President Trump says "nobody I know of" talked to Russia during the campaign https://t.co/JUhH83L9Oe https://t.co/9sZpie1lve — CNN (@CNN) February 16, 2017 But, Mr. President: If "the leaks are real," as you just stated, then there are people that you know of who talked to Russia. https://t.co/F4c84ipSb6 — Ali H. Soufan (@Ali_H_Soufan) February 16, 2017 POTUS, …
John McCain is Upset!
So upset that he made a speech that didn’t mention Trump by name: John McCain is increasingly mad as hell about President Trump. And on Friday, he went after Trump — hard. During a speech at the Munich Security Conference in Germany, the Republican senator from Arizona delivered a pointed and striking point-by-point takedown of Trump’s …
Is it just me?
Or does this seem like something a paranoid, unhinged demagogue who doesn’t understand the role of the press in a free society would say? The FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, @NBCNews, @ABC, @CBS, @CNN) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 17, 2017 Sweet …
“Come live with me and be my love”
Blue jays have been swooping and screeching and carrying on in my side yard all day. Here’s a pair perched in the banana tree: They have a nasty reputation, blue jays, but they’re lovely birds. So glad today is Friday. This week has felt eternal. Got any big plans for the weekend? I was thinking …
Competency and conscience
I want to highlight two events from yesterday. First James Joyner’s response to the mass resignation of the membership of the President’s Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders: That’ll teach him. Now he’ll have to pack the commission with people hand-picked by Steve Bannon. https://t.co/1jGxMx780u — James Joyner (@DrJJoyner) February 17, 2017 …
Immigrants Get the Job Done*
The AP reports that the Trump regime floated a proposal to activate 100K National Guard troops to round up undocumented immigrants. The Trump administration is considering a proposal to mobilize as many as 100,000 National Guard troops to round up unauthorized immigrants, including millions living nowhere near the Mexico border, according to a draft memo …
The Crazy Goes Back to Tax Cut Jeebus
I’ve now watched the Trump presser yesterday three times. Not because I am a masochist who enjoys inflicting as much pain as possible on himself, but because I don’t think I appreciated the full madness of it the first time. The surreality of it all just overloaded my senses and I really couldn’t take it …