№ 484: Hale To The Chief (of staff)

The Chief of Staff is a political appointee of the President who does not require Senate confirmation, and who serves at the pleasure of the President. Although not a legally required role, incoming presidents since Truman have appointed a chief of staff. — Wikipedia, White House Chief of Staff

CHIEF of MY staff?

Don't make me laugh.

It is my firm belief

(“BELIEF”, NOT  “conviction”,

NO COLLUSION, that's fiction)

only I can be CHIEF.

Maybe if we call it First Flunky

and had someone so feeble that I look hunky?

Someone who, faithful and loyal,

would bow down before me like I was a royal

as I wheel and deal making everything foggy.

I don't want a chief! I want a doggy!

And one other thing,

don't call him “King”.

№. 464.1: EXTRA! White House Coo Coup (another one, yawn)

WSJ: Trump Weighs Replacing Chief of Staff John Kelly in White House Shake-Up

West Wing considers high-level shakeup as it prepares for final two years of first term

“This is how the president works,” one White House official said. “He’s doused a bunch of people in gasoline and he’s waiting for someone to light a match.”

Oh, how I wish I were MBS.

Then I would respond to unpleasantness

with a simple instruction, “Off with his head!”

Must it be this hard to make someone dead?

Not necessarily ACTUALLY dead.

Just make them go away instead.

It makes me weary, weary and tired,

to tell General Kelly who's to be fired.

Can't do it myself — too conscious-stricken.

And, truth to tell, I'm a big chicken.

Clucking and fussing, I am a mess.

I'm in a permanent state of distress.

Can I bring back Jeff Sessions, my sweet Keebler elf?

Must I tell Kelly to go fire himself?

No. 279.1: EXTRA! Kushner's Intelligence Questioned

WASHINGTON — Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser, has been stripped of his high-level security clearance. . .

The move comes after John F. Kelly, the White House chief of staff, recently moved to overhaul the security clearance process at the White House. . .

— NYT: Jared Kushner’s Security Clearance Downgraded (Paywall)

Just a sec to while I check,

peruse breaking news.

I need to make sure

this is not horse manure.

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Nope, it's fact,

Jared needs to be frisked.

Trump's son-in-law's

a security risk.

Is this about Russia?

Is Ivanka too shrewish?

Has it to do with

the fact that he's Jewish?

What is wrong,

what is the deal?

Is he Mossad,

does he work for Israel?

That is the question

from Trump's alt-right supporters

who would not have let Jared

marry their daughters.

Or, maybe, the fear

stuck in Kelly's craw

was that Jared might share 

with his father-in-law.

[updated 2/27/2018, 7:01 pm]

No. CXXII: Kelly Cleans House

According to informed sources who requested anonymity since they are not authorized to speak on these matters:

Kelly told Trump he had no option:

put Don jr. and Eric up for adoption.

He then recommended that in due course

Ivanka and Jared file for divorce.

To White House aides he highlighted

countries from whence they won't be extradited*.

McConnell and Ryan he told (said one source),

“You deal with me. I am your boss.”

Off the record our source, being discreet,

said Kelly admitted his work won't be complete

until he entombs Trump in concrete.

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*http://www.wsfa.com/story/22665099/countries-with-no-extradition-treaty-with-us

No. CXXI: GOP's Thinking [sic]

WSJ: Scaramucci Removed at Urging of New Chief Kelly (Paywall)

Anthony Scaramucci has been removed from his position as White House communications director, just 10 days after it was announced he would take it. He was ousted at the urging of the new Chief of Staff John Kelly.

We must not let White House chaos dismay us.

Granted, it will somewhat delay us.

Making America "great" again

will just have to wait until when

the muck and the nonsense with Trump

helps President Pence over the hump

with a palace coup led by John Kelly.

(Who has, you know, read Machiavelli.)

With Pence as prexy and Kelly v-p,

we achieve ultimate (lasting?) victory.

See the shadow noon gnomon? It is an omen.

The U.S. is become the Empire Roman.

And, no, that is not just a teaser.

The Republic is over. Hail Kelly! Hail Caesar!

No. XC: After The Pox

In the wake of Ailes, O'Reilly and Kelly*,

at FOX the merde docks got very smelly.

In order to their fortunes repair,

they decommissioned both "balanced" and "fair",
replacing them with "Most watched, most trusted"

instead of the more accurate "Touched crotch, got busted".

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* List of women who accused Roger Ailes and Bill O'Reilly of sexual misconduct.