Huckabee-Sanders is about to hunt for a lamb to sacrifice in her LecternGate fiasco

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Quite possibly true; but investigating corruption seems like one of those activities where you pretty much have to chase down what you can, even when it doesn’t make sense on a cost-recovery basis, lest you create the (obviously bad) norm that all corruption that’s either relatively penny-ante or sufficiently obfuscated is basically OK.

As someone(reluctantly) involved in maintaining inventories and handing out hardware I’m very much of the philosophy that micromanagement is more costly than just treating people like reasonable adults; but only in a context where you don’t have reason to suspect that someone is trying to play you and where you’ve minimized the ability to actually get anything worthwhile out through the cracks.

Once someone gets to pick their own vendors and name their own prices you are clearly in a different position from just not auditing people’s claims that their $30 mouse/keyboard combo needs a replacement and storing those in the supply closet rather than behind an IT approval process.

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I once worked in an office where you had to get the building services staff to re-stock the copier because so many reams of paper had disappeared from employee theft. I still find it hard to understand who was printing so much at home in the 2010s.

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Sanders isn’t the sort of person to do that; like her fellow travellers, they exist solely to acquire money and power, not to share it with others.

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It’s about time someone brought down Big Lectern.

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Yea needs more falcon wtf?

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Hey, it’s the only good thing to come out of her disastrous tenure.

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Don’t forget that we got to see some beautiful images of a head of lettuce, too!

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