Impeachment talk from Dems “political pap”
Larry Kudlow to the ramparts in a piece that is optimistic about passage of tax reform:
All this talk of impeachment based on obstruction of justice is just Democratic political pap. George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley, who is no partisan, calls it “an awfully thin soup.”
Former federal prosecutor and NR contributor Andrew McCarthy says “the basis for claiming at this point that President Trump obstructed justice is not there.”
Acting FBI director Andrew McCabe told Congress there’s been no interference in the FBI’s investigations and no request for additional funding.
If James Comey wrote a memo about obstruction of justice, he is legally obligated to report it to the highest levels of the Justice Department. Failure to do so could invoke criminal charges.
Why did he wait until he was fired to have his leakers put this out?
Yet behind all this mess, Speaker Paul Ryan keeps telling people that Congress can walk and chew gum at the same time. He’s right.
Let’s hear it for optimism, all you right-thinkers.
Trump neither down nor out . . .
Trump Shared Intelligence Secrets With Russians in Oval Office Meeting – WSJ
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according to U.S. officials,
Plural.
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according to the officials,
Again.
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According to one U.S. official,
Singular.
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The Wall Street Journal agreed not to identify the ally because another U.S. official said it could jeopardize the source.
The ally? Nice of the Journal to keep that out of the paper. But why did the Journal agree not to identify the helpful officials who gave it the story?
Instant reaction: We know whoever they are, they are out to get him. We know it’s take-a-leak time at the White House. We know Trump is not their kind of POTUS.
Question of day: WHO ARE these nameless leakers? Is there a reporter around who can arrange a meeting in a basement garage and discover this? Woodward-Bernstein of our day, where art thou, Brother?
Sun-Times on the selling block — and Tribune owner wants to buy it | Chicago Sun-Times
My favorite Chi daily, by a long shot.
Seems like a solution here — assuming S-T keeps its identity.
From Tom Hickey’s With Both Hands:
President Haughty gave out his academic-smoothie aura so clearly, did he not?
What my friend Jake told the cold-caller who began by asking, “How you doin’ today?”
“My hemorrhoids are acting up, otherwise I’m OK. And you?” (Jake kissed the h-word goodbye ages ago, but the caller didn’t know that and never will.)
Jake, no relation, by the way, is a throwback to old pre-digital Blithe Spirit days, about which more later. Ditto Jake.
Later: A less sardonic reply, which Jake did not supply, would be, to being asked how you are doing, “About to feel much better, thank you.”
Look, I tell you what Jake says but want to be helpful on my own, OK?
FBI No. 2 did not disclose wife’s ties to Clinton ally, records show | Fox News
Guilty as charged: Pot called kettle black.
FBI #2 on heavy take from Virginia’s top Dem while in the thick of investigating Trump? His better half, that is. What is this anyway?
What Comey’s firing means for the Russia investigation — Washington Post
Busy, busy, busy they are at WaPo, linking to Nixon’s Sat. Night Massacre et al., after years of somnolence during Obama time. Something there is that wakes them up in Republican time.
They come to life!
