WSJ 3/7/2017 Well, that was predictable. Senate Democrats hounded Attorney General Jeff Sessions to recuse himself last week from any investigation into Russia and the Donald Trump presidential campaign, and no wonder. Now Democrats are threatening to hold up President Trump’s nominee to be deputy AG unless he promises to appoint the special prosecutor they want. On Tuesday the Senate Judiciary Committee... Read more
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Schumer’s Rosenstein Extortion
March 7 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Party PoliticsThe Left Learns to Love Dubya
March 3 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, The Left, TrumpDo ya’ miss him yet? ===== By Kimberley A. Strassel WSJ March 2, 2017 6:59 p.m. ET George W. Bush gave Democrats a gift this week—which should be a reminder of the perils of demonizing political opponents. But don’t bank on the left accepting his gracious offering. Promoting his new book about veterans on NBC’s “Today” show, Mr. Bush was asked to weigh in... Read more
The DeVos Apocalypse
February 9 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Education, Henninger, The LeftA bit more on this important event. It will be interesting to see the landscape 4 years hence. ================= WSJ 2/9/2017 By Daniel Henninger The extraordinary battle over Betsy De Vos’s nomination to be secretary of education is the defining event of the Trump presidency’s early days. As presented, the DeVos confirmation appeared to be a standard partisan conflict between Democrats... Read more
The Real Democratic Party
February 9 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Education, Party Politics, The Left, Unions===== WSJ 2/8/2017 The Senate made history Tuesday when Mike Pence became the first Vice President to cast the deciding vote for a cabinet nominee. The nominee is now Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. The vote came after an allnight Senate debate in a futile effort by Democrats to turn the third Republican vote they needed to scuttle the nomination on claims that... Read more
Chuck Schumer vs. the ‘Resistance’
February 9 | Posted by mrossol | Democrat Party, Party PoliticsTalk about a tough job. ============== WSJ By William A. Galston 2/8/2017 Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has the toughest job in Washington, and nothing on the horizon is likely to make it any easier. By Election Day the tactics and tone of the Trump campaign had already rubbed Democrats’ nerves raw. The massive turnout for the Women’s March the day after the... Read more
The Non-Silence of Elizabeth Warren
February 9 | Posted by mrossol | Democrat Party, Party Politics, The LeftThe Democrat Party wants to live by separate rules. And yet they wonder why Donald Trump was elected. It was their “President Obama” who said, many times over: Elections have consequences. But God forbid a non-Democrat to think the same?! Is this really where they want to take this country? If the answer is yes, I hope they are ready. ====== WSJ Feb. 8,... Read more
