In the last few minutes of Rachel Maddow’s show tonight (8/11/2017), she reported that the President is coming back to the White House in the middle of his vacation (extended golf outing) to do….something.
There was speculation from Rachel that this could possibly be one last attempt to repeal Obamacare. She said that it looks like Joe Manchin, conservative Democratic Senator from West Virginia might be named to a cabinet position, perhaps Secretary of Energy, and will be replaced with newly minted Republican Governor of West Virginia Jim Justice, thereby giving the Republicans that extra vote to overturn the Affordable Care Act.
This in turn might lead to more shuffling in his cabinet. As she discussed with Joy Reid (who is substituting for Lawrence O’Donnell for “The Last Word”, the show following hers), the Department of Homeland Security appointment is still open with no one appointed yet. The thought is that Jeff Sessions would go there and a new Attorney General would be appointed in order to fire Robert Mueller and hopefully stop the investigation into the possible collusion with the Russians during the election of 2016.
Now, this is just speculation, but would you really put this past Trump?
The good news is that the Senate is not in session. They won’t be back until after Labor Day. That gives us some time.
We need to get back to the phone lines and back into town halls and Labor Day parades and go off on our elected representatives that want to hurt this great country.
I’ll keep updating this diary as I research and find out more. This ain’t over, folks.
RESIST!!!