I'm sorry to hear that the WH is a lonely place for you. At least that's the impression that I got from reading the NYT's top story today, "A War Every Day, Waged Increasingly Alone." It doesn't have to be that way, but changing things will require you to do some deep soul searching […]
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…
