The United States is in trouble.
On Saturday, the Republican President tweeted out that Obama had a wiretap at Trump Tower during the election.
It seems outrageous and makes no sense at all.
If it's true, that means Trump Tower had someone who was in cahoots with the Russians at Trump Tower, which is what Donald Trump is trying to distract us from, so why would he bring it up?
If it's false, it's just the most irresponsible thing for a President to do.
Maybe his allegation will be that it was an illegal wiretap?
On CBS This Morning, Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), head of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform said the Republican President has access to all kinds of intelligence so Chaffetz accepts that it must be true, though he hasn't seen any evidence of it.
Oh - so Republicans believe it!?!? Even though the Republican President has made outrageous claims before and none of them panned out? He said Obama wasn't born in the USA, he said thousands of Muslims in America cheered after 9/11, he said there were millions of people at his inauguration, and he said 3 million people voted illegally in his election (he would've won the popular vote if the 'illegals' hadn't voted). Those are the ones I can remember off the top of my head. He doesn't have evidence of any of it and nothing ever comes of the accusations.
People are calling for a Special Prosecutor - someone not associated with the campaign, the administration, or the Republicans.
There are so many ins and outs and weird behaviors going on related to the Trump campaign and the Russians, and Trump has always had strange comments about Putin that it seems imperative we get to the bottom of this.
The only reason none of that other stuff got investigated is because we have a Republican congress.
In other news:
A private Facebook page of the Marines (I don't know if it's a sanctioned page or an informal one) has been sharing nude photos of fellow female service members and making disrespectful (and illegal?) comments about the women. It included their full names and where they are.
These are the Marines!
How can this behavior have happened? There are 30,000 members of the Facebook page and these are people who are supposed to DEFEND US! They're the criminals and yet I'm supposed to TRUST THEM?
And more:
North Korea fired four ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan over the weekend.
It's their response to an annual 'wargames' exercise that Japan and the United States routinely engage in. North Korea believes it's a practice for an invasion of North Korea.
It comes less than a month after the half brother of the current leader of North Korea was murdered in a Malaysian airport. It's common for this (and former) North Korean leader(s) to murder opponents or people who might try to take away their power.
And in the other corner:
"Large portions of the Republican caucus embrace a kind of policy nihilism. They criticize any piece of legislation that doesn't completely accomplish conservative goals, but don't build coalitions to devise complex legislation themselves.
The roster of congressional Republicans includes lots of passionate ideological voices. It is lighter on the kind of wonkish, compromise-oriented technocrats who move bills."
The article goes on to remind us that the Republican Party hasn't made any domestic policy since the early years of George W Bush's first term (expand Medicare to cover prescription drugs, No Child Left Behind, and Sarbanes-Oxley)
"If you make a career opposing even the basic work of making the government run it's hard to pivot to writing major legislation. In the opposition, its easy to be strident and pure in your views. Legislative sausage-making requires compromise and flexibility and focus on the gritty details."
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