This afternoon, I had to return something to a Target store and when I got there, there was a huge mass of people around the entrance. I thought I'd stumbled upon some sort of pre-Super Bowl sale but when I got closer, it turned out to be a mob of people signing petitions for and discussing the impeachment of Donald Trump. I don't think that's going to happen but he sure has set some kind of record for people to be mentioning the "I" word. Here are four things today that have folks rankled…
- It seems like everyone is outraged when a member of the opposition party spends taxpayer dollars on vacations and living like royalty but they never object when someone in their party does it. Trump may cause some Republicans to break that rule…or at least be very uncomfy when called upon to defend Donald's expenses and what it costs us for Melania to live in New York. See here.
- William Saletan explains how Trump is trying to convince Christians to act more like a persecuted minority that only he can save. I do not understand why people who always said they vote for the candidate who seems to share their religious values don't see that Trump could not care any less about that kind of thing except as an issue to be exploited for personal gain.
- Matt Taibbi explains how Trump, who ran on promises to fervently watchdog Wall Street, is now devoted to making sure they get every single thing they want.
- And Mike Pence is attending the Super Bowl in Houston. Whadda ya wanna bet that something happens with the crowd or some spectators or the half-time show that results in Trump being outraged that the Vice-President wasn't shown the proper respect? No one loves to try and put his opponents on the defensive more than Trump. He's still milking that quickly-retracted story that he had a bust of Martin Luther King removed from the White House as proof that every bad thing the press says about him is a lie. So says the man who says all sorts of things that aren't true and never retracts any of them.