In which it's springtime for the lizard Oz, the Donald and cheeseburger eating TV watchers everywhere ...

This is a day for firsts.

The pond has studiously avoided going there, but once the Oz editorialist went there, it was inevitable that the pond would be forced to go there, to see if there was any there there ...

He can't remember John Boehner?

He couldn't even find his limo ...

What the pond loves about the Oz editorialist is that with a bit of stern talking from down under the Donald will understand and change his ways ...

The tone is just the same as all the other craven courtiers, and even the recalcitrant ones, like a Steve Bannon, can swiftly be brought to heel and recant their wicked anti-Donald ways ...

Is it likely to change?

There was no sign of it in the first year, and it's a truism that old folk get set in their ways.

Once you take to sleeping alone in your bed, munching on a cheeseburger, shouting at the television screen and tweeting in the morning - or perhaps, if old-fashioned, blogging - the chances of a change of ways diminish rapidly. The pond knows it only too well ...

The Donald was a clueless populist from the start and has stayed that way, and has absolutely no interest in policy matters and only the vaguest understanding of the world ... hence his shouting from the rooftops his willingness to sign anything that Congress put before him. Don't mind the detail, just feel the width and the length.

The United States is now in the grip of its very own madness of King George, and just as it made a fine film (Nigel Hawthorne did many fine things, but never did anything better), so it makes for daily gripping reality TV entertainment ...

So Jake Tapper gets Steve Miller on to his show, just so he can cut him dead.

As the reptile editorialist raises the matter of policy, it so happened that on the other end of the reptile splash came this report from google ...

Ah so there was a policy issue broached in the book.

Pray tell, what did Vox have to say?

Here for the hot links and more ... and there's your policy wonk in a nutshell, illiterate and vague and all over it like an attack of blackheads after teen puberty ... somewhere between delusion, even less thought than anyone else on earth, and Bernie Sanders ...

The Yanks have got a live one here, but he's always been a live one, and it's little wonder that the hapless lizards of Oz felt the need to outsource their coverage of the Wolff ...

Well there's the bleeding obvious.

The paranoia and narcissism and naked self-aggrandisement and self-delusion and desire for pandering and the illiterate inability to focus have been on parade from day one, and it's a measure of the johns and the simpletons that they still keep swigging on the snake oil ...

It's the reason hucksters, hustlers and card sharps have always been able to do business and move goods, as the desperates hold out for a ray of sunshine and hope ... with a lot of wear and tear required before they catch up with reality ...

But as this is ostensibly a serious blog dealing with high policy matters, what sayeth the reptile guest in his coverage of the controversy, the latest in a daily serve of the endless TV soap saga?

Well actually David Rowe has been showing the Donald as an emperor with no clothes for quite some time ... 

 

The pond could go on and on ...

 

BTW, where is that layabout? It's well into January and we haven't seen a damn thing from him! No link, sir, until you return to duty, and do the right and proper thing! It might be onerous for you, but we need your medication ...

As for making sense of the story, who could possibly make sense of it? 

The pond gets all philosophical at moments like this and wonders what it all means, and not just in a Pythonish way.

There's the pyramids and the moai of Easter Island and many other epic constructions of a Trump tower kind, and all the pond can think of is Freud and the endless desire for erections ... and what do you know, there's a few erections in the Wolff ...

Never mind, it's a field day for the likes of CNN - for those who missed it, there's a short excerpt here with the best Stephen Miller lines highlighted.

Whenever the pond gets Donald fatigue these days - usually on a daily basis - it heads off to the cartoonists ... reminding us of the onerous duties of the vacuous courtiers, and the possibility of nuking anyone or anything in sight ...

But all good things must come to an end, so how does this chapter in the unfolding soap wrap up?

Well no, there are many ways it could end, and just like the end of those fraudulent Saturday matinees, it could end with a bang ... and that's what keeps the punters hooked ...

And now, since The Producers was mentioned, why not a song from the show, an eternal pond favourite which it dusts off every so often ... and if you think about it for a nanosecond, the lyrics were prescient ...

The US was having trouble 
What a sad, sad story 
Needed a new leader to restore 
Its former MAGA glory 
Where, oh, where was he? 
Where could that man be? 
We looked around and then we found 
The man for you and me 
Where, oh, where was he? 
Where could that man be? 
Eating a cheeseburger in front of the TV
We looked around and then we found
Him eating a cheeseburger in front of the TV 
The man for you and me! 

Donald trouper dressed as Stephen Miller:

And now it's... 
Springtime for the Donald and the Confederacy 
Charlottesville is happy and gay! 
We're marching to a faster pace 
Look out, here comes the master American race! 
Springtime for the Donald and Yankee Land
Mar-a-lago's a fine land once more! 
Springtime for the Donald and Andrew Jackson
Watch out, Europe and Asia ...
We're going on tour! 
Springtime for the Donald and the Trump brand...

Sheesh, the pond is always mishearing and mashing up song lyrics, sing along how you will ... just enjoy the show, and please, no walk outs, you knew from the name of the show what you were getting ...