That pseudo-pharmacy? Was Dear Leader's before Trump's

I had heard the news about that so-called pseudo-pharmacy in the White House last Friday, but didn't pay attention until I saw Ambien trending on Twitter and #BlueAnon bagging on Ronny Jackson.

Most Tweets just had dueling mugshots of him and Hunter Jackson, with comments of the nature of "You can attack Hunter, but look at Ronnie Jackson."

Then, several tweets down, saw an Ars Technica link. OK, real news.

The real real news? The inspection by the Department of Defense Inspector General (WH physician is traditionally military officer, or else DoD civilian) was from 2009-2018.

Lemme see.

As I put it on Twitter, first, Dear Leader Obama was president most that time.

As I put it on Twitter secondly, Ronny Jackson was Dear Leader's doc during most that time. He became director of the White House Medical Unit in May 2010 and Physician to the President in July 2013.

I love it when #BlueAnon scores an own goal!

Now, it's true that most the investigation was on the Trump years.

It's also true that not having a pharmacist to run was was therefore by definition a pseudo-pharmacy also goes back to Obama's time, if not earlier. And STAT, which broke the story and is linked by Ars, noted that Obama-era staffers were interviewed as part of the investigation.

The full report notes other problems.

First, the WHMU has tripled in size in 15 years. (Counts back to ... 2009!)

Second, and this one I think DID fall mainly in the Trump-years focus, and that was providing health care, meds, etc., to ineligible WH staffers, families, etc.

That said, back to that own goal? The previous IG investigation of Jackson himself? Much of the behavior it looked at occurred on Dear Leader's watch.

Missing: White House solar panels

Barack Obama promised, when running for president, that he would put a more modern version of Jimmy Carter's solar panels atop the White House.

By spring 2011.

I guess he "forgot."

Per 350.org, you can remind him.

Or, per 350.org, we can be reminded that Obama will ask a competitiveness czar what the U.S. Chamber of Commerce thinks about this. And know that he will do nothing.

Schadenfreude — I feel the Tahoe owners’ pain, and laugh

I just don’t give a damn about your self-inflicted pain. The average American SUV owner, in addition to blaming Detroit, Congress and the White House for a lack of fuel policy, not that they’re all not to blame, which they are.

You the SUV driver are ultimately the one to blame. Your belief in American greed, American exceptionalism, and American invasions in the Middle East, along with a willful parochialism which includes a refusal to learn much about the outside world, let alone learn from it what we could be doing better on energy issues, is why your Tahoe now costs $100 to fill up. (Getty images photo original.)

In essence, lured by cheap gas, and five-, six- or even seven-year loans, you willingly signed up for the vehicular equivalent of a subprime mortgage.

And, you’re going to have to deal with it a loooongggg time. As former ExxonMobil CEO Lee Raymond (AP original photo) said:

“By the time there is panic, people need to realize this: There is no quick-fix on this. By the time you panic, it is way too late.”

Oh, and here’s a bit of ironical bitch-slap for you. David H. Obelcz, founder of the Chevy Avalanche Fan Club of North America, has sold his Avalanche.

And, as late as it is, one top-ranking elected official, GOP Sen. Pete Domenci of New Mexico, is admitting he made a mistake in the past:

“We were like everybody else,” he says. “We should have been more active on CAFE sooner.”

Dirty little non-secret, though, is that Pete feels free to say that because he’s retiring.

At the same time, Domenici doesn’t believe GM’s hype about the Volt, or anything else that’s coming from Detroit’s mouth:

“They talked a good research game,” he says. “But let’s face it, little was being done. They are suffering the consequences and could go broke just like the airlines.”