That article makes Eric out to be quite a generous, competent, and honest guy. Things only started to go haywire when his idiot narcissist father got “involved.”
Trump can fire just about any damn person he pleases, but if he tries to force the surrender of General Beauregard, he might end up facing a mutiny. I can’t stand Sessions, but he also strikes me as someone Trump wouldn’t want to fuck with. One because he is the sitting AG, and two because he still has a lot of connections in the Senate. I could see Sessions starting a whisper campaign that Trump is insane and the presidency needs to be saved by his Cabinet, which would then start ramping up open discussion in the senate of impeachment. Sessions could also decide to take more of a hands-off approach to leakers.
I think there’s absolutely an escape route for Trump from this Russia investigation, but the thing is, there’s been one all along. He never had to do anything other than brag about beating Hillary Clinton on twitter. I know I’ve been cynical about Trump going down the drain, but I do begin to wonder: at what point does this shit start getting old for the Republican party? Their agenda is going absolutely nowhere despite having a solid majority of both houses and a GOP president who at least, in principle, seems okay with everything they want to put into law.
Coincidentally, about half an hour before I read bikerdruid’s post it popped into my head that the Party needs a revised slogan: IGNORANCE IS INTELLIGENCE
One thing (among many) that raises my bile about Trump is that he’s not only ignorant, he’s willfully, persistently ignorant. He has no interest in rectifying his ignorance; on the contrary, he revels in it and extols it as a virtue. And any evidence that could possibly refute his ignorant viewpoint is waved as #FakeNews (Sad!).
That such a nincompoop presides over the country I call home is painful. That my children — and possibly their children — will have to live with the damage he is wreaking is intolerable.
[Musing]Makes it all the more remarkable to look back on all that Obama was able to accomplish with none of these advantages and many more obstacles (including, but not limited to, being a Kenyan-born Muslim). [/Musing]
He might get a lesson in geography if / when Qatar threatens to evict the US military. I doubt we’ll see a knee-jerk reaction, but I’m guessing that Qatar isn’t going to forget this one.
One question: Today, how are GWB and Dick Cheney and their administration viewed by most Americans, now that it is common knowledge that they lied and deceived the American public in order to goad us into war?
I meant do they have a last straw where Trump is concerned? I’m thinking they may not. What if Trump shot Mitch McConnell on Fifth Avenue? Or divorced Melania to marry Bad Vlad Putin?
In my experience, no republican I know (which includes my entire family) has ever badmouthed Bush or Cheney. They sort of gradually stopped talking about them after a while, but they never ever made a public reversal of opinion.
Because while some people don’t like to be played, for republicans it seems to be much, much, much, much more important to never concede they were ever wrong in the first place. This requires the ‘playing’ to be ignored or distracted from if possible, and defensively and rather clumsily denied if necessary.
Isn’t the proper response to this type of question, “Of course the president has full confidence in the attorney general”? On what planet is what Spicer said considered anything *but *a head-meets-bus-tire situation?