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General Category => Editorial/Opinion/Blogs => Topic started by: Right_in_Virginia on September 07, 2017, 01:55:18 pm
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As the Mockery Dwindles
National Review, Sep 6, 2017, Conrad Black
The moment I have been awaiting with trembling and prayerful anticipation since the week of President Trump’s inauguration is dawning: The hysterical assault by the media and Democrats is starting to crumble and fall apart. Like shrieking babies who eventually become so angry and exhausted they can’t cry anymore, they have to pause since they no longer can maintain an ambiance of endless accusations.
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Congress is back, and if the nondescript Republican leadership can raise itself off its hands, declare to be over the chicken game that prevailed while they thought Trump might flame out spontaneously, and try to end the useless, hopeless gridlock of the last 20 years in Congress (punctuated only by some of George W. Bush’s measures after 9/11 and by Obamacare), then the government will start to work for the first time in almost a generation.
The answer is not, as is suggested now, including by some at National Review, “a return to congressional government.” That is a fraud and merely the latest wheeze of the never-Trumpers, following the evaporation of misogyny, racism, collusion with Russians, warmongering in Korea, Nazi sympathies, temperamental instability, and, in Kafka’s phrase, “nameless crimes,” as excuses to evict Trump or pretend that he does not hold his office constitutionally.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/451110/trump-mockery-decreases-liberals-resort-critiquing-melanias-shoes
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Methinks Mr. Black will be working from a basement office at NR. :laugh:
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We shall see.
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Ryan produced an asinine health-care reform that would have increased the number of people not covered by health insurance by probably more than 20 million and, with modifications, only got it to the Senate with the president’s help, where it failed by one vote.
Conrad Black is the author of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom
Oh, yes, THAT Conrad Black... the one who spent time in prison for theft of about $80,000,000. The Canadian, who had no qualms with Canadian universal health care.