R.I.P., Roger Ailes
Well, sorta rest in peace. skirts at Fox News today will be lowered to half-mast — Alexandra Petri (@petridishes) May 18, 2017 Alexandra Petri’s column is worth the subscription price of the WaPo all by itself.
Archive of entries posted on May 2017
Whining is not a good look
Have you noticed how often Trump whines that things are “not fair” or that he’s being treated poorly? The most recent example of this happened today, when he was giving a commencement speech to the graduates of the Coast Guard Academy and complained that “”No politician in history, and I say this with great surety, …
Notes v. Tapes
Who ya gonna believe? Trump and his Twitter threat? James Comey better hope that there are no "tapes" of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 12, 2017 Or Director Comey and his contemporaneous notes of the conversations between himself and the President? I don’t like what …
Braggadocio hurts
The successful operation of our government assumes a minimally competent Chief Executive that we now lack. So concludes a long analysis of why the news that President Trump revealed classified information to the Russian Foreign Minister and his colleague the Ambassador is critical. The most startling aspect of this (or perhaps not, given Trump’s prior …
Trump Follies, “The Comey Episode”
I’d just sit back and enjoy this nonsense except that it’s happening to the country I love and have lived in for all but five of my 66 years. White House aides have felt bewildered and alarmed by how Trump arrives at his decisions — often on impulse and emotion and sometimes by rejecting the …
Tapes? Really?
Trump threatened former FBI Director Comey that he (Trump) might release the contents of taped conversations between the two men that might a) exist and b) contradict anything Comey might say that puts Trump in a bad light. I wonder if Trump even knows the role White House tapes played in President Richard Nixon’s downfall? …
Action notice
If you want to save Bears Ears National Monument and 26 other Monuments from Trump’s vandalism, you need to make a public comment starting tomorrow at the Department of the Interior website. To submit a comment, go to the government’s Regulations page and type “DOI-2017-0002” into the search bar. Or, mail comments to: Monument Review …
More stupidity from the Trumpsters
Always kick down and never self-examine. That’s our President. In a deeply reported story in today’s Washington Post, we find more details of how FBI Director Comey’s firing was handled by the President and those few minions who knew he was thinking of it. Trump’s team did not have a full-fledged communications strategy for how …
My lord, these people
Ladies and gentlemen, this is the professionalism of the White House staff: Spicer had wanted to drop the bombshell news in an emailed statement but it was not transmitting quickly enough, so he ended up standing in the doorway of the press office around 5:40 p.m. and shouting a statement to reporters who happened to …
GoFccYourself.com
If you’re concerned that your access to your favorite semi-obscure websites might be slowed down because those sites can’t afford to pay the rates ISPs want to give them full-speed access, you should use the above URL to go leave a comment at the FCC site. I just submitted the following comment: Leave net neutrality …