It’s Friday evening, do you know where your Special Counsel is?
The last several days have been an onslaught of news. From gun control to trade wars to scandalous cabinet secretaries to Jared Kushner losing his security clearance and using his position as Trump son-in-law/Senior Advisor to secure massive loans to his family business, the past week has felt like months worth of major stories.
Even when you get outside of the White House, our institutions of government have run amok. The House Intelligence Committee is leaking texts of Senators for partisan gain. The end game of Mitch McConnell’s Senate obstruction is soon to play out in the Supreme Court with a union-busting case. Collective bargaining for public unions is hanging by a prayer.
We are definitely living the curse of interesting times. If Trump is draining the swamp, then we’re all in the sewer it’s running through.
Of course, some of this overwhelming pace of breaking news is not the kind that Trump wants to hear, either. Robert Mueller is tightening the noose around the Trump campaign and it ties to Russian election interference. Trump may have lost Hope (Hicks), but Mueller gives hope to the rest of us.
Whatever the news tonight, good or bad, it is sad we are even here. So while we wait, have a Bittersweet Symphony cocktail, put on some redemption songs, and think about how we might recover some of what we’re losing.
From Gaz Regan’s great book The Negroni, the Bittersweet Symphony is a tasty Negroni variation:
1.5 oz London dry gin
.75 oz Punt e Mes
.75 oz Aperol
Stir, strain into a chilled cocktail glass, lemon twist.
Cheers!
Gin & Bitters 