Jitterbugging for Jesus

So here’s my best guess on the New York Times “anonymous” mystery, which is scary but oh-so-politically-intriguing.

I’m convinced it was former Sen. Dan Coats, who demonstrated in his now famous and historic interview with Andrea Mitchell that he doesn’t give a spit at this point what Trump says or does to him.

Or … it could have been Secretary of State and former Congressman Mike Pompeo.

Or … there is a good chance it was Coats and Pompeo with a third insider, like one of the generals who is at Trump’s side every day.

At any rate, it certainly comports with everything we’ve been able to read in Bob Woodward’s latest bombshell book.

I think it’s one or two or all three — Coats, Pompeo and a third insider — who had a hand in writing what the Times dared to publish.

If for no other reason than the fact that Coats was especially close to John McCain, who is lifted up in the Times piece.

But then, so was our Secretary of Defense Mattis, who was literally keeping Mrs. McCain proposed up all those days and nights during McCain’s funeral in D.C. just last week …

Some have suggested Coats or such a cabal outlined it and gave it to somebody like a close family member to actually write. Even having a speech writer do it would involve one too many insiders and enhance the risks.

A cabal gives two or three people “plausible deniability.” The ability to say, “I didn’t write that, I swear!”

All kinds of plausible speculation is out there, which, again, makes it intriguing for those of us who are lifelong, incurable, opinionated political junkies.

Some of us are born with that curse.

At any rate, it’s scary that people in the White House that NOBODY voted for are having to go to such extreme, blatantly dishonest measures to prevent Trump from doing something catastrophic for the nation an-or the world.

It’s scary that there has been this so-called “soft coup” in Washington. I, like most Americans, hate the whole god-awful mess.

I much prefer such political intrigue in great novels or movies.

But herein lies the root of the problem: If Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan and other GOP leaders would grow some rugby balls and put the country ahead of their jobs and desire for stacking the almighty Supreme Court and passing tax cuts to benefit the already rich on the backs of the poor and working poor, we wouldn’t be here.

But then, the authors of the anonymous letter trashing their boss wanted those same extreme tax cuts and stacked Supreme Court and that’s why they hired on.

Nobody forced Coats or Pompeo or any other “resistors” in the White House to work for a sick, corrupt president who demonstrated his sickness and corruption in the most bizarre political campaign in history.