1) GOP Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell enacted a rules change he was adamantly against in 2013 in order to end a Democratic filibuster over Supreme Court Justice nominee Neil Gorsuch. Then minority leader McConnell said, "Breaking the rules to change the rules is un-American. I just hope the majority leader thinks about his legacy, the future of his party, and, most importantly, the future of our country before he acts." McConnell today is clearly not bothered by those objections and went forward with the change. In doing so he assured the SCOTUS nominee he personally stole from President Obama cleared the Senate demonstrating that two wrongs make a Justice.
2) President Trump felt it necessary to defend Fox News host Bill O'Reily who recently settled lawsuits with five women that claimed he sexual harassed them. Trump, per usual, presented no evidence on his claim that he believed Billo did nothing wrong and managed to do so a week into the month Trump himself proclaimed as Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month.
3) Republican Senator John McCain made it clear how he felt about endorsing McConnell's proposed change to Senate rules by saying, "Idiot, whoever says that is a stupid idiot." The maverick from Arizona promptly voted in favor of the rules change when the vote was called further clarifying the thought process of the man that believed Sarah Palin could be President.
4) President Trump "evolved" his position over military intervention in the middle east after the Assad regime in Syria used chemical weapons against its own people. Trump was willing to rain down $90 million worth of Tomahawk missiles on a Syrian airfield after lamenting the fate of children who died in the chemical weapons attack. That same $90 million used for refugee aid would go a long way in helping Syrian children get out from under the Assad regime were it not for Trump's stead fast refusal to allow immigrants into the U.S. from a list of predominantly Muslim countries including Syria. The evolution of Trump's position on intervention also has the ironic twist that many in the President's party don't believe in evolution in the first place.
5) The Department of Education has agreed to pay the U.S. Marshall Service approximately $1 million a month to provide a protection detail for Secretary Betsy DeVos. No other current Cabinet member has such an arrangement and this one comes at a time when President Trump has proposed slashing the DoE budget by more than 13 percent. The Marshall service declined comment on what, if any, threat was pending against DeVos citing the need for operational security. It seems the biggest threat is to the nation's school children who in addition to having an unqualified education secretary are also being shorted $52 million each year of her tenure.
6) Devin Nunes temporaily stepped aside from chairing the House Intelligence Committee after a series of missteps in connection to the Trump claim President Obama wiretapped his campaign. Nunes first said he had no evidence to support the claim. He apparently was then summoned to the White House by inside staffers to view evidence to support the claim. He then briefed Trump on the evidence of which the President presumably was already aware given it was supplied to Nunes by Trump's own staff. While Nunes redundantly briefed Trump, he failed to brief the rest of his committee which is actually charged with intelligence oversight. In a second intelligence oversight of his own, Nunes manage to go on television to say he now believes Trump was inadvertently surveilled by the NSA while monitoring conversations with Russian officials - the same Russian officials with which Trump claims his staff had no inappropriate contact.
7) Statements Vice-President Mike Pence made as far back as 2002 resurfaced again bringing to light the Veep won't dine alone with a woman not his wife among other behaviors designed to "build a zone around your marriage." It's not clear whether Pence believes all women are sexual vixens poised to seduce him or if he lacks the self control to act appropriately in any given situation with a female similar to both his boss and Bill O'Reily. Either way, he's unfit to be President if he can't be in a room alone with German Chancellor Angela Merkel without a chaperone.
I can only imagine what next week will bring.
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