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Mark Penn, special counsels, and consistency
I spend a lot of time reading the work of other writers on politics. Some of them—probably the vast majority—purport to be objective journalists but write with an obvious bias. What’s so obvious about it? Well, one thing is that … Continue reading →
Watergate II: Collusiongate
Unlike Watergate, the current crisis in government/spying/politics doesn’t have a memorable name. But for those of us who lived through Watergate it has a certain resonance with that event as well as major differences, imparting a strange sense of familiarity, … Continue reading →
Crossfire Hurricane: the FBI spied on Trump
In a very long article in the NY Times, the newspaper tries to get ahead of the forthcoming IG report by admitting a couple of things, but burying and/or downplaying them. Par for the course. Rather than re-invent the wheel … Continue reading →
Mueller: one smart fellow, he felt smart
Robert Mueller hasn’t exactly been covering himself with glory lately. Among other things: At the arraignment [of the Russian company accused by Mueller of having tried to influence the US election], Concord’s lead counsel, Eric Dubelier, was asked whether he … Continue reading →
More news on the blue wave front
At least in the Senate, here’s more evidence it might be rough going for the Democrats: Among more than 200 experts and veterans of Florida politics surveyed in the latest Tampa Bay Times Florida Insider Poll, nearly six in 10 … Continue reading →
The “Trump bump”
I’m not referring to the possible effect of Trump’s presidency on the economy, which is the way the expression has sometimes been used. I’m using it more like a sort of speed bump in the narrative—that little obligatory hiccup in … Continue reading →
I wouldn’t count my Senate chickens yet
The GOP still might find a way to lose it all. But it was always the case that the Democratic dreams of taking over the Senate in 2018 faced a possibly harsh reality, considering which seats were up for grabs. … Continue reading →
Blankenship out
Thank goodness the voters in the GOP primary in West Virginia saw fit to eliminate Blankenship from the running in the Senate race to challenge Joe Manchin. Blankenship was virtually certain to lose if by some chance he was nominated. … Continue reading →
Mueller: is there any there there?
Robert Mueller is facing more than the scorn of Judge Ellis. There’s another trial in which Mueller’s team recently came up short. Here’s how it all began. Remember?: In February, to huzzahs of delight from the media, the Democrats, and … Continue reading →
More thoughtcrime
It started with the judicial decisions that put a stay on Trump’s “Muslim ban”-that-was-not-a-Muslim-ban because the courts decided his real intent—based on some much earlier campaign statements—was to institute an actual Muslim ban. I wrote back then: In other related … Continue reading →
Collusion: getting the dossier word out
One of the things about the dossier/collusion imbroglio is that its complexity makes it difficult (or at least labor-intensive) for people to follow. I doubt that most people take the trouble to do so, and therefore the MSM has the … Continue reading →