Damn straight we’re retreating. We’ve had it with that Europe thing, damn Germans selling us all their damn Beemers n’ Benzes, n’ fuckin’ Audis and won’t buy a damn Cadillac to save their souls. That’s what I like about Russia, you know? They don’t make a damn thing, and if you need a little extra…
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H.R. McMaster, a shande far di civilians
Yes, all of us lucky folks who don’t have to salute Donald Trump1 can have a chuckle at the fate of H.R. “Herbie” McMaster, and particularly have a chuckle at his defenders, like Michael Crowley at Politico and Fred Kaplan at Slate, who join in the cry “Say it ain’t so, H.R.!”, reacting to McMaster’s…
Of course, when that happened during the Obama Administration, he threw them in jail
“Some brave patriots in intelligence and law enforcement and elsewhere in the federal government have taken risks to get the facts out.” Thus quoth WashPost columnist Dana Milbank, celebrating the appointment of Robert Mueller as special prosecutor for l’affaire Russe. As Dana sums things up, a little too generously, “With the stroke of a pen,…
Gen. H. R. McMaster: I only lie when I really need to
Okay, Gen. McM didn’t really say that. But he has been willing to lie before, when it was, you know, necessary, like when Congress might not give the Army all the money that it really, really needed. When H. R. first got the job as national security advisor, I recalled in a brief post, “Lt….
Trump trumps Trump
I was going to write a column saying that “we” (i.e., Democrats) were extraordinarily lucky that President Trump managed to sabotage the Comey dismissal as completely as he did. The original deed was clumsy enough, but adamant denials surely would have put a lid on the matter in a week or so. Only when Donald…
Thank God for Charles Krauthammer! Pretty much.
Yes, Charles Krauthammer, whom I’ve often harangued and harassed, “sometimes … displays a sense of honor” (to quote myself), and one of those times is right now, as he weighs on Trump v. Comey with a well-titled commentary, “A political ax murder”. True, Charlie clings to the now-standard right-wing meme that FBI Director James Comer…
All that stands between the United States and moral disaster is a Republican Congress. That’s a comforting thought.
Well, the first shoe has dropped. Donald Trump’s vast capacity for unreason has moved from potential to kinesis, from words to deeds. The president who bellowed about American “carnage” in his inaugural address is now inflicting said carnage on our already sullied body politic, by firing our infamously bungling FBI director James Comey, who incidentally…
Ross Douthat (yes, that Ross Douthat) explains it all for you
I have been perhaps overly hard on Ross Douthat over the years, though I can say with some pride that I haven’t called him “Ross Dumbfuck” since 2012. But, well, that was then and this is now. Ross more or less hits it out of the park with his latest column, “House Republicans Go Off…
Yo, Senate! Move your ass!
That’s the word from conservative health care policy maven/guru/wise man Avik Roy, writing in Forbes, urging Senate Republicans to stop waiting for House Speaker Paulie Ryan to get his ObamaCare replacement bill through the House before taking action. Avik has already repeatedly trashed Ryan’s bill, but he’s too polite, or too cautious, to repeat himself,…
You have to talk to those people in a language they can understand—that is to say, Spanish
“The message has been received that President Trump is, to coin a phrase, a bad hombre,” the ethically and ethnically challenged Rich Lowry informs us, gloating over the decline in illegal border crossings since the advent of Herr Donald. Granted, Trump’s wild and vicious threats during the campaign—to build a “great wall” and force Mexico…