The National Review, Ground Zero for the Never Trump movement (I'm short-shrifting Erick Erickson there) has praise for Trump's UN speech from Rich Lowry and Elliot Abrams.
From Lowry:
‘Holy Sh**’: Trump at the U.N
A Jacksonian speech in Turtle Bay
As someone said on Twitter, never before has been there so much murmuring of “holy sh**” in so many different languages. Donald Trump’s speech at the United Nations was a sometimes awkward marriage of conventional Republican foreign policy and a very basic version of Trump’s nationalism.
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All things considered and given the alternatives, it was a fine speech. It wasn’t really an “America First” speech — it defended the world order and even had warm words for the Marshall Plan — but in its signature lines about North Korea, it was thematically a very Jacksonian speech. What exactly this means in terms of policy remains to be seen. But everyone is paying attention, if they weren’t before.
And Abrams:
Trump’s Successful U.N. Speech
In his speech to the United Nations, President Trump very successfully met the political and intellectual challenge he faced. He reminded the delegates that the United Nations was never meant to be a gigantic bureaucracy that would steadily become a world government. Rather, he said, it is an association of sovereign states whose strength depends “on the independent strength of its members.” Its success, he argued, depends on their success at governing well as “strong, sovereign, and independent nations.”
Trump cleverly turned patriotism — love of one’s own country, and what he called the necessary basis for sacrifice and “all that is best in the human spirit” — into the basis for international cooperation to solve problems that nations must face together. “The true question,” he said, is “are we still patriots?” If we are, we can work together for “a future of dignity and peace for the people of this wonderful Earth.” This was a useful, principled, and accurate reminder that the nation-state (a term he used) remains the key to world politics, and that successful nation-states will be the key to addressing the world’s challenges.
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Fair judges will call this speech a real success. Trump rose to the occasion and offered a speech that had both striking rhetoric and a sound argument that the success of individual states, each looking out for its own interests, is the basic building block of a successful U.N. and international system. This was a rare speech in that chamber, which has been filled with decades of lies, hypocrisy, and globaloney. Trump paid the organization and the delegates the courtesy of telling them squarely how his administration sees the world.
I should add that Abrams notes with hope the absence of some Israeli-Palestine rhetoric:
What did Trump not talk about? The Israeli–Palestinian conflict. At times that problem was the central item in President Obama’s speeches to the U.N., so its absence in Trump’s first address to the General Assembly was very striking. He wants to get a deal done, as he reiterated when meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, but he realizes that the conflict is not central to world politics or even to stability and peace in the Middle East. So it had no place in this text.
Interesting.
I should add: Trump called Kim Jong Un "Rocketman" in his speech. "Fat Boy" might have been nice since it picks up a "We have used nukes before and might again" theme.
But to really sting him Trump should have gone with "Froot Loops". Bazinga!
First? No wat.
Posted by: Janeprobably about 10 minutes after getting there | September 19, 2017 at 07:18 PM
Prager is analyzing Trumps speech line by line and loving it. High praise indeed.
Posted by: daddy on iPhone | September 19, 2017 at 07:19 PM
Is it possible to simply nuke NK to the point that they cannot reply?
Posted by: Janeprobably about 10 minutes after getting there | September 19, 2017 at 07:21 PM
Does anyone have any information as to whether Kim Jong Um even gets the Elton John reference? Any 70s MOR radio stations in Pyongyang?
Posted by: -peter | September 19, 2017 at 07:22 PM
Fruit Loops ? Oh brother, you are just asking for a no justice, no peace occupation from the LGBT (PQRSTUV) crowd no aren't you?
Posted by: common man | September 19, 2017 at 07:25 PM
Doesn't matter if Un gets the reference. What matters is that Xi and Putin get the reference. The either curb their stoopid fat little dog, or lose it. Their choice.
Posted by: henry | September 19, 2017 at 07:27 PM
I smile each time I hear them replay the Venezuelan FM say Trump sounded like Reagan in the 80s.
Posted by: Sue | September 19, 2017 at 07:30 PM
Trump's UN speech via WH - ad-free.
Posted by: DebinGA | September 19, 2017 at 07:31 PM
The Fat Boy ref is genius!
Posted by: JimNorCal | September 19, 2017 at 07:31 PM
Sue,
Me, too. Wasn't that hilarious?
Posted by: Miss Marple the Deplorable | September 19, 2017 at 07:33 PM
Oh, Bullshit.
It was a speech that forewarned that we are no long the patsies of the liberal world. That we are not for sale or even rent. Take care of your own issues and problems. We are going to take care of our issues and problems whether they are Iran, NORK or UN dues. Thread carefully around our borders both philosophical or organic, we will respond with force polemically or with life threatening weapons.
Get my drift?
Posted by: Jim Eagle | September 19, 2017 at 07:35 PM
How long until we have a bunch of sanctimonious lefties talking about being human shields for KJU? If we get into a conflict, maybe we can get rid of a few lefties too...
Posted by: common man | September 19, 2017 at 07:41 PM
It was interesting to note the complaint re that hackneyed burns series, they didn't care for rheault who was indeed like the spit and polish colonel Kurtz unlike the more savage one who was what wee required auseresse over galula. The for had more influence in south America.
Posted by: narciso. | September 19, 2017 at 07:43 PM
Reps. Raul Grijalva and Luis Gutierrez were arrested outside Trump Tower Tuesday afternoon after sitting in the street outside the building in Manhattan.
Photos I have seen show lots of International Answer premade signs. Exactly what I expected with these two. Birds of a feather...
Posted by: common man | September 19, 2017 at 07:45 PM
"Companies are moving back, creating job growth the likes of which our country has not seen in a very long time. And it has just been announced that we will be spending almost $700 billion on our military and defense."
If the Pacific fleet is any indication, a complete overhaul in training and replacement of BOzo-assigned leadership may be required throughout the armed services.
Posted by: DebinGA | September 19, 2017 at 07:48 PM
International Answer. Funded by Russia. Coincidence?
Posted by: henry | September 19, 2017 at 07:48 PM
Dennis Prager just played Trumps lines about Iran where he finished with the line about "we haven't heard the last about that "embarrassment of a Treaty, believe me" making Dennis laugh and quip "There is more truth in that than in all of Dartmouth."
Says "the speech was magnificent, simply magnificent."' Says he is going to have to memorize some of it since it is so great.
Posted by: daddy on iPhone | September 19, 2017 at 07:49 PM
Ace has a good description of the liberal mental breakdown.
http://www.ace.mu.nu/
Posted by: Miss Marple the Deplorable | September 19, 2017 at 07:53 PM
common man - the JOM list from the previous thread can make up the first round of human shields. Send them our wretched Antifa thugs yearning to bust skulls.
Luis Gutierrez will insist on his accent mark when being booked at the station. Which country is he representing? Does he know?
The Spiegel panned the speech. Hahahahahaahhhha
Mutti Merkel will take care of them all.
Posted by: Frau Zwetschgen | September 19, 2017 at 07:54 PM
OT for JiB
JiB - soak the fruit in Calvados; I did but with *dried* prunes not fresh.
Posted by: Frau Zwetschgen | September 19, 2017 at 07:55 PM
Trump should use that in a campaign ad...sounds like Ronald Reagan from the 80s...the most popular president ever.
Posted by: Sue | September 19, 2017 at 08:00 PM
I miss a lot lately and just wanted cathyf to know that she and her loved ones are in my prayers.
I've read that KJU was educated in Switzerland so he's probably aware of the American culture in Hollywood and music.
Posted by: Rocco | September 19, 2017 at 08:06 PM
RG,
Hope you check in and see this; I couldn't adequately explain on Twitter.
The person in question is an old acquaintance (can no longer call her a friend) who went off the deep end when Trump won the nomination. She hates him so much she is in Max Boot territory.
She and another friend have ceaselessly mocked me on Twitter. I asked them to simply stop following me. They did not, although I quit following them, in order not to argue with them, because I valued their friendships which dated back to 1998. In fact, my grandson and I spent several days at that person's home in North Carolina a few years ago!
I believe her hatred of Trump comes from her nieces having worked in the situation room under Bush and the entire family thought they were going to be players in a Jeb administration. Whatever.
Anyway, I blocked both women this evening and that should be the end of the problem.
Posted by: Miss Marple the Deplorable | September 19, 2017 at 08:20 PM
Frau,
I do soak the prunes and plums in Calvados. My fav is the figs I get and make a clafoutis.
Posted by: Jim Eagle | September 19, 2017 at 08:22 PM
This is in answer to the Manafort reveal today:
Thomas Wictor @ThomasWictor 2m2 minutes ago
Remember I said that Trump would start revealing things?
Imagine this happening every few weeks until November of 2018.
Posted by: Miss Marple the Deplorable | September 19, 2017 at 08:24 PM
Some of us are surprised that Grijalva and Gutierrez weren't arrested in front of Trump Tower for shitting in the street...
Posted by: lyle | September 19, 2017 at 08:26 PM
Thomas Wictor has a lot of predictions. None have come true to date. I am starting to unbelieve him and 0hour1 especially. They will a case of Vodka for me to vouch for them on the Ledge.
Posted by: Jim Eagle | September 19, 2017 at 08:28 PM
,,,,will have to bring....
Posted by: Jim Eagle | September 19, 2017 at 08:30 PM
Yes is the tyfnel test again:
https://www.weaselzippers.us/357685-cellphone-bomb-discovered-in-indian-airport/
You don't give up knights in hopes of nabbing a queen
Posted by: narciso. | September 19, 2017 at 08:31 PM
That may be so, JiB, but I have a sorta sense of these things, and I do think the unmasking and political use of the NSA interecepts is about to blow sky high.
Posted by: Clarice Feldman | September 19, 2017 at 08:34 PM
lyle,
What we have here are two men who are pretending to represent US citizens while they really represent Mexican citizens.
Posted by: Miss Marple the Deplorable | September 19, 2017 at 08:34 PM
Luis Gutierrez will insist on his accent mark when being booked at the station. Which country is he representing? Does he know?
NYC is a sanctuary city so they can't turn him over to ICE and say "this dimwit rolls his r's too much to be a citizen here so figure out which shithole to send him back to and do it pronto."
Posted by: Captain Hate | September 19, 2017 at 08:35 PM
So we let Jimmyk suffer because oh gee maybe antibiotics are not the answer?
Yes maryrose, jimmy k has to suffer so we don't selected out bugs that kill the rest of us because they are resistant to our standard antibiotics. by giving those when they are not indicated.
Just like we kill a couple of kids from vaccines every year, so the rest of us don't get diptheria or measles.
Posted by: anonamom | September 19, 2017 at 08:36 PM
He speaks gibberish in any language consider his support for lopez rivera.
Posted by: narciso. | September 19, 2017 at 08:37 PM
I hope you're right, Clarice, because it's not healthy for the country to have it unresolved to the dissatisfaction of both sides. One side won't be happy with the outcome but I'll be sure to mention it frequently just as a payback for the previous eight long years of keeping my mouth zipped.
Posted by: Captain Hate | September 19, 2017 at 08:39 PM
Jack,
Wictor predicted the Israeli-Saudi semi-alliance, which has come to pass. He also predicted that McMaster wasn't some sort of globalist controlling the agenda, which was demonstrated in spades today in the speech.
0Hour has been working with others lately to reveal the alt-right frauds like Cernovich, which is correct and for which I am grateful.
The Conservative Treehouse has been spot on about Trump's foreign policy and only missed the Chinese calling for 6 party talks by 4 days; he predicted this reaction back in August.
Posted by: Miss Marple the Deplorable | September 19, 2017 at 08:40 PM
Manafor investigation goes back 11 years --involves financial matters--Statute of Limitations on 2006 stuff runs out Oct 15. My patience with this crap ran out months ago.http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/19/politics/mueller-manafort-pressure-decade-investigation/index.html
Posted by: Clarice Feldman | September 19, 2017 at 08:41 PM
That 6 party talk suggestion is a stall tactic--multiparty talks on NoKO have consistently failed. China and Russia , mostly China, have to clamp down. And if anyone can force them to...
Posted by: Clarice Feldman | September 19, 2017 at 08:44 PM
Gutierrez Is Puerto Rican so I guess we're stuck with him. Thank you Shitcargo.
Posted by: Captain Hate | September 19, 2017 at 08:44 PM
Eleven years, as bugs would say I'm dying here.
Wictor grew up in pre Chavez Venezuela, mantes Bradley was part of peronist youth, hence he recognizes certain patterns
Posted by: narciso. | September 19, 2017 at 08:44 PM
Clarice,
I would like to see a Venn diagram of DNC, Ukraine, Russia, and Clinton Foundation.
Posted by: Miss Marple the Deplorable | September 19, 2017 at 08:45 PM
Absolutely agree that this boil (the whole conspiracy to use our intelligence services to spy on Trump as a candidate, in an any-thing-goes effort to catch him in, really, ANYTHING) must be investigated, publicly explained, the whole nine yards, preferably with indictments and at least minimal convictions. Truly, half the country is going to terminally lose faith if something at least plausibly counterfeiting such a course of just as above doesn't happen. O what a country, o what derelict values!
Posted by: Catsmeat | September 19, 2017 at 08:47 PM
lyle,
Of course it is a stallling tactic. I am not saying it is a solution. I am just pointing out that it was the expected response according to Treehouse, who has been pretty astute about this stuff.
If you have time, go read his explanation of the Chinese reaction to this crisis and why it is in a spiraling loser position.
Posted by: Miss Marple the Deplorable | September 19, 2017 at 08:47 PM
MM, Check out Charles ortel's blog and all you need is a pen and paper to do that.
Lynn Chu
4 hrs · New York, NY ·
You might expect that Manafort, with his Ukrainan clients, and even more so, Podesta, with his Russian ones, would be wiretapped. This would be standard FBI counter-intel activity. But you'd never expect anyone in government to leak that fact to anyone—because it's totally defamatory and prejudicial. But someone has done so, and we know who. Democrats who want desperately to get in some smearing and impugning of people and who can't wait for an indictment. Why? Because an indictment, having not issued yet, may never come. So, politically, they know it's best to engineer any media hype they can, to smear. It's a bullying tactic, and to spread lies to the gullible. If successful they can crazy it up into a witchhunt frenzy where even judges might be spun to do their propaganda bidding—as with Trump's overmaligned EOs on border control ultimately unanimously upheld by the Supreme Court. This is called "McCarthyism," except, McCarthy's version was about a hundred times more valid and factual. Democrats indulging in these raw, rank, flatly Marxist-Leninist smear tactics, totally discredit themselves as a party.
Posted by: Clarice Feldman | September 19, 2017 at 08:48 PM
I think it would look like that Powerpoint from hell, that mccrystal was touting. If you add the Atlantic council and fusion gps.
Posted by: narciso. | September 19, 2017 at 08:48 PM
MM & Clarice.
Off to bed but I hope both of you are right but the circumstansial evidence is bright red and yet nothing is happening. Even Rice admits she has broken a bevy of Federal laws and is enjoying cocktails in her DC home. I am sure New College is proud.
Rice is so embedded into the DC swamp she knows more people on the DC Circuit then Clarice. Hell, her family basically found the left wing of DC national politics. She will never see a jail from the inside. Bet on it.
Posted by: Jim Eagle | September 19, 2017 at 08:49 PM
I don't know if anyone will see jail, but I think it's becoming more and more transparent every day what happened and why.
Posted by: Clarice Feldman | September 19, 2017 at 08:51 PM
Jack,
Am not looking for jail.
Just public revelation and shaming.
Posted by: Miss Marple the Deplorable | September 19, 2017 at 08:52 PM
I still am enjoying Zippy keeping his yap zipped. That to me is a tell that the good guys have all the facts on their side and it's just a matter of when for Hammer Time.
Posted by: Captain Hate | September 19, 2017 at 08:56 PM
Its alliterative
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/276018/
Posted by: narciso. | September 19, 2017 at 08:56 PM
Me, too, CH.
From an email response to BOTW today which I cannot read in its entirely because of their damn website again) :As a lawyer and a 30 year veteran of the FBI--most of which time was spent investigating counterintelligence matters, including Russian matters in NY in the 1980s--you can imagine that I'm taking a lively interest in this. For that reason, I want to bring to your attention a bit of a slip that you made. I want to be clear at the outset that my comments are not intended to be merely pedantic--they have a very important bearing on this whole matter, as it developed, which I'll address at the conclusion.
You repeat, without comment, CNN's assertion that "the FBI must provide the court with information showing suspicion that the subject of the warrant may be acting as an agent of a foreign power.”
This gives a significantly misleading view of the matter.
In fact, a FISA order can be issued only when a Full Investigation has been approved. That means that a FISA order must "piggyback" on the authorization of Full Investigation, satisfying at a minimum the same criteria. Here is what is stated in the Attorney General Guidelines for FBI National Security Investigations and Foreign Intelligence Collection:
Full investigations. Full investigations are authorized, generally speaking, when there are specific and articulable facts giving reason to believe that a threat to the national security may exist. Like preliminary investigations, full investigations may relate to individuals, groups, organizations, and possible criminal violations, as specified in Part II.B.
My contention, based on experience with these matters, is that "specific and articulable facts giving reason to believe" goes well beyond mere "suspicion."
Further ...
The ability to provide "specific and articulable facts giving reason to believe that a threat to the national security may exist" only gets you a Full Investigation. To get a FISA order there is an additional bar. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) states re electronic surveillance that
agents need to demonstrate probable cause to believe that the "target of the surveillance is a foreign power or agent of a foreign power,"
I'm sure you're aware that the legal standard of "probable cause goes well beyond CNN's careless--or worse--paraphrase of "suspicion."
Here's why these considerations are important for this case.
CNN tells us that in the summer of 2016 two attempts were made to obtain a FISA order, but that both were rejected. According to CNN the order was finally obtained when it was more "narrowly focused." Color me skeptical.
FISA is, by its nature and just like any type of electronic surveillance, a blunderbuss type of tool or investigative technique. That's why "minimization" procedures are used. The "unmasking" we've all heard so much about amounts to an override of those mandatory minimization procedures. In other words, the inherent "broadness" of a FISA order is remedied by those minimization procedures. For that reason, an application for a FISA order will not ordinarily be rejected as over broad, since that can be remedied by the minimization procedures. Therefore, my educated guess is that the two rejections were occasioned by a failure to demonstrate probable cause that any individual named in the application (Paul Manafort, Carter Page, whoever ...) was an agent of a foreign power--not for lack of a narrow focus.
That is the significance of the "dossier," which you so rightly point out, and that's why the American people deserve to know the truth about how these FISA orders were obtained. Who was this judge who rubber stamped the FBI's collusion with foreign powers and individuals to come up with the now debunked "dossier?" Was the FISA application--on the third try--truly submitted in the good faith belief in the accuracy of its assertions, as the authors would have sworn? From everything we've heard about that "dossier," that seems a stretch.
Posted by: Clarice Feldman | September 19, 2017 at 09:04 PM
Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.
Posted by: Dave (in MA) | September 19, 2017 at 09:05 PM
Extraneous, I do believe your doctor is quite mistaken about anything less than 4.0 is OK, if that is what he said.
Any bump in your PSA can mean there's a recurrence.
You need to be seeing somebody who knows that.
https://www.pcf.org/c/psa-rising-post-treatment/
Posted by: anonamom | September 19, 2017 at 09:12 PM
I think the author of that email is spot on, Clarice.
Something has been bothering me about the FBI pre dawn break in to the Manafort home to issue a search warrant. It doesn't pass the smell test.
To me, the whole thing smacks of a desperation move on the part of Meller and Co. to frighten and/or upset Manafort and his family into dishing up something - anything. Mueller has been digging in a dry hole, and even he realizes that he better produce something before the FISA warrants and illegal surveillance for political purposes blows up in their faces.
Posted by: Barbara | September 19, 2017 at 09:23 PM
Posted by: Dave (in MA) | September 19, 2017 at 09:26 PM
If that's their plan, Manafort's response today seems to show it isn't working.
Posted by: Clarice Feldman | September 19, 2017 at 09:26 PM
Yep. Manafort doesn't appear to be someone who scares easily.
Posted by: Barbara | September 19, 2017 at 09:29 PM
This is a guy who had dealt with at various times, savinbi, Marcos mobutu, the first two lot their sponsors, now its been a hall of mirrors where they have used his kids as leverage.
Posted by: narciso. | September 19, 2017 at 09:30 PM
Remember those emails that were hacked from communications with his children and their friends
Posted by: narciso. | September 19, 2017 at 09:33 PM
So, my son had his dna analyzed and it turns out his (that is, my) mitochondrial dna is quote rare--HV1b2.Goes back to one woman who lived less than 15K years ago.,probably in the Middle East in an area part of the Parhtian (later Persian) Empire.
Posted by: Clarice Feldman | September 19, 2017 at 09:36 PM
I'm not including mirengoffs. Venture into category error.
http://powerlineblog.com/archives/2017/09/netanyahu-at-the-u-n.php
Posted by: narciso. | September 19, 2017 at 09:37 PM
For OT (from one or maybe two threads back)
Chris Pratt is an actor most recently known for his role in Guardians of the Galaxy films and Passengers.
daddy - I was very sad to read that he has separated from his wife. He seemed like a devoted family man and brought his wife and son to Georgia when he was shooting here.
Posted by: Momto2 | September 19, 2017 at 09:38 PM
I'm not sad to admit I don't know who Chris Pratt is or could even care.
/curmudgeonly yours
Posted by: lyle | September 19, 2017 at 09:43 PM
How about that clarice.
Posted by: narciso. | September 19, 2017 at 09:45 PM
Btw, what's the left tail of the age frequency distribution on the bell curve for curmudgeons? 60? Asking for a friend... 😎
Posted by: lyle | September 19, 2017 at 09:46 PM
Does this make sense:
http://tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/245084/settler-nakba-post-zionist-religious-identity
Posted by: narciso. | September 19, 2017 at 09:47 PM
WSJ editorial an hour ago:All Mr. Comey’s Wiretaps
Congress needs to learn how the FBI meddled in the 2016 campaign.
By The Editorial Board
Sept. 19, 2017 7:13 p.m. ET62 COMMENTS
When Donald Trump claimed in March that he’d had his “wires tapped” prior to the election, the press and Obama officials dismissed the accusation as a fantasy. We were among the skeptics, but with former director James Comey’s politicized FBI the story is getting more complicated.
CNN reported Monday that the FBI obtained a warrant last year to eavesdrop on Paul Manafort, Mr. Trump’s campaign manager from May to August in 2016. The story claims the FBI first wiretapped Mr. Manafort in 2014 while investigating his work as a lobbyist for Ukraine’s ruling party. That warrant lapsed, but the FBI convinced the court that administers the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to issue a second order as part of its probe into Russian meddling in the election.
Guess who has lived in a condo in Trump Tower since 2006? Paul Manafort.
The story suggests the monitoring started in the summer or fall, and extended into early this year. While Mr. Manafort resigned from the campaign in August, he continued to speak with Candidate Trump. It is thus highly likely that the FBI was listening to the political and election-related conversations of a leading contender for the White House. That’s extraordinary—and worrisome.
Mr. Comey told Congress in late March that he “had no information that supports those [Trump] tweets.” Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper was even more specific that “there was no such wiretap activity mounted against—the President-elect at the time, or as a candidate, or against his campaign.” He denied that any such FISA order existed. Were they lying?
The warrant’s timing may also shed light on the FBI’s relationship to the infamous “ Steele dossier.” That widely discredited dossier claiming ties between Russians and the Trump campaign was commissioned by left-leaning research firm Fusion GPS and developed by former British spy Christopher Steele—who relied on Russian sources. But the Washington Post and others have reported that Mr. Steele was familiar to the FBI, had reached out to the agency about his work, and had even arranged a deal in 2016 to get paid by the FBI to continue his research.
The FISA court sets a high bar for warrants on U.S. citizens, and presumably even higher for wiretapping a presidential campaign. Did Mr. Comey’s FBI marshal the Steele dossier to persuade the court?
All of this is reason for House and Senate investigators to keep exploring how Mr. Comey’s FBI was investigating both presidential campaigns. Russian meddling is a threat to democracy but so was the FBI if it relied on Russian disinformation to eavesdrop on a presidential campaign. The Justice Department and FBI have stonewalled Congressional requests for documents and interviews, citing the “integrity” of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.
But Mr. Mueller is not investigating the FBI, and in any event his ties to the bureau and Mr. Comey make him too conflicted for such a job. Congress is charged with providing oversight of law enforcement and the FISA courts, and it has an obligation to investigate their role in 2016. The intelligence committees have subpoena authority and the ability to hold those who don’t cooperate in contempt.
Mr. Comey investigated both leading presidential campaigns in an election year, playing the role of supposedly impartial legal authority. But his maneuvering to get Mr. Mueller appointed, and his leaks to the press, have shown that Mr. Comey is as political and self-serving as anyone in Washington. No investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 campaign will be credible or complete without the facts about all Mr. Comey’s wiretaps.
Posted by: Clarice Feldman | September 19, 2017 at 09:50 PM
Sorry, lyle - if you had a 20ish-year-old daughter you would know all about him.
Posted by: Momto2 | September 19, 2017 at 09:51 PM
Must kill the WSJ editorial staff to write that, Clarice.
Posted by: lyle | September 19, 2017 at 09:53 PM
See, what I mean when I said I sensed the tide was turning?
Posted by: Clarice Feldman | September 19, 2017 at 09:53 PM
No apologies necessary, fair madam. Hope you're healing apace. 👍
Posted by: lyle | September 19, 2017 at 09:54 PM
Pratt is suspected of being a closet Trump supporter.
My best friend told me in NYC that the sister of our mutual friend is Pratt's wife's (Anna Ferris) best friend. The problem is apparently distance - due to their schedules, they are never together. Sounds typically Hollywood.
Posted by: Porchlight | September 19, 2017 at 09:56 PM
That seems plausible torchlight,
Irecsll the late Stephen cannelloni exhibited a little beds in one of his novels re the patriot act, which in retrospect was on point.
Posted by: narciso. | September 19, 2017 at 10:00 PM
--DiFi: "The Goals of the United Nations are to foster peace and promote global cooperation. Today, the President used it as a stage to threaten war."--
Uh, this cretinous hag does know the effing UN itself declared and fought a war to defend South Korea from the present punk Rocket Man's relatives doesn't she?
She does know that technically that state of war still exists, right?
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | September 19, 2017 at 10:03 PM
So Susan Rice's unmasking is ok.
Rodham deleting 30 thousand e-mails is ok.
Washerwoman-Schlitz-Malt-licker dealing with POCK-EE-STAWN-EE criminals A-OK.
DNC refusing to let the FBI examine their server ok.
SPECIAL COUNSEL NEEDED to check into Manaforts 12 year old financial matters?????
What does ANY of this have to do with President Trump. and.....WHAT CRIME IS BEING INVESTIGATED??????
What have the RUSSIANS been ACCUSED of????
What the FUCK is wrong with us. I'm heading down to PITCHFORKS R US.
Posted by: GUS | September 19, 2017 at 10:05 PM
I freely admit to checking out lyle's boob-punch story a couple threads back.
That chick looks to be keeping a couple of docs in Mercs.
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | September 19, 2017 at 10:06 PM
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Posted by: Neo | September 19, 2017 at 10:07 PM
Clarice,
Agree with you that the tide is turning.
Now off to bed.
Nytol!
Posted by: Miss Marple the Deplorable | September 19, 2017 at 10:07 PM
No investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 campaign will be credible or complete without the facts about all Mr. Comey’s wiretaps.
Weightlifting accident, Fort Marcy Park suicide or robbery gone wrong?
Posted by: Captain Hate | September 19, 2017 at 10:09 PM
She is textbook definition of blank mange
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/19/uk-suspend-training-burmese-military-treatment-rohingya#img-1
Posted by: narciso. | September 19, 2017 at 10:09 PM
The latest Harvard kerfuffle is over the Kennedy school's invitations to Sean Spicer and Corey Lewandowski as visiting fellows. Alums are up in arms and sending an open letter that throws every bit of hysterical fantasy and innuendo against those two, and of course Trump. Just one example: Corey "assaulted a female reporter." Here's the letter for laughs.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSejMEhQUsPWQwmFVqIwmV7cpSu0ZksB_3sqHPQmoP4M3fWY-A/viewform
Posted by: jimmyk on iPhone | September 19, 2017 at 10:11 PM
But the sultan said so:
https://mobile.twitter.com/ChuckRossDC/status/910307293924818944?p=v
Posted by: narciso. | September 19, 2017 at 10:12 PM
Must kill the WSJ editorial staff to write that, Clarice.
Or tell the boss about it which he can pass on to his good friend, the Ferret.
Posted by: Captain Hate | September 19, 2017 at 10:14 PM
Michelle Fields, what a lying dope.
Posted by: Porchlight | September 19, 2017 at 10:14 PM
How would MUELLER have anything to do with a former FISA ok, vis a vis Manafort? What would YEARS OLD FINANCIAL DEALINGS with The Ukraine have in any way to do with TRUMP, RUSSIA, or this RIDICULOUS LIE that RUSSIA "HACKED" our election.
Would the 1st GOP poooosoir, with balls, please stand up and be counted. This is the biggest scandal in U.S. History. The FBI needs to be completely dismantled. The new FBI will be called NEW SCOTLAND YARD II. We are told on a daily basis, by GAS BAGS in both parties, that RUSSIA did something WITHOUT ANY DEFINITION or LAW being cited. BLOW THIS MOTHERFUCKING THING UP
If my country is going down, I'm going down swinging.
Posted by: GUS | September 19, 2017 at 10:17 PM
Love you, Gus.
Posted by: Clarice Feldman | September 19, 2017 at 10:24 PM
The Justice Department IG, a 2012 BOzo appointee still in place as Trump's choice remains in limbo, appears to be a zealot determined to find something on Trump no matter what or how long it takes. When Mueller finally folds up his tent, Horowitz's Norma Desmond moment will have arrived.
Posted by: DebinGA | September 19, 2017 at 10:25 PM
Things that make you go hmm
https://www.timesofisrael.com/argentina-experts-said-to-confirm-alberto-nisman-was-murdered/
Posted by: narciso. | September 19, 2017 at 10:29 PM
Right back at you Kaiser Roll Clarice!!! And I did have GREBE'S KAISER rolls on Sunday!!
Posted by: GUS | September 19, 2017 at 10:29 PM
A reasonable response
:)https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/sep/19/alleged-arsonist-set-fire-to-melbourne-bank-because-he-was-angry-at-length-of-wait-court-told
Posted by: narciso. | September 19, 2017 at 10:31 PM
Torture me, Gus, go ahead. Next you'll tell me you're going to Kopps for custard and Usingers for landleber wirst.
Posted by: Clarice Feldman | September 19, 2017 at 10:39 PM
Curb Dive will be on Cold Sore's yuck fest tonight. Have all asshole seeking missiles been accounted for?
Posted by: Captain Hate | September 19, 2017 at 10:45 PM
OMG - they are going to really freak out over this one!!!
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@realDonaldTrump
I was saddened to see how bad the ratings were on the Emmys last night - the worst ever. Smartest people of them all are the "DEPLORABLES."
Posted by: Momto2 | September 19, 2017 at 10:47 PM
Nytol.
Posted by: Clarice Feldman | September 19, 2017 at 10:55 PM
Just how big an a-hole does any person calling himself a conservative have to be to not love the way Trump harpoons these phonies and freaks?
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | September 19, 2017 at 10:57 PM
--The Justice Department IG...--
I could do that job standing on my head. :)
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | September 19, 2017 at 11:02 PM
"What the FUCK is wrong with us. I'm heading down to PITCHFORKS R US.
Mention Clarice's name and get the JOM discount, GUS.
Posted by: Frau Zwetschgen | September 19, 2017 at 11:09 PM
Who'd have guessed that we'd have someone who relishes trolling the MFM as a GOP President.
Posted by: Captain Hate | September 19, 2017 at 11:09 PM
Heh;

Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | September 19, 2017 at 11:13 PM
Juan Williams is insipid.
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | September 19, 2017 at 11:14 PM