No Wonder Trump Can Watch TV for Eight Hours a Day

He's not doing any real work.

As of Wednesday morning, President Donald Trump has had nothing on his schedule this week except his daily intelligence briefing and a lunch with Vice President Mike Pence. The open calendar comes after Trump on Friday agreed to temporarily reopen government without getting his demand for border wall funds, which he has insisted is not a concession but time for more negotiations with Democrats.

I'm not including the time Trump spends sending out his tweets, since he probably does that watching the Trump Propaganda Network.

Trump could probably spend the day in a bathrobe and nobody'd be the wiser.

Acronym Alert

MTAHNS = "The Most Transparent Administration in History, No Shit" =The Obama Administration.

Because that's what they say while they regard journalists as Russian spies.

Acronym of the Day

RUMINT-- Information gathered by means of collecting rumors.

Acronym Change

From here on out, I will refer to the Department of Homeland Security by the initials DBP.

In Russian, the name would probably be Департамент Безопасности Родины, or DBP. And since those folks have proven themselves to be about as efficient, as law-abiding, as respectful of human rights and and as people-friendly as a Soviet-era bureaucracy, that is how I will refer to them.

(Yes, I know that отдел is the most common word for ""department," but that seems to apply more to department stores, entities which DBP is nowhere near close to being as competent as, I'm sticking with DBP.)

TSA

I have heard a number of insulting explanations for what the acronym "TSA" stands for, including "Thousands Standing Around," "Thieves Stealing Anything" and "Terminally Stupid Agency."

I heard a new one today from an airline pilot: "Too Stupid for Arby's"

S-CHIP

As one wag put it, S-CHIP is a perfect acronym for describing George Bush: Shameless, Cruel, Heartless, Incompetent and Pathetic.

Dave Horsey:


Stuart Carlson:

The Republicans are in a jam here. Either they go against Chimpy on this and vote to override his veto or the Democrats are going to flog them with this issue. When even Orrin Hatch is accusing Bush of living in a dreamworld, you know it's getting bad for Der Monkey Fuhrer.