Taking to the Russians

The news these days remains it mad froth but meantime, like the solid bass line that would ground a Frank Zappa guitar solo, more and more weird things about the Russians are coming out.

The latest is the news that both the White House Chief of Staff whose name I can never quite remember well enough to type tried to get the head of the FBI to say publicly that there was nothing to the Russia Story (which is rather illegal given the circumstances) and Mr. Spicer seems to have arranged some phone calls from the head of the CIA to reporters to tell them there was nothing to the story although nobody seems to have details on why there was nothing to it. It’s not clear just yet whether Mr. Spicer broke the law or stretched it but my word it surely does not look good. 

All this froo fra and attempt to put a lid on story about the connections between the Trump campaign and Russia and just what they were are of course making it worse,  and one can be pretty sure that neither party thought to do this all by himself. Trump one assumes has told them to do these.

But why? Why risk having the story get more legs by trying to squash it? It does give one pause – Trump is a sitting president he’s in charge of the Dept of Justice and he’s gotten an absolute troglodyte in as Attorney General who about as likely to launch any sort of investigation as he is to admit he’s racist baboon (no insult to the Baboon’s intended).

Meantime both houses of congress are under GOP control run by a pair of small brained ideologues who wouldn’t care if Trump put slot machines in the oval office and was chopping the heads off of bunnies in the rose garden as long as he signs the tax cut bill (once they figure out what it is, they are not skilled men these men).  So one can pretty sure no probes will be forthcoming form them.

So, one wonders, why the panic? Why stomp all over the city insisting in louder and more hysterical voices that there is nothing to the story? Which can only make more people think that there is a there there.

Two hypotheses come to mind – one is simple stupidity – these are not bright people we are talking about and doing something stupid like this simply because they are unable to understand how this would play out is a logical conclusion.

The other one, which I think is more interesting, is that whatever is being covered up is absolute dynamite something so toxic that all support for him would vanish in an instant. Knowing just what sort of horrible things Trump has done that the GOP iare perfectly okay with, one does have to wonder what it could be.