Here are my observations and thought on my selected news of the day.
NOT MY FATHER’S DEMOCRAT PARTY – My father was a dyed in the wool Democrat. He worshiped Franklin Delano Roosevelt. After the midterms, when the likes of radicals Ocasio-Cortez, Omar and Tlaib took over the party, the missus and I agreed that it was no longer my father’s Democrat Party.
That conversation resumed yesterday hearing the insulting comments uttered by Democrats, including those running for president, about Attorney General Bill Barr during his Wednesday hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. My father would have been embarrassed.
I’m not going to mention them by name; you know who they are – the usual line-up of suspects. With their embarrassing attacks, coupled with the House’s Judiciary Committee fiasco today, it is believed to be part of an effort now to label Barr as someone that cannot be trusted.
You see, he has made it known that he’s looking into the corrupt activities of the Deep State, and that the DOJ IG report is due out next month. They know Barr is no shrinking violet. He will be taking names. “Old Washington” will explode.
THE MUELLER REPORT – If you have downloaded the Mueller Report or purchased a paperback copy as I did, my guess is that you probably paged by the 12-page introduction, written by Alan Dershowitz, emeritus professor of law at Harvard Law School.
If so, you are not alone. I dare say none of the left media pundits have either. And we know now that House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) hasn’t even read the special unredacted copy he insisted upon. As of this morning, just 11 lawmakers have done so.
Regular readers will recall that I have quoted Dershowitz frequently. Though he is a liberal Democrat who voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016, he is a civil libertarian who cares deeply about the fair application of the rule of law.
Not only does Dershowitz believe a special counsel should never have been appointed, and certainly not by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who he believes was conflicted with the firing of FBI Director James Comey, he reminds readers that while the special counsel must file a report with the attorney general, regulations do not require him to make the report public.
Dershowitz understands that the Mueller investigation wasn’t ordinary, with all of the publicity around the costly, two-year effort, and comments that the report is “a political Rorschach test, subject to multiple interpretations, depending on the preexisting biases of the reader.”
“Mueller seems to have conducted a generally fair prosecutorial investigation of the facts,” Dershowitz wrote, “But he failed to come to a clear decision about obstruction of justice. That was his job and he should have done it.”
Dershowitz gives the Muller Report’s legal analysis of obstruction of justice a grade of C+, for factual analysis at B+, and an overall grade of B-.
MUELLER HAS BEEN A WASHINGTON FIXTURE for decades, so I find it amusing how he responded to the media’s sophomoric understanding and treatment of Attorney General Bill Barr’s March 24, 2019 four-page summarization of the Report.
Although Mueller declined to review Barr’s summary, “there is now public confusion about critical aspects of the results of our investigation. This threatens to undermine a central purpose for which the Department appointed the Special Counsel – to assure full public confidence in the outcome of the investigation.”
As a result, he believes the media coverage of it misinterpreted the investigation.
Welcome to the world of fake news in the era of lazy journalism, Mr. Mueller.
IT WON’T SURPRISE YOU that President Trump’s Prayer Day ceremony in the Rose Garden this morning was not broadcast by either CNN or MSNBC. Incidentally, Nielsen Media Research reported that CNN’s prime time ratings dropped 26 percent in April. MSNBC’s ratings dropped 14 percent.
(USAF Photo by Sr. Airman Shawna Keyes)
AND FINALLY, MEMORY RECALLED – When I saw the accompanying photograph of the T-33 jet trainer online, it brought back a memory of my exhilarating ride in the rear seat of a T-33 while serving in a U. S. Air Force public affairs role in 1961. The photo shows Gregory “Wired” Colyer’s T-33 Acemaker during the Wings Over Wayne Air Show at Seymour Johnson AFB, North Carolina on April 28, 2019. I assume he has named it “Acemaker” because the T-33 was the trainer for the F-80 Shooting Star, flown in the Korean War.
May God bless the United States of America.
