Her name is Caitlin Marriott and she’s a 21 year old intern working for Democratic Senator Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire. So what’s going to happen to her? She’s been suspended from her duties for a short time, but will not be removed from her position. I suppose that tells us where the Senator stands on the question.Got her badge taken away, so she'll be, in the Senator's words, "highly restricted for the remainder of her internship." But Hassan sees Marriott's actions as small potatoes compared to "the president's destructive and divisive actions, like ripping health care away from people by failing to protect pre-existing conditions" and, of course, the families-at-the-border policy.
Jazz Shaw at Hot Air speculates that the next step is for an actual legislator to do the F-bomb hurling:
So Senator Hassan has determined that a week’s vacation is the appropriate response. We’re getting closer and closer to having Congress turn into one of those South American legislatures where literal fist fights break out on the floor and members wind up hiding under their desks. I suppose I could sit here and wring my hands over this, but let’s face it… we’re sailing on uncharted waters these days and this is probably a minor event in the larger scale of things. We’ve lived to see interesting times as the old saying goes. Anyone want to take bets on how long it will be before one of the senators themselves lets loose with a couple of F-bombs on the floor of the chamber?And, really, while the United States is unique by design, per the subject of the post immediately below, its luck with regard to stability can't be expected to go on forever, can it? As Bookworm asks in the title of her latest post, what country has ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion?
It'll just be domestic terrorism
ReplyDeleteYou got the leaders of the enemy like Bernie Sanders defending the right of Sarah Sanders to eat in any restaurant she wants to, you got Chuck Schumer excoriating Maxine Waters and even Nancy Pelosi soft pedaling same with Waters and advising against impeachment of the biggest major fucking asshole instigator in the executive office of this United States and many fundies are loving the fucking shit out if it!
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ReplyDeleteAnd you got George Will leaving the Republican party. And this guy: Steve Schmidt has worked at the highest levels of Republican politics. He helped run George W. Bush's 2004 presidential campaign and oversaw the confirmations of Supreme Court Justices John Roberts and Samuel Alito. He led Sen. John McCain's '08 presidential bid and helped introduce Sarah Palin to the world. The American Association of Political Consultants once named him its "GOP Campaign Manager of the Year." But today, Schmidt is finished with the Republican Party.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/steve-schmidt-party-of-trump-obliterated-w521978
Something went real haywire in Steve Schmidt's brain somewhere a long the line recently, and apparently with George Will as well.
ReplyDeleteAnd I'm pretty sure Schumer's motivation is mainly political. As in, "tone it down, you clowns, we have a midterm election coming up."
Now, how about getting back to the topic of the post: this Senator giving a pass to her intern over her outburst?
ReplyDeleteI focused on the R word you close your post out with. I can't remember when I've wanted to see someone fired. Not even Trump. I want to see him quit.
ReplyDeleteAnd lose.
ReplyDeleteReally really deep political analysis here, bloggie:
ReplyDelete"Something went real haywire in Steve Schmidt's brain somewhere a long the line recently, and apparently with George Will as well."