Wednesday, August 22, 2018

Some musings following the Cohen plea

If Traitor Trump lawyer Michael Cohen's plea is a prelude to a flip, let's keep score of the Steele Dossier information and whether Cohen admits he went to Prague to hand money to the Russians as thanks for the hack.  That would be quite stunning...

Ah, Prague, the place where right wingers used to concoct fantasies.  I remember, for example, how right wingers, loudly trumpeted by Rush Limbaugh, thought Clinton was a secret Communist because, during Clinton's time as a Rhodes Scholar, he visited Prague and Moscow.  The theory was Clinton met with KGB people who convinced him to be a secret Commie so one day, twenty years later, he could ascend to the top of the American government.  Just read this article on the subject from WND and note how easily right wingers liked to connect dots which today, with Traitor Trump, they constantly refuse to do.

The other infamous fantasy from right wingers in and out of government was that one of the 9/11 attackers had gone to Prague and had something to do with Saddam Hussein, which was a needed fantasy as part of the Bush-Cheney parsing of words that led so many people to support the invasion of Iraq to get back at those who "attacked us on 9/11."  Wikipedia helps us recall the ins and outs, and later backing off of the claim.

It would deeply ironic, beyond the stunning part, if this time, Prague was a place where we learned real American national security had been compromised, and that right wingers themselves had voted for and continued to support a president the Russians had some control over.  

If this occurs, my suggestion to CPAC planners: Invite Jane Fonda to be your guest speaker next year, where you present her with a written apology and a bouquet of roses.  Oh, and Bill Clinton too, since CPAC so supported the impeachment of a president who paid off mistresses on the basis of moral turpitude.