Don’t worry about Sally Yates missing her next paycheck after being fired as acting attorney general.  She is on her way to stardom in the Blue Bubble. [It was a fully justified firing, and you can read elsewhere an excellent analysis on why, and the political lesson the Trump administration must learn.  My purpose here is to comment on the obvious show-biz nature of the incident.] It is very clear to me that Ms. Yates knew she would be fired, so we have to consider her goals in provoking the only possible response to insubordination.  The charitable way to describe it is “taking a stand” against the evils of Trump.  The slightly demented way of charitably putting it is that she would be a “martyr” to the cause (the cause being stopping The Next Hitler in the fevered imaginations of progressives driven insane by their electoral repudiation of last November). Either way, she becomes a hero of the left, and the recipient of a...(Read Full Post)