It is
rare that I ever agree with liberals but there is a current circumstance in
which I recently did (my apologies if you just spewed coffee out your nose). At
least I did from October 27-January 20 when the democrats were screaming for
James Comey’s firing in between convincing themselves the Kossacks made all of
us in the center of the country vote for Donald Trump.
Now,
not so much. But because they came to a different conclusion, not me. Ah, if
the wind would always blow from one direction.
I
really was hoping the President would fire Comey his first day in office for refusing
to recommend prosecution of Hillary Clinton to the Justice Department. Boy, do
I wish he had done it then when the democrats were all for it, albeit for
different reasons. I’ve no doubt, however, they’d have done an even more abrupt
about face and criticized the President for one thing or another—like breathing—even
back then.
But
having perhaps the worst sense of timing in White House history President Trump
chose to do it in the middle of an investigation being led by Comey into
whether or not the U.S. of A. is about to become a Russian province or not.
Oh, the
reasons the President did it were sound, but not being part of the political
machine that is Washington, he can sometimes act as if he is completely
oblivious to appearances. Plus he just
doesn’t care how doing the right thing looks to the wrong people.
New Deputy
Attorney General Rod Rosenstein was just approved for his position two weeks
before Comey’s firing by a 96-4 vote in
the Senate. One of the things directly in Mr. Rosentstein’s purview is
oversight of the FBI. After a two-week review of FBI Director Comey’s
performance he drafted a memo to Attorney General Jeff Sessions which was
passed on to the President in which he concluded that Comey “could not continue”
in his capacity as director.
President
Trump, being used to operating in the real world, acted. Then.
I
wouldn’t argue that he didn’t enjoy it. I think Comey’s history of love for the
camera and grandstanding stretching back to last spring was really annoying to
the President, who prefers that the camera be on him.
But his
reasoning was sound. I don’t believe he did it to shield himself from an
investigation into Russian meddling in the election.
I cannot, in my most paranoid
moments, muster any scenario of an investigation into “Russian collusion with
the Trump campaign” that results in anything that means anything. I not only
can’t imagine it but the leftwing media (is there another kind?) hasn’t floated
any theories as to what their most desired result might be, and they are the
most creative group of story tellers in history.
Could that be because nothing even
imaginable of substance is there? I’m still trying to understand millions of
people who genuinely believe Vlad Putin preferred a US President who would fire
Tomahawk missiles at a Russian Ally, buzz off Russian bombers too close to our
airspace with F-35’s and generally give the impression that “if you hurt me, I
hurt you worse,” to a candidate who promised
four more years of Obama-like policies.
E.G., Russia and everybody else could pretty much do what they wanted
because we didn’t have the balls to stop them.
And the funniest part of all this
is that until the left thought of blaming the Russians for Hillary being the
worst candidate they’ve tried to run since Walter Mondale, they blamed Comey.
Remember? Comey was the devil when on October 27, he announced he was reopening
the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails.
In fact, you may have been one of
the Midwesterners who thought, “Oh no. The Justice Department wouldn’t charge
her before, but this must be the end. Better take down that Hillary-Kane sign
in the yard and change my vote!” Or you may have been one of us who waited for
the Russians to tell us who to vote for.
Way back then (it’s been all of a
little over six months) Chuck Schumer stated he had “lost all faith in the
director of the FBI” and recommended his immediate firing (‘cuz that wouldn’t
have looked suspicious). Harry Reid said, “He (Comey) must be fired.” Nancy
Pelosi said, “Let’s all square dance!!!”
No, I’m kidding. Pelosi, poor old
thing, said Comey was a nice guy and all but “he is definitely in the wrong
job.” Fortunately for Nancy there was no follow up question to see if she knew
what he did.
They’re all singing a rather
different tune this week, aren’t they?
You may have missed it but on
Stephen Colbert’s show the day Comey was fired Colbert came out and
breathlessly announced the firing of Comey…to thunderous applause and cheering. Colbert quickly tried to recover
by saying “I guess the audience is full of Trump supporters tonight.”
Sure, that was it. Or maybe the
liberal masses, waiting to be told by their fearless leadership what they were
supposed to think, hadn’t gotten the memo yet that now they are supposed to love and embrace the hated James Comey who
had left their darling out in the wind to twist right before the election.
Almost everyone got in on the
bandwagon, from Bette Midler (wouldn’t be an issue without Hollywood weighing
in) to Dan Rather. Rather wrote an obviously heartfelt missive about the sky
falling and Comey’s firing being the most heinous and out of control thing he’s
ever seen in all his years of reporting. Zzzzzzzzz.
It is interesting he calls it
reporting. I would think after being caught totally fabricating an untrue
service record for George W. so that President Bush could be guilty of all the
things Rather wanted to report in one of his left wing “hard news reports,”
that he guy would be too ashamed to even show his face in public, but shame
knows no mirth and hypocrisy like liberalism.
So there we are follks. Another
round of the left doing a complete 180 to suit their cause du jour v. President
Trump trying to run the country like it was a business rather than a corrupt
institution that may never be reigned in.
I’m pretty sure we’re in for a lot of this over the next eight years.
May as well enjoy the ride.
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