The Very Stable Genius finds attack-dog-ism an impressive trait in his lawyers

But effective attack dogs make sure their bites are going to produce a result.

There's John Dowd, quoting a "smell-of-mendacity" bit of dialogue from the Tennessee Williams play Cat On a Hot Tin Roof to set the table for his assertion that Mueller should be fired in response to  the Daily Beast's Betsy Woodruff's request for a comment on Andrew McCabe's firing, saying he was speaking in his official capacity, and then reversing that statement, saying he was expressing strictly his personal viewpoint.

f the president’s attorney was speaking off the cuff about firing the special counsel without clearing it with his client first, knowing that Mueller’s already looking at obstruction charges, he’s a garbage lawyer who should be fired himself. If he wasn’t speaking off the cuff but rather at Trump’s behest, it’s inexplicable that he’d instantly try to walk back the statement. If Dowd’s not comfortable with Trump threatening Mueller then he should either keep it to himself or refuse to issue the statement the president wants and resign instead. Telling reporters “I’m speaking for him” and then “I’m speaking only for myself” in the span of an hour is bizarre. It’s not lawyering, it’s gaslighting.

I’m asking seriously: Was this guy drunk, in the morning, when he responded to Woodruff?

Democrats are going to town over the threat . . . 

Then there's Michael Cohen, who is suing Stormy Daniels for violating the non-disclosure agreement. 

But wait, isn't Team VSG's position that there was no affair?

It’s hard to imagine a better tactic to back up her claim than suddenly showing up and threatening to hit her for twenty million for violating a nondisclosure agreement covering something which they’re supposedly claiming never happened. If you’re actually pushing the story that this was all fictional, it seems as if threatening a defamation lawsuit would be more effective. Of course, unless she can produce some really stomach-churning video or still image “evidence” we may never know.

I've been thinking about this in conjunction with my post this morning about the manner in which McCabe was fired (a day before his retirement benefits were to kick in), as well as John Kelly's  account of how he told Rex Tillerson he was fired. There's a clear pattern of going for maximum humiliation.

And humiliation is one aspect of the larger picture of general vindictiveness. And an atmosphere of vindictiveness leads to chaos, which too many sources are reporting for there not to be some veracity to it.

"But Gorsuch / tax reform / deregulation / jobs reports / embassy to Jerusalem" is wearing pretty thin. This is unprecedented.

LITD maintains what it has since July 2015: This guy's unfit to be president.