I am so glad to see that Der Gropinfuror has apparently recuperated so completely from his recent foray into the realm of foreign relations on their turf that he’s back to 100% on the Twitter Stupid Scale. After all, when the first few days of his trip looked like an outtake from “Ishtar” that was left on the cutting room floor, and the rest of your “foreign tour” came across as something that National Lampoon’s European Vacation thought was too dumb to include, one would think that he would need to recharge his inner moron a little more. Guess not.
But he certainly has managed to get right back into his t.v. viewing groove again. Fox and Friends managed to send him off on another brain dead Tweetfest this morning. Fox and Friends yammered away at the possibility that Carter Page might not exactly be the top dog on the House Intelligence Committee testimony list. That’s all it took for Precedent Conspiracy Theory go to Defcon1;
O.K., this is just getting ridiculous now. First of all, the Democrats are not blackballing Carter Page from testifying. Just not in the next 30 minutes. Apparently Page had sent a letter to the House Committee demanding equal air time to set the record straight, and didn’t get the Red Carpet treatment he felt he was entitled to, so he copped a snit about being cut out. In response to a query from Business Insider, Page bared his soul about the cause of his angst;
"I have learned from your Committee staff on this Memorial Day holiday that I might not be immediately afforded the opportunity to address the false or misleading testimony by James Comey, John Brennan, et al, as per our previously scheduled appointment for next week," the letter read. "In the interest of finally providing the American people with some accurate information at long last, I hope that we can proceed with this straight dialogue soon." (italics mine)
Ohhhhh, Page is channeling his inner Trump. To quote Queen: ‘I want it all, I want it all, I want it all, and I want it NOW!”. Let’s see, the committee is only exploring talking to people like Paul Manafort, Micheal Cohen, Boris Epshteyn, James Comey, and Michael Flynn. How can those losers possibly compete with the star power of one Carter Page esq.? I can see why he and the Trumpinator are so pissed off
Look, Carter Page is a moron, he’s got about a pound and a half of feta between his ears. As anybody who has ever seen him interviewed on TV, whether by Chris Hayes or anybody else, to Vladimir Putin he may be a “useful idiot”, but to everybody else in the world he's just an idiot. If he testifies in front of congress, he'll probably break Hillary Clinton’s longevity record, and that’s just with the Democrats questioning him. His appearance could have more questioning “rounds” than an Ali-Frazier fight.
But the real, World Champion idiot here is Trump. For oh so many reasons. For an appetizer, it appears that no one has said that Page won’t be allowed to testify yet, only that he’s not at the A-table, so where’s the story here? How about this one. His Lowness is doing everything he can to put up a US-Mexico style border wall between himself and Russia, and here he is championing a guy who admitted that he had been interviewed by the FBI about the possibility of being an “unwitting asset” of the Russian government.
But NBCNews had the two best reasons in the world for this to be a hall of fame example of stupid, even for Das Donald. To begin with;
What’s more, Trump’s tweet follows Page’s claim that his interview with the House Intelligence Committee has been delayed, but it’s unclear if that interview had ever been scheduled in the first place.
Yeah. Being more or less housebound, I have MSNBC or CNN on throughout the day, and I have yet to hear anybody come out with a date and time for Carter Page's testimony, and whether it would be in a closed or open setting. But even better is this realization that NBCNews had. Since the day that Carter Page's name surfaced in conjunction with the probe, Forrest Trump has had difficulty placing him. “Never hearda da guy”, or “He was just an informal advisor, he never sat in on any meetings or anything”, or “I can’t keep track of every guy that wanders into the office”. But now suddenly he’s ready to provide limousine service to the door of the congressional hearing room for a guy he never even met before? I wonder if he’ll feel the same way once page opens his mouth. You can’t have it both ways Donnie Boy.
You know, when I first heard Carter Page on CNN and Chris Hayes, I thought he sounded like the kind of second rate crook who was too silly and implausible to make it into the script of a prime time cop sitcom, but with a little thinking, you realize that he sounds just like Trump, every time he gets pinned down on an issue. Babble out whatever comes to mind next as an excuse or alibi, even if it makes no sense in the current context or leads to worse questions that you can’t answer. A match made in congressional heaven.