I had to laugh when Krugman referred to "Kevin Hassett, the administration’s top economist." So gleeful Colin Robinson is the big brain deciphering war-driven inflation for Trump & Co.
This is why the Dems need to plaster rural America with billboards about the grifting Trump family and also send good candidate reps there to talk to the people (Like Pete Buttigeg, a great communicator).
I believe he's never had a driver's licence. Never needed one with cheap chauffeurs driving everyone around. Anyone ever see him behind the wheel of a car?
From Honeymoon in Vegas, where Nick Cage's character is about to skydive with the Flying Elvises, the leader of the group tells Cage's Jack when asked if parachutes are foolproof, "As the king himself said, there ain't nothing foolproof 'cept Coup DeVilles and hookers!"
77 million Americans stepped into the 2024 voting booth and pressed the Wheel Of Moron. Now they drive to the gas station, fill up their tanks paying $4 per gallon, then go to the grocery (what a quaint word!) store - and Holy Shit, their eyes pop out when they see the grand total of what they purchased.
When ignorant voters spin the Wheel Of Moron, “what goes around comes around” (to bite them in the ass)
He never spends any of his money on room or board and you know he manages never to pay for his McDonald’s deliveries. At the same time, he, his family, his cronies, and minions are making billions.
That reminds me about those supposed "tariff rebate/refund checks." Have any companies actually received one? Nevertheless, us regular folks aren't going to be seeing that money back. The money we've lost to higher prices (whether by the random tariffs or the Straits of Schrödinger) has either been lost forever to us, or been hoovered up into the griftpockets of America's Pilonidal Cyst.
Would anyone really vote for Bovino (who views himself as an SS Officer only in modern times)?
I mean, who in their right fucking mind.
So here is what we have to face today:
▪ Iran answers U.S. strikes with twenty-one of its own across the Gulf ▪ The ICE money bill clears the House by two votes, heads to the desk ▪ Bali's fireflies bred back from the dark, one larva at a time ▪ New York Republicans lose their minds over the word "parentage" ▪ Rose for the heart that's been clenched since Monday ▪ Cherríe Moraga, Maggie Nelson, and the long art of making family anyway
Once again-leave nature alone for crying out loud! AND let people who want to be parents alone! Who gives a shit if they are straight, gay, trans…so sick of people today! Good info Wendy….(deep breath!).
I'm sure that nazi Bovino is very appealing to the white supremacist crowd as well as to many of the stupid, racist people who voted for the felon in the white house, sigh.
Well, the preference for a tall, blond and Nordic type eliminates Mr. Big Shoes Rubio (as well as Hillbilly Makeover Vance). But there's always orange makeup and hair bleach to fall back on.
Most people thought that trump would lose in 2024 but here we are. I wouldn't put my trust in the average American voter at this point to NOT elect bovino.
Warxh plans to change the Central Bank's focus from the CPI to a "trimmed mean inflation."
If you don't like the results of the measure, change the measure. What do you think Warsh is trimming? I can't think of anything funny about that. I'm all laughed out.
If Ronnie Raygun hadn’t put his thumb on the CPI back when the real inflation rate would be more like 12% today. Let’s hope they don’t try that chained CPI shit that they threatened to do several years ago where each Social Security check shrinks progressively
I am so looking forward to the day when that pig-eyed Jabba the Hut with the sneering, fingernails on chalkboard voice is put back in his cage and out of my mind where he has occupied far too much space and time.
Oh, I'm just dying to see him doing the rounds without his cadre of armed goons to protect him.
If he wants to do the whole New Hampshire thing, he's going to have to contend with people who were pissed off that they tried to put concentration camps there on the sly. And he won't be able to keep out the non-Republicans who decide to show up and question him.
I may have to schedule a visit to my brother just to see if I can go see him in the wild.
I've turned into my mother circa 2002 when Dubya flirted with privatizing Social Security. She was hollering "they're not entitlements but earned benefits and the GOP needs to keep their fucking hands off my Social Security." Now as a SS recipient I feel the same way. You're not cutting my benefits for ICE.
Jeff, from the behavior of MAGAS and super MAGAs this weekend we are witnessing something rather extraordinary. First, this meeting in the Skiff by members of the administration last summer ostensibly to plan out and protect Dear Leader in the Epstein saga. Second, Holy Moses Mike stating we must cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, a goal of the GOP since the inception of these programs, putting a significant portion of seniors at a higher risk of disease and death. Thirdly, I’m getting the vibes that even though Dems will be elected to the House, I don’t trust the MAGAS to swear in those duly elected new members. There seems to be an unlimited supply of schemes to purposely cause mayhem and uncertainty in the general a few months away… We have seen the lengths MAGAs will go to retain their power and leadership so nothing should surprise us anymore. Best to All fellow travelers.
It was so irritating to read johnson say that we're up to our eyeballs in debt so we have to cut social security, medicare and medicaid, but we find billions and trillions of dollars for ice and weaponry for the military. No one can have nice things in this country anymore.
They need to lock him in a Target restroom until about 2080. Dear, sweet baby Jesus, how do these things come about? Bovino??? President??? Hold my beer while I go barf.
After the mango mussolini declared multiple times that the Iran military was completely destroyed they shoot down a US Apache helicopter. Maybe they should take their act to Vegas because this is some David Copperfield shit.
At great cost, though. How many billions have been wasted on Trump's stupid not-war? It's ok though, we'll just cut Social Security and Medicare to pay for it.
Exactly! How many times has tRump declared they had nothing left. Their military is gone. Then down comes our Apache . Thank God they made it out alive. But, fact remains, they shot it down. So much for a ceasefire that hasn’t ceased!
When I read that Bovino is actually running for president, I laughed so hard I had tears running down my face. He’s about as likely to win as I am to run a marathon (I’m 86, and disabled).
I agree Sharon but remember the Trump. We didn’t think that idiot had a chance either — ask Lyndsey. Of course Donnie had an advantage — he spent a lifetime perfecting his con; of course, he had his racist dad and Roy Cohn, that one man wrecking ball of hate, grooming him (oh, and how could I forget Satan).
If I had a penny for every-time I’ve said, “Oh my God!!!” Since January 20, 2025”, I’d be as rich as Elon by now! How does this shit show keep astonishing me every waking hour of every day?!
Me too!! I’ve never in my life have known who the Speaker of the House is by name & so many senators & Congress-men/women, the Superior Court judges, etc than I do now. That’s the ONLY positive to Trumpy being the POTUS! My hs history teacher would be proud!
Thanks, Jeff. It’s Groundhog Day for this stuff. The same little men with the same big fantasies, mistaking logistics for destiny and then faceplanting in real time.
Bovino going straight to wardrobe is authoritarianism as a costuming exercise, all epaulettes and no state capacity. Batista was fond of giant hats, I recall. Lots of gold braid.
We're seeing how small these people are up close. Bovino is a guy who thinks history is about to anoint him, and he’s out there preordering uniforms like a Comic-Con attendee looking forward to next year's big event.
Odds are he is sexting Noem like a drunk regional manager with no impulse control. There is such a huge gapbwteen how they see themselves and what they actually are, deeply unserious men who keep proving over and over, that they’re better at embarrassing themselves than running anything.
Orban learned that if you don't deliver, you get the boot no matter how hard they try to rig it into permanence. Fox may tell you that prices are down, but spending half your paycheck filling your tank says otherwise. And five dollar gas will seem like the good old days come August. Their incompetence and greed will be their undoing. I hope, anyway.
Bingo. So many of these turds, from the predator in chief on down through Piss drunk Pete, this guy the mini storm trooper, Vampire Miller, Macho Markwayne, even Gym Jordan, are all deeply insecure, so they inflict their overcompensating dominion on the lesser. MAGA is defined by soulless bullies, always punching down. Racist, misogynist cowards.
In any other corner of the known universe, and in any other dimensions that may exist through cosmic strings or quantum realms, stupid and clever occupy entirely different spaces. Only in the cult of MAGA, the most idiotic province in existence, are stupid and clever even adjacent, let alone separated by a fine line
“Pocket Nazi” is yet another great name your brain came up with. That lil’ schmuck has nothing better to do but to announce a run for Prez after going to Portugal. He spoke there about “reimigration”. You know, getting rid of immigrants. Well, JFC! That’s all of us!
Lindsay must have massaged quite a few dicks to win again but he has a strong opponent, so let’s see what happens.
Then the evil Repubs massaged their own diicks and are coming after Social Security and Medicare. Honestly, they are the biggest fuckers that money and threats have bought.
When bovino says he wants to deport almost a third of the US population, calling them illegal, he's not talking about immigrants per se. Take a look at the demographics for the US - that's basically the non-white percentage. He's taking about ethnic cleansing.
He just said the quiet part out loud. And he's not the only one. If it's not him, it will be someone like him running in 2028. Look at what Elon is spewing on Twitter and Vance is telling Europeans.
The far right is emboldened right now and I don't see things improving any time soon.
She does as far as I've read. She'd have the perfect excuse to leave the WH. Power, apparently, is the strongest drug on the planet, because some are willing to sacrifice their soul to retain it.
today in Shit That Happened While I Was Busy Writing This Shit—
"Consumer prices rose 4.2% annually in May, highest in three years"
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/10/cpi-inflation-report-may-2026.html
ace job, Donny.
And Donnie Dumbfuck says: “Prices aren’t that high.”
Sure asshole.
This from a guy who never had encountered the term groceries until a few months ago
Or the term dum(b).
Most people don’t know there’s a “b” on it…most stupid people like Donnie Dimwit, that is.
"Most people?" Mebbe the non-English speakers, like him
My husband says that people here on O’ahu are literally engraving “Fuck Trump” onto the gasoline pump windows where the prices are shown.
Good! I wager trump has never been to a gas station or seen a gas pump up close. Some "man of the people."
"Nobody knows that word but me. No one has ever used it before."
What the living fuck
But Trump told farmers in Northern Wisconsin that prices were falling.
I'm betting farmers have wised up to the scam.
Meh. They know prices aren't falling but they also *know* that lazy black people in Milwaukee are getting taking their hard earned money somehow.
Farmers for trump is like Chickens for McNuggets
Or, like Barbara Stanwyck says in The Lady Eve, "I need him like the axe needs the chicken."
Good one!
Today's Paul Krugman column on that point:
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/breaking-the-heart-of-the-heartland
I had to laugh when Krugman referred to "Kevin Hassett, the administration’s top economist." So gleeful Colin Robinson is the big brain deciphering war-driven inflation for Trump & Co.
This is why the Dems need to plaster rural America with billboards about the grifting Trump family and also send good candidate reps there to talk to the people (Like Pete Buttigeg, a great communicator).
Buttigieg recently did a town hall in Montana.
I don't know about that. I certainly hope that you are right. What does the Magic Eight Ball say?
He has never bought anything in his life. He has zero idea about balancing a budget
The only thing he's paid for is NDAs
"It's only one banana Michael. What could it cost? Ten dollars?"
Yeah just like he has never pumped a dollar in gas into any vehicle.He is such a butthole!
I believe he's never had a driver's licence. Never needed one with cheap chauffeurs driving everyone around. Anyone ever see him behind the wheel of a car?
Except the Presidency and hookers!
From Honeymoon in Vegas, where Nick Cage's character is about to skydive with the Flying Elvises, the leader of the group tells Cage's Jack when asked if parachutes are foolproof, "As the king himself said, there ain't nothing foolproof 'cept Coup DeVilles and hookers!"
Why would he pay hookers? He doesn't pay anybody else.
Just has to win the moment; Democrats are the only ones required to be attached to reality.
77 million Americans stepped into the 2024 voting booth and pressed the Wheel Of Moron. Now they drive to the gas station, fill up their tanks paying $4 per gallon, then go to the grocery (what a quaint word!) store - and Holy Shit, their eyes pop out when they see the grand total of what they purchased.
When ignorant voters spin the Wheel Of Moron, “what goes around comes around” (to bite them in the ass)
They also believed he was a brilliant businessman, despite any and all evidence to the contrary.
Where is this $4 a gallon gas? Here in Cleveland, you might find $4.29 if you drive around, but mostly much higher.
Well said, Bob
He never spends any of his money on room or board and you know he manages never to pay for his McDonald’s deliveries. At the same time, he, his family, his cronies, and minions are making billions.
No man, prices are going down. Fake news. Also, what's more important, medication or food? Asking for a friend.
That reminds me about those supposed "tariff rebate/refund checks." Have any companies actually received one? Nevertheless, us regular folks aren't going to be seeing that money back. The money we've lost to higher prices (whether by the random tariffs or the Straits of Schrödinger) has either been lost forever to us, or been hoovered up into the griftpockets of America's Pilonidal Cyst.
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-the-word-for-mother-in-every-language
Would anyone really vote for Bovino (who views himself as an SS Officer only in modern times)?
I mean, who in their right fucking mind.
So here is what we have to face today:
▪ Iran answers U.S. strikes with twenty-one of its own across the Gulf ▪ The ICE money bill clears the House by two votes, heads to the desk ▪ Bali's fireflies bred back from the dark, one larva at a time ▪ New York Republicans lose their minds over the word "parentage" ▪ Rose for the heart that's been clenched since Monday ▪ Cherríe Moraga, Maggie Nelson, and the long art of making family anyway
Once again-leave nature alone for crying out loud! AND let people who want to be parents alone! Who gives a shit if they are straight, gay, trans…so sick of people today! Good info Wendy….(deep breath!).
Breathe slowly tess....breathe slowly.
Aww man, is the slush fund and Epstein ballroom still in the bill? I bet it is. Republicans are such terrible cowards.
IIRC they didn't pass an amendment that would ban the slush fund but they did vote down the money he wanted for the ballroom.
I'm sure that nazi Bovino is very appealing to the white supremacist crowd as well as to many of the stupid, racist people who voted for the felon in the white house, sigh.
IDK, they would prefer a tall, blond and Nordic type, I'm sure. I guess you take what you can get if there is so little to choose from.
Well, the preference for a tall, blond and Nordic type eliminates Mr. Big Shoes Rubio (as well as Hillbilly Makeover Vance). But there's always orange makeup and hair bleach to fall back on.
“ so little to choose from” I see what you did there
Me, too. That was a little bit sneaky.
Most people thought that trump would lose in 2024 but here we are. I wouldn't put my trust in the average American voter at this point to NOT elect bovino.
Highest in 3 years? Who was President 3 years ago? President Biden…. and that is possible to prove
Warxh plans to change the Central Bank's focus from the CPI to a "trimmed mean inflation."
If you don't like the results of the measure, change the measure. What do you think Warsh is trimming? I can't think of anything funny about that. I'm all laughed out.
Thanks for making me laugh every day.
Can we start calling it Trumpflation or is this still the Biden economy he inherited? :)
If Ronnie Raygun hadn’t put his thumb on the CPI back when the real inflation rate would be more like 12% today. Let’s hope they don’t try that chained CPI shit that they threatened to do several years ago where each Social Security check shrinks progressively
But but but Joe Biden!
I am so looking forward to the day when that pig-eyed Jabba the Hut with the sneering, fingernails on chalkboard voice is put back in his cage and out of my mind where he has occupied far too much space and time.
I am determined to outlive him by any means. I don't want to miss what will be the biggest party the USA has ever thrown.
The world, Arne. The world.
I agree.I have champagne chilling for the occasion and it cannot come too soon.
Drink it and buy some more. It helps Victoria.
I've been practicing arne.
In the meantime,I kinda enjoy waiting to see what is gonna make his head explode. The Meet the Press interviewer got pretty close, lol🤯
He just runs away because he’s chickenshit.
That's (Orange) Jabba the Nutt to you.
Bovino is an attention whore with a little man complex. Pocket Nazi is so appropriate -and hilarious.
South Carolina must be dumber than Missouri. He's hoping the doctor beats Lindsey.
And if they cut social security, I hope that'll be the final straw to bury the GOP once and for all.
These people are so evil.
And today's Claudia photos are beautiful!! ❤️
Bovino the mini storm trooper
Is a fascist MAGA so super
But that Nazi short knob
Needs a new job
Make him trump's pooper scooper
Chefs’ kiss Doc!
Just about the right eye level
👏👏👏
Jesse Welles needs to put music to these lyrics! 👏👏👏
I think if they cut social security, the angry villagers may storm the ballroom.
The short jokes overwhelm the odious nature of the guy, but they just land so well. And you KNOW they hit him personally
I bet he drives a ginormous car to over-compensate. With a baby seat in the front so he can see out and raised pedals for his tiny feet.
😂😂😂
Oh, I'm just dying to see him doing the rounds without his cadre of armed goons to protect him.
If he wants to do the whole New Hampshire thing, he's going to have to contend with people who were pissed off that they tried to put concentration camps there on the sly. And he won't be able to keep out the non-Republicans who decide to show up and question him.
I may have to schedule a visit to my brother just to see if I can go see him in the wild.
I've turned into my mother circa 2002 when Dubya flirted with privatizing Social Security. She was hollering "they're not entitlements but earned benefits and the GOP needs to keep their fucking hands off my Social Security." Now as a SS recipient I feel the same way. You're not cutting my benefits for ICE.
South Carolinians are only marginally less stupid than Floridians. But then again, they were the FIRST state to leave the Union.
But don’t forget, Mizzou-rah elected a dead body as governor
Missouri simply sucks. I'm glad my grandmother isnt alive to see what its become.
Jeff, from the behavior of MAGAS and super MAGAs this weekend we are witnessing something rather extraordinary. First, this meeting in the Skiff by members of the administration last summer ostensibly to plan out and protect Dear Leader in the Epstein saga. Second, Holy Moses Mike stating we must cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, a goal of the GOP since the inception of these programs, putting a significant portion of seniors at a higher risk of disease and death. Thirdly, I’m getting the vibes that even though Dems will be elected to the House, I don’t trust the MAGAS to swear in those duly elected new members. There seems to be an unlimited supply of schemes to purposely cause mayhem and uncertainty in the general a few months away… We have seen the lengths MAGAs will go to retain their power and leadership so nothing should surprise us anymore. Best to All fellow travelers.
It was so irritating to read johnson say that we're up to our eyeballs in debt so we have to cut social security, medicare and medicaid, but we find billions and trillions of dollars for ice and weaponry for the military. No one can have nice things in this country anymore.
Trump's and Holy Mike's dark rumblings about the California vote count are a dress rehearsal for November.
Tiny Hitler probably found his inspiration at the bottom of a shot glass. Running for prez sounded like a good idea right before last call.
😂
Seeing the Teacup Nazi Bovino take a stab at a presidential run is the stuff of SNL dreams.
I say let him do he can be smacked down like the annoying little fascist pissant that he is.
I need more fun good news splashed across my FYP. Lol
Teacup Nazi. Love it. Thanks for the laugh.
Sounds like a great SNL skit coming up!! lol
How are they going to find someone short enough to fill his role?
Arne, I think Peter Dinklage would be awesome. He’s a great actor. I think he would knock it dead. Would he be game for it? — I don’t know
Oh, Wow. That would be amazing. He might do it, too. So many celebs have taken a turn on SNL. I hope that comes to fruition.
Hmmmmm Rachel Drath!!????? Lol
Imagine Pope Leo XIV grabbing the Teacup Nazi by his third Reich lapels and throttling the little bastard
They need to lock him in a Target restroom until about 2080. Dear, sweet baby Jesus, how do these things come about? Bovino??? President??? Hold my beer while I go barf.
The GOP is just fucked-up enough to nominate Bovino as their Nazi of choice.
I would say that would be good because he couldn't possibly win, but I said that about Trump in 2016.
When I heard this last night I burst out laughing and then thought of the nightmare of 2016 and 2025. 😩🥺
Oh DO (!) let him run and siphon off the bona fide Nazi factions of the GOP, furthering fracturing a party that deserves to be buried alive.
My brain is going to explode, as I think I've reached critical mass from the amount of (bad, BAD WORDS!!) that the GOP has dumped into it.
After the mango mussolini declared multiple times that the Iran military was completely destroyed they shoot down a US Apache helicopter. Maybe they should take their act to Vegas because this is some David Copperfield shit.
True. It's amazing how some of us are rooting for the evil empire.
I was glad to learn no Americans died. So we can vicariously enjoy another humiliation for Trump and Hegseth.
At great cost, though. How many billions have been wasted on Trump's stupid not-war? It's ok though, we'll just cut Social Security and Medicare to pay for it.
Exactly! How many times has tRump declared they had nothing left. Their military is gone. Then down comes our Apache . Thank God they made it out alive. But, fact remains, they shot it down. So much for a ceasefire that hasn’t ceased!
When I read that Bovino is actually running for president, I laughed so hard I had tears running down my face. He’s about as likely to win as I am to run a marathon (I’m 86, and disabled).
You'd have more of us cheering you on than mini man will have votes.
I agree Sharon but remember the Trump. We didn’t think that idiot had a chance either — ask Lyndsey. Of course Donnie had an advantage — he spent a lifetime perfecting his con; of course, he had his racist dad and Roy Cohn, that one man wrecking ball of hate, grooming him (oh, and how could I forget Satan).
(Confession: I laughed too)
See Stephane Lajeski, above. It is funny, though.
1. Spencer took a pratfall. Apparently an online campaign doesn’t correlate to an offline one.
2. Holy Moses Johnson knows diabolical when he sees it, since he comports with the Orange Devil
3. Gotta love when congresspeople pretend to be on the phone. Babies do it better.
I'm surprised the kiddie porn didn't start scrolling when he was on the phone.
If I had a penny for every-time I’ve said, “Oh my God!!!” Since January 20, 2025”, I’d be as rich as Elon by now! How does this shit show keep astonishing me every waking hour of every day?!
You can't look away. I've been more informed about political news than I've ever been in my life.
Me too!! I’ve never in my life have known who the Speaker of the House is by name & so many senators & Congress-men/women, the Superior Court judges, etc than I do now. That’s the ONLY positive to Trumpy being the POTUS! My hs history teacher would be proud!
True dat lol 😂
I’d be a billionaire from just the amount of swear words I’ve said since 2016! Holy…. Toledo‼️
Same here. I'm trying to do better but it's very difficult.
Thanks, Jeff. It’s Groundhog Day for this stuff. The same little men with the same big fantasies, mistaking logistics for destiny and then faceplanting in real time.
Bovino going straight to wardrobe is authoritarianism as a costuming exercise, all epaulettes and no state capacity. Batista was fond of giant hats, I recall. Lots of gold braid.
We're seeing how small these people are up close. Bovino is a guy who thinks history is about to anoint him, and he’s out there preordering uniforms like a Comic-Con attendee looking forward to next year's big event.
Odds are he is sexting Noem like a drunk regional manager with no impulse control. There is such a huge gapbwteen how they see themselves and what they actually are, deeply unserious men who keep proving over and over, that they’re better at embarrassing themselves than running anything.
Orban learned that if you don't deliver, you get the boot no matter how hard they try to rig it into permanence. Fox may tell you that prices are down, but spending half your paycheck filling your tank says otherwise. And five dollar gas will seem like the good old days come August. Their incompetence and greed will be their undoing. I hope, anyway.
Bingo. So many of these turds, from the predator in chief on down through Piss drunk Pete, this guy the mini storm trooper, Vampire Miller, Macho Markwayne, even Gym Jordan, are all deeply insecure, so they inflict their overcompensating dominion on the lesser. MAGA is defined by soulless bullies, always punching down. Racist, misogynist cowards.
Bravo! Well said!
In any other corner of the known universe, and in any other dimensions that may exist through cosmic strings or quantum realms, stupid and clever occupy entirely different spaces. Only in the cult of MAGA, the most idiotic province in existence, are stupid and clever even adjacent, let alone separated by a fine line
“Pocket Nazi” is yet another great name your brain came up with. That lil’ schmuck has nothing better to do but to announce a run for Prez after going to Portugal. He spoke there about “reimigration”. You know, getting rid of immigrants. Well, JFC! That’s all of us!
Lindsay must have massaged quite a few dicks to win again but he has a strong opponent, so let’s see what happens.
Then the evil Repubs massaged their own diicks and are coming after Social Security and Medicare. Honestly, they are the biggest fuckers that money and threats have bought.
When bovino says he wants to deport almost a third of the US population, calling them illegal, he's not talking about immigrants per se. Take a look at the demographics for the US - that's basically the non-white percentage. He's taking about ethnic cleansing.
He just said the quiet part out loud. And he's not the only one. If it's not him, it will be someone like him running in 2028. Look at what Elon is spewing on Twitter and Vance is telling Europeans.
The far right is emboldened right now and I don't see things improving any time soon.
POPEIL Pocket Nazi!!
It goes next to your
POPEIL Pocket Fishing Pole! 🤣
Oh and no worries- Susie Wiles “isn’t going anywhere” (after whispers reported she was / is considering resigning).
So there’s that
I thought she had breast cancer.
She does as far as I've read. She'd have the perfect excuse to leave the WH. Power, apparently, is the strongest drug on the planet, because some are willing to sacrifice their soul to retain it.
Maybe just planting the seeds for the near-future event
*fighter* status