Day 62: Holy Shit, Russia!

Today was marked by some explosive revelations regarding collusion between the administration and Russia.

• Manafort has been comprehensively tied to Russian interests. Is it curious that the year that he signed a $10 million contract with Russia was the year he moved into Trump tower? Added to this, new reports of the FBI confirming that it has information suggesting collusion between the administration and Russia. Wow. How are Republicans sitting pretty and ignoring all of this? (Here is a very complete analysis of what we know about Manafort)
• Nunes continues to be a fucking dick, running around his committee without telling them, and claiming that Trump's ream was "incidentally" subject to surveillance (because they were talking to shady foreign nationals). Not only is this making a smokescreen to cover for the administration, but why the fuck is somebody who was involved with the transition team heading the executive oversight committee, let alone telling them about their investigation? His behavior today is seriously compromising the ability of this committee to perform its duty. A lot of people are justifiably pretty horrified, and some are even pretty sure that Nunes just revealed highly classified information and should face prosecution (the irony of a Republican leaker is staggering). (A comprehensive analysis of the fuckery that went on here today)
• Ever the voice of reason, after the Nunes circus, McCain very bluntly stated that he does not believe congress has the credibility to investigate the Russian issue.
• Republicans are working hard to try and secure enough votes to push their crappy health care bill through the house. It looks like it's going to be very tight.
• The Department of Health and Human Services decided to stop counting LGBTQ people on their surveys. WTF???
• Is America's army big enough? The NY Times looks into this in detail. Note that having a big army is expensive. If your army is already big enough, you don't want to make it bigger unless you're planning on using it soon. Think about Trump's budget proposal in this light.