What is slightly surprising is that the administration is getting more and more chaotic and dysfunctional the longer Trump is president. https://t.co/M2sdJ5Kkay
— Ryan Lizza (@RyanLizza) July 26, 2017
Fewer and fewer holdovers from the Obsma administration https://t.co/ZWW7lFA5wv
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) July 26, 2017
“This morning two senators were caught on a hot mike calling President Trump crazy. And when the news came out, literally every member of the Senate was like, ‘Wait, was it me?’” — JIMMY FALLON
Only the sane members of Congress, and they don’t have a majority. Per the Washington Post:
At the end of a Senate subcommittee hearing on Tuesday morning, someone sitting near Chairman Susan Collins (R-Maine) didn’t switch off a microphone. Collins was recorded discussing the federal budget and President Trump’s lack of familiarity with the details of governing with a colleague — apparently Sen. Jack Reed (R.I.), the ranking Democrat on the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies subcommittee.
After Reed praises Collins’s leadership of the hearing, she laments the administration’s handling of spending.
“I swear, [the Office of Management and Budget] just went through and whenever there was ‘grant,’ they just X it out,” Collins says. “With no measurement, no thinking about it, no metrics, no nothing. It’s just incredibly irresponsible.”
“Yes,” Reed replies. “I think — I think he’s crazy,” apparently referring to the president. “I mean, I don’t say that lightly and as a kind of a goofy guy.”
“I’m worried,” Collins replies.
“Oof,” Reed continues. “You know, this thing — if we don’t get a budget deal, we’re going to be paralyzed.”
“I know,” Collins replies…
“You’ve got [Budget Director Mick] Mulvaney saying we’re going to put in all sorts of stuff like a border wall. Then you’ve got [Treasury Secretary Steve] Mnuchin saying it’s got to be clean,” Reed continues. “We’re going to be back in September, and, you know, you’re going to have crazy people in the House.”…
The old man squatting in the Oval Office is losing his grip on day-to-day tasks, he’s surrounded by bigots and grifters, and the best hope for the rest of us is that the organic brain failure will progress swiftly enough Lord Smallgloves shows up for an on-camera event wearing no pants.
Say it with me: THANKS, REPUBLICANS!
As he reverts to the simple clan slogans of his misbegotten youth…
IN AMERICA WE DON'T WORSHIP GOVERNMENT – WE WORSHIP GOD!??https://t.co/jIejSgVnnA
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 26, 2017
Wow, pretty surprised you'd let ISIS guest tweet. https://t.co/kLBIgEdqJ3
— Oliver Griswold (@originalgriz) July 26, 2017
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