We Still Want Some Answers From The Postmaster General, And The President

Even With Louis DeJoy saying he’s slamming the brakes on further service changes between now and Election Day, we still want to know:

• Why he didn’t have the common sense to know it wouldn’t be a good idea to noticeably slow delivery, and rip out sorting machines and mailboxes, during an election, during a pandemic?

Is it because the President’s used to thinking he and “his guys” can get away with anything? After all, seems like we barely remember he was impeached, and that was this year!

• And forget about promises about no more immediate changes: is DeJoy going to put things back together the way they were before he started tearing them apart? At least in terms of personnel, he certainly can’t, because he’s already shuffled dozens of senior management people around (and out).

Senator Joe Manchin (D) WV, hits it on the head when he says:

“We all know that if the American people and members of Congress had not pushed back on these unacceptable changes, the Administration would have continued on as they have been.”

Meanwhile, Trump Tweets:

After he’s repeatedly lambasted the Postal Service, calling it dumb, and poor, and “a joke”?

Need any more proof that the President cares about nothing but getting himself re-elected at all costs? And will take any position on anything if it polls well for him and pleases his base, because he doesn’t really care about anything other than his own self-aggrandizement?

Oh, and one more thing: if you needed definitive proof that what triggered Trump’s (until recently) vitriolic attacks on the Postal Service came from anything deeper than wanting to mete out punishment on Amazon founder Jeff Bezos for daring to own the Washington Post, because Amazon has a big contract with the USPS, we point you to Trump’s Democratic National Convention counter programming mini-rally in Minnesota this week. Where he can’t help, when he talks about Amazon, referring to the company as “him”.

Behind the President: a lot of jockeying on Capitol Hill, where Republicans…