of us, if they need to fly, because these folks are also anti-maskers, so that makes flying at the moment a little bit safer. I read that Alaska Airlines banned about at people until the end of the epidemic for mask non-compliance on a flight from DC to Seattle on Thursday. I’d think that the FBI would be rather interested in those names.

  35. 35.

    LuciaMia

    when I asked about not lowering the flag that Bill Clinton hadn’t for two Capitol officers who died in 1998.

    And what does that have to do with …anything? Showing respect to aCapitol cop who died performing his duty. But you base that decision on what someone did two administrations ago. And in a childish , “Well, THEY didnt do it so…” And doesn’t the Trump WH consider itself hugely superior to the Clintons?

  36. 36.

    Martin

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: 
    This is why I thought the FBI issued a bulletin to the social media companies. This is not an investigation. They are trying to disrupt a credible threat. They don’t want these people to be able to fly back to DC for the inauguration or leave the country. This is containment.

  38. 38.

    NotMax

    @JPL

    Greyhound, the ball’s in your court. Also companies providing insurance for charter transportation services.

  40. 40.

    RSA

    @Four Seasons Total Landscaping mistermix: 

    That flag quote took me over the edge for some reason. I mean, my GOD, she has access to the entire NYT archives plus there are probably some old timers in her bureau who would know.

    She could have spent two minutes with Google:

    AP: The deaths were confirmed by Sgt. Dan Nichols, spokesman for the Capitol police. By then, more than three hours after the shootings at 3:40 p.m. (2:40 p.m. CDT), Capitol flags already had been lowered to half-staff. The president ordered flags at the White House and other executive buildings lowered, as well.

  41. 41.

    Jinchi

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: People who broke into the Capitol Wednesday are now learning they are on No-Fly lists pending the full investigation.

    That video is hilarious, but please tell me it isn’t the gate check crew who are responsible for telling this guys he’s a suspected domestic terrorist.

  42. 42.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @planetjanet: Gary Oldman as George Smiley in the more recent version of Tinker Tailor, as opposed to the much older BBC miniseries with Alec Guiness in the role.

    As the playwright to play Nixon on twitter says, Guiness looks like the character LeCarré imagined. but Oldman shows you the face of a man who’s done the things Smiley did, because he had to.

    @Jinchi: I had the same thought. How did they get boarding passes to get through security?

  47. 47.

    LuciaMia

    This is a sincere question. After Wednesday’s debacle the Capitol has been repeatedly referred to as “The People’s House.” I always thought that was the White House’s unofficial title.

  50. 50.

    WaterGirl

    @Martin: I sent you email earlier, but it seemed like maybe you replied in a thread instead of email?

    I added the two really great letters to elected officials that I have seen so far – your letter and Albatrossity’s – to the sidebar so people can borrow/steal from those.

    I will add others if more people either post outstanding letters or send them to me by email.

  53. 53.

    SiubhanDuinne

    I should probably know, or be able to figure it out, but I don’t and I can’t: Who is the man in the photograph?

  54. 54.

    Mallard Filmore

    @Jinchi: 

    please tell me it isn’t the gate check crew who are responsible for telling this guys he’s a suspected domestic terrorist.

    Most likely the checkin desk … unless they want the person to go through security scanners first.

  56. 56.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Baud:

    If you’re talking about the Tour Championship, it’s being held in Atlanta (East Lake) in September 2021.

  61. 61.

    JanieM

    @SiubhanDuinne: See here.

    Scroll down a little. It appears to be Gary Oldman in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy.

    I learned something new: if I right click on the image in Chrome, one of the options is to have Google search for it for me.

    Heh.

  68. 68.

    Constance Reader

    I am now convinced the Maggie Haberman was born without a functioning immune system and now lives, literally, in a bubble.

  70. 70.

    zhena gogolia

    Maybe this was posted earlier, but it bears repeating. Wingnut tears. Delicious.

    People who broke into the Capitol Wednesday are now learning they are on No-Fly lists pending the full investigation. They are not happy about this. pic.twitter.com/5GfHo1eVU8— Ray [REDACTED] (@RayRedacted) January 10, 2021

  73. 73.

    Almost Retired

    I live near the Trump National Golf Club in Los Angeles, and I want to do something disruptive there to undermine his profits and shame his customer base (as long as it’s legal and ethical).  My fellow employment law attorneys have already sued that sweat-shop-with-an-ocean view for labor law violations, so I need a new angle.  I’ll be retired soon, and I will need a new hobby.  I welcome suggestions.

  76. 76.

    Chyron HR

    A Bill Clinton spokesman tells me he did lower the flags, issued a public statement and spoke with then-Speaker Gingirch.

    And also those officers weren’t killed WHEN SOMEONE TRIED TO OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT AND DECLARE HIMSELF PRESIDENT FOR LIFE.

  81. 81.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    Who are these people that eat syrup on their sausage and eggs? Stop. This is why you have diabetes.

  82. 82.

    Doc Sardonic

    @Mallard Filmore: Odds are they want them to go through security to make sure they are unarmed as weapons must be secured, unloaded and in checked luggage. Once they get through security it is still potentially dicey to deal with them but at least at that point they are unarmed an easily contained.

  85. 85.

    Patricia Kayden

    @Chyron HR: Even if President Clinton didn’t lower the flag for deceased Capitol police officers, I don’t see how that excuses Trump’s refusal to do so. Does Trump make a practice of copying Clinton?

  87. 87.

    M31

    @Almost Retired: for sure they are violating water use/pesticide/runoff regulations, so look for ways to verify.

    or crowdfund a memorial to the dead cop(s) from the Capital sedition/treasonfest, put it right in front of the entrance

  88. 88.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    During the insurrection, Maggie posted the on going terrorism was just like the protest outside the WH after the George Floyd murder (both sides-ing it).   The push back was fierce, forcing her to delete it.

    She’s a fucking clown.

  89. 89.

    boatboy_srq

    @JPL: Just remarkable that they thought they could act out, nobody would notice, and they could go back to normal lives when it was over.

  95. 95.

    Martin

    Parler is gong to be down a  while longer. They can’t find a host – the CEO has admitted his declaration yesterday that many hosts were eager for their business was a lie. They got dropped by Twilio who provides messaging services, so they’d likely now need to roll their own (not fast), and their lawyers dropped them, so they need to fix that before everything else.

  102. 102.

    Calouste

    @Almost Retired: Take some water and soil samples just outside the perimeter, and have them analyzed. Good chance you’ll find excessive levels of weed killers or so. I’m sure there will be all kinds of violations of environmental and health laws.

  104. 104.

    debbie

    @Martin:

    Amy Suskind (“The List”) is saying there is talk on Parler about that credible threat. It seems to be separate from that 1/17 action at state capitols.

  105. 105.

    cope

    @Almost Retired: Look into their environmental practices such as chemical use (pesticides, fertilizer, etc.) or water consumption?  Just spitballing here.

    Edited to credit Calouste for thoughts in a similar vein.

     

  106. 106.

    WaterGirl

    @Patricia Kayden: Nah.  I bet it was more like “you can’t make me.”  and that was the excuse.

    Do we think Trump actually remembers offices dying during Clinton’s term in the first place, let alone knowing how Clinton responded.  Someone fed the to him.

  107. 107.

    MisterForkbeard

    @Martin: Neat! My fears that they’d actually done some prep were completely meaningless, then. Good to know.

    Without Twilio, their 2FA (do they have 2FA/MFA?) is going to have a huge fucking hole blown in it. Likewise, the thing about their lawyers is something else. Wow.

    ETA: Do we have a link for this?

  108. 108.

    JPL

    @boatboy_srq: That is horrifying, and unless the consequences are more severe than having to rent a car or ride a bus home, it will happen again.   Next time will be worse.

  109. 109.

    Calouste

    @Achrachno: Well, there is probably some open source stuff they could rip off, but that will still take some time. And then it has to be usable by people who are so stupid that they wear their work badge around their neck while rioting. That’s going to be the real challenge.

  110. 110.

    John Revolta

    @David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch:

    It’s getting ugly, the WH hair and make-up people have resigned

    This may be a joke, but I think it’s probably spot on. TV makeup is different from normal, and she wouldn’t carry it around with her. Bit surprised she didn’t take a little more trouble with her hair but maybe she’s just used to having it done for her when she gets to work.

  111. 111.

    West of the Rockies

    Has anyone suggested yet that week 1, Biden give officer Eugene Goodman the Medal of Honor for leading rioting seditionists away from the Senate chamber, thereby saving may lives

    Damn good way to honor (I believe) a black man and police officer and to return a sense of normalcy to the award.

  112. 112.

    karen marie

    @Jinchi:  I think people can choose seats on flights and preprint boarding passes when they pay for their tickets.  Isn’t that the way things are done these days?

  114. 114.

    cain

    There is a video going around about some dude who went to the airport and got kicked out the plane. He cried while talking about how they are calling him a fucking terrorist. I bet a lot of white collective minds were blown.

    Now you know how everyone of middle eastern descent feels.

    I dont’ really like the idea of being put on no-fly lists – which are very difficult to get off of. If you are in fact guilty then yeah, you don’t get to be on a plane, and you dont’ get to vote either. (red state rules!)

     

    People who broke into the Capitol Wednesday are now learning they are on No-Fly lists pending the full investigation. They are not happy about this. pic.twitter.com/5GfHo1eVU8— Ray [REDACTED] (@RayRedacted) January 10, 2021

    The above is the video.

    Whoops – @Jim, Foolish Literalist:  beat me to it by a long mark.

  115. 115.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Kathleen:

    White Terrorists: “Get Pence! Get Pelosi!”

    NYT: “Bipartisan Protesters Air Grievances At Capitol Gathering”

    heh, that has probably been printed or spoken somewhere, in pixels or on TV

  119. 119.

    Almost Retired

    I like the environmental violation angle to bedeviling Trump National, as suggested above.  Below is a link to a case a colleague of mine had against Trump in LA Superior Court, which included claims that he was firing female employees that weren’t “pretty enough” by his warped standards.  The locals who are Trump-Golf-Course-Adjacent here hate him every bit as much as the Scots, but the insults on the local Nextdoor are far less colorful.  Here’s a link if it works:

    https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-na-pol-trump-women/?fbclid=IwAR0kwue9cFnbazjXce7iyTXF2iYE6RvZgnP3oujBtwToe-_EMwH7bFcPSzk

  128. 128.

    Delk

    Haha

    the company that handles credit card transactions over the web has dropped trump. Cut off his fundraising hahaha.

  133. 133.

    bluehill

    This long thread analyzing Trump’s and others’ speeches on the 6th is disturbing because it suggests a level of coordination that I think the public doesn’t really appreciate. Apologies if already posted.

    (THREAD) To understand the second impeachment of Donald Trump, we must understand the words that preceded and augmented his January 6 incitement of insurrection. This thread unpacks four key speeches—Don Jr., Giuliani, Mo Brooks, and Eric Trump. I hope you’ll read on and RETWEET.

    https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1348373138388766723

  136. 136.

    Calouste

    @WaterGirl: Congressional Gold Medal is the same rank as the Presidential Medal of Freedom, but awarded by Congress. It’s awarded less often than the PMoF, so really should be more valuable.

  139. 139.

    boatboy_srq

    @JPL: How else do you explain the harrassment of Rmoney on their inbound flight, all the skylarking in front of cameras while in the Capitol, and then this video at whatever airport that refused to let the arsehole fly?

    It also helps explain why when Ashli Babbitt was shot the crowd surged back and not forward: fatal consequences were never predicted, and seeing one of their own get taken down did everything except propel them on. OMGWeCouldGetKilledDoingThis just wasn’t in their heads.

    But Reichwingnuts have never been all that good with consequences.

  141. 141.

    JMG

    @Almost Retired: Scope it for violating covid indoor dining/drinking/meeting rules. Those can result in loss of liquor license, which is freakin’ death for any golf club not in Utah.

  146. 146.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Delk: oh my god

    Wingers are all acting like twitter is the Ministry of the Interior in a world imagined by Kafka, Orwell and three bottles of absinthe. This is gonna really freak them out

  147. 147.

    Ksmiami

    @Almost Retired: I grew up in the tree section. The Trump property is trash esp compared to Terranea…the surrounding residents have no love for Trump so maybe organize a boycott to force a sale

  148. 148.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Baud:

    “He’s a very good friend of mine. He’s a winner,” Trump told Hugh Hewitt during a radio interview in August. “You know, if I ever had a military battle, I’d call up Belichick and say what do you think? What do you think? Give me a couple of ideas.”

    He probably would, too.

  149. 149.

    Ken

    @M31: Mexico would build and pay for the wall within the hour

    It would only be a three foot by three foot square, around Trump.

    But really, is more needed?

  150. 150.

    Baud

    I didn’t click and am not posting a link, but this came across my feed.

    Stripped of Twitter, Trump Faces a New Challenge: How to Get Attention

    NYT > Top Stories / by Maggie Haberman / now

    Mr. Trump became a celebrity through television, but Twitter had given him a singular outlet for expressing himself as he is, unfiltered by the norms of the presidency.

  155. 155.

    WaterGirl

    @Martin: You must be right, Martin.  For all of this to be happening this fast, I think there must be a credible threat and all these companies are being contacted by the FBI, or someone.

  156. 156.

    Achrachno

    @Calouste: Wouldn’t they still need to find someone with powerful servers?  It’s not just a software issue now I imagine, especially not if their lawyers have bailed too.  They seem to have multiple interlocking problems.

  159. 159.

    What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?

    @debbie: Yeah I commute past the capital building by bike or at least did in the before times. I always been convinced that if I tried to force my way in I’d die in a hail of bullets. If I’d have done what they did I wouldn’t be like “I can’t believe they maced me!” I’d be saying “I can’t believe I’m not dead!”

  164. 164.

    boatboy_srq

    Wingers are all acting like twitter is the Ministry of the Interior in a world imagined by Kafka, Orwell and three bottles of absinthe.

    Is it wrong that this made me LOL?

  166. 166.

    Paul W.

    That was very satisfying to read, I only wish that she was aware of how horrible she was/is as a reporter but I don’t think she is capable.

  167. 167.

    lollipopguild

    @boatboy_srq: This was going to be a couple of fun days in Washington. Get together with my homies, drink, party and storm Congress, kill a few politicians we do not like and then go home and back to work. Alot of them saw this as a weekend at the beach in Florida, have fun and brag about it later. Consequences?

  173. 173.

    Spanky

    @Just Some Fuckhead: There’s gluten-free pancake mix. Nowadays there are lots of GF items  unlike the old days.

    Was going to have them this AM, as a matter if fact, but the open maple syrup container has been in the cupboard a couple of years, so ..  nope

  177. 177.

    NotMax

    @Spanky

    Saw an endcap display of jugs of some brand of real maple syrup which included the word bourbon on the label at Costco just yesterday.

  181. 181.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @Spanky: I’m gluten-intolerant and have been gluten-free for about three years now. It’s generally so nasty, I just quit eating bread products other than gluten-free bagels, gluten-free Hawaiian-style sandwich bread and frozen gluten-free Freschetta pizzas.

  182. 182.

    moonbat

    @debbie: Thanks for pointing this out. “Storming” used a LOT by the “protesters” who were there who were interviewed. Storming as in the “Storm Front” has actually arrived. These folks thought this was going to be the white supremacist take over of the government. However inept they were at execution  they were not being coy about that. And if you’ve read the Twitter breakdown of Trump’s incitement speech it’s not very hard to see why. He was freaking channeling Hitler.

  186. 186.

    Ken

    @Martin: Capitalism comes at you fast.

    By the time they’re done with him, Trump will be begging the Deep State to send him to prison, where he’ll at least be getting fed.

  187. 187.

    boatboy_srq

    @Poe Larity: This is of the secondary consequences when you go mask-free during a pandemic – the primary of course being that you get exposed and possibly dead from the virus (any bets on how many infections will result from Wednesday’s fracas?).

  191. 191.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    Based on the news media I’ve seen, looks like the media has decided to label the insurrection “riots”. Ya know, like riots in Portland or riots in Charlottesville not, say, INSURRECTION, taking over the Capitol. Unbelievable.

  192. 192.

    lgerard

    @Almost Retired:

    You could get involved in the tree war

    trump keeps planting trees that obstruct his neighbors ocean view because he doesn’t want his patrons offended by the sight of poor people’s 2 million homes

  194. 194.

    Ken

    @Kathleen: I didn’t know Cole had introduced Pay Per View programming on Balloon Juice.

    I hope he checked the provider’s Terms of Service first.

  195. 195.

    japa21

    @NotMax: That is a great syrup. 1/4 the price you would find it at in other stores. Aged in bourbon casks, so they have to put a warning that it may contain trace amounts of alcohol.

  196. 196.

    Spanky

    @Just Some Fuckhead: I’m not GF, but the Mrs is. I made her some Xmas cookies with Bob’s Red Mill baking flour that were really good! Better than the same ones with wheat flour, imo.

    Seems like they’ve played with the mix of various gf flours until they got a pretty good one.

  200. 200.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @Spanky: Periodically, I experiment with the gluten-free flour mixes but honestly, the resulting product, whether it’s biscuits or breadsticks or pizza crust doesn’t justify the effort to produce.

    I’ve used Bob’s and others, including Cup4Cup. I’ve had the best results with Cup4Cup but, again, it’s just a different degree of suck.

  201. 201.

    unique uid

    @schrodingers_cat: I just loaded the parler home page – still up.  No account, so I won’t go deeper.  I did notice that the link at the bottom to get the Android client points to a .apk file (side loading), instead of the Google Play store.  The iOS client link takes you to the Apple App store, but says the app is not available.

    Need to go hose off my computer now.

  202. 202.

    Bill Arnold

    @JanieM:

    I learned something new: if I right click on the image in Chrome, one of the options is to have Google search for it for me.

    I’m also fond of https://www.tineye.com and there are a few others. (tineye.com has a few sort orders including oldest first.)

  203. 203.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    @Just Some Fuckhead: people forget he coached for 6 full years before Brady and was a loser in 5 of those 6 years.   Now that Brady is gone, he’s back to being a loser, again.

  205. 205.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @moonbat: Ever hear of the storming of the Bastille?  That’s what these dimwits thought was happening.  There were even French tricolores on site.

  208. 208.

    Almost Retired

    @lgerard:  I forgot about the tree war – the battle to spare the Trump National Golf patrons the sight of not very architectural interesting multi-million dollar homes.  Maybe I can reconstruct the shack of the Clampetts of Bugtussle on PV Drive South across the street from the club house.

  219. 219.

    Mike in NC

    @Gin & Tonic:  There were also some bizarre flags on display that must have belonged to anarchist and other extremist groups, as were sighted at the Charlottesville riot in 2017.

  221. 221.

    debbie

    @bluehill:

    Jesus. I believe I read somewhere that Trump deliberately refused to  authorize the D.C. National Guard to assist. That should be an article of impeachment right there.

  223. 223.

    Mike in NC

    @debbie:  Like everybody else, I’m seeing new video of the riot that is only now emerging. The MAGA terrorists I’ve looked at in them are about 90% male and 100% white. Shocking, I know.

  224. 224.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    Trump advisers are working on a series of events throughout next week to try to highlight what the administration sees as accomplishments, and areas where Republicans are going to try to draw lines on policy matters they will press the incoming Democratic administration on. According to a person briefed on the planning, the border trip that is likely on Tuesday. is now part of that effort.

    If that’s a shiny toy to keep Dumb Donny sedated for a week and half, fine with me.

  230. 230.

    TriassicSands

    Haberman shouldn’t be fired yet. She should be fired by Dean Baquet’s replacement. Dean should be the first to go.

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    TriassicSands

    @Uncle Cosmo:

    Maggie and her editors should all be fired –

    Of course they should be fired, but the way these things tend to work is to fire Haberman and pretend the problem has been taken care of. I have no idea if she would be a competent reporter with better supervision, but she couldn’t be what she is without approval from above.

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    J R in WV

    @Uncle Cosmo:

    …Please tell us you are both referring to the Presidential Medal of Freedom and not the Congressional Medal of Honor.

    The Medal of Honor is NOT the Congressional medal of anything. It is just the Medal of Honor. Look it up, for doG’s sake!!!

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