ANd 90% of American Businessmen and Economists think closing the border is a terrible idea which, humantirarian concerns aside, is certain to crash the US Economy. But then Donnie knows better then the experts;his gut feelings are better then knowledge.

I agree Travis's idea is far fetched but you lost me with your second post.
Or have you never made a stupid mistake?

But MAGA!

Make America Grotesque Again.

This Administration is rather thick and sticky...

Embarrassingly, I've only just noticed that Scott Gottlieb resigned. I thought he was by far one of the best Trump appointees (whenever people asks about any good that Trump had done, Gottlieb's appointment was one of the few really serious replies I could muster) and I'm not clear why he'd leave now. Any of you guys heard anything?

Which reminds me of the time Trump started throwing out tarriffs. A reporter asked the White House for a list of economists who were supportive of tarriffs and got back a list of two. One was indeed a economics professor, but he thought tarriffs was a terrible idea, and the other was an amateur blogger with no scholarly background in economics.

Well, the last posting I saw from you on this issue was where you said:

Therefore, since you supported the murder of tens of thousands of Iraqis (and perhaps far more), then I find it difficult to believe that you are so terribly concerned about how the people at ICE have been behaving.

I see you indeed don't think people should be allowed to make mistaken judgements.

Don't know if this qualifies but after 4 GOP senators had negative comments on Herbert Cain, looks as if his floated nomination to the Fed is DOA.
Another Trump nominee whose only qualification is blind loyalty to Trump.

George Will had a column today saying that this was another test for the Republican Senators to fail. Let's see if they fail the other test mentioned, Stephen Moore's nomination (also to the Fed).

Not to mention Cain's publicly demonstrated incompetence and creepy campaign in 2012. But then that never stopped a failed real estate shonk and grifter becoming president, did it.

Well then, you are seeing wrong.

I was just asking 'Travis' for clarification since he has issued such contradictory statements.

Looks like there is a chance Rick Perry might be leaving the Department of Energy.

From: http://time.com/5572897/rick-perry-e...uit-departure/
Energy Secretary Rick Perry is planning to leave the Trump administration and is finalizing the terms and timing of his departure, according to two people familiar with his plans. While Perry’s exit isn’t imminent and one person familiar with the matter said the former Texas governor still hasn’t fully made up his mind, three people said he has been seriously considering his departure for weeks.

So, a guy who didn't know what the Department of Energy actually did before he was appointed may be leaving the office. But despite being completely unsuited for the job, he managed to at least not get caught wasting money (like Zinke and his private flights) or lying to congress (Sessions). And he probably didn't give away any U.S. nuclear secrets. I guess that makes him a star in the Trump cabinet.

Timing is strange... right around when the Mueller report is to be released. But, I don't think there'd be any reason to suspect Perry was implicated. (Unless he thinks the Report will make Trump look really bad and doesn't want to be around it.)

Or is planning to challenge Trump in the primary.

That would be foolish... Trump pretty much has a hammerlock on the racist core of the Republican party, and I can't see them abandoning Trump for Perry.

Right, Trump would have to be unhorsed by scandal first. Maybe the Mueller report shows Trump doing something truly unforgivable, like having a shred of moral integrity after all. But if so, better for Perry to be prepared beforehand than circle like a vulture afterward.

Either that or he got caught groping an employee or something.

Probably not this. He's a Republican. If he had been caught doing something like that he'd be denying it.

Loudly. And repeatedly.

With aspersions being cast on whoever the victim was.

IOW, we'd hear about it.

Is Rick Perry one of those ultra-transparent people that sort of blend into the wallpaper even when he is the only person in the room?

We certainly haven't been hearing much from him since he was selected to head the Department of I-Forget-The-Other-One.

DC won't let him parade around with a handgun. There's a longing there that short trips home just won't fulfill. "Family reasons" will be the public face of that.

And there it is:
https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/sta...75584944922624

Bye, Rosenstein.

OK, who's next? Or better still, who's left?

They're trying to make sure there are no lefts in the government.

Rosenstein could have walked away smelling like his namesake instead of the compost heap aroma that's now stuck to him forever.

Someone has to be the furthest from the absolute right at any one time. That would make them the "most left" person in the house and thus subject to derision.

Think about it...

That's pretty much how the GOP handles it here.

They can claim that both Clintons and Obama are "leftists" without even cracking a smile.

And by comparison to their people it is true.

It helps them to keep the target moving.

The corollary is that, once they have "eliminated" the furthest left, there will still be people "on the left". Just not so far "on the left". Repeat, and soon enough you will be cutting your own left arm off to spite your right. Even though it is doing a Nazi salute.

Everybody here seems to have forgotten to enclose Rosenstein in triple parentheses. Of course, even I suspect he's got a book deal.

I saw a joke years ago that the modern definition of Leftist was "anyone slightly to the right of Ronald Reagan". It's gotten even worse since then.

Reagan himself was a leftist by the standards of today's Republicans.

Emmet Flood, out!

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/tru...er-emmet-flood

The eponymous part of this exodus-like flood out of 1600 Penn. A veritable diaspora of wreckage cast to the four winds. The debased mementos of Trump's anti-Midas' touch; the ongoing affirmation of that which Trump touches dies.

It's just possible that he is self aware enough to know how intellectually outclassed he is at the Department of Energy and just stays out of the way.

FTFY.

Intellectually outclassed by the sort of people who do press releases on "Freedom Gas" and " Molecules of US Freedom"? That's going some!

I think Norman Alexander is probably correct. Like the similarly incompetent Ben Carson, he's in a department Trump doesn't care about and as long as he stays quiet, he's invisible.

I can't help thinking the "Freedom Gas" and "Molecules of Freedom" thing is some sort of college-style prank that has gone right over the heads of the DoE bosses because they are such fools.

I suspect most DoE employees are pretty smart people and some of them can probably write very well. And most of them think their boss and the new Trump PR machine are thick appointee twats hell-bent on the diametric opposite of the department's mission statement. So the whole wording of the memo reads as complete and utter sarcasm...which, sure enough, went public!

Of course, if it wasn't a joke, and really did come from the top level... :jaw-dropp

Hell he finally found out what it did after heading it. He never knew he would be responsible for the nukes.

Visual recap (thread-to-date):

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...850cb669ac.jpg

p.s. Moving my chips on to Secretary Chao.

In a somewhat normal White House, Krazy Kellyanne would be a goner:

https://thehill.com/homenews/adminis...fice-for-hatch

The Office of Special Counsel send a report to Trump, calling for Conway to be removed for her many violations of the Hatch Act.

Mueller grasped the nature of his dilemma. If he had reached a final conclusion, certainly Flood would have criticized that as well.

I wonder who the letter was to. These days "letters" seem to just be press releases.

I don't read enough Fox News to notice any changes in trends, but their reporting seems pretty neutral here. Technically maybe they should have tried to get Mueller's reaction, but maybe they did when the letter was first releases April 19. I wonder if the ongoing misrepresentation/obstruction/collusion concerns is ever going to prompt Mueller to say anything. Probably not.