WH comms staffers just put the TVs on super loud after we could hear yelling coming from room w/ Bannon, Spicer, Sanders

— Adrian Carrasquillo (@Carrasquillo) May 15, 2017

Reporters in the WH are saying they don’t know which way to lean to overhear staff trying to grapple with the tsunami of crises of Trump’s own making.  Monday night, the shoutfest between Bannon, Spicer, and Huckabee Sanders was so loud that comms staff turned up televisions trying to drown it out.

However, their boss is going to assure that the Daily Crisis will continue.  Trump is a moron; he thought it was a good idea to take on the intelligence community?  The FBI?  That’s just plain stupid and simply political suicide by bureaucracy.  Comey was a prosecutor.  These people raise evidence gathering and note taking to an art form.  You know that this snippet from one memo is just the tip of a giant iceberg and that iceberg is only going to get larger.  In the meantime, Trump’s inner circle is getting thrown under the bus one at a time on virtually a daily basis.  The ONLY staffer who carried any weight was H.R. McMaster, but that’s over after his performance in front of the West Wing entrance the other day.

And it’s only going to get worse.  With top staffers at each others’ throats, it’s only a matter of time before the entire West Wing melts down.  If Trump survives this latest crisis, he will be so damaged that his legislative agenda will grind to a halt.  He responds so poorly to perceived slights that you KNOW he’ll tweet out some other stupid declaration that will turn his scandals into a perpetual motion machine.

You have to ask yourself why anyone with any integrity would be a part of this fiasco.  Why are wealthy and influential people staying in, much less groveling like Tillerson did on MTP last Sunday?  It’s mind blowing to watch these otherwise smart people hang on while the WH turns into Fukushima on the Potomac.  The longer they do, the more they will get irradiated from this meltdown.

The NY Times is now reporting details of Comey memos that documented Trump’s request of Comey to shut down the investigation of Flynn and the Trump campaign’s involvement with the Russians.  MSNBC is reporting that Comey kept a VERY detailed paper trail and was very worried about Trump’s interference.

So…is that a faint voice out there?  I think I can hear the faint strains of…

Senator John Cornyn has removed his name from consideration as FBI Director.

John Cornyn

Phew!

The other Republicans in the Senate were pleading with Cornyn about it because they knew that Governor Greg Abbott would appoint Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick to the senate seat just to get him the hell out of Texas.

Dan Patrick makes Ted Cruz look sane and kind.

And Donald Trump look self aware.

And Justice Scalia look liberal.

Y’all, we really dodged the bullet on that one.

They have taken to quoting our Chairman.

Yeah, baby.

I think it is so cool that all the clever people are on our side.

Trump Hotel in Washington.

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Something is making the Trump White House careless and crazy and all I can figure is that all that winning is going to their heads.

The Washington Post has a story this morning that Trump’s personal bodyguard put the Secretary of Defense’s private cell phone number on a yellow sticky note and and displayed it for all the world to see.

The bodyguard was holding a stack of papers, and, according to the caller, on the outside of those papers was a yellow sticky note that said “Jim, Mad Dog, Mattis” and had a phone number.

A Post photographer took a picture of it and the Post unwittingly published the picture along with a story about the bodyguard.  Sure ‘nuf, somebody noticed it.

Y’all, we cannot allow this man to leave the country.  We just can’t.

Thanks to Barb in DC for the heads up.