We no longer live in an age where paper and ink regulate the size of a column. The Washington Post need not stop at Five…
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n that’s why I’m looking at the Corker defection with a strong bit of caution.
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Welcome to the party, asshole. He’s been the same guy for 2 1/2 years. But if you’re finally coming around, meaning you’ll use all the ways to constrain him that you used on Obama, then good for you. If you’re just sulking that he didn’t make you Veep, go cry to your diary.
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He’s going to leave Washington pretty soon, and put the nightmare behind him.
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There’s a brighter side. I’d rather have a restrained Corker who can still go on Fox news undermining Trump with his dwindling supporters than “bomb-throwing” Corker preaching to us and the MSNBC choir who are on to Trump’s treachery.
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Does poor Donnie want a bicky with some milk to cheer him up?
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The look on his orange face sums it up. Who am I? Who are these people sitting around and what is it I’m supposed to be saying? I want my Sharpie!
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Donald Trump asked a foreign policy expert advising him why the U.S. can’t use nuclear weapons, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough said on the air Wednesday, citing an unnamed source who claimed he had spoken with the GOP presidential nominee.
“Several months ago, a foreign policy expert on the international level went to advise Donald Trump. And three times [Trump] asked about the use of nuclear weapons. ***Three times he asked at one point if we had them why can’t we use them,***” Scarborough said on his “Morning Joe” program.
Scarborough made the Trump comments 52 seconds into an interview with former Director of Central Intelligence and ex-National Security Agency Director Michael Hayden.
Scarborough then asked a hypothetical question to Hayden about how quickly nuclear weapons could be deployed if a president were to give approval.
“It’s scenario dependent, but ***the system is designed for speed and decisiveness. It’s not designed to debate the decision,***” Hayden said.
***Trump sits alone in front of the television dreaming of launching a nuclear weapon. He wants it like a junkie wants a fix.***
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Caution?
Moi aussi. Corker apparently was a real businessman, which has probably nagged at him since the Phony in Chief was coronated. But the party has been good to Corker, and he probably feels it will outlast Trump. The same argument applies to Collins, Murkowski, Moore-Capito and all the other folks who draw “caucus with us” calls.
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Don’t hold your breath if you are counting on the GOP to put country before party.
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Re:
Puerto Rico tweet:
The parody accounts seem to be going the way of the Onion.
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Reading this part I just consumed all the facepalms I’d reserved for this entire week…
And on Sunday, shortly before Corker’s tweet, Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney also weighed in on that information flow. He told “Meet the Press” that before Kelly came onboard, Trump was getting information that “just wasn’t ready for the president”
MULVANEY: What I can tell you has changed is the flow of information to the president, the flow of information from different people, from different sources. It is a much more orderly and aligned West Wing than it was previously. And I think the president is extraordinarily well-served by that — and, more importantly, likes it. I was surprised to hear you say in your intro that folks are talking about John Kelly leaving. That’s the very, very first I’ve ever heard that.
CHUCK TODD: I only ask it because it got sparked in a story on this. I guess let me ask you this: was the president getting bad information before? Was that an issue? When you said the flow of information, was he getting bad info?
MULVANEY: It wasn’t bad info. It just wasn’t ready for the president.
CHUCK TODD: Contradictory?
MULVANEY: Not contradictory. Folks would wander in. You’ve heard there were several stories — and those stories were actually true — about folks would just come in and there was an open-door policy and they could wander in and talk to the president about anything. That’s probably not the most effective way to get information about very, very complex issues in front of the president of the United States. So what John has done is really refined that flow of information, so that we know, before the president sees it, it’s right, it’s accurate and it’s ready for him to act on.
So goddamn fuckin’ moron Mulvaney is saying there in a super diplomatic manner his boss is a fuckin’ moron.
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“I didn’t want this job. I didn’t seek this job. My wife told me I’m supposed to do this.”
He won’t be spending more time with the family
Too many words, too many syllables, too few bullet points, too little praise for his amazingness.
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When everybody was assembled, Trump reportedly shouted at Manafort, “How can anybody allow an article that says your campaign is all f—ed up?”
“You think you’ve gotta go on TV to talk to me? You treat me like a baby!” Trump added, according to Green’s account of the meeting.
"Am I like a baby to you? I sit there like a little baby and watch TV and you talk to me? Am I a f—ing baby, Paul?" Trump reportedly continued.
The room then “fell silent,” according to the book.
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‘Cept most of of us here, along with other HRC and most BS supporters knew this long ago; Ukie and Beej excepted; good for WAPO, but this is hardly a revelation.
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Bob Corker gave us the Iran Deal, & that’s about it. We need HealthCare, we need Tax Cuts/Reform, we need people that can get the job done!
Funny tweet by Donald considering he’s gotten nothing done.
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If only there was some way we could known this before the election…
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It is the MSM, though, so it’s welcome.
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Corker was for Trump before he was against Trump. And now, how he votes on legislation will still depend on Republican orthodoxy. But, it’s still good that some Republican is not only saying what we all know and are concerned about (fearful of?), but he’s also indicating that most other Republicans know about the real Trump, too. And for that, they need to answer and we need to do something.
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