If it waddles like a duck; quacks like a duck, then its a duck. = = = = By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. WSJ Oct. 24, 2017 6:17 p.m. ET Let’s give plausible accounts of the known facts, then explain why demands that Robert Mueller recuse himself from the Russia investigation may not be the fanciful partisan grandstanding you imagine. Here’s a story consistent with... Read more
Archive for the ‘Party Politics’ Category
The FBI’s Political Meddling
October 25 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Jenkins, Party Politics, The LeftI’m Not Sure I Like the Ship That Just Left the Dock
June 18 | Posted by mrossol | Party Politics, Special Counsel, US ConstitutionI am nervous about this, to say the least. ======== WSJ 6/17/2017 That didn’t take long. Barely a week after James Comey admitted leaking a memo to tee up a special counsel against Donald Trump, multiple news reports based on leaks confirm that special counsel Robert Mueller is investigating the President for obstruction of justice. You don’t have to be a Trump partisan... Read more
Trump-Russia Story Starts Making Sense – WSJ
June 2 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Liberal Press, Party Politics, Russia, TrumpPut a sticky-note on this one. ============== WSJ – By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. May 26, 2017 8:06 p.m. ET The Trump -Russia business is finally coming into clearer, more rational focus. Former Obama CIA chief John Brennan, in testimony this week, offered no evidence of Trump campaign cooperation with Russian intelligence. Instead he spoke of CIA fears that Russia would try to recruit/blackmail/trick... Read more
Rod Rosenstein’s Justice – WSJ
May 11 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Party Politics, The Left, US ConstitutionWhy isn’t the press talking about facts? ====== WSJ 5/11/2017 Nixon. Watergate. Tuesday night massacre. Coup. Dictator. Impeachment. Those are the words political elites are throwing around after President Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey, and that’s in the news stories. The meltdown reflects the temper of the times and hostility to Mr. Trump, but it also ignores the need to repair... Read more
The Bolton Unmasking Files
May 1 | Posted by mrossol | Democrat Party, Losing Freedom, Party Politics, The LeftNo one is surprised… ======= WSJ 5/1/2017 Democrats and their press allies are going all in to squelch the Susan Rice “unmasking” story, insisting that the decision by Barack Obama’s national security adviser to seek the name of at least one Trump campaign official was routine and no big deal. Tell that to former Bush Administration official John Bolton, whom Democrats pilloried for... Read more
Susan Rice Unmasked
April 5 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Party Politics, The LeftWill the major media pick up this story??? === WSJ 4/4/2017 Well, what do you know. On the matter of who “unmasked” the names of Trump transition officials in U.S. intelligence reports, we now have one answer: Susan Rice, Barack Obama’s national security adviser. A U.S. intelligence official confirms to us the bombshell news, first reported Monday by Bloomberg, that Ms. Rice requested the... Read more
