Rosenstein signed the warrant for Cohen's office.

Hahahahaha! I'd say I'd like to be a fly on the wall at the White House, but really I see enough of his ranting already.

Record vote turnout in the mid-terms would be really dandy. So would record low suppression efforts, but that is less likely.

I think Zoe is planning on voting because she asked me to get her these. [link]

Aw, civic-minded dog.

I am beginning to suspect I only had a half day's work in me today.

Shit, I've barely had that.

I offered someone a job on Friday, she accepted on Monday and just backed out. And I already turned against the other option. Ugggghhhhh.

Bummer!

By "a half day's work" I really mean " a half day's worth of trying to spend some time working". Just totally over it now.

Yeah, I *will* crawl over broken glass if I have to, but if I can be a jerk and crawl over some other person who's already down there, I'll do it in a hot second.

Steph, this is *exactly* what I was about to post. I'd rather knock a Trumpet out and crawl over *them*.

Trump can't directly fire Mueller, he has to get the Attorney General to do it. Since Sessions is famously recused, he'd have to get the Deputy AG to do it. That's Rosenstein and he'd probably quit first. Then he'd have to get the Associate Attorney General to do it. Since Rachel Brand quit, that's [looks it up] Pannuchio? I don't know what he'd do. But that is, if I understand correctly, what Nixon's Saturday Night Massacre was: he went through the people in the AG's office until he got to someone willing to do the job.

I doubt Trump fully understands this.

I offered someone a job on Friday, she accepted on Monday and just backed out. And I already turned against the other option. Ugggghhhhh.

Oh, what a pain! When you say "turned against", you mean you decided you don't like the second choice candidate?

Rosenstein signing the Cohen warrant may well indicate how he'll behave if Trump tells him to fire Mueller. Trump simply has never met a problem that he couldn't sue or pay off his way out of, so no wonder he's sticking to the idea that if he just fires enough people, the problem will be put off until people forget about it.

Elsewhere a friend pointed out that it's a state investigation into Cohen now, so Trump can't even pardon him if it came to that. Heh heh.

MsBelle, I'd be up for a friendhouse arrangement. I'd rather Tucson, if we are considering places.

Trump can't directly fire Mueller, he has to get the Attorney General to do it.

Apparently the White House is asserting they do have the authority to fire him.