Iran retaliated for Trump’s idiotic killing of Qasem Soleimani last week, firing over a dozen ballistic missiles from Iran to two US bases in Iraq. Casualties unknown as yet. Crude price skyrocketed to over $65 on the news. Expect it to be more volatile in coming days as Trump will do the next stupid thing.
Well, lookie here …
President Donald Trump’s first national security adviser Michael Flynn should serve up to six months in jail, prosecutors told a federal judge on Tuesday, saying Flynn has failed to accept responsibility for his actions and undermined a separate criminal case.
“It is clear that the defendant has not learned his lesson,” the Justice Department wrote. “He has behaved as though the law does not apply to him, and as if there are no consequences for his actions.”
Nooooooooo. Not a fine upstanding patriot like Mike Flynn.
Look, I know Trump will pardon him and that Flynn and Gallagher will open a torture consulting firm next month. I know they will both get gigs on Fox News. I know that. But I jut want to holler Lock him up! as they walk him out of the courtroom.
Okay, CNN breaks some news and says —
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that he has the votes to set the ground rules of the impeachment trial for President Donald Trump — without Democrats’ support.
All McConnell needs is 51 senators — or a simple majority of the 100-member chamber — and several key Republicans. GOP Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Mitt Romney of Utah have said they back the leader’s approach.
I hate to say I told you so, but … oh crap, I knew it all along and so did you. Collins and Murkowski need a dipstick like McConnell to prove they are about a quart low on estrogen and Mitch never had any guts whatsoever.
It’d be a dog and pony show except the pony died and the dog doesn’t know any tricks.
Don’t give them a hearing, Nancy. They held a Supreme Court nominee for over a year so it’s about time for payback.
Okey dokey, Twitter this morning.
“What the process is” is a white man term meaning – Wait to see what Mitch says.
Mitt, Honey, a subpoena is a piece of paper issued by the court or the congress or anybody who passed the bar that says, to bring your butt to court. It was laid out in the Magna Damn Carta. That’s the process. If you want to hear from a witness and he says he will only testify if under subpoena, you type up a piece of paper saying consider yourself subpoenaed and get somebody to deliver it to him.
There ya go. Go chew on that process and see if you can come up with something better.
The Associated Press has an interesting take on what the tit for tat (which is just quid pro quo that Trump can understand) from Iran might be.
“U.S. officials are also aware that Iran could try to strike a high-level American leader in a ‘tit-for-tat’ move, potentially a military commander.”
Okay, so I’m wondering which military commander they can take in a fair exchange.
Of course, Sean Hannity comes to mind first. Let’s face it, he’s running the damn country.
I also think Stephen Miller would be fair. Except for that shaved head he could be an exact match.
I’d be willing to offer up Mike Pompeo. But who wouldn’t?
Or maybe Lindsey Graham, who spent six heroic tormented years in the Air Force JAG Corp, although I don’t think he saw any tort combat.
Got any other suggestions?
In its best imitation of Emily Litella, the Defense Department inflicted whiplash on millions of Americans by releasing a letter to the Iraqi government that US and coalition forces were repositioning in preparation of withdrawing from Iraq. Amidst the uproar that followed, defense secretary Mark Esper held a news conference to claim the letter was “an honest mistake”. An “honest mistake”? Oh, please. This letter could only be one of three things:
In the old days, way back in 2016 and before, official government communications were carefully vetted, going through many layers of approval before being issued. Even then things weren’t perfectly communicated (like the explanations of the Benghazi attack), but mistakes were kept to a minimum. Under Trump there is apparently so much chaos that it seems just anyone can turn the US government on its head with an unapproved (or completely botched) official communication.
Geez.