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By midday, the White House effort to appear less Nixonian was continuing apace. After all, what could appear less Nixonian than meeting the Russian ambassador and then doing a photo op in the Oval with Henry Kissinger?

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And then, of course, there's Mike Pence, who really is a remarkable piece of smarm sculpture. Pence dropped by the Senate and he dropped a little mendacity on the assembled media, as The Hill reports.

"The president's decision to accept the recommendation of the deputy attorney general and the attorney general to remove Director Comey as the head of the FBI was based solely and exclusively on his commitment to the best interest of the American peopleI personally am very grateful that we have a president willing to show the kind of strong and decisive leadership" necessary to fire him."

Remember how Nixon used to refer to himself as The President when he wanted to come off as particularly macho? That's what Pence was dealing with here. Unfortunately for the notably unpopular former governor of Indiana, it only took The New York Times about 45 minutes to make Pence look enough like a tool that he should be hanging on a hook in Home Depot. As they used to say back in the day, follow the money:

Days before he was fired, James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, asked the Justice Department for a significant increase in money and personnel for the bureau's investigation into Russia's interference in the presidential election, according to three officials with knowledge of his request. Mr. Comey asked for the resources during a meeting last week with Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general who wrote the Justice Department's memo that was used to justify the firing of the F.B.I. director this week. Mr. Comey then briefed members of Congress on the meeting in recent days.

The ominous howling of King Timahoe grows ever louder.

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