It's been another stellar week in the Drumpf Administration (not). The stock market is cratering, government's in chaos, and Benedict Donald is about to jet off to Florida to play golf while thousands of federal workers are furloughed right before Christmas. Trump sure is mad that his foundation got shuttered, isn't he?? (P.S. The Clinton Foundation, which Trump accused of all sorts of malfeasance, is open and operating.)
After all these dizzying adventures, we have a few thoughts.
Secretary of Defense James Mattis has resigned over Trump's withdrawal from Syria. (We hear his resignation letter is a real barn-burner.) Now Trump is making noises about leaving Afghanistan. We can only come to one conclusion: Trump is pulling troops out so he won't have to go visit any of them.
We have to admit we've only come to social media fairly recently, but we've never seen such a primal scream over the resignation of the head DOD guy. Suddenly, we have a case of the jitters.
Meanwhile, spare a thought for Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), who just flew 11 hours home for the holiday and, thanks to a Senate vote on a House bill that's not going to pass, has to turn around and fly 11 hours back to DC. Maybe he can use his flight time to figure out that whole slats thing. (P.S. Senator, when you do, please clue us cats in.)
Finally, our hero, Virginia Delegate Danica Roem (D-Prince William County), had the best riposte to Benedict Donald and his Imma-shutting-the-gummint-down hissy fit:
"When you’re President of the United States, your Christmas vacation to Florida should be the least of your concerns when your constituents — hundreds of whom are also mine — have their livelihoods on the line as federal workers and contractors. Stop screwing with their paychecks.
"Respect civil servants. Pay them and pay them on time." We cats PURR.
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