From the start, I sounded a note of caution: What if the allegations against Dr. Ronny Jackson were false, or partially false? What if the Democrats are being tricked?
I became particularly suspicious when the "car crash" claim arose, and Jackson did not back down. The crash of a government vehicle is not a matter of memory or opinion. Incontrovertible paperwork would be involved.
Then Jackson withdrew his nomination, and I apologized for offering a wrongheaded forecast.
Turns out I was right all along.
The "crashed car" claim was bogus. The intent was to get rid of Senator Jon Tester of Montana, the Dem who (foolishly) led the charge against Jackson. Tester is up for re-election, and the electoral winds were already blowing against him.
Trump is happy to sacrifice Jackson, against whom other allegations may well be true. He intends to put John Kelly in Jackson's position.
A superb dirty tricks operation, this was. Too smart for Trump. Someone else thought of this maneuver.
Never underestimate the Republicans. They may not have much talent for governance, but their ratfucking skills have no parallel.
Who made the false "crashed car" claim to Tester and the Dems? Take names and take note. That's the world we live in now: If a Republican operative manages to fake out a Dem, the Dem takes the blame.
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You need to fix the first link it comes up as a 404 Error.
I posted elsewhere about the wrecked government vehicle asking if it was an M1 Abrams battle tank, the Marine One helicopter, or one of the Secret Service's golf carts they use at Trump's country clubs.
If Tester was dumb enough to fall for it he deserves the boot.
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>>>Turns out I was right all along.<<<
Seriously!! Democrats act like they are the clever ones, but they get played at every turn. The only way they win is over another democrat.
For about twenty years the GOP has been waging a kind of guerrilla warfare against our democracy.
Any Dem approached by a GOPer with something they should "cooperate" on should tell the GOPer what Dick Cheney told Sen. Leahy, who had made a friendly gesture to the VP: Go Fuck Yourself.
Tom
john tester is the home of obomber care, first known as rommey care from the heritage people who care some much about the 99%. Sad;-(
Democrats are really bad at playing the game. Look at the latest Clinton thing going on with Chelsey. A hair treatment deemed important to be mentioned in a book. But when Chelsey corrected the author, among other falsehoods, all the pundit suddenly realized how trivial of Chelsey to quarrel about hair treatment. Never mind it was in a book. Democrats always unable to drive their points home. That's why they lose. The fact that the writer lied was never stressed enough.
In an interesting piece of reporting, the Times discusses a type of infiltration that we in the political world might pay some attention to.
It's findable through google: tale of a corporate spy.
Link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/27/business/corporate-spy-double-agent.html
Tom
What is wrong with everybody. Ronny Jackson was Barack Obama's White House Doctor and Obama raved about him. So Trump offers him up to run the Veterans Administration and everybody ridicules Trump because of allegations and lack of proper vetting.
Now this blog claims it was a Republican Ruse to trick the Democrats.
Both parties are bonkers. And the people who think the other side is completely demonic are the most bonkers of all.
What is wrong with everybody. Ronny Jackson was Barack Obama's White House Doctor and Obama raved about him. So Trump offers him up to run the Veterans Administration and everybody ridicules Trump because of allegations and lack of proper vetting.
Now this blog claims it was a Republican Ruse to trick the Democrats.
Both parties are bonkers. And the people who think that either side is completely demonic are the most bonkers of all.
First thing to note is that Jackson is not returning to work as POTUS doc.
In a noteworthy story, the Times reports that the White House medical unit is run by the military. Among civilians on previous WH staffs, Jackson seemed like a great guy. But internally, among the other military staff, the view was negative. Drinking and loose with dispensing meds.
Link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/26/us/politics/ronny-jackson-nomination-withdrawn.html
But hey, he was "good" enough to be democrat Obama's doctor. He had not been GW Bush's doc. It would be nice to know how his promotion came about.
Now he's gone. And the GOP Dirty Tricks Dept hopes to have damaged Sen. Tester (D).
I too smell rats.
Tom
The print and broadcast news media has its collective panties in a twist of outrage over Michelle West's appearance at the WHCD where she lit into Trump, his staff, and journalists who enabled him.
The E J Dionnes, Dana Milbanks and Maggie Halbermans were beside themselves, too bad they never showed such to Trump. Too cowardly to punch up, enough of a bully to punch down on a comedian.
More likely, the Trump propaganda shop seeded in false information after the nomination was in jeopardy, to poison the well. The allegations against him are principally from military officers who served with him.
Mishandling controlled substances, writing them to himself, and then when found out requiring his physician assistant to write for him, wasn't even part of the IG investigation report on him. That earlier report still found his conduct unprofessional, and recommended his removal from command in the WH medical unit and immediate transfer out.
Now these new allegations if investigated may well cost him his license to practice medicine, and earn him a dishonorable discharge, and loss of pension, resulting from military trial felony convictions.
The Obama administration kept him on and recommended his promotion from captain to admiral after the IG report. Some suggest the report might not have been seen by the top circle. I find that implausible, if possible. Maybe his loose prescribing practices earning him his 'candyman' nickname was a feature, not a bug, for them. And he only displayed his dark side to his subordinates. Two have which characterized him as the most unethical person they ever saw, or totally lacking ethics.
Even if the O administration gave him a pass on the IG report, the Trump administration had to do its own full vetting for such a powerful position as heading up Veteran Affairs. Except PDT never does. Ready, fire, aim is his pattern. Full vetting later.
Admiral Ronny Jackson is now stepping down even from his WH physician position. The R chairman could have gone forward with hearings for his defense, but chose not to, after Admiral Jackson withdrew his nomination 'voluntarily' after PDT publicly suggested he should and met with him in person.
Joseph's paranoia is not unjustified, but mistakes in this case a rearguard saver action defense attempt for the prime mover. It has already failed, as to saving Jackson's nomination. Jackson's disgraced resignation from the WH physician's office ruins the pushback attack on Sen. Tester, but it will still be pushed for a while. It is all that they have left in this pile of rubble.
XI
Mr. Mike, please note what they don't mention about her routine.
Her #TrumpIsSoBroke call and response, 'how broke is he?," jokes. She had three or four of them, and said he was so broke he took Russian money to lose us our republic, yay!
Accusing the POTUS himself of treason is somewhat worse than non-physical appearance attacks on the obvious lying of women in the administration. As in, orders of magnitude worse. Outrageous, were it not true. Silence. No pushback. Self-censorship. Most telling.
XI
May the fact that Obama was a younger and fit person he didn't need doctorings or a presence of a doctor that much so he wasn't aware of his shortcomings.
Michael Wolf's sin was calling the press out on their role in electing Trump. That's why. Since when decency was any concerns of the media.
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