March 22, 2018--BREAKING NEWS!!!
Rona is making predictions again. This time about Stormy Daniels.
Not about what she will reveal Sunday evening on 60 Minutes. Not about the headlines she will inspire, even if she brings along a picture or two of a certain gentleman caller in flagrante delicto.
But rather her prediction is about the headlines that gentleman caller will inspire.
Headlines Monday morning of the most shocking kind that, in a banner, will span all six columns at the top of the front page of the New York Times and every other paper in the United States and western world and will lead to 24/7-days of Breaking News on the three cable news channels.
In the case of the New York Post, over a photo of Trump, pointing at the camera, in his Apprentice pose--
"Expect that to occur," Rona says, "Sunday afternoon to allow editors to get their stories written and typeset. To scoop Stormy. She'll be relegated to page 14, below the fold, and will be mired there for as long as it takes for this Sunday massacre to play out. Probably for the whole week after Republican members of Congress emerge from their bunkers and join Democrats in expressing upset about the 'constitutional crisis,' which, by the way, you can explain to me when you have a moment,"
When I overcome my shock, I ask, "Explain what?"
"'Constitutional crisis.' I have no idea what that means."
"It means," I stammer, "It means . . . you know I really don't know. Maybe until they get the impeachment process going?"
"Dream on," Rona says, "You really think Republicans in Paul Ryan's House are going to impeach Trump? Enrage his base? They'd all get tossed out of office in November."
"Dream on," I cynically say.
"Maybe the crisis will result from what gets unearthed by various congressional committees."
"Dream on," I say.
"You're right. There will be no committee investigations with the GOP in the majority."
"Correct. The Dems can jump up and down and scream about the need to get to the bottom of things but unless Ryan and Mitch McConnell allow it to happen there will be no meaningful investigations. The way Congress works the leaders and committee chairman totally control the agenda, including not allowing members of the minority, Democrats, to even call witnesses. It's almost as totalitarian as the Russian or Chinese legislatures. We've seen those in action. Members behave like zombies."
"This is very scary stuff. Is it the beginning of the end of our democracy? What if nothing can be done about this?"
"I have a crazy idea," I say, "Organize a Guerilla Congress."
"You're making light of this? We're in a crisis and you're cracking jokes?"
"I'm totally scared by what you said about Trump firing Mueller this weekend. I'm trying to keep myself from going crazy because what you are predicting sounds more than plausible to me. Look at the new lawyers he's hiring. That Joe diGenova is a killer."
"So what's your idea about Congress?"
"Since the Democrats have no power whatsoever, while waiting for the midterm elections in November, they should rent a big conference room in a Washington DC hotel and hold a Rump or Guerrilla Congress there. Do their own investigations, try to get witnesses to show up, take testimony, issue findings. All of it unofficial, of course, but if they invite people carefully they could get quite a few to come before them. For example, by mid April, former CIA director Jim Comey will be on the talkshow circuit to publicize his new book and I suspect would appear before the Guerrilla Congress. As would another former head of the CIA, John Brennan, who went off yesterday on Morning Joe when he implied that the Russians may have personal dirt on Trump."
"Not a bad idea," Rona said, "I'll bet MSNBC and CNN would give it some coverage. It would break the mold and in its own way be entertaining. Which is sadly required by the news these days."
"There was a Rump Parliament in England in the middle of the 17th century. I think it has something to do with Charles I."
"Yours may be a crazy idea," Rona says, ignoring my historical example, "but we'll have to come up with things of this kind to keep Trump's and his sycophants' feet to the fire."
"Back to your prediction."
"You know I don't make them often, but about this one . . ."
"Please, for the sake of my sanity, don't finish the thought."
Not about what she will reveal Sunday evening on 60 Minutes. Not about the headlines she will inspire, even if she brings along a picture or two of a certain gentleman caller in flagrante delicto.
But rather her prediction is about the headlines that gentleman caller will inspire.
Headlines Monday morning of the most shocking kind that, in a banner, will span all six columns at the top of the front page of the New York Times and every other paper in the United States and western world and will lead to 24/7-days of Breaking News on the three cable news channels.
TRUMP FIRES SPECIAL COUNSEL ROBERT MUELLER!!!
In the case of the New York Post, over a photo of Trump, pointing at the camera, in his Apprentice pose--
YOU'RE FIRED!!!
"Expect that to occur," Rona says, "Sunday afternoon to allow editors to get their stories written and typeset. To scoop Stormy. She'll be relegated to page 14, below the fold, and will be mired there for as long as it takes for this Sunday massacre to play out. Probably for the whole week after Republican members of Congress emerge from their bunkers and join Democrats in expressing upset about the 'constitutional crisis,' which, by the way, you can explain to me when you have a moment,"
When I overcome my shock, I ask, "Explain what?"
"'Constitutional crisis.' I have no idea what that means."
"It means," I stammer, "It means . . . you know I really don't know. Maybe until they get the impeachment process going?"
"Dream on," Rona says, "You really think Republicans in Paul Ryan's House are going to impeach Trump? Enrage his base? They'd all get tossed out of office in November."
"Dream on," I cynically say.
"Maybe the crisis will result from what gets unearthed by various congressional committees."
"Dream on," I say.
"You're right. There will be no committee investigations with the GOP in the majority."
"Correct. The Dems can jump up and down and scream about the need to get to the bottom of things but unless Ryan and Mitch McConnell allow it to happen there will be no meaningful investigations. The way Congress works the leaders and committee chairman totally control the agenda, including not allowing members of the minority, Democrats, to even call witnesses. It's almost as totalitarian as the Russian or Chinese legislatures. We've seen those in action. Members behave like zombies."
"This is very scary stuff. Is it the beginning of the end of our democracy? What if nothing can be done about this?"
"I have a crazy idea," I say, "Organize a Guerilla Congress."
"You're making light of this? We're in a crisis and you're cracking jokes?"
"I'm totally scared by what you said about Trump firing Mueller this weekend. I'm trying to keep myself from going crazy because what you are predicting sounds more than plausible to me. Look at the new lawyers he's hiring. That Joe diGenova is a killer."
"So what's your idea about Congress?"
"Since the Democrats have no power whatsoever, while waiting for the midterm elections in November, they should rent a big conference room in a Washington DC hotel and hold a Rump or Guerrilla Congress there. Do their own investigations, try to get witnesses to show up, take testimony, issue findings. All of it unofficial, of course, but if they invite people carefully they could get quite a few to come before them. For example, by mid April, former CIA director Jim Comey will be on the talkshow circuit to publicize his new book and I suspect would appear before the Guerrilla Congress. As would another former head of the CIA, John Brennan, who went off yesterday on Morning Joe when he implied that the Russians may have personal dirt on Trump."
"Not a bad idea," Rona said, "I'll bet MSNBC and CNN would give it some coverage. It would break the mold and in its own way be entertaining. Which is sadly required by the news these days."
"There was a Rump Parliament in England in the middle of the 17th century. I think it has something to do with Charles I."
"Yours may be a crazy idea," Rona says, ignoring my historical example, "but we'll have to come up with things of this kind to keep Trump's and his sycophants' feet to the fire."
"Back to your prediction."
"You know I don't make them often, but about this one . . ."
"Please, for the sake of my sanity, don't finish the thought."
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Labels: "60 Minutes", "Morning Joe", "The Apprentice", James Comey, Joe diGenova, John Brennan, Mitch McConnell, New York Post, Paul Ryan, Robert Mueller, Rump Parliament, Stormy Daniels
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