The Washington Post reports White House head florist Laura Dowling was let go and escorted from the building last month. Nobody seems to know why. Let me start two rumors.
Rumor 1: Wouldn't a florist be perfectly placed to plant tiny microphones attached to tiny burst transmitters or recorders to vacuum up White House gossip? I don't imagine the Secret Service pawing through floral displays looking for wires.
We aren't talking classified information so much as minion A dishing on minion B or on Michelle. National Inquirer would love it. So would the Post's Chris Cillizza for his Washington gossip blog, The Fix.
Rumor 2: It appears Michelle gave Dowling the axe. Perhaps POTUS was finding Dowling's company (or whatever) congenial and vice versa, a la Missy LeHand or Monica Lewinsky. Power is an amazing lure to some women.
