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Going Full Springer: Scaramucci’s Tirade Sends White House Staff And GOP Members Scrambling For Cover

scaramucciThe shocking comments of new White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci on Thursday  has left the Trump Administration staggering around Washington with no one clearly in control of the staff and, ironically, an increase in leaks about Scaramucci and fears of the President’s staff.  In the meantime, the crude comments of Scaramucci have undermined any effort of the White House to convey strength after the stinging defeat of the “skinny” health care bill.  With Republicans in open revolt, the Scaramucci controversy conveys a team in disarray and division. This was the worst possible time to go full Jerry Springer.

Scaramucci went nuclear in a telephone call to New Yorker writer Ryan Lizza.  He was calling after Lizza printed another leak.  “Who leaked that to you?” Scaramucci demanded.  He seemed to want something that would have been deeply unethical for Lizza to give: his source.  Scaramucci reportedly said

“I ask these guys not to leak anything, and they can’t help themselves. You’re an American citizen, this is a major catastrophe for the American country. So I’m asking you as an American patriot to give me a sense of who leaked it.”

If that bizarre request was not enough, the conversation appears on the record.  Usually such calls are off the record, but for whatever reason (inexperience or indifference) it does not appear that Scaramucci made the common reservation.  Scaramucci later said “I made a mistake in trusting in a reporter. It won’t happen again.” Really?  It appears he missed the Truman advice of, if you need a friend in Washington, get a dog.  On the list of possible soulmates, reporters (whose job it is to report) are near the very bottom.

Scaramucci later said that he would try to be more restrained in the future: “I sometimes use colorful language. I will refrain in this arena but not give up the passionate fight for ‘s agenda.

Scaramucci threatened a scorched earth police to find the leaker: “What I’m going to do is, I will eliminate everyone in the comms team and we’ll start over.”  He ended up torching himself.

Scaramucci made clear that his scorched earth policy had no limits: “They’ll all be fired by me. I fired one guy the other day. I have three to four people I’ll fire tomorrow. I’ll get to the person who leaked that to you. Reince Priebus – if you want to leak something – he’ll be asked to resign very shortly.”

The irony is that the leak that set off Scaramucci was relatively minor.  There was going to be a dinner with top people.  He clearly blamed and parodied Priebus:  “‘Oh, Bill Shine is coming in. Let me leak the fucking thing and see if I can cock-block these people the way I cock-blocked Scaramucci for six months.’”

What makes this call particularly weird is that it seems like Scaramucci needed a cathartic release but why pick Lizza rather than someone like Sanders or a close cousin back in New York?

That catharsis also turned to Bannon.  He reportedly told Lizza: “I’m not Steve Bannon, I’m not trying to suck my own cock. I’m not trying to build my own brand off the f***ing strength of the president. I’m here to serve the country.”

The result was that a smoldering White House burst into full flames.  Staffers told reporters that they were fearful of going into the office after Scaramucci pledged to “kill’ them.  That fears seems a tad overblown.  Many have called Scaramucci politically suicidal but there is no evidence that he is actually homicidal.

In the end, the episode shows just how untethered this Administration has become.  When you have Republican Senators threatening that suggested actions like the firing of Mueller would be the beginning of the end of the Trump Administration and others bolting on key health care votes after personal contacts from the President, this latest self-inflicted wound could not be more serious. In a town where a President must represent a clear and present threat to those who oppose him in his own party, you have Republicans trying to get a safe blast distance away from Trump and his staff.

209 thoughts on “Going Full Springer: Scaramucci’s Tirade Sends White House Staff And GOP Members Scrambling For Cover”

  1. I just had an idea….. Let’s get Trump and the entire Cabinet and White House staff in a large room, with 5,000 chocolate and banana cream pies, and let them have at it.

    1. If Trump has one more pie than the others that will be covered extensively by the MSM, just like Ice Cream Scoopgate.

  2. http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/344300-trump-telling-some-he-wants-a-general-to-replace-priebus-report

    “Scaramucci has carried out a public feud with Priebus since entering the White House. That feud accelerated on Thursday, when The New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza published an interview with Scaramucci in which the communications director delivered a profanity-laced tirade against Priebus and accused him of leaking information to the press.

    “That tirade, in which he called Priebus a “f—ing paranoid schizophrenic, a paranoiac,” was Scaramucci’s clearest indication yet that he is trying to get rid of the chief of staff.”

      1. From the NY Times article:

        “Whether Mr. Scaramucci will turn out to be Cain or Abel, it was clear that his appointment has added another layer of drama and dissent to a White House suffused in it — and revived the perpetual questions about Mr. Priebus’s fate. Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary and an ally of Mr. Priebus, resigned in protest when Mr. Scaramucci was hired last week because, he predicted, it would only add more chaos to the team. On that, at least, he seems to have been proved right.

        “But President Trump not only tolerates feuds within his team, he fuels them, playing one courtier off another and leaving them all unsteady. He chooses favorites and casts others aside, but even those decisions seem subject to change at any moody moment. And by several accounts, he personally encouraged Mr. Scaramucci’s jihad against Mr. Priebus, once again subjecting his chief of staff to a ritualistic public lashing even as he considered pushing him out.

        “Left to explain all this was Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the new White House press secretary. “This is a White House that has lots of different perspectives because the president hires the very best people,” she said gamely, before the New Yorker article posted, asserting that a “healthy competition” benefits Mr. Trump. “With that competition, you usually get the best results. The president likes that kind of competition and encourages it.””

        Again: Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the new White House press secretary: “This is a White House that has lots of different perspectives because the president hires the very best people.”

        What a mess…

        2. Not just a mess…it is a disgrace.

          I cannot believe Professor Turley, in previous articles, had defended the current leadership.

          Ever since January 20, the executive branch of government has been (and continues to be) an unhinged experience for Americans. After this last debacle with the “new” communications director, I’m convinced 45 thinks the American Presidency is equal to reality television programming. Good grief.

    2. anonymous posts liberal links like an old timer named, Elaine Magliaro. Just sayn’.

  4. The Trump-nominated lawyer to head the criminal division of the Dept. of Justice, represented a Russian Bank until last month-according to reports, based on confirmation hearings.
    If true, Turley could write a post about it?

    1. While he’s at it, could he write a post about all of the Obama and Clinton appointees who were, in one way or another, connected to or associated with any Russian-owned companies, as well?

        1. Far from a justification, Charles Duke of A$$wall. I merely asked if JT could also post a piece that examined the backgrounds of others, in similar positions, from previous administrations. Ain’t no cure for the terminally stupid.

  5. Jon Turley continues to miss the point. He loves the swamp, and thinks like the swamp creatures (as I’ve mentioned before, he might be from Chicago, but Chi-town is a blue tumor in the otherwise healthy midwest, so establishmentarianism didn’t come too hard for him). Normal people (those who live in the “red” counties) are sick of the aloof, arrogant, elitism of the denizens of the blue tumor counties. So they gave a great big middle finger to the world Jon Turley’s tut-tuting to maintain. Decorum.

    Well, John McCain and Lindsay Graham stand as perfect representations of the “decorum” the good professor tut-tuts so much about, and normal people find them insufferable. Normal people simply can’t wait for Kid Rock to give people like that a full-scale schooling. Stock up on popcorn.

    Meanwhile, Jeff Sessions keeps up the full court press to evacuate the criminal aliens in our midst, and new sneaky trespassers are fewer and fewer every month. Maybe Hilz will finally get that orange pans suit she earned back in the 80s, and all the swam-rats implicated in the Pakistani family’s criminal conspiracy will land in prison, too. One can only hope. The mincing pansy-in-cheif and his embarrassment of a consort are fast getting too far back to see in the rear view mirror, and soon all their holdovers will be purged by the Mooch. Tough guys rule. Finally.

      1. If you mean that like Alabama fans might say crimson tide RULES!!!!, I’d tend to think you are a nut. If you read Ed Griffin’s The Creature From Jekylll Island, and understand the financial world we groan under, I totally agree. That’s, incidentally, the instinct behind the “normal people revolt.” We’re tired of these stinking overlords, and hate their arrogant blathering–and LOVE Tucker’s take downs of these creeps.

    3. Tough guys rule in mafia cartels. Smooth, smart, assertive, well-spoken leaders thrive and accomplish in government. This may not be entirely clear to voters who have not held high leadership responsibility, or even chaired the church carnival committee. But to the tens of millions of Americans who have led and managed organizations and teams, Scaramucci’s verbal pyrotechnics and paranoid accusations signal early failure at leadership, untrustworthiness, and a primadonna complex. Not emotionally cut out for the job of WH Communications Director. Publically daring the President to fire Reince Priebus was a huge mistake.

      1. Javanka wants rid of Bannon and Priebus, The Mooch is their guy and was doing their bidding.

        1. They can just talk to Dad. No need to bring in a hit man, and a very poor fit to Communications Director.

      2. Smooth, smart, assertive, well-spoken leaders thrive and accomplish in government.

        Eloquently stated and a perfect example of what’s wrong with government. The political class is not supposed to be thriving in government. They are accomplishing nothing if they are thriving while their constituents are not.

        1. And the Goldman and hedge fund guys like the Mooch have our best interests at heart? How about the foreclosure king Mnuchin?

          1. I have no idea if you are an honest person, so I will assume you are.

            The first question I would ask you is this: Do you agree (with me) that Nigel Farage is Britain’s premier patriot? If you agree (as you should), then you have to be comfortable with that fact that he made his fortune in The City.

            The second question I would ask you is this: Do you agree (with me) that Steve Bannon is the bestest, bestest, absolutely BESTEST!!!!!!! guy in the Trump administration? If you agree (as you should), then you have to be comfortable with that fact that he made his fortune in America’s version of The City.

            That is, good guys can make their dough in places like that, and it doesn’t prove they are bad guys.

            1. patrick, frankly is a Dem operative. I like her personally. You get glimpses of intellectual honesty from her. But, in exchanges like this, she is Tammy Talking Points.

              anonymous, don’t even try to engage. She is a Massachusetts liberal, union teacher, Dem zombie.

              Always happy to give scouting reports to people like yourself.

          2. Who gives a $hit where people made their wealth in the private sector? What my post was clearly about and which you clearly ignored is the immorality of the political class thriving read: getting wealthy on the taxpayer dime while their constituents ARE NOT.

    4. You said, “Well, John McCain and Lindsay Graham stand as perfect representations of the “decorum” the good professor tut-tuts so much about, and normal people find them insufferable.”

      A f*cking men! That is the the difference between the business world, and the courtier world. A good boss will chew your a$$ out when you screw up, because he is interested in RESULTS. The business depends on it,

      The courtier class of government geeks is more interested in PROCESS. In using tact, and duplicitous chatter. Because results matter less than just keeping the status quo going, where the courtier doesn’t have to get a real job where his hands get dirty, or where he will be expected to produce actual real live results, or get fired.

      Squeeky Fromm
      Girl Reporter

    5. + 10 “Decorum” or “civility” is highly overrated except to those, like JT, who prefer a polite pat on the head whilst sinking a knife into the back of the American people. Academics like JT don’t leave their self-validating small-minded and very narrow bubble often enough. If he did, he would fully understand that the incivility and front stabbers are exposing the DC shit show – the most refreshing change agents to happen in politics in decades.

      This war is intense, overdue, and not for sissies…….

      1. Civility is the velvet covered bludgeon the powerful use against the less powerful. Civity is important but like most good things it is susceptible to abuse.

    6. Please post more of this type of material. As usual, have no concern about spelling or punctuation, such minor details merely inhibit the valuable message, whatever it might be.

      This it it incoherent pat

    7. There’s a big difference between being a “tough guy” who bullies people with the most uncouth words and concepts in the English language, and being a strong leader. The Mooch and the fat orange blob are ignorant, foul-mouthed bullies who can’t even control their own egos to the point of not embarrassing themselves. Here’s the big secret: no one is afraid of them, and the leaks aren’t going to stop. They can fire everybody from the janitors on up, wag their weenies all they want, jump up and down, cuss, swear, accuse people of committing felonies for things that aren’t a crime and accuse people of anatomically-difficult acts of sexual self-gratification, but all this does is prove their stupidity, lack of leadership, lack of respect for the American people and their unfitness for office. Just like the orange blob, Mooch doesn’t get it–you don’t lead by acting stupid and uncouth, accusing people of being mentally ill [Mika and Reince, respectively] and false threats.

      Children are supposed to be able to look up to the President as a role model instead of needing to apologize for them or having their parents censor what comes out of the mouth of the WH spokesman. But, at the end of the day, they aren’t intimidating anyone. The orange blob can threaten members of Congress and the districts they represent with withdrawal of federal funds for projects just to try to claim a “win”, but it didn’t work. It won’t work later on, either. Instead, they both look like the fools they are. Yesterday was a very eye-opening experience for those who support this administration. I cannot think of any administration in modern times that was more dysfunctional.

      No, Patrick, “normal” people don’t think people like the Mooch are OK, nor do they respect them. They DO respect statesmen like John McCain and Lindsay Graham, not just because they behave like gentlemen, but because they put their country and constituents ahead of politics. McCain, Graham, Murkowski and Collins were the heroes yesterday, not the Mooch and the orange blob. I don’t know where or how you were raised, but where I come from, people expect those in leadership positions, regardless of their politics, to behave like gentlemen and gentlewomen out of respect for the people they represent.

      1. There’s a big difference between being a “tough guy” who bullies people with the most uncouth words and concepts in the English language, and being a strong leader. The Mooch and the fat orange blob are ignorant, foul-mouthed bullies who can’t even control their own egos to the point of not embarrassing themselves.

        And right on cue, in comes Natacha to give a lesson on hypocrisy.

        Well done!

      2. As usual, very well-said, but wasted on these mouth-breathers.

        This is to inspiring natacha

      3. It’s too bad you don’t get the idea, Natacha. Maybe you live in one of the blue tumor counties, and never interact with normal people.

        Normal people, as I said, are sick of the “decorum” that disguises corruption so vast that ancient Rome could not compete alongside it. We, again, delight in the huge middle finger our sending Mr. Trump to Washington represents. And we will delight until every red state sends its own Kid Rock to the Senate, too, and the likes of McCain and Graham get bitch-slapped every day.

        I watch clips of Turley on television, and he sure is smooth, but he truly reveals his actual nature here (which is why I bother to pay attention to this site, and occasionally join the conversation). He’s a Chicago kid who went East and went native, kind of like Scott Fitzgerald or Cole Porter–except those guys did not run interference for the forces of evil for a living, instead giving us beauty and elegance while they cavorted in the enclaves that became the blue tumors.

        It’s the bitch-slapping that we like, because the Romneys and Doles–losers who would govern like losers even if they won–of this world are worse than all the Barry Soetoros the Democrats inflict on us.

        1. Your problem is that you live among other ignoramuses who don’t understand that they aren’t “normal”, and who think that acting like a sewer rat is cool and tough. Normalcy is a relative thing, so maybe when you and your like-minded neighbors get together with beers over a bonfire in the trailer park, after showing your latest tattoo, and discussing more practical things like which roach bait is best, you start railing against people who act like gentlemen and gentlewomen in government who are pilloried by Fox News. You think this is normal because it appeals to your lack of identity with educated people who speak and act in a dignified, eloquent manner about abstract concepts like patriotism and altruism, which are so alien to your experience. You know you are a victim because Fox News told you so. You know that HRC is evil and belongs in jail because Fox News told you so. You don’t understand that Fox has an agenda. You think the biggest issue with Chump is the “leakers”. You think that the Mooch is a cool guy who tells it like it is, but if he looks bad, it’s because of the lying, biased mainstream media. You think that Wal-Mart fights with hair-pulling women throwing profane expletives are funny and entertaining–not a sign of how sadly pathetic some people’s lives are. You view people like Kid Rock and Ted Nugent as heroes who can save this country.

          Maybe it’s not your fault because of how or where you were raised, so let me help out: Behaving like a civilized person is not a disguise for corruption. That you think this shows you have some measure of paranoia and that you aren’t patriotic. It’s not normal for a man to grab womens’ genitalia and brag about it. Normal men respect the mothers, daughters, sisters, wives, nieces, aunts, co-workers, friends and other women in their lives and they don’t tolerate swine like the fat orange blob touching them without their consent. Bragging about doing so is repulsive to normal people–not a sign of being cool. It’s not normal to be a chronic, pathological liar, to be a needy, narcissistic, immoral person who bullies people, who doesn’t pay craftsmen and contractors for their work, whose entire career “success” began with free money handed to him by his daddy, who has a history of flaunting the law in his business dealings, who purchases models for arm-candy, and to not even have enough people he can count as true friends by age 71 that he has to rely on his family members who are financially-dependent on him, to fill key advisor positions. To most “normal” people, Chump is an aberration.

          You and Dum Dum love the phrase “bitch-slapped”, because you think it makes you look macho and cool, which is really sad, but last night, it was clear that it was the fat, orange blob who got “bitch-slapped”, even by members of his own party. Fatso didn’t even know or care about what was in the bill–he just wanted the appearance of “winning” because of his narcissistic personality disorder. How’s that for being on the receiving end of the big middle finger? The big loser last night was the fat, orange blob, whose threats to withhold federal funding for districts of certain Republican members of Congress failed miserably. That’s how he has worked all of his life: first flatter, then threaten to get his way. Didn’t work and won’t work, so he’s probably lost as to where to go now. Never has had to consider other people’s views. The winners were democracy and the American people. Health care isn’t nearly as important as the ego of the fat, orange blob desperate for a “win”–it’s only life or death and relief of suffering to tens of millions of people who now have insurance but would lose it. Chubby fatass has taken steps to sabotage the insurance exchanges by delaying subsidies and threatening to cut them off entirely, causing companies to withdraw from the market due to uncertainties of when or whether they will get paid, thus guaranteeing that Obamacare will fail. Of course, those who will suffer won’t be the bleached, shaved women or the slicked-back pompadour-wearing men of his family. The rest of us can go to hell.

          Fatso stole the election with the assistance of the Russians. The majority of US voters did not vote for him, and the overwhelming majority of people do not approve of him–by historic margins. Are we all wrong? Think about this: how about the next candidate pledging whatever support or assistance Russia wants in exchange for help to win the election? The election goes to the one who offers the most to Russia. Is this what you want?

          2. How do you know all these things about me? Your amazingly detailed, perfectly accurate profile of me and my associates tells me that you have a private investigator spying on me 24/7. For instance:

            “…your like-minded neighbors get together with beers over a bonfire in the trailer park, after showing your latest tattoo, and discussing more practical things like which roach bait is best…”

            How can you possibly know such things about my life, unless you are secretly taping me and my neighbors, Natacha? Isn’t that illegal?

          3. He could be posting from Trump Tower. You know they have that we are for the folks in flyover land con going on while partying on the Island.

            1. No, she’s spying on me; I have the sick feeling she knows which cousin I’m currently diddling, and how many teeth I still have in my head. I’m worried about blackmail–she might take my pickup, and maybe even my limping blue tick hound (I do truly love that dawg).

              It’s the details she gets so right that worries me. And for her to reveal it all to you swells, probably never seen a trailer park bonfire, even. My cover is completely blown. Ugh.

              1. patrick, LOL! There are no group prone to stereotyping others, and being judgemental, than alleged progressives. Her ilk used to rule this place when I got here 5 years ago. I think you’ve been here long enough to remember?

                1. You know what bothers me the most, Nick? It’s the “fat-shaming.” Natacha seems completely comfortable with it. What makes it exceedingly, in fact, is that Trump isn’t fat; the idea that the insult comes so second-naturedly to her it doesn’t seem to matter that it’s a lie. It’s like that CNN guy caught on Project Veritas video saying Kellyanne Conway “looks like her face got hit by a shovel.” Liberals can lie about people they don’t like, and feel just fine about it.

                  Still, since my 950 pound sister hasn’t been out of the trailer for going on seven years now (she couldn’t get through the doorway even if a box of doughnuts was right out there on the stoop and she cleared out the fridge two hours ago), I take this personally.

                  1. My God, your spies are everywhere! How did you know the last thing in the crumbling trailer was ham and eggs?

                    Incidentally, sis is not happy with me. She’s reduced the mayo on her bacon sandwiches and has trimmed down to a lithe 875. So you libs can feel completely comfortable making fun of how people you don’t like look, but sis is feeling pretty smelt these days.

          4. Not efficient use of time trying to school these fools but thanks for the effort, Natacha

      4. “They DO respect statesmen like John McCain and Lindsay Graham, not just because they behave like gentlemen, but because they put their country and constituents ahead of politics.”

        Is this a joke?

        1. “Is this a joke?”

          haha –

          Natacha is just a strange bird with some far-fetched ramblings. I’m tempted to collect his posts for an evaluation by my father, a psychiatrist.

        2. McCain, Graham, Murkowski, Portman, Collins, Heller, Alexander, Capito et al. must be “primaried.”

          Republicans need republicans who are republicans.

      5. “They DO respect statesmen like John McCain and Lindsay Graham, not just because they behave like gentlemen, but because they put their country and constituents ahead of politics.”

        Sure. John McCain: always the gentleman:

        http://www.rawstory.com/news/2008/McCain_temper_boiled_over_in_92_0407.html

        “Three reporters from Arizona, on the condition of anonymity, also let me in on another incident involving McCain’s intemperateness. In his 1992 Senate bid, McCain was joined on the campaign trail by his wife, Cindy, as well as campaign aide Doug Cole and consultant Wes Gullett. At one point, Cindy playfully twirled McCain’s hair and said, “You’re getting a little thin up there.” McCain’s face reddened, and he responded, “At least I don’t plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you c*nt.” McCain’s excuse was that it had been a long day. If elected president of the United States, McCain would have many long days.”

        1. https://www.counterpunch.org/2008/06/13/mcnasty/

          “In a July 5 2006 NewsMax.com article, former Senator Bob Smith (R-NH), was quoted as having said about McCain: “I have witnessed incidents where he has used profanity at colleagues…. He would disagree about something and then explode.” Smith called it “irrational behavior. We’ve all had incidents where we have gotten angry, but I’ve never seen anyone act like that.”

          “So, you say, McCain has a short fuse behind the plastered TV smile. So he calls his colleagues a**holes and sh*t-heads. In high school they called him “McNasty.” That’s just how he is. Always was, always will be.”

            1. “McCain comes through every once in awhile like last night.”

              @frankly

              He does.

        2. McCain is the classic person who has been in DC too long and wants to be loved by liberals. Term limits! He’s also the classic short man.

          1. I mean who wouldn’t want an 80 year old with a brain tumor making decisions that effect 315 million people……

        3. McCain voted no on the repeal of Obongocare because McCain wanted yet more publicity of the name McCain. Arizona Senator Jeff Flake voted in alignment with Arizonans for the repeal and you didn’t hear his name once.

    8. Are you saying that, basically, rural America and the rural America ethos should run the whole country, despite having a minority of the overall population? Maybe we could substitute the Beverly Hillbillies theme song for the Star Spangled Banner….

      2. Awesome. The rubes prolly still love that show.

        This is to hit-the-nail-on-the-head jay

  6. If you think that guy cussed out everything, you should listen to what 58% of the American people are saying.

    1. FishWings – cussing is healthy for us. Studies have shown that. Regardless of what your parents told you or you told your kids. 🙂

      1. Yes, cussing might be cathartic, but not to a reporter, on the record, and especially not when you are a spokesman for the President. That’s not why he did it, anyway–he did it to display what he believes is his “tough guy” image. Because he lacks real leadership qualities, he resorts to gutter talk and behavior.

        1. Natacha – why not? LBJ swore in front of reporters all the time. They just cleaned it up. Kennedy used the WH as a revolving bedroom and so did Jackie, but it was covered up. Now, suddenly, the press has ethics? They actually report the news? I have been quoted in the paper twice and neither time did I say what they said I said. Now they have accurate reporting, but only about Trump? Do you see a pattern here?

            1. DSS – latest reports are that Jackie had as much of a revolving bedroom as Jack. She was no goodie two-shoes.

          2. Your sample size, two, is too small from which to extrapolate your premise regarding the media.

            This is to anecdotal george

        2. Because he lacks real leadership qualities, he resorts to gutter talk and behavior.

          If you don’t believe great leaders use foul language then you are about as naive as they come. Find a safe place and buckle up.

          1. Sure they do but he has to work with Bannon.That is until he gets him fired.

      2. Using inappropriate language about your co-workers, which cannot be spoken on public airways – especially as the White House communications director – is not healthy. If Scaramucci had used this language in any other for-profit, non-profit, or government organization, then the director of HR would have kicked Scaramuci’s sorry sack out the door. Tout de suite.

        The U.S. Presidency is supposed to set the gold standard on every single issue (especially human resources issues).

        We can only hope Secretary Kelly (now Chief of Staff) will bring some order to a White House completely unhinged and in disarray. However, I will not hold my breath. I have absolutely no faith in this presidency.

          1. Good grief. That’s your, and 45’s, idea of MAGA. We’re doomed.

            Why not advocate using the Constitution as a urinal puck…that’s a rhetorical question…I’m not asking for an open response.

            1. Anon,

              I don’t like Commies or Nazis, now get the phk off my lawn. Move to Saudi Arabia, North Korea or Londonstan. If you don’t like the concept of the USA’s Liberty please leave.

        2. Anon – I think Kelly is the Chief of Staff, not ring master of the circus. I wouldn’t expect Kelly to step outside his area of expertise.

          1. Paul Schulte: There was an interesting article in the NYTimes (I am an infrequent reader – non-subscriber). However, this article referenced James A. Baker III – “Sage Advice From the ‘Gold Standard’ of White House Chiefs of Staff”. It’s worth a read.

            I hope for 45’s sake (and Kelly’s) that Kelly will be perceived by Trump as a peer and follow any sage advice Kelly will offer to stop 45 from behaving so erratically. (In other words, to be able to tell the Donald to pick a lane and stay there.)

            G/d help us, at the very least hopefully Kelly will be put “mooch” (what a nickname to take on – a beggar – scrounger) in his proper place – unfortunately, it probably won’t entail being thrown out of a West Wing door… or window.

  7. So many Americans just what to be associated with the ‘tough’ guys. Send in another tough guy. Idiot tough, buffoon tough, it doesn’t matter, as long as they are tough. Of yeah, they have to talk dirty also.

    1. So says the resident Canadian, whose country is currently represented by a limp-wristed, out-of-his-element, know-nothing, pretty-boy, who still uses Clearisil to calm his pimples and who would get a case of the vapors if someone shouted, boo!

      2. Last I heard, the Canadian government was functional, and not at war with itself.

      3. Resident dual national. There is no where near the dysfunction to be found in Washington, found in Ottawa, or for almost any other country for that matter. We, and I stress the we, has a unique problem here in the US. The system is unravelling. The system is perverted. The system is oligarchy, which means government is not of the people but of a few wealthy people. You can’t buy the government in Canada, France, Great Britain, Germany, or most any other country; only in our country the USA. As an American, I feel a great shame. As a Canadian, pride.

        2. “The system is unravelling.”

          Yes it is. The “system” is deeply corrupt. That is what Trump is attempting to change. If you don’t get that, then you don’t get Trump. Chaos before creation.

          Bannon will be the next to go.

          Buckle up Isaac, the next phase of the Trump administration is just beginning.

          PS….if you are so ashamed of America, then move back to Canada

  9. Will “Mooch” make it more, or less likely for an Italian to be elected President? At least we have a paisan in the WH.

    1. Hey, Nick! Good to see you back! You were missed! Wasn’t the same here without you! 🙂

      1. bam, Thanks. My bride and I were vacationing in Canada. You nailed that vapid, Canadian PM perfectly. Don’t forget, he also shoves women who disagree w/ him. We must remember, our Canadian Rain Man does not represent Canadians. They are good people and are irate w/ the pretty boy for giving $10 million of TAXPAYER money, and they pay a lot of taxes, to a terrorist killer. 70% of Canadians strongly disagree w/ the settlement. And, Canadians are fearful the vapid child is going to get pimp slapped in the upcoming NAFTA negotiations.

        1. The sales tax in Canada is 15%! Good thing the exchange rate is higher than that.

          1. Bernie must love us in Canada. Alberta has no sales tax only the 5% gst.
            Trudope was elected by 39% of voters another good reason for 2 party’s.

  10. Will Scaramucci cleanup staff mess in the White House? A guy in suit looks just like Scaramucci in this biker bar fight video.

    1. TJ, A great scene, “Now you can’t leave.” And, for who can play “Mooch” on SNL. Just bring back Chris Kattan.

  11. So this appears to be Season 5, Episode 12 of HOUSE OF CARDS where Frank Underwood admits he has been leaking information to the press. Donald must binge watch House of Cards after Fox News and reading his Breitbart online! Thisis a reality TV show..not my president!

  12. If his comments–however uncouth–are, as you put it, sending various people, within the White House staff, including GOP members, running for cover, then I’d say that’s a good thing. A great thing. A wonderful thing. No one “runs for cover” unless he or she believes that there is something about to fall, which will impact him or her. Innocent people, who have nothing to fear, do not run for cover. Those individuals, who have not been involved in leaking information or documents, where said disclosures constitute felonies, have nothing to fear. The innocent have no reason to run. If there is a stampede, where individuals are witnessed, running for cover, those individuals are, undoubtedly, involved in potentially illegal activity. Plain and simple. The cockaroaches always scamper when the flashlight is aimed in their direction.

  13. @bam bam, July 28, 2017 at 9:19 AM

    “I just have one question–who is going to play this guy on Saturday Night Live?”

    My first thought after reading JT’s column was that Scaramucci’s wild-eyed, self-parodying performance left little to do by anyone on SNL, though with a plethora of bleeping, Melissa McCarthy may take a crack at it. 🙂

    1. She’s too fat to play him. She was fine depicting the portly Spicer, but this guy needs more of a Tom Cruise, wild-eyed, short-tempered, jump on Oprah’s couch, kinda guy to play him.

    1. Michael

      That’s it. That sums it up. You have nothing left. Pathetic. It’s only a matter of time before the GOP bounces this carnival barker out the door, or go down with the SS Deplorable.

  15. I’m not sure this Is “Jerry Springer” and how are leaks from the WH “relatively minor”, when they are strictly for political purposes. Maybe, just maybe we’ve been kissed while getting F#*^€* by our politicians for so long that when someone comes along and slaps your face to revive you, you think they are the perp. Maybe.
    Maybe a real story might be the Dems, Pakistan and hard drives, not Russia. Maybe.

    1. Maybe a real story might be the Dems, Pakistan and hard drives, not Russia. Maybe.

      Please stay on topic. We have some people here that will go into full-on vapor lock if you suggest such things.

      1. Or maybe they’re all stories worthy of attention, though the morons with actual power might deserve a tad more scrutiny.

    1. SWM, Maybe you and Elaine can come out of the weeds as yourselves, together.

      1. hahaha, Nick. I vaguely recall them from when I first started stalking this blog. Most telling, like all who “transition” to new identities, it did not change their DNA…………

  17. On the one hand, I found these comments delightful. You just don’t get to hear stuff that wacked out everyday!! On the other hand, I think what we are seeing is the unedited version of how leaders of the free world act. I believe our “leaders” have been bat guano crazy for a long time now. They have been able to hide just how crazy they are because the press has covered for them. The press is no longer doing providing adequate cover, in large because they are playing for a different team of “leaders”.

    Ant’ny has made a really big mistake here. The other criminal factions whom he just angered aren’t going to take this lightly. But basically it shows that the govt. is simply competing groups of criminals. The group to really watch out for is the one sitting back letting the others duke it out and destroy each other.

    1. I keep thinking about Monafort’s choice for VP. He looks sane and civil, as long as you don’t look at his record as governor of IN

      1. I keep thinking of Obama and Clinton. They are both war criminals but people tend to think they are exemplars of intellectual and political rectitude. Gotta watch what the “leaders” are actually doing, not how the press presents them!

        1. They are all war criminals. However, the greatest war criminals of all are the three stooges, one million dead and counting for what? But, hey, it’s all Obama’s fault. He was behind it all well before he became President and started pulling US troops out, at the request of the American people, who voted him in.

        2. Jill, no argument from me but why did you limit it to those two? W and Pappy Bush both invaded Iraq based on lies, Nixon and LBJ did Viet Nam, Reagan invaded Grenada. Oh, I see, add the Dems to the Reps. I think the real case is that it just doesn’t matter. Both of these parties dance to the tune of the MIC, but we must add in all the global corporations who continue to rape the resources and the banks that are pretty much behind everything, one way or another.

      2. Bingo! My concern as well. “President Pence” scares me almost as much as the buffoon, but it’s still gonna happen.

        This is to insightful betty

    2. Jill – listen to the LBJ tapes if you want to scorch your ears. I am surprised the tapes survived. 🙂

  18. Ah, I remember the good ole days when we needed political analysts to break the code of what was said and then tell us what they really meant. Oh, the horror!

  19. Colbert is doing a pretty good job. The Mooche is appalling but he is perfect for this administration. Crude, vile and vicious.

  20. I just have one question–who is going to play this guy on Saturday Night Live?

    2. Leo Dicaprio played the Wolf of Wall St so he would be a good choice.

      1. frankly – Leo is now flying commercial so he has a smaller carbon footprint. Go Leo. 😉

      1. “Colbert is doing a pretty good job. The Mooche is appalling but he is perfect for this administration. Crude, vile and vicious.” (Justice Holmes)

        A woman, I’m hoping.

        1. No–Mario Cantone was born for this role. He even resembles the Mooch, but Mario is better-looking. I hope SNL snaps him up.

      3. Elaine, Chris Kattan is the natural to play “Mooch.” I said that earlier but it vanished.

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