digby: Who's on first?

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http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2017/02/whos-on-first.html

Who's on first?

by digby


Reuters reports:

In the week before U.S. Vice President Mike Pence visited Brussels and pledged America's "steadfast and enduring" commitment to the European Union, White House chief strategist Steve Bannon met with a German diplomat and delivered a different message, according to people familiar with the talks.

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Everyone knows that Pence is not as important as Bannon. That was proven when they all sat there and let Pence go on TV and lie for Flynn. (That's assuming Pence didn't know, in which case he's just as untrustworthy as Trump and Bannon.)

So, there is a credibility gap with this White House the size of the Grand Canyon and it's getting bigger. Nobody knows who speaks for the administration, not even the president. Everyone is assumed to be liars because they lie constantly.

Steve Bannon is an unqualified, white nationalist lunatic who has no more business being at the highest level of the US Government than Justin Bieber does. Yet he's speaking to foreign leaders and apparently saying whatever he wants to say.

Yeah, this is normal.