Impeachment and Amnesia By Andrew C. McCarthy

[mystery-ak]

   Impeachment and Amnesia
By Andrew C. McCarthy

February 8, 2020 6:27 PM

When it comes to executive excess, Trump lacks remorse and Democrats lack self-awareness.

‘If this had happened to President Obama, a lot of people would have been in jail by now.” So went President Trump’s morning-after remarks, following the GOP-controlled Senate’s acquittal vote, the denouement of the Democrat-controlled House’s approval of two thin-gruel articles of impeachment.

To say the president is defiant, that he is without remorse, understates the matter.

In a midweek speech explaining her not-guilty vote, Senator Susan Collins (R., Maine) maintained that the president had “learned his lesson.” By week’s end, she sheepishly allowed that her assessment had been “aspirational” — Collins’ aspiration, that is, not Trump’s.

more
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/02/impeachment-and-amnesia/

[mystery-ak]

Andrew McCarthy: Trump lacks remorse and Democrats lack self-awareness when it comes to executive excess

By Andrew McCarthy | National Review

‘If this had happened to President Obama, a lot of people would have been in jail by now.” So went President Trump’s morning-after remarks, following the GOP-controlled Senate’s acquittal vote, the denouement of the Democrat-controlled House’s approval of two thin-gruel articles of impeachment.

To say the president is defiant, that he is without remorse, understates the matter.

In a midweek speech explaining her not-guilty vote, Senator Susan Collins, R., Maine, maintained that the president had “learned his lesson.” By week’s end, she sheepishly allowed that her assessment had been “aspirational” — Collins’ aspiration, that is, not Trump’s.

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https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/trump-democrats-executive-excess-andrew-mccarthy

[truth_seeker]

Had Obama, Holder, discovered a Coup d' Etat plotted by Bush holdovers, he would have sought to:

1. Survive politically.
2.  Destroy the plotters.

IOW to do precisely what Trump has done.

(Remember Nixon crumbled under Watergate, and Reagan held on thru Iran Contra)

 

[Absalom]

McCarthy, to his credit, is a commentator in the Buckley mold; a Principled Conservative
always and a journo mouthpiece never.
His characterization of Trump is accurate, yet it will predictably, be ignored.
Trump is fortunate that both Bill Buckley and Bill Rusher, founders of National Review,
are now w/the Almighty.
Were they present in our current political environment, Trump would likely be holed up
in some cave to avoid their daily broadside of farce and scorn.