Sometime before the Mid-Term elections, and probably before June of this year, Jen ‘Circle Back’ Psaki won’t be circling back anymore. She’s moving on and not looking back. But her new job is the same but at MSNBC.
Instead of fielding softballs from the White House steno-pool (with a few rare exceptions), she’ll be carrying the party water at MSNBC.
White House Press Secretary Jenn Psaki will be leaving her position “in the weeks ahead” as will “several other members of the White House press team” sources told Reuters. Psaki will be joining MSNBC. Fox News reports that it’s “fairly standard” for top White House officials to warn staff long before midterm presidential elections that they should either depart their jobs in plenty of time prior to, or stay on through the election.
There’s a storm coming. We need to see the horses loose and let them run or they’ll be swept up, tossed, and broken.
I know, rats fleeing the ship is a better metaphor. And flee they have. Democrats in Congress are also moving on, which makes folks like Sandy Cortez giddy. It’s her dream to replace moderate Democrats with actual Marxists, moderate meaning the difference between almost authoritarians and the real thing – and look, Mao, no Primary!
How well those sorts of candidates might do depends on the district, and the math does not favor any Democrat, which is why the seat-warmers and pulling up stakes for a safe job as a lobbyist. The pay is better, and you don’t have to pretend to listen to voters.
As for West-Wing departures, now loading at Gate 5, the ritual cleansing is actually common. Trump was constantly cleaning House, though his circumstances were different. His ship was full of rats, and he was working out who he could trust and who had to go. A process that continued right up to the very end when Mike Pence raised his hand and showed to whom he was beholden.
The same people to whom Biden and Democrats answer. The Swamp!
So, in Biden’s White House, it’s more like changing your undies, except the “new” pair gets picked up off the floor with the rest of the dirty laundry.
And we’re supposed to pretend – to quote DNC Chair Jamie Harrison – that these transitions are “helping us continue to build on our successes and deliver our message as we head into the midterm elections.”
Yes, because if there’s one thing you can count on when you have a “successful” Leftist in power, it’s defections.