I woke up from a nap to discover the latest sally from the President in the Border wall/Shutdown fight:

Your Ethics Alarms Ethics Quiz of the Day:

Is this fighting fair?

Some quick thoughts before turning this over to your comments and a poll:

• You have to be a truly virulent Trump-hater not to find humor in this.
• The President has repeatedly said that his version of ethics is tit-for-tat: you hit me, I’ll hit you back, and harder. No, it’s not ethical. But it can be effective.
• What are the odds that MSNBC, Richard Painter and Maxine Waters finds this letter impeachable?
• The Speaker of the House has absolutely no function or responsibility in foreign affairs. The flight was the definition of government waste.
• I found myself wondering what previous Presidents might have done this in a parallel situation? Andrew Jackson, for sure. Maybe Teddy, cousin Franklin, and LBJ, too. Would Reagan? If he did, he would know that his pal Tip O’Neill would be grudgingly appreciative.
• On Glenn Reynold’s blog, a commenter quoted Abraham Lincoln on Ulysses S. Grant: “I need this man. He fights.”
• Ethical or not, the President won more votes than he lost with the letter.
• I’m sure Gillette does not approve.