Monday, August 21, 2017

Weighing the options

It's almost impossible to imagine there are enough Republicans in the Senate who would join Democrats to remove Donnie Covfefe, even if the House impeached him. That's the bad news. The good news is that keeping Donnie around means that I won't have to think about all the ways that Mike Pence would be even worse than Donnie.

Thanks to the number of family members involved and all those goddamned vacations Donnie takes, the Secret Service is already broke. I'm in favor of making Donnie hire personal bodyguards out of his own pocket for at least the next 12 months, or just do without.

Even Republicans who occasionally show a few flickers of decency aren't much good over the long haul.

Tonight, Donnie is scheduled to read a prepared speech about his plans for the war in Afghanistan. If he reads the speech well, some talking heads on cable news shows will describe him as presidential. We've seen this routine several times already. It never lasts. Added 3:03 PM on Tuesday 22 August: I never watch Donnie on TV and didn't make an exception last night. I assume the speech was the usual Donnie misdirection play, designed to change the subject on the cable news shows and major newspaper front pages by telling his voters he has a great secret plan to win the war by defeating the terrorists.

We're lucky that senior administration officials are willing to tell reporters about crazy shit Donnie Covfefe does, or would do if they weren't around to stop him. We wouldn't have known he was an asshole otherwise.

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