Well, now we know why Crazy Uncle Donald has been crazier than usual. Mike Flynn is pleading guilty today to a single count of lying to the FBI. Given how much else he could be charged with, this seems a pretty clear indication that he’s going to talk, if he hasn’t already.
The earthquake that hit just about 5 p.m. yesterday rattled the china — mine, anyway — was centered near Dover, but it’s close enough to Washington for wags all over the country to claim it was the Founding Fathers rolling over in their graves.
Maybe, if the Russia probe moves quickly enough, Trump will be too busy fighting for survival to go through with his plan to make Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton director of the CIA, a proposal that’s being blasted by intelligence professionals left, right and center. It’s not his neo-con hawkishness that appealed to Trump, it’s that he’s loyal on the Russian issue, having already claimed Russia had nothing to do with the elections.
Democrats who insist that our party is better than theirs will have to cope with the fact that Texas Republican Congressman Joe Barton is retiring in the wake of having his dick pic made public. By those Democrats’ logic, Republicans are now better than Democrats, which ought to show everyone how silly this exercise is morality peacocking really is.
Speaking of the Women’s Project, the Delaware State News did what the News Journal’s leadership apparently is too chickenshit to do — asked the state’s congressional delegation about the current moral panic in Washington. All three condemned it, of course — not exactly a bold stance — but one of the three has remarkably little to say. Guess which one.
I’ll be gone most of the day, so have at it and update whatever happens with Flynn.