If you don’t “blow a gasket” you aren’t tuned in… ====== WSJ 1/24/2018 The Justice Department has dropped a second tranche of text exchanges between FBI agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page—conveniently delivering them to the Senate at the start of last Friday night’s government shutdown. Investigators are still plowing through the 384 pages, but preliminary findings raise new questions about FBI political... Read more
Archive for the ‘Party Politics’ Category
Charles Is in Charge – WSJ
January 19 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Party Politics, TrumpWell, Mr. President??? ===== By The Editorial Board WSJ Jan. 19, 2018 Donald Trump spent 90 minutes talking to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer at the White House on Friday trying to avoid a government shutdown, and after he left Mr. Schumer vouchsafed that “we made some progress.” But apparently not enough to stop him and his fellow Democrats from threatening to filibuster... Read more
Poor Ol’ Fusion?
January 14 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Party PoliticsPlease pass the box of Kleenex… ===== WSJ 1/4/2018 Let’s see. The Clinton campaign hires Fusion GPS, an opposition research firm, to investigate the Trump campaign. Fusion hires a former British spy, Christopher Steele, who produces a dossier based on Russian sources full of rumor, hearsay and an occasional fact to allege collusion between the Kremlin and Trump campaign. The dossier gets to... Read more
Not a Victim Anymore?
January 14 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Party Politics, Politically correct, Racism“…Racism is as endemic to the human condition, just like stupidity is.” ====== Shelby Steele, 1/12/2018 WSJ The recent protests by black players in the National Football League were rather sad for their fruitlessness. They may point to the end of an era for black America, and for the country generally—an era in which protest has been the primary means of black advancement... Read more
The Definition of Stonewalling
December 11 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Law, Liberal Press, Party Politics, The LeftEven I am surprised at how neglected this story has been by the main-street press. ========= WSJ 12/11/2017 Christopher Wray was supposed to bring a new candor and credibility to the FBI after the James Comey debacle, but the country is still waiting. The director’s testimony Thursday to the House Judiciary Committee suggests he has joined the Justice Department effort to stop the... Read more
Obstruction of Justice? – WSJ
December 11 | Posted by mrossol | Law, Liberal Press, Party Politics, Strassel, US ConstitutionNo one should be surprised that ‘they’ are not giving up easily. ===== WSJ 12/8/2017 K A Strassel Obstruction of Congress The media echo chamber spent the week speculating about whether Special Counsel Robert Mueller can or will nab President Trump on obstruction- ofjustice charges. All the while it continues to ignore Washington’s most obvious obstruction— the coordinated effort to thwart congressional... Read more
