Kimberley Strassel
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Exciting NEWS! Galleys for my new book just arrived: Feel like you are reliving some of the bad 'ole 1970s? "The Biden Malaise" examines the eerie parallels between Biden and Carter--even as it makes the case that the comparison is profoundly unfair to . . Jimmy.
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1) Still waiting for my fellow members of the media to express their deep outrage and alarm that Intelligence Chair Schiff snooped thru and published phone records of member of the free press. The silence is deafening.
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Make sure family and friends see IG report: Clinton didn't just invite foreign influence in 2016; she paid for it. Her team funneled Russian dossier lies to the FBI, for her political gain. Americans deserve free and fair elections. If only press would hold her accountable.
Make sure your family and friends see the evidence for themselves:
The president asked a foreign power to interfere in the 2020 election for his own political gain.
Americans deserve free and fair elections. He must be held accountable.
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Don't get me wrong, I'm all into the strong-woman applause going on, but it has to be said that it is a little sad that the first thing House female Democrats really chose to celebrate here tonight was .. . themselves.
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Newly released documents show Adam Schiff knew all along that there was no proof of Russia-Trump collusion.
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1) Having read DOJ’s Trump-Ukraine release, here’s the real story: This is another internal attempt to take out a president, on the basis of another non-smoking-gun.
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Let's remember: Peaceful protesting is absolutely protected by the First Amendment. Mob rule, taking over buildings, and threatening elected members of Congress absolutely is not. Do not equate the two.
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What made the Susan Collins speech so impressive was that it was a return to what Senate debates are supposed to be about: persuading colleagues. She laid out an incredibly compelling case for confirmation. Quite the contrast to so much pontificating we see these days.
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The left made a mistake with this Ramirez story. It isn't just how embarrassingly flimsy it is; she was inebriated; took six days to find memories; everyone denies it. But it strongly suggests the Ford delay demands were about cooking this up. Destroys credibility all around.
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The FBI knew Michael Flynn wasn’t colluding with Russia, so it plotted to ‘get him to lie.’ New documents reveal that, by the end, the Bureau just wanted a scalp, writes
@KimStrassel
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Imagine how helpful it would be if
@JoeBiden
were to show some grace, call on Democrats to stand down, practice the healing he keeps preaching. Why won't he?
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The attacks aren't about the special counsel. They are about the fear over what Barr will expose.
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Credit to Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito for delivering a forceful repudiation of recent political efforts to intimidate American courts. via
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1) Why is it that nobody in MSM calls out
@RepAdamSchiff
for a basic and repeated falsehood in this trial? To wit, that Russia helped Trump win an election (and that Trump was trying to repeat this with Ukraine). Where is there any evidence for this outrageous Russia claim?
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Wow. And CNN reporting that the fourth person, Leland Keyser, is denying memory of knowing kavanaugh or of this event, even though "Keyser is a lifelong friend of Ford's."
Wow, again.
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Forget Person of the Year. Washington needs an Adult of the Year. My pick for 2019, below. via
@WSJ
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Also on Susan Collins: We have been hearing so much about strong women in recent weeks. Well, that was one heckuva strong woman who just left the Senate floor. Especially in light of pressure, crazy protestors, threats to her office. Inspiring to see.
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1) By the end of the Green New Deal resolution (and accompanying fact sheet) I was laughing so hard I nearly cried. If a bunch of GOPers plotted to forge a fake Democratic bill showing how bonkers the party is, they could not have done a better job. It is beautiful.
#GreenNewDeal
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Democrats lecture about dirt-digging, even as they abuse their surveillance powers to demand phone records to smear political rivals.
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WSJ edit page also obtained the Bobulinski emails/texts; we've been through them all. My coming column--online v. soon--will relay a disturbing story of Hunter, Joe and the Chinese. It's quite something. Hold tight...
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Also, clear something up for me.... We just heard all week that we are required to "believe" women. But when Ashley Kavanaugh provides testimonial, the left dismisses her.
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Actually, they chose NOT to give give GOP House a lot of what GOP investigators wanted--easily more than 400 pages. It's almost as if
@RepAdamSchiff
wasn't paying attention the past few years.
If Barr & Rosenstein redact Mueller’s report for Congress, it will be by choice, not legal compulsion.
Rosenstein chose to give a GOP House nearly 1 million pages of discovery in Clinton & Russia probe.
But they choose not to give 400 pages of Trump-related info to a Dem House.
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The hate storm being leveled by the left at Ashley Kavanaugh is a good indicator of what they really think of women---or at least any women with whom they disagree. So enough already with the liberal lecturing about "respect" and "bullying."
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1) BREAKING, per
@CBS_Herridge
and extraordinary.
So Christopher Steele's main source for the dossier? He was the subject of a nearly two-year long FBI counter-intel investigation (2009-2011), under suspicion of being a Russian spy and a "threat to national security."
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Markets sell off, again, so that Pelosi can write a bill demanding corporate diversity, federal bargaining rights, $15 an hour min wage, airline emissions offsets, and same-day voting. Just the sort of "leader" you want in a crisis. America deserves better.
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Two biggest IG takeaways so far:
--The FBI played the FISA court. The information about what it presented and what it excluded in Page application is damning.
--IG destroys Steele dossier as a work of fantasy.
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BREAKING: Sources say acting DNI Richard Grenell has declassified full text of the January 20, 2017 Susan Rice "email to self." Part of the email had been released, but part remained redacted. It has been sent to DOJ; let's hope Congress gets ahold and releases it soon.
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90-minute takeway from Strzok hearing: Democrats have forged new strategy for shutting down oversight. Interrupt, call points of order, argue over points of order, demand recorded votes, eat up time, protect the witness. Hope Republicans are taking notes.
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1) On this question of Joe Biden being somehow exonerated on the China deal, how so? WSJ news story correctly notes that his name isn't on documents. But those docs also suggest special care had been taken to make sure his name WASN'T visible.
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So just to be clear: A Somali-American Democrat engages in repeated anti-Semitism, and Democrats pass a resolution that condemns "white supremacists" (and gets in a reference to Charlottesville).
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Democrats will take to every media outlet to claim it will be politically dangerous for GOP senators to move a nominee. The exact opposite is true. In 2018, 4 D senators lost their seats for opposing Kavanaugh: Heitkamp; Donnelly; McCaskill; Nelson.
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One of my fav Walker lines got least attention (made me lol): "Some people don't like [Trump's] style, the way he knocks down obstacles that get in the way of his goals. People on the opposing team didn't like it when I ran over them, either."
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1) Breaking, and a big deal: Fourth person that Ford named as present at infamous event denies even knowing kavanaugh, much less ever attending a party where he was present.
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1) Why isn't the (mostly) unredacted Grassley memo front page news? Here's why: Because it confirms the Nunes memo and blows up the Schiff talking points (which the media ran with).
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It must be so, so hard for Brett Kavanaugh not to laugh--or run mental rings--around some of these hostile questioners. He should be admired for his restraint.
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From my new column: “There does not appear to be any basis to believe that a congressional committee is authorized to subpoena telephone records directly from a provider..." says former Attorney General Michael Mukasey.
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@WSJ
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Enough with the media coverage suggesting that unless GOP accedes to Ford’s every demand, it amounts to “blocking” her testimony. There is a hearing on Monday. Show up. Testify.
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Case for Mask Mandate Rests on Bad Data - WSJ
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Allow me to help YOU, Mr. Schiff. Here is a link to December USDA report showing a record 129 million dead trees in California, citing forest mismanagement for fires. Your own California state fire office signed on to it.
You've been in office for 18 LONG months and you still don't have a science adviser, so allow me to help.
Environmental protections have nothing to do with the wildfires in CA. Climate change does.
We're not going to let you use fires as an excuse to clear-cut our forests.
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The egomania of
@Comey
is chilling. A neutral IG found him guilty of insubordination, leaking, reckless behavior. Latest filing shows entire DOJ leadership condemned his Flynn actions. His response is to say rest of world has “lost its way.”Scary that a man so untethered ran FBI
The DOJ has lost its way. But, career people: please stay because America needs you. The country is hungry for honest, competent leadership.
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Wow. Nadler has his counsel sit a witness, then has him walk up to the dais and grill his fellow witness. Yah, that's normal and fair... (Not.) What a zoo.
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Wow. Biden comes out of basement and agrees to finally answer a question or two. Our intrepid press corps uses the moment to ask him to explain, over and over, just how awesome he'll be.
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Impeachment is meant to be a big deal, but Democrats and the media have accomplished the disturbing feat of turning it into day-to-day partisan warfare, writes
@KimStrassel
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Ford's attorney is saying her client might now be willing to testify but that a Monday hearing is "not possible."
Anything is possible, plus she has had a week's notice, plus offers to do it on phone or in CA. There should be no further delay.
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America, meet the Pelosi House. Articles of impeachment, a move to abolish the electoral college, comparisons of the president to Hitler, a nonstarter vote on the shutdown, profanity, a proposal for a 70% tax on the "wealthy"--all under 36 hours. Wait till they get rolling.
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This is pretty powerful.
"Mr. Vice president, look at me, I am black. We are not all the same, sir. I am not in chains. My mind is my own. And you can't tell me how to vote because of the color of my skin." -
@DanielCameronAG
#RNC2020
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FISA court was told about the FBI abuses in early 2018. It did nothing. It's disingenuous to only now act shocked and angry.
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Finally, Biden asked more precise question about monuments. Responds by saying that it would be "better" if local governments took steps to take down confederate statues, but won't condemn people lawlessly tearing them down.
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The World Health Organization’s bows to China have harmed the global response to the coronavirus. via
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OMG! Did Democrats just sit through the socialism question? Really? They are on public record for overthrowing capitalism as the American system? I hope someone is taking names and notes....
#SOTU
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1) On the
#NoCollusion
findings of Mueller's report. It's worth recognizing that this is more than an exoneration. It's a searing indictment of the FBI.
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Just to be clear: Democrats are moving forward (maybe) with impeachment on the basis of a complaint they have not seen, which describes a call for which they have not read a transcript.
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Wow. That is quite the message. Democrats, including all those women in white, sit motionless at the call to restrict late-term abortion--which polls show 70-80% of public disapproves. Who is out of step with the country?
#SOTU
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Schiff is "appalled" at the "smearing" of Intel staff? And where again does Carter Page go to get his reputation back, after Schiff smeared him from a fake dossier on the floor of Congress? Just asking. High dudgeon does not sit well on the unprincipled.
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"Special counsel is not recommending any further indictments." Assuming this is true, I wonder when Americans can expect an apology from all those who spent two years getting it breathlessly, abjectly and irresponsibly wrong.
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Contrast this to those who take a knee.
Bob Dole pays his respects to former Pres. George H.W. Bush at the Capitol Rotunda, helped from his wheelchair to stand before the 41st president's casket.
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This really is an important story, though most of media is ignoring, downplaying. An IG audit essentially found a 100% FBI fail rate in accuracy in surveillance applications. via
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Again, a reminder to media pals: the standard here isnt where you “look” or “sound” “credible”. It is whether you provide evidence. All witnesses she has mentioned deny her claim—that was case before this started and remains case now
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Wait. Which "one"? The one about how Team Clinton paid for the dossier? Or the one about how the FBI used it in a FISA app? Or maybe the one that Steele was fired for blabbing to press? Or...wait..wait.. THIS one? That FBI was using a human to spy on the Trump campaign? . . . .
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You know my column of today saying a lot of powerful people are worried about what Barr is going to unearth--and that's why they want him out? Exhibit A below.
Barr misled the country about an investigation implicating the President. Then he lied to Congress. Then he did something worse:
He effectively said that the President of the United States is above the law.
That makes him the second most dangerous man in America.
He must go.
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Well done,
@LindseyGrahamS
. He's reminding the press this is about facts, and pointing out that after all those hours he still doesn't know when it happened, where it happened, while those named all deny it. Fired up about D behavior, and rightly so.
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This is a very important story.
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Mitt Romney may think he's taking a shot at POTUS. But any real damage he causes will in fact be to Senate Rs in tough races. Schumer's goal with all this was retaking the Senate. If he succeeds, he'll hopefully remember to send Romney a thank you.
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1) Lot of folks saying (incorrectly) GOP wants to both "count" and "stop" ballots at same time. Let's be more precise. There are three categories. a) Rs calling to count votes that came in by election day or before, per state law. This is obvious.
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1) To really understand how outrageous are these new Flynn docs, you have to add to everything we already know. And key is remembering that the FBI had no REASON to interview Flynn. It already had transcripts of his conversations with Kislyak.
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Ooh! Alert! NYT “scoop”! Kavanaugh once “threw ice” in college.
Stop the presses!
Cannot make this up, folks.
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1) I am legitimately interested/confused by this. I checked, and the top number is indeed Wisconsin's active registered voter number as of Nov. 1. The bottom is approx. what has been counted. That is a (not feasible) 89% turnout.
Wisconsin has 3,684,726 active registered voters.
They counted 3,288,771 votes.
That's, um, a bit unbelievable.
89% turnout? Ok sure. 🙄
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If Democrats had any honor or dignity, they'd feel great shame listening to Kavanaugh describe their tactics and words. It speaks volumes that they won't care at all.
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BREAKING: The judge in the Flynn case--the no-nonsense Judge Emmet Sullivan--is now demanding referenced docs (McCabe memo, FBI 302) related to that infamous Jan 24, 2017 interview w/Flynn. Also has ordered gov to turn over any OTHER docs related to that meeting--by Friday.
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Why the campaign to undermine Attorney General Barr? Because his drive for the truth reveals that Russia-collusion was pure fantasy, and that hatred of Trump drove important people to abuse their power, writes
@KimStrassel
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Absurd. Absurd. Absurd. It really is the only word for this afternoon, and latest claims. Well, maybe also: Ludicrous. Insane.
It is astonishing press is even reporting this stuff.
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On the question of Strzok's bias and whether we should believe he didn't act on it. The question every American should ask is this: How would you feel if he'd expressed such disgust toward you, and was also investigating you?
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Bless ACB, for sitting there calmly as Klobuchar completely (and deliberately) misrepresents her life/record/views. America dodged a bullet with that failed bid for the presidency.....
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When even the WaPo fact checkers can't avoid calling out Schiff, it's bad....
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As a native Oregonian, who still has friends/family there, i can attest that what is happening in Portland (and has been happening for several years) bears no relation to "peaceful" protesting. ANTIFA, anarchists, riots. Biden ought to visit before speaking.
Biden says federal law enforcement is 'brutally attacking peaceful protesters' in Portland. Has he seen reports of what is happening at the federal courthouse? Accuses Trump of 'stoking the fires of division' when rioters are literally setting fires...
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Pelosi holds up small business: Democrats may let a new relief program run out of money. via
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Dictionary definition of spy: “person who secretly collects and reports information on the activities, movements, and plans of an enemy or competitor.”
Media definition: “Not that guy who secretly collected/reported info on Trump campaign.”
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We now know how right
@realDonaldTrump
was to declassify the Memo. It shows FBI used a partisan campaign document to get a warrant to spy on a rival campaign. And shows the FBI omitted crucial information from a FISA court. No spin can change those basic facts.
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Republican Senators (all of them) would do the nation, due process, and themselves a big favor by making clear that Thursday is Ford's opportunity to testify, and there will be no more delays. Set out the clear, fair rules--then proceed. It would help shut down the circus.
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More: Judiciary Committee sent letter today to Ford's attnys requesting 1) audio/visual recordings taken during Fords's polygraph; and 2) charts/data used in drawing polygraph conclusions. Ford's attnys just now refused to supply, saying such material not "important." Really?
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Why is Biden allowed to repeat that the facts about Hunter--as put out by a Senate Committee, with data from Treasury Department--are discredited? Every newspaper has noted the money Hunter took, from Ukraine to China. It's all true; even Hunter admitted it.
#Debates2020
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Nowhere is the left more nuts than on climate. Biden, the "reasonable" person on stage, says "no more fossil fuels" in his presidency. Think about this, folks. No oil, gas, coal. No diesel trucks, airplanes, fighter jets, chainsaws. This the America you want?
#DemDebate
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For an in-depth explanation of the abuses now detailed in the IG report (and so many other abuses), pick up my new bestseller: "Resistance At All Costs." It's a great holiday read (and a great holiday present for friends and family!)
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How good of a nominee is William Barr for AG? Based on the immediate demands by Democrats that he recuse himself from pretty much everything important---a pretty darn good one.
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I wondered how long it would be before media rushed to defend Schiff's indefensible subpoenas and intimidation of the media. Didn't take long... (Although this is hilariously weak tea.)
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Make no mistake: If Donald Trump had demanded the firing of a foreign prosecutor who had been investigating a Trump company, we’d have another special counsel. And impeachment. And media hysteria. (Just since we are imagining double standards). . .
Make no mistake: If a Dem president quietly held up aid to country & a week later called that country’s president to ask him the “favor” of digging up dirt on an opponent, the
@GOP
in Congress would be screaming holy hell and demanding impeachment.
And they would be right!
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@WSJ
Also from my column: Constitutional lawyer David Rivkin makes the case that Schiff has opened himself up lawsuits from targets of these subpoenas.
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The scariest drinking game anyone could play during this
#DemDebate
would be to drink anytime someone says the word "free"....
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1. This "omnibus" is one of the ugliest, least transparent bits of lawmaking I've ever seen--and that's saying something. It isn't just the spending, though the new domestic numbers are gross, given the trillions spent in the past few years.
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1) More big breaking news, which further undercuts the Ford accusation, as well as media handling of it. A source has given me the email that WaPo reporter Emma Brown sent to Mark Judge, one person Ford claims was at the party. This email is dated Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018
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Amy Klobuchar says she will bring back Obama's Paris accord, his Clean Power rules, his auto-mileage standard, AND put a price on carbon. So, basically, would double down on economy crushing policies of recent past. Moderate?
#DemDebate
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So last night's contenders say they would decriminalize border crossings. This night's contenders say free healthcare for all those who cross. If you think we have a border crisis now....
#DemDebate2
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So, Democrats vote to break House rules and decorum, so that they can call Trump out on decorum. Surreal.
#FoxNews
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Judge Sullivan’s last ruling on the Mike Flynn case is a reminder that it wasn’t Donald Trump, but his unhinged critics, who did the most damage to political norms, writes
@KimStrassel
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"The special counsel's office confirmed to CNBC that it learned about the "scheme" from journalists.." Huh. Must be nice to have journos working so diligently for your reputation, and not just running with sex accusations. Unlike with Kavanugh.
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“Please. Don’t even imply that.” Fauci’s withering response (accompanied by a disgusted look) to a (ridiculous) reporter suggesting he was forced to say at briefing that Trump has listened health expert recommendations.
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1) Breaking: So Debra Ramirez's attorney, John Clune, went on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 tonight. In interview, he accuses "game playing" by "majority party" with regards her testimony. But read the emails that have gone back and forth (I have), and that is downright false
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