It must be tough to be a Trump supporter. Yesterday, he robbed a liquor store. Today, you have to go out and deny he robbed the liquor store and say it's fake news concocted by those slimeballs in the media. And you have to know darn well by now that tomorrow, he's going to be saying or tweeting, "Yeah, I robbed the liquor store and it was the proper and legal thing to do and I was absolutely right to do it."
Wish I collected royalties on the phrase, "Throw [name] under the bus." Here are some links…
- Rod Dreher, who cheers Trump's stated agenda but not the man, writes about the disclosing of apparently-classified info to Russia and says Congressional Republicans ought to bone up on impeachment proceedings.
- More on the same topic from Daniel Larison, who is also not a Liberal.
- Andrew Prokop has a primer on impeachment. My assumption is that it would never come to actual hearings and trials; that as with Nixon, a delegation of Republicans would go to Trump and say, "We've got the votes to put you on trial and investigate everything, including your taxes and business dealings. You can get out now or risk going to prison." And then Donald J. Trump would do, as he always has, what's best for Donald J. Trump. And spin it as just what he wanted to do.
- Matt Yglesias reminds us how ridiculous it is that folks who thought the worst thing in the world was how Hillary handled her e-mail are now defending Trump's treatment of classified material.
- Matt Taibbi thinks there's more to the whole Russiagate scandal than we know.
- Joe Conason notes that the whole scare tactic of saying that Obamacare would create "Death Panels" was always a lie. But if we have the kind of cuts in Medicaid and other institutions that Republicans want to make, we may indeed have agencies deciding who gets to live and who's going to die.
- And here's a long but fascinating article by Lisa Miller about the drive to bring manufacturing jobs back to this country. I somehow cannot see Trump ever truly getting behind anything that would cut into the profits of American businessfolks. If they can make more money sending jobs overseas, they always will in Donald Trump's America.
Even at this moment, Bill Maher and his staff are sitting in their offices, trying to figure out what Maher can say on his show Friday night that will cause Trump to attack him by name. It will soon be a mark of shame for anyone who considers themselves an edgy political comedian if they can't achieve that.