And, as that article notes, the use of the title “Dr.” in the signature, rather than “M.D.”, feels a little odd (as does, to me, the complete lack of mention of his military rank in his title). Might well be honest mistakes, but with an administration that’s regularly misrepresented things, it sticks out.
BTW, Maddow again mentioned the Ronnie / Ronny typo on her show last night, as she talked about the upcoming news conference on the physical.
Homeland Security chief Kirstjen Nielsen can weasel and give non-answers with the best of them. It is a skill I don’t think I could learn. She simply will not answer the questions asked.
“Sources say Bannon told by WH not to answer questions before House Intel Cmte about the White House and the transition. Did not assert executive privilege. Committee subpoenas him during the meeting to comply while in the hearing.”
To unpack this:
Bannon goes to the committee,
Refuses to testify, said he was acting on orders from the WH,
Does not claim Executive Privilege (not too sure he could, given he is a private citizen, but anyway) While sitting in front of the committee Bannon is served with a subpoena, compelling him to testify to the committee
These people should have paid more attention during the transition.
It’s getting late in the day in Washington, and after looking at a number of news sites (NBC, CBS, BBC, WaPo), I can’t find any information suggesting that this detailed report or press conference has actually happened, or what it contained. Has anyone else seen anything?
Re: Alexa and Amazon and Hucky-Boo-Boo’s (I like it) Batman kid -
It didn’t even dawn on me that it was an attack on Bezos-Amazon, but that does make sense. Other than that I couldn’t figure out why she was relating a tale that just made her out to be an idiot, unless she was trying to lighten things up and go for self-effacing … a term I don’t think has ever been offered to describe anything in this administration.
However, my reply is - and this in not because of my contempt for Huckabee - ha ha, serves you right you dumbass. Why on earth anyone would put one of these devices from hell in their homes in the first place is beyond me. Fine, this solidly places me into old man territory, but come on people. We have magic in our pockets now. We don’t need computers more powerful than Apollo 11 to make phone calls and yet we all have them. Do we really need to voice our wishes into the ether only to have them granted now too? Holy shit, look in a cook book if you need to know how many sticks of butter in a cup. Fuck, look on the goddamned package of butter!
Ok. I’m better now. But come on. Talk about first world problems. My toddler used my magic I Don’t Feel Like Getting Off My Ass box to get a toy? Jesus H.
It prolly was ordered thru Prime Now, so it got to them in less than 2 hours; I bet that was also considered far too slow as it should have been there instantly. I mean, if the kid wanted it, surely they wanted it NOW, right?
Believe me, I recognize the irony. But a wiser man than I once said something like, “we used to be paranoid that the government was bugging us and now we voluntarily place bugging devices in our homes.” I guess I was just less paranoid when I was watching The Jetsons in the salad days.
[also this a fascinating study in my anal retentive five minute editing between quotes and post-edit original post]
