Folks I know and respect keep telling me, "This time, Trump's gone too far." They're sure the latest lie or action is going to bite him in the ass and bring down the whole house o' cards…and then it doesn't. But if you keep predicting something like that with someone like him, you'll eventually be right. I think the guy's going to crash and burn. I just don't know if it'll be the firing of James Comey or the next thing or the one after. But something will. Here come the links…
- Frank Rich thinks no matter what kind of stooge gets installed to derail any investigations of Trump and his administration, it won't work. And Rich makes a pretty good case for why it won't work.
- There are a lot of outraged editorials today about how we need a special prosecutor and it shouldn't be, say, Ivanka. Here's John Cassidy with one.
- Here's an article that compares what's going on to Nixon's infamous Saturday Night Massacre. And here's another. And still another.
- Jesse Berney on the "creepy feeling" that while Comey deserved to be fired, there's reason to fear how Trump is eliminating anyone who could hold him accountable for actions or misdeeds.
- Matthew Yglesias on the Trump/GOP strategy to defend the American Health Care Act. It seems to be to just lie about what's in it and what it will do…and then if someone points out the lie, you dismiss them as biased and/or to say, "Well, that's their opinion. I'm entitled to my opinion and that cutting $880 billion from Medicaid couldn't possibly result in reduced care and higher fees."
The timing of Comey's firing was such that most of the late night shows couldn't do very much with it. We'll see what they have for us tonight. Could be brutal.