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Tulsi you later, failed traitor!

Lie with dogs, and you're likely to get fleas. Or, in Tulsi Gabbard's case, ally yourself with Donald Trump and get driven out of the role in which you staked your entire political career.  In the wake of Gabbard's announcement last week that she is stepping down  in her role as the Director of National Intelligence to take care of her cancer-stricken husband, there can be no denying that she has been on the outside looking in for months due to her history of being vocal in support of American noninterventionalism. In fact, Donald Trump himself began polling his senior staff in early April to determine whether there was a suitable replacement for Gabbard, a sign that she would be the next to go. This was not a spur-of-the-moment decision; Gabbard had been slowly irking Trump in the kind of way that gets a person a one-way ticket directly out of the administration. From The Guardian :  As early as last June, Trump became irritated by a video Gabbard recorded warning about...

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