Democrats Are Painted Into a Corner
New York Sun,
by
Conrad Black
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
5/23/2019 4:02:23 AM
Since the day after the 2016 election they have been threatening this, placing their chips on the Russian-collusion fantasy and then on the phantasmagoric charade of obstruction of justice. The attorney general accurately gave the ingredients of the offense of obstruction of justice in his four-page summary of the Mueller report: a corrupt act for corrupt purposes in contemplation of a legal proceeding.
The attorney general, William Barr, the then deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein, and the Justice Department counsel concurred that none of the elements was present in the conduct of the president as recounted by Mr. Mueller. The dream died, except in the febrile imagination
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna 5/23/2019 5:46:21 AM (No. 82361)
Great article !
FTA---The Democrats are left at a crossroads: keep swinging like punch-drunk prizefighters lashing out when they hear the bell of a passing streetcar, or abandon the impeachment ship while there is still room in the lifeboats.
Wish I could write like Conrad Black.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Trigger2 5/23/2019 6:11:05 AM (No. 82369)
I hope the electorate gets woke and sends these congressional subversives out of office.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Highlander 5/23/2019 6:34:43 AM (No. 82387)
Reply 2; don’t hold your breath.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 5/23/2019 6:46:08 AM (No. 82395)
"obviously having trouble controlling her partisans"
The dem party has always been an emotional balancing act between outrage and action. They need to evoke angry passion in their identity groups over things that have been "done" to them. They need to create an angry mob for the media to document and to impress the rest of the Country that there is a problem.
But then they need to harness that energy and turn it into voting, which by design is an orderly, bureaucratic process.
After the vote, the "problems", which were never real as defined, are pushed aside. Yes there is some talk and some useless, trivial actions taken but the issue is set aside until needed for the next election.
The balance is to rabble rouse enough to win the vote but not enough throw the Country into chaos. One of the "gifts" that BO, a rabble rouser by trade, gave us was to ignore that fine balance. He stoked up the Left beyond the point of mollification. THAT is what Pelousy and her party are now dealing with. It has pushed them into minority party status and is driving them into dysfunction to the point of collapse. Nancy knows what is happening but the old ways of dampening things down are not working and the Left, as BO showed them to be, is intransigent.
The dems face the same choices as and are about to do a "Thelma and Louise".
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Marjbaldwin 5/23/2019 7:13:55 AM (No. 82412)
Let's roll
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
ROLFNader 5/23/2019 7:24:31 AM (No. 82417)
Have to agree with #1 and others. I've never seen a better description of the left in this entire debacle. I would add that the lifeboat is taking on water and I could not be more pleased.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
udanja99 5/23/2019 7:25:53 AM (No. 82419)
The last two paragraphs are delicious!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
4freedom 5/23/2019 7:28:27 AM (No. 82421)
The Nazicrats are acting like they are painted into a corner with the circular firing squad in full swing, looks like they are going back to the impeachment gig again, I say bring it on, they are damaging themselves with that nonsense. All we can do is hope the real criminals will be brought to justice. Look for some progressive Obama appointed stinker in a black robe to get involved.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Rinktum 5/23/2019 8:06:01 AM (No. 82438)
My prayer is that the American people will give the President an opportunity to do in his second term what he was unable to do in his first because the dems were so intent on destroying him. Their irrational hatred is destroying the country but they are so consumed by it, they cannot pull back and the cliff is fast approaching. There will come a day of reckoning because they have become dangerously reckless with the Republic and the American people see it. A great opportunity is coming for most Americans. We are going to be able to save the country from tyranny once again. Going to the polls on November 3, 2020 will be the greatest act of patriotism in recent history. Whether the dems pull back or self-destruct, the American people are going to have the last say.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 5/23/2019 9:01:30 AM (No. 82462)
The President has placed wet rawhide around the neck of the dim party, the deep state, and the msm. As rawhide dries, it shrinks gradually suffocating its victim.
Alinsky's rules for radicals lacks survival tactics in case the freeze, marginalize, destroy schtick doesn't work. Thankfully, the President and the country will win this battle for the constitution. The November 2020 Presidential election will not even be close.
For now, God willing, the President must keep the dims wrapped thoroughly around the axle and keep their evil rage and corruption flowing.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Strike3 5/23/2019 9:53:29 AM (No. 82510)
Conrad is one of the all time greats.
I see the collusion crowd as a group of desperate criminals who all latched onto the tether line of a big hot air balloon as it started to rise. They can't climb up and they certainly can't let go. The higher the balloon goes the more of them will be destroyed if they drop off. A truly sweet dilemma that is fun to watch and the greater reward for us as time goes on. None of them can hide now because there they are, dangling for all to see.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
gone2pot 5/23/2019 10:05:33 AM (No. 82518)
One way or the other, the papier-mâché Damoclean sword of impeachment will disintegrate just as the prominent Democrats who grievously abused their offices in trying to destroy Trump get ready for their own trials.
Why is this verbal juggling, which makes great points to be sure, still the only comeuppance by conservatives? Many, many people are still committing deep state crimes, some we've yet to discover, and the ones who have destroyed innocent lives in their still ongoing quest are being rewarded. All of these people need to be in prison for their out in the open crimes and yet the impeachment sparing is doing nothing but reinforcing the conservative voters and reinforcing the Marxist voters.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Dino Sayer 5/23/2019 10:56:06 AM (No. 82550)
“The idea that anyone ever nominated by a serious American political party would collude with a foreign power to rig a presidential election is insane. “ – Conrad Black
Actually, this is just what Hillary did – use the Russians to develop an “October Surprise” against Trump, but the media refused to bite on something so absurd.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Madinmaryland 5/23/2019 11:55:09 AM (No. 82585)
This is a good one.
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Excellent read....
FOUR more years!
Veterans for TRUMP 2020
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Harlowe 5/23/2019 4:30:06 PM (No. 82815)
The Mueller Report has been submitted, the Democrats do not like the result, the intensity by the Left to destroy President Trump persists. It seems imperative to share the wisdom of Marcus Tullius Cicero (1/3/106 BC – 12/7/43 BC), a “Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and writer who vainly tried to uphold republican principles in the final civil wars that destroyed the Roman Republic.”
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.”
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