Once I stopped giggling I decided to put out some thoughts on the Alphonse-and-Gaston, bipartisan, approximate fifty-five-minute televised meeting with Congressional leadership and President Trump yesterday. On the heels of Michael Wolff’s, Fire and Fury, excoriation of the President’s mental fitness, some White House sharpie decided to put the President before the public to prove his bona fides and stability hoping that would earn brownie points. Press pools, prior to this President’s summoning of leaders from Capitol Hill, generally lasted long enough to get the obligatory photo and shout a few embarrassing questions. The White House allowed unprecedented access in hopes of quelling the furor over whether he [Trump] is, in the original assessment of Lindsey Graham, “a kook.”
Trump, of course, does what Trump does. He veered wildly off conservative script, by hinting at a path to citizenship for the undocumented, getting confused on what a clean DACA Bill would mean and acquiescing, with folded arms, to the smarter people in the room, which meant virtually everyone else present. Trump even called the proposed immigration compromises a “Bill of Love” something he ridiculed Jeb Bush for in the Republican primary.
Mr. Trump once again exposed his insecurity with apparently no one, strong enough, brave enough or “stable” enough to stop the farce. Maybe he fired the villainous Omarosa from the TV show Apprentice, a few weeks too soon. She would have sabotaged her rivals for the spotlight. I watched Kevin Jokester McCarthy almost leap over the table to cover for Trump’s scarcity of issue knowledge.
Hey, this nickname thing is fun…
Let me try a new one Lindsey ‘Lapdog’ Graham. What happened to this guy? Graham had me fooled. Throughout the campaign, and the first six or eight months of the Trump debacle, Graham was a voice of reason, tossing out a few nicknames of his own, “kook” and “the world’s biggest jackass.” Lindsey the Lap is now carrying water, in a five-gallon drum, for the President and his alleged Russian involvement. The shameful call for an investigation by the DOJ into an international ally, Christopher Steele, for warning the U.S. about a plot to steal an American election by a hostile government is appalling.
I grew up opposing a Republican Party I felt was too jingoistic and flag waving; what happened? I find myself fighting a Joe McCarthy like paranoia every day that has me asking the question; what does Vladimir have on the Republican Party? Is it the euphoria of ousting Hillary and blindly relearning how to govern or something more sinister? Was a tax bill worth selling out our nation or achieving the holy grail of entitlement reform? I am asking a lot of questions because I have no sensible answers, other than believing that Republicans have become insurrectionist. As much as I believe the wrong-headedness of Republican politics has been a scourge on American progress since FDR, I refuse to believe they are traitors. Even if the former close advisor to the President [Sloppy, Steve Bannon] tells me the President’s son is “treasonous.” I am open to answers to all my questions, help me…
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