Congratulations on getting First Step passed! Jared must be thrilled. It's great that convicts will get more opportunities to re-enter society and that judges will get some flexibility in sentencing. So much sensible stuff that almost everyone is in favor of it. It's great to end the year with a bi-partisan win in Congress […]
Today you’ll have a chance to meet Gretchen Whitmer who will be joining some other Governor elects for your WH event. She’s into building bridges rather than walls and took a bus tour of MI where the slogan was “fix the damn roads.” I think you’ll like her even if she is a Democrat […]
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… I hope your meeting with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer goes well this morning. I encourage you to sit in silence together for a few minutes so you might all get some divine inspiration to resolve our immigration disagreements. My Friend, Kary, is down at the border right now with a group of religious folk protesting the heavy military presence there. Their slogan is “Love knows no borders.” …
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… I just read the piece in today’s WP about the 14 Trump associates who had conversations about a possible Trump-Putin meeting. I felt like I was reading War and Peace with all of those wonderful Russian names. Oleg Deripaska, Dmitry Klokov, Konstanin Kilmnik… It doesn’t get any better than that!…
… Your administration just asked Canada to arrest Meng Wangzhou. As you know that would be like China having Jeff Bezos arrested while he was traveling through the Phillipines. Former deupty director of CIA, John McLaughlin, finds the timing of this arrest awfully strange when you are trying to iron out a trade deal with Xi Jingping. He thinks it’s eitherduplicitous or incompetent…
…I hope you have fun at the Army/Navy game today. You better bundle up. It's going to be chilly in Philly. There's a lot of hype about the team uniforms. The Army outfits honor the Black Lions of Cantigny who fought in WWI and Navy's have something to do with their mascot, the goat. I hope our tax dollars are not paying for those…
The orange foster dog will be going to his new forever home today. I hope they can provide him with all of the stimulation and affection that he requires. who knew that so much energy could reside in a 10-pound body? We’ll miss him but it will be a lot calmer around here when he’s gone…
Are you ready for the GWH Bush's funeral today? I understand that he'll be wearing some sox with planes flying in formation. Have you decided what sox you'll be wearing at your funeral? According to the NYT, presidents start planning their funerals shortly after they arrive in office. What lucky staff member gets that job?
