WSJ 12/7/2019
Hearings were hardly necessary to show that Donald Trump, in all too characteristic a fashion, took interest in his administration’s Ukraine policy only when he saw a chance to lard on Ukrainian announcements that he could throw back in the face of domestic critics who questioned his 2016 legitimacy.
So why does Adam...
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Mr. Schiff’s Impeachment Opus
December 9 | Posted by mrossol | Democrat Party, Impeachment, Trump, Uncategorized
WSJ 12/4/2019
These columns warned that once the machinery of impeachment was up and running, it would be impossible to stop. And so on Tuesday Adam Schiff released his House Intelligence Committee report on Ukraine that finds President Trump guilty of playing domestic politics with foreign policy. But it’s clear the President’s real sin is...
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Anti-trump project
November 16 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Henninger, Trump
Daniel Henninger – WSJ 11/14/2019
Nancy Pelosi was right the first time. The Democrats shouldn’t have done this. They should not have tried to make the already over-w helmed American public believe that Donald Trump’s umpteenth “norms” violation was a constitutional crisis. But no, the party’s leftmost elements insisted, and the Beltway press insisted. Mr. Trump had to...
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What Barr Should Declassify
July 4 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Clinton, TrumpThe story you won’t hear on most news outlets.. WSJ 7/3/2019
Finally America has its George Smiley, the fictional master spy from the John le Carré novels. Smiley knew the importance of a spy agency being willing to get to the bottom of its own major cock-ups.
Attorney General William Barr has been given power by Donald Trump...
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Escape from hell (collusion)
April 18 | Posted by mrossol | Democrat Party, Henninger, TrumpWSJ 4/18/2019 Daniel Henninger
On Jan. 10, 2017, a news-and ente r tainment website called BuzzFeed published the text of the Steele dossier. Simultaneously, most of the U.S. media began running stories based on anonymous intelligence sources suggesting the possibility of a link during the previous year’s election between U.S. President-elect Trump and Vladimir Putin. This came...
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What Trump Might be doing Right – Letters
January 9 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Noonan, Republican(s), The Right, TrumpSome very good responses to Peggy Noonan’s editorial of 12/29/2018, where she tried to encourage “Trump insiders” to “speak up – on the record”. ======= Peggy Noonan asks “Trump insiders” to speak candidly about how the administration conducts the people’s business (“Trump Insiders, Come Out of the Shadows,” Declarations, Dec. 29). Two years are indeed enough time to evaluate the conduct of... Read more