You're Not in Kansas Anymore, Toto

     Sometimes it seems if Republicans willingly and eagerly walk through that door, to set themselves up almost with what one could call alacrity- That trap that's catnip for late night comedians and their writing staffs.
     I give you Mike Pompeo.
     The other Mr. Mike of this fun house administration seems to have an impeccable sense of not comic timing but bathos. He's made his Senate ambitions widely known, he's looking for a graceful way out of the State Department and the abovementioned fun house administration. But with the highly-successful (or highly damning, depending on your political stripe) impeachment proceedings going full steam ahead and chugging its way toward Nadler's Judiciary Committee to determine whether they'll pass articles of impeachment (they will), there never seems to be a good time to tip out the door.
     And parallel to Pompeo's ludicrous dreams of being a senator is this revelation that came out in the nearly obligatory late Friday document dump that delineates a pretty incriminating paper trail that stretches from Pompeo's office at Foggy Bottom to the presidential palace in Kiev and back to the White House. I give you yesterday's New York Times:

“The emails indicate that Mr. Pompeo spoke at least twice by telephone with Mr. Giuliani in March as Mr. Giuliani was urging Ukraine to investigate Mr. Trump’s rivals, and trying to oust a respected American ambassador to Ukraine, Marie L. Yovanovitch, who had been promoting anticorruption efforts in the country. Mr. Pompeo ordered Ms. Yovanovitch’s removal the next month. The first call between Mr. Giuliani and Mr. Pompeo was arranged with guidance from Mr. Trump’s personal assistant, the documents suggest.”

     So there you have it. These State documents, obtained through a FOIA request, revealed Pompeo was in the thick of this whole Ukraine swamp. He was helping Giuliani to find dirt on the Bidens personally, fired for bullshit reasons Marie Yovanovitch from her post as our Ukrainian ambassador then proceeded to cover it up. No wonder Pompous Maximus didn't want those documents coming out.
     I can't speak to Pomeo's upbringing in Kansas but I'd imagine when he waded into the middle of the Trump Swamp in 2017, he was completely unprepared for the sheer level of corruption awaiting him. Maybe those good old fashioned Midwestern values from Pompeo's salad days of yesteryear didn't prepare him for the kneecapping, back-stabbing and head-butting corruption that's a specialty of New York, Moscow and Kiev.
     But it's understandable that Pompeo now wants to temporarily flee the epicenter of the swamp repopulated by bigger, newer and improved alligators by Trump. What's inexplicable is why he thinks the people of Kansas would think he'd be a good fit in the Senate and why he'd want to flee to Kansas only with the intention of getting back into Washington in what will surely be a soon-in-coming post-Trump era.