WSJ 3/7/2017 Robert Bork saw it all coming. Not, of course, today’s clash of recriminations, between a sitting Republican president who’s accused his Democratic predecessor of having tapped his phones even as the other side accuses this same Republican’s campaign team of having colluded with Moscow to steal the November election. For all his wisdom, the late judge and onetime Supreme Court... Read more
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Robert Bork and the FISA Follies
March 7 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Party Politics, US ConstitutionThe 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
Obama’s Fitting Finish
December 27 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Obama, Party PoliticsLot of damage can still be done. ========= WSJ 12/24/2016 Barack Obama’s decision to abstain from, and therefore allow, last week’s vote to censure Israel at the U.N. Security Council is a fitting capstone for what’s left of his foreign policy. Strategic half-measures, underhanded tactics and moralizing gestures have been the president’s style from the beginning. Israelis aren’t the only people to feel... Read more
‘The Resistance’ vs. Trump’s Cabinet
December 27 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Party PoliticsTwo-faced, may be a good term…. ============ WSJ 12/24/2016 The progressive Donald Trump doomsday clock is still at a minute to midnight even as the President-elect has named a string of mainstream cabinet nominees, and Senate Democrats are signaling that they plan to fight nearly all of them. They’re even calling themselves “the resistance,” which does accurately capture the combination of melodrama and... Read more
