I have to be honest, I'm struggling a
bit. What should I write about today?
1) Should I pick up on the President’s new
Director of Communications, Anthony Scaramucci, who is carrying the banner of
the President, when he echoes the words of his beloved leader that, “We are
going to be winning so much, we are going to get tired of winning”. Yes Tony, I agree completely. It's been one of my biggest desires for the
longest time now, second only to my burning desire to catch the next episode of
Real Housewives of Poughkeepsie. Mooch
the Smooch went on to proclaim his undying support for President Trump stating
that Trump is “the smartest person that I’ve ever worked for” with “intuition”
and “temperament that I have never seen”.
(sigh….), it's only been a week, but I miss Spicey already.
The Mooch clearly wanted to come on the scene
and make a big splash, in an effort to curry favor with the Big Guy, he has
become the point person on weeding out leaks in the White House. So, he is going to “hermetically seal” the
communications team and call out the other senior members of the
administration, specifically Reince Priebus for being the source of the
leaks. I don't watch reality TV shows,
so it's particularly annoying when I turn on the news and am forced to watch
one of the worst on TV.
I would also observe that we seem to be
getting leaks about the White House’s anti-leaking strategy. I guess they have
a little more work to do on that.
2) Maybe
I should write about the Big Guy’s obsession with denigrating one of his
earliest conservative supporters and his hand-picked Attorney General, Jeff
Sessions. Mr. Trump seems to be
suffering from a significant case of buyer's’ remorse, and is publicly airing
his disappointment, despite noteworthy blow back from his conservative
supporters. By all accounts, love him or
hate him, everyone, including the conservative base, has said that Sessions did
the right thing by recusing himself from the Russian investigation, everyone
except the Big Guy that is. As such,
this makes Sessions the President’s biggest object of scorn and ridicule on
that little Twitter toy of his.
3) One
of the scariest pieces of news to leak out yesterday (the Mooch hasn't quite
yet perfected his hermetical seal) has to deal with Secretary of State Rex
Tillerson’s unhappiness with his role and the administration. He seems bothered by battles with other
members of the administration and still can't get over the fact that he has to
play second fiddle to the 34 year old boy wonder who is going to save the
world. Richard Haas, who heads up the
Council on Foreign Relations and who has also been critical of Obama on several
issues, observed that Tillerson has not helped his cause any by not fighting
for resources, by not getting experienced people in place, and for deciding to
reorganize the State Department at a time when the sky is falling. Sure, Haas seems to have a point, but still I
worry. Aside from the members of the
President’s national security team, Tillerson, while having no real diplomatic
experience, out of all the other members of Trump’s Cabinet, at least has
experience in ...something. And with
little things like North Korea taking a back seat to the President’s campaign
rallies (you were under the impression that the campaign was over?) and his
trips to Mira Lago, six plus months into this new administration, I would just hate
to lose anyone in the administration who looks like they actually may have a
head on their shoulders.
4). I could talk about the President's success
re: his announcement of 13,000 jobs coming to Wisconsin (Paul Ryan’s home
state) with Chinese company FoxxCon. While
it should be considered a small win for the President, it did not come without
a cost. FoxxCon will receive $3 billion
in tax breaks, which works out to $230,000 per employee. I know, you’re thinking, wouldn't it be
simpler to just give the money away?
Perhaps, but the truth is all politicians have done this at different
times, Obama gave $500 million to a solar panel company early in his
administration and Rhode Island gave $40 million to former Red Sox ace and
conservative talk show personality, Curt Schilling, for his computer gaming
company and didn't even get a new rev of Pac Man for their troubles.. I do want to point out that the great state
of Massachusetts, as liberal as we are, was smart enough to pass on this last fiasco.
The point here is that giving away $3 billion
doesn't exactly come under the category of draining the swamp.
5) I could actually write a short novella about
the President’s expansive three-part tweet late yesterday in which he announced
his new policy to ban transgender persons from the military because of the
higher cost of their medical care. In
typical Trump fashion, he neglected to tell anyone else of his latest idea, including
his communications team, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the conservatives in
the House who only wanted him to eliminate the cost of the medical care, not actually
Transgender persons from serving. Now, everyone
in country is scratching their heads, the LGBTQ community has declared war, and
Vladimir Putin is laughing his ass off.
6) Finally, I could choose to write about the
Chief Scout of the Boy Scouts of America who apologized today for the behavior
of our President when he spoke to the group on Tuesday.. On this day, we are all Boy Scouts, insulted
by the actions of our President, and we apologize to the entire world and to
God, for one of the dumbest things in the history of the planet, voting this
dweeb into office.
Am I forgetting anything? Health Care? The Russian Investigation?
Still, I’m unclear. What should I write about
today? Any ideas?
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