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Principled Cowardice and the Seditious Six

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Posted By: Hazymac, 12/2/2025 7:48:31 AM

In National Review, Andrew McCarthy has once again taken to the fainting couch. Confronted with the spectacle of Senator Mark Kelly and five other Democratic lawmakers releasing a coordinated video “reminding” the U.S. military to disobey “illegal orders” from President Trump, McCarthy describes the act as “craven” but ultimately dismisses the administration’s response as “military lawfare.” According to McCarthy, the President’s suggestion of a criminal probe or a court-martial is an abuse of power because the lawmakers’ speech is “legally unimpeachable” political dissent. This is McCarthy at his most bloviating—a confident assertion of legal superiority that collapses under the slightest scrutiny of what is actually built into the Constitution to ensure

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Iconoclast 12/2/2025 7:54:58 AM (No. 2036326)
I never waste my time with Andrew McCarthy's writing.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: xdemo 12/2/2025 7:55:34 AM (No. 2036327)
I've been fed up with Andrew McCarthy for so long that I'm now at the barf stage.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: downnout 12/2/2025 8:19:02 AM (No. 2036342)
McCarthy thinks his thoughts are the equal of Aristotle.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: earlybird 12/2/2025 9:47:41 AM (No. 2036374)
McCarthy is a partisan hack posing as a lawyer. A card-carrying anti-Trumper. As a legal analyst. a fraud who leans very far left. When Fox has him on, I change the channel. I can't even stand to look at his snug face.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: felixcat 12/2/2025 9:52:40 AM (No. 2036378)
You can add Rich Lowry of National Review (yes, I know...) basically blowing off any serious investigation of the Six, etc. It's just politics ya know. Be thankful though that McCarthy isn't some JAG attorney cause we all know the advice he would give if approached about a Trump illegal order. He lives in a world far removed from the realities of the real world. BTW - I wonder how much Sen Mark Kelly when on active duty would have felt if one of his sailors or junior officers questioned one of his orders?
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Reply 6 - Posted by: earlybird 12/2/2025 10:11:32 AM (No. 2036390)
OP hits another home run - thanks for finding and posting this,
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Reply 7 - Posted by: earlybird 12/2/2025 10:22:36 AM (No. 2036394)
Little $ichie Lowry was the NR editor who put together the issue of NR that was entirely devoted to being a hit piece on Donald Trump.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: privateer 12/2/2025 11:35:24 AM (No. 2036444)
He is too stupid to realize that we have a wise and benevolent President. Under an actual dictator, those 6 already would be suspended from meat hooks and piano wire. Or, in an earlier day, their heads would be atop pikes along Traitors' Walk. Stupidest of all, they cannot see that their irrational sniping makes PDJT stronger, not weaker.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: DVC 12/2/2025 11:37:35 AM (No. 2036447)
In the Civil War, Lincoln jailed these sort of people. No trials, just tossed them in jail for sedition.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: J. Arthur Brown 12/2/2025 1:18:51 PM (No. 2036500)
There is actually a felony tailor made for Senators Kelly and Slotkin, et. al.: 18 USC 2387, applicable to anyone who "with the intent to interfere with, impair or influence the loyalty, morale or discipline of the military or naval forces of the United States, advises, counsels, urges, or in any manner causes or attempts to cause insubordination, mutiny or refusal of duty by any member of the armed forces . . . " . McCarthy has fallen a long way since Rush Limbaugh routinely referenced his views as the legal gold standard.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: Kafka2 12/2/2025 2:51:53 PM (No. 2036535)
The only case alleged to be a possible war crime was the sinking of a drug boat in September that required more than one round to sink it. The democrats claim that the primary reason for the second round was to kill two boat crew members clinging to the boat and who were innocents forced to drive the boat. These claims are unsubstantiated and improbable. Since this happened in September, it begs the question, why are they only bringing it up now.
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