Perhaps it's a Google doc you occasionally add to, and pull up roughly once a week to select a choice phrase to help characterize the idiocy of the day. Or an Excel spreadsheet or Word doc — whatever works best for you.
Congressman and former Florida Governor Charlie Crist (D-St. Petersburg) had more words for President Donald Trump Tuesday in light of Trump's apparent compulsion to brag to Russian officials about all of the awesome intelligence people give him. (Like, it's really the best. No one gets better intelligence than Donald J. Trump. I have someone read simplified bullet points about it to me while I watch Sean Hannity and eat buckets of fried chicken.)
In recent weeks, Crist has been quick to get his criticisms of Trump (and an inactive GOP-led Congress) into the record, like he did last week when Trump fired then-FBI Director James Comey ("the timing is extremely suspect") and the House's vote to repeal and replace Obamacare ("cruel and unusual").
Anyway, here's what Crist said this time:
"The news that the President gave highly classified information to the Russian Foreign Minister and Russian Ambassador in the Oval Office is deeply, deeply disturbing. His actions are indefensible," his statement, sent out to media through a spokeswoman, began.
Crist expressed concern over the implications of Trump's actions — which are potentially grave — and called on his colleagues to determine how to prevent such a thing from happening again.
"[Trump's actions] delivered a self-inflicted wound to our national security, imperiling secret, sensitive operations overseas battling ISIS, putting the lives of our operatives in grave danger. Congress must exercise its oversight responsibilities immediately. The repercussions of the disclosure, and measures to prevent the President from repeating such a serious error, must be weighed."
Because apparently the President of the United States has never been given a list of national security and foreign policy security dos and don'ts.
Meanwhile, Crist's team has checked "deeply, deeply disturbing" off its worrisome-Trump-action-of-the-day descriptors list. What'll be next? How about incredibly disheartening? Disturbingly ominous? Demonstrates a profound lack of understanding of his own role? Barely literate? Makes Nixon look like Ghandi?
We have more if you want 'em, guys.
This article appears in May 11-18, 2017.