Posse Incitatus

Gluttons For Punishment

Having failed catastrophically with their two-year Russian collusion/obstruction hoax, the Democrats are back in the ring to take another swing (for about the fifth or sixth time)....

Back in July, they felt giddy about the prospect of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller testifying before a congressional committee. Surely he would have damning things to say about Donald Trump; he would flesh out critical parts of his report with juicy details to be repeated ad nauseam by the news media. The pressure would build on Trump -- maybe pushing him to the breaking point.

Heh, dream on... In fact, Mueller proved to be feeble, confused,  and ineffective. His testimony was useless to the Democrats and actually set back their cause. 

In mid-September, the Democrats called former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski to testify. Once again, the abominable Rep. Jerry Nadler of New York, a villain from central casting, led the three-ring circus. Turns out, Lewandowski ran rings around all of the Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee -- especially Nadler. The media was bitterly disappointed that another in a seemingly endless series of strikeouts had let them down once again.

This time around, as the Democrats prepare an impeachment inquiry into Trump's dealings with the Ukrainian president, Rep. Adam Schiff will lead the charge. The Democrats are admitting that Nadler was a fiasco, and they believe Schiff will fare better. But Schiff already has repeatedly lied and been proven to have no credibility (not to mention the charisma of a tree stump). For many months, Schiff continuously insisted he had solid evidence that the president had colluded with the Russians to steal the 2016 election. But he never did come up with anything solid. The media gave him a pass, of course.

Although early polls since the Ukrainian news broke several days ago seem to show more Americans now support impeachment (thus persuading Speaker Nancy Pelosi to support it), I believe public sentiment will shift in the other direction as more information comes out and the Trump camp pushes back hard.

Meantime, the Democrats will continue to put their despicable clowns out on full display for Americans to see, day after day, night after night. I'm not so sure those naive soccer moms who helped the blue wave succeed are happy they put these hacks in power. It doesn't seem like they enjoy a nonstop shit-show.

But I am pretty confident a huge chunk of America will not be pleased to see this psychotic Democrat hatred play out like a bad opera singer. The witless Democrats are setting up their 2020 failure at the ballot box. More power to 'em!

 

Democrats, The Projection Party

How many times is this going to happen before the brain-dead news media gets a clue: The Democrats rail against Donald Trump and fulminate about his disrespect for the U.S. Constitution and the rule of law because he allegedly did something wrong that their party had already done.

Just a few months after the RUSSIA!™ collusion & obstruction of justice hoax melted away like the Wicked Witch after Dorothy doused her with water, the Democrats are on the warpath about the president's dealings with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky.

The Trumpster doesn't deny that he spoke with Zelensky several months ago about conducting an investigation into Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden and Biden's son, Hunter. But the transcript of their phone conversation contains no evidence of a supposed quid pro quo suggested by Trump -- i.e., either you guys investigate the Bidens, or we're holding back on $400 million of military aid we promised you!

The Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel found Trump's conversation was simply a "routine diplomatic call." And Justice's Criminal Division also investigated, finding that Trump committed no violation of federal campaign finance law.

Now let's switch to Joe Biden and the Democrats... Let us not forget that in 2016, then Vice President Biden threatened the Ukrainian president that the U.S. would withhold $1 billion in loan guarantees to Ukraine if the government did not fire the country's top prosecutor, Viktor Shokin. Biden wanted Shokin gone because the prosecutor was investigating corruption at Burisma Holdings, a natural gas company whose board of directors included Biden's son Hunter. The younger Biden's sinecure was obviously made possible because of his proximity to the power centers of U.S. government. In this case, there really was a quid pro quo. The Obama administration also pulled some strings with the Ukrainian government to investigate former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. But don't expect the mainstream media to mention that.

Psychologists call this Democrat tendency "projection." That's where individuals attribute characteristics they find unacceptable in themselves to another person. Or, in this case, a political party attributes ethically questionable actions to another political party. But hey, maybe projection isn't the right word. After all, can we really assume the Democrats find it unacceptable to cozy up with a foreign government to get dirt on their political opponents? Maybe not. It might be just another card to play in the never-ending dirty game of politics. Check your scruples at the door.

Once again, it was a disgruntled, anti-Trump member of the intelligence community who leaked the information about Trump's conversation with Zelensky. The Democrat media calls him a "whistleblower." I call him a partisan hack. 

A corrupt, leaking Deep State; a Democrat Party projecting its own sins on the Trump administration; a compliant parrot press utterly incapable of critical thinking; and the Trump administration beleaguered with another tempest-in-a-teapot incident. Some things never change.

As Herman's Hermits once sang: "Second verse; same as the first!"

 

Petty and Petulant Leftists

One of the most infuriating things about leftists, besides how misguided they are, is their tendency to be petty, petulant and personal when it comes to attacking political opponents. Never can they just let something be or give the benefit of the doubt if there's an opportunity to criticize, mock and cynically demonize the opposition.

Here's a small example: This past weekend, the Michigan Republican Party held its biannual policy meeting on Mackinac Island, a picturesque tourist attraction that sits in northern Lake Huron between the state's Upper Peninsula and the northern tip of the Lower Peninsula. For those who are not familiar with this vacation destination, the island is known for its quaintness. With the exception of the police and fire department, motor vehicles are not allowed.

People travel amidst the gorgeous victorian homes, historic hotels and 1890s downtown by walking, bicycling, or riding in horse-drawn carriages.

Well, it just so happens that Vice President Mike Pence was one of an impressive lineup of weekend speakers. (Others included former White House Press Secretary Sarah Hucakbee Sanders and Congressmen Kevin McCarthy and Dan Crenshaw.) The VP's security detail deemed it wise and prudent to transport some vehicles to the island on a ferry and move Pence between the tiny airport and the Grand Hotel, where he spoke, inside an armored limousine rather than on a horse-drawn carriage.

This is eminently sensible and responsible. We live in dangerous times, and can you imagine the criticism and second guessing if the VP had been attacked riding in a horse-drawn carriage? To expose him like that would be criminal negligence.

But gosh, judging by the insanely juvenile and angry reaction by liberals, you'd think the VP had urinated on a Planned Parenthood clinic! The comments sections of news articles about Pence's security vehicles supposedly defiling this pristine paradise were full of invective from liberals with too much time on their hands. Twitter was awash with snarky denunciations from pompous progressives (oops, sorry for the redundancy).

One woman tweeted the ferry company that transported the VP's vehicles to the island and said she would never again ride on their ferries, which she'd been doing for years, but instead would switch her loyalty to the competing ferry company. Do tell.

Here is a Huffington Post account of the rage of the left, with the headline, "Michiganders Furious About Mike Pence's 8-Vehicle Motorcade on Carless Mackinac Island." Former Associated Press journalist Ron Fournier, a Detroit native, called the motorcade "obscene." Unbelievable. One moron on Twitter tweeted, "I wonder where entitled Nazi #MackinacMike got the idea that he can do whatever he wants despite a rule that’s been in place for over a century." Myself, I wonder why a person would have so much hatred in her heart for a decent and accomplished man who is serving his country honorably.

Melodramatic and over-the-top are just a couple of adjectives that don't begin to describe the histrionics of useless leftists. The economy is doing well, Trump has pulled out of ill-advised Obama trade deals and the Iran nuclear deal; the president is the first person to fight back against China's abuses; and he's attempting to stop the onslaught of Third World illegal immigrants. In other words, he's doing things that are helping our nation. Millions of people are working better jobs, earning higher wages, and benefiting from a robust stock market. Income inequality, an obsession of the left, is less severe now than under St. Barack Obama. And that's why the puerile children of the left lash out like four-year-olds.

Utterly pathetic, but that's where we are in 2019.

Advice for these bitter losers: Get. A. Life. (Or at least get better candidates to oppose Trump.)

 

Is Ukraine the new RUSSIA?

One of the things I learned under Bill Clinton's presidency is that whenever a Democrat has broken a law, there will immediately be media reports that Republicans have done the same thing, only worse.

It was a novel invention 30 years ago, but now it's becoming a dull, predictable routine.

In other words: the magic is gone.

Clearly Joe Biden and the Obama administration know they are vulnerable on this.  There's also the lingering question of Uranium One and the decision process in approving the sale of a strategic ore to the eeeevil Vladimir Putin.

Based on experience, I'm going to assume that this whole fake scandal is an attempt to get in front of new revelations about both Biden and Clinton.  Just as the same two photos of Trump in the same room with Jeffrey Epstein were the only ones used in an effort to tie Trump to the noted sex-trafficker, so the same hackneyed allegations are being trotted out as cover for the corrupt Deep State.

The problem as that - as with Epstein - the Clinton ties are far deeper and Trump isn't shy about pointing them out.

Adding to the risk is the fact that the federal government is no loner a wholly-owned subsidiary of Clinton Inc.  There are still pockets of resistance, but there are also honest cops who seem determined to break some of these cases open.

ClintonWorld is in eclipse.  It's power came from the ability to dispense political favors and that influence is fading.  Without it, the foreign hired guns are no longer willing to do the dirty deeds that gets them paid.  In fact, they may well turn on their prior benefactors who were stiffed by Hillary's failure to win the White House.

There are a lot of unpaid I.O.U.s out there and the holders are likely looking for some payback.

 

Will History Repeat Itself?

A while back, I posted commentary comparing 1968 with 2018 in terms of politics, culture, media coverage and the like. (There's something about 50-year anniversaries that just demands comment.)

Today, let's spend a few minutes comparing the upcoming 2020 presidential race with the 1968 and 1972 presidential races.  What does 2020 have in common with those two elections? Well, from the Democrats' perspective, there's a choice between nominating an ostensibly moderate candidate or a hard-left radical.

As I pointed out in the ’68 Vs. ’18 blog, unrest roiled American society 50 years ago just as it does today. The 1960s protests had a lot to do with civil rights, anti-Vietnam War sentiment and overall radicalism (sex-n-drugs-n-rock-n-roll libertine lifestyles). There were riots, campus demonstrations in which students took over entire buildings, and even some bombings, thanks to extremist terror groups such as the Weathermen.

Today, we have rampant urban homelessness (spurred in part by the flood of illegal immigrants); Antifa thugs raising hell in various cities, despite many of them coming from middle-class and wealthy backgrounds; and occasional mass shootings usually perpetrated by alienated, angry and mentally ill men. Old boundaries have broken down or are showing signs of decay -- gay marriage and the alphabet soup of transgendered sexuality come to mind. Democrats are more concerned about plastic straws polluting our cities than syringes used by junkies.

Just as happened 50 years ago, the Democrat Party features left-wing nut-jobs running for president who want to shake things up in the most extreme ways. Barack Obama is to today’s leftist Dems as Lyndon Johnson was to the George McGovern & Eugene McCarthy wing of the Democrats in the late 1960s-early 1970s. LBJ's Great Society and Obama's "fundamental transformation" of America, including Obamacare, racial politics, and a drastic weakening of the military, didn't go far enough. The hard-core leftists just keep moving the goalposts and demanding more.

Peacenik Hubert Humphrey was the “moderate” in 1968, and he managed to secure the nomination. Richard Nixon defeated him in a close election, 31.78 million to 31.27 million votes, with George Wallace picking up 9.9 million votes.

I'm sure there must have been Democrat true believers in 1969-72 who thought, "If only we had nominated a more progressive candidate, we could've beaten that bastard Nixon."

The Democrat Party, then as now having too many emotional, irrational people who live in a fantasy world and see what they want to see rather than deal with reality, nominated George McGovern in 1972. The Vietnam War was still going on, the hippie movement was winding down, and most of the race riots were a few years behind us. The unemployment rate was a respectable 5.3 percent; inflation about 3.5 percent, and GDP a whopping 5 percent. But rumblings were starting from the Watergate break-in, which had occurred just a few months before the election. Nixon might have been vulnerable.

However, the Democrats of that era, like many of them today, did not believe in incrementalism or making modest, steady progress. It was an all-or-nothing proposition. They entered the ring with McGovern, then Nixon came out from the opposite corner and cold-cocked him. McGovern was down for the count, as Tricky Dick won 49 states and about 47 million votes to McGovern's 29 million.

Today, with Twitter and other social media supercharging the left's extremism, support from naive millennials and a compliant, obsequious news media that serves as the pom-pom team for the Democrats, radicals like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are faring well in the Democrat nominating process. Other fringe crackpots like Pete Buttigieg, Andrew Yang and Robert Francis O'Rourke are still competing, each one trying to out-extreme the next one.

Their fantasies include insane and ridiculous proposals like banning fossil fuels and air travel, spending $30 trillion on a green new deal (or whatever they call it), opening the immigration floodgates and offering free health insurance to illegal immigrants. Not a word about military preparedness or the recklessness of piling on mountains of additional debt.

It's funny, but the Democrats frequently claim that conservatives are anti-science and susceptible to religious beliefs (progressives typically mock and are disdainful toward orthodox spirituality). But it's the Democrats who are clueless about science, physics and engineering when one examines their plans for such things as electric vehicles, wind turbines, an end to fracking and offshore oil drilling. They also stupidly fail to realize that even if Americans eliminated all of our CO2 emissions, China, India, Brazil, Vietnam and many other countries would still continue emitting dozens of times more CO2 than we ever have. 

To name just a few "inconvenient truths," mining the minerals for electric car batteries burns lots fo fossil fuels. So does producing windmill turbines. And it's difficult to efficiently transport electricity generated from wind turbines or solar panels to the geographic areas where it's needed. I could go on, but why bother?

I sense that the Democrats know Joe Biden is perceived as too old, too feeble and not very sharp mentally. They are likely to nominate Warren, whose bash-the-rich and anti-fossil fuels schtick plays well among the millennials, the elites living in the coastal areas and liberals employed by universities or bloated government agencies.

But here's an unsolicited caveat (not that leftists would pay any attention to anything I have to say): African American support for Warren, Sanders and Buttigieg is minuscule. The blacks' favorite candidate is Biden, since he loyally served as Barack Obama's VP. If they perceive the Democrats have thrown ol' Joe under the bus, they may stay home en masse come election day, or vote for another candidate. If the Democrat nominee doesn't get a strong turnout from blacks, that candidate is sunk.

We're all aware of Trump's frequent self-inflicted wounds, and the Republicans' ineptitude at messaging. Ironically, the Trump re-election campaign's biggest weapon may have nothing to do with its own efforts. Simply put, it's the arrogance, delusion and love of left-wing politics that have engulfed the Democrat Party. The sunshine of reality may well be blotted out by emotion, feelings, rage and wishful thinking.

 

Once Again, Iran Shows its True Colors

Suffering from a crippled economy, runaway inflation and a restive population, Iran is spoiling for a fight. The mullahs want to "wag the dog" to take pressure off themselves, and this explains their weekend attack on Saudi Arabian oil infrastructure.

Intelligence reports say drones and missiles were used to attack the oil facilities, and many believe the U.S. Fifth Fleet, which patrols the Persian Gulf, Red Sea, and Arabian Sea, may also be vulnerable to this type of attack. 

This is but the latest outrage from the Islamofascists in Tehran. It underscores once again how incredibly naive Barack Obama and his administration were in thinking this evil regime could be trusted to back away from developing nuclear weapons. And the thought of shoveling tens of billions of dollars to these thugs, as Obama's administration did, is truly appalling.

President Trump is not eager to jump into a war -- especially with his re-election on the line and a virulently hostile media champing at the bit to pile on against his administration. But Saudi Arabia has plenty of advanced aircraft and other weapons, and the kingdom really ought to retaliate with a measured response, as long as it has a defined mission and targets.

It would be reckless to simply attack willy-nilly across Iran and inflict thousands of civilian deaths, and that would undoubtedly lead to a major, highly destructive and long lasting conflict. Instead, the Saudis should take a page out of the Israeli playbook: Target some key infrastructure that will hurt Iran economically and militarily, and turn its people even more against the despots who pose as religious figures.

In 1981, Israel bombed an Iraqi nuclear facility (one the Iranians had attacked a year earlier). The attack knocked off track Iraq's nuclear program, but predictably was met by the usual hand wringing and denunciations by the United Nations and its supporters. But there were no major consequences for Israel, in large part because Iraq was already engaged in war with Iran, and Israel's possession of atomic weapons probably played an important role, too.

We don't know what Iran's reaction would be if the Saudis and/or United States attacked it militarily. Most likely, it would unleash its Hezbollah terror cells, which infest Europe, Africa, North and South America. Cyber warfare, such as attacks on the U.S. power grid and banking system, also is a strong possibility. But these things have already been happening, and for years, we have engaged an IT army to fight them off.

But one thing that's guaranteed to happen if there is no retaliation -- just as there has been no real retaliation for the Iranians' harassment and seizure of merchant marine ships in the Persian Gulf -- is that Iran will become emboldened and even more brazen. Additional attacks will be forthcoming.

Thanks to fracking, the United States is not as vulnerable to Middle Eastern unrest as in the past. We are energy independent. The threat of cutting off our oil and spiking prices is a weapon no longer available to the mullahs in Iran or the thuggish Maduro regime in Venezuela, which is dealing a broken down oil infrastructure, massive corruption and not enough capable employees to operate the refineries.

Iran might seem like a threat to start a major war, but the country is in such a sickly state as far as its treasury, the amount of support and moral capital it can muster, and its angry populace. One wonders if Iran really wishes to worsen its already miserable position. Those who rule Iran would like nothing better than to kill many Israelis, Americans and Saudis. But not at the expense of possibly losing their own grip on power.

Another China retreat?

Over the weekend, Communist China announced that it was lifting tariffs against soy and pork products from the US.

If this is the case (note that the ChiComs lie early and often), it would be a significant win for Trump's trade policies.

As we've pointed out several times, the US holds the upper hand in this dispute.  The US is almost entirely self-sufficient, and only allowed itself to become dependent on Chinese manufactured goods through a combination of laziness and corporate greed.

China, on the other hand, cannot even feed itself.  This dependency goes behind basic nutrition to prestige items like pork, which is highly-valued in China.

The Communist regime's legitimacy rests in large part on increasing prosperity.  Forcing people to cut back on favorite foods while factories close undermines that legitimacy and strikes at the heart of the regime's power. 

There is also the problem that the rest of the world doesn't have enough soy or pork to feed China.  America remains the garden of the world, and without our foodstuffs, global famine is a certainty.

Trump's economic team has always known this, and it's worth noting that while the national security and political appointees seem to have regular turnover, the economic side of the administration remains stable and successful.  This is perhaps because Trump understands that without a firm economic footing, all else is weakened.  China's leaders are now learning the same lesson.

Accomplishments Amidst Headwinds

Evaluations of personal performance -- e.g. in school, on the job, or in athletic endeavors -- must take context into consideration if the assessment is to be fair and realistic.

A student who comes from a chaotic family background and who suffers from undiagnosed psychological problems, yet still manages to maintain a 3.0 GPA, is arguably a harder worker and more intelligent than one with a 3.5 GPA whose family has a tradition of high academic achievement, and offers him all sorts of support. A quarterback playing with a sub-par offensive line who still completes 60 percent of his passes, yet has taken his share of sacks and thrown some interceptions, might be more talented than a glamour boy who completes 68 percent of his passes behind an NFL-caliber line, with stud receivers and tremendous running backs.

Consider this line of thought when evaluating the presidency of one Donald John Trump. The reprehensible and thoroughly corrupt news media pounds on him day and night, with 90 percent negative coverage. Yet the Trumpster's approval rating, repeatedly mentioned by said media, usually is in the 36-44 percent range. That's remarkable, considering the nonstop negativity.

Contrast this with former President Obama's approval rating in year four of his first term: Typically in the 45-50 percent range. But that was with the media doing everything in its power to build him up and kiss his ass 24/7. Judge for yourself what the reality is. Suffice it to say, Obama's approval ratings would have been abysmal with a hostile media constantly slandering him.

And then there are interest rates... Year after year while Obama was in the White House, the Federal Reserve lowered rates. But for many months during Trump's first couple years in office, the Fed was raising interest rates. Yet the economic numbers are better for Trump than for Obama -- on GDP growth, wages, unemployment, and work force participation. Blacks and Hispanics have never fared so well in the jobs market since the U.S. Department of Labor began recording wage and unemployment statistics by race during the 1970s. Ask yourself: How bad would Obama's economic figures have been had the Fed raised, instead of lowered rates (i.e., "Quantitative Easing")?

Now, let's turn to tariffs and trade policy. Once again, the media has piled on, emphasizing the negative (and make no mistake, there are negative things happening, such as Midwestern farmers suffering from lower prices due to a drop-off in demand for soybeans, corn and pork, among other commodities). But some good things are happening, too, and there are signs China is ready to head back to the bargaining table with a sense of urgency.

Many companies have pulled out of China or reduced production. This hurts Chinese consumers, many of whom already are reeling with heavy credit card debt. Add to that higher prices for American products, and hundreds of millions of Chinese are in a world of hurt. With the unrest in Hong Kong, plus the never-ending tensions with the Uyghurs in the western region, China can ill afford a restive population of young people in the heartland. Meanwhile, back in the U.S., manufacturing jobs are more plentiful as factories are opening up or expanding all over the place. The domestic steel industry is faring well, too.

Trump has done the right thing in standing up to China. Ditto for his decision to scrap NAFTA and the Trans Pacific Partnership. Being the shrewd operator he is (quite the opposite of how the media simpletons portray him), Trump devised the ingenious strategy of using the threat of tariffs as the stick to get Mexico to crack down on illegal immigration by boosting border security. News flash: It's working.

We're winning, and will continue to do so. I highly doubt anyone will get sick of it. Onward and upward, Orange Julius. Into the teeth of a gale!

 

 

9/11 Comes of Age

The artificial outrage over the Trump Administration seeking a negotiated settlement to the Afghan War tells us all we need to know about the Bipartisan Establishment and the Democrat-funded "peace movement."

They are both incompetent and fake.

War is not a condition to be managed, it is an existential struggle for those involved.  It is true that a coldly rational policy might require sacrifice for a greater strategic aim, but no such vision is now being articulated regarding Afghanistan.  It's a quagmire so we must stay because that's what we have to do.

It's significant that our current Ruling Class is entirely insulated from the war's costs but richly rewarded by its benefits.

This is why Trump's effort to wind down the now-aimless struggle are being attacked from the left of all places.  So much for Cindy Sheehan.  The widows and orphans of the current war are drawn from the Deplorable class, so no attention need be paid them.

The desire to smear Trump as anti-military or defeatist will fail, just as all the other smears have failed because the truth is unmistakable.  Actual combatants and their families are tired of a war without end.  The ardent volunteers of 18 years ago are now watching their children come of military age to take up the torch from failing hands, but to what end? 

A punitive expedition to Afghanistan was always a good idea, and the installation of a friendly client government was a not unreasonable solution.  But one cannot "reconstruct" a society that never was.  George W. Bush ran for president in part by ridiculing "nation-building," and yet he was the worst nation-builder of them all.

Just as the attacks 18 years ago this morning tore away the illusions that our Ruling Class knew what it was doing, so the bumbling effort since has further destroyed their credibility.  In a sense, this is the 9/11 about 9/11.

The FBI as Golden Calf

I fully concur with my esteemed co-blogger: James Comey is indeed a "lying, sanctimonious prick."

My co-blogger and I, as well as many other conservatives, have stated repeatedly that it is ridiculous to puff up the intelligence community with its abysmal record of failure over the past 30 years and act like it is sacrosanct. It is especially absurd when the ones who are putting the FBI and CIA on a pedestal are the same liberals who, in years past, blanched at Big Brother spying on Americans and quashing free expression. Didn't liberals and progressives used to despise law enforcement and spying? 

Can we just dispense with the notion that the FBI and CIA are so awesome and reliable with their forecasts, recommendations and actions? Granted, these agencies do have some honest, hard working and patriotic employees. But these people are overshadowed by the bad apples, too many of whom are in positions of power.

The CIA has multiple major failures. To name a few: The 1973 Yom Kippur War, in which Egypt and Syria attacked Israel on the Sinai Peninsula. In 1978, the CIA was utterly unaware of the fragile and precarious nature of the regime of Iranian Shah Muhammed Reza Pahlavi. They had no clue he was about to be overthrown a year later. There were other failures, including the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in late 1979, and the collapse of the Soviet Union, beginning in 1991. Just three years ago, the CIA failed prevent Russian election meddling.

In recent years, the FBI has failed time and time again to get a clue. The FBI and CIA jointly failed to prevent the 9/11 attacks from occurring. Although different sections and officials in the FBI were tipped off that something was in the works, the dysfunctional "one hand doesn't know what the other hand is doing" M.O. prevailed.

The FBI also failed to prevent numerous domestic terror attacks, including that of Maj. Nidal Hasan at Ft. Hood, Texas in 2009; the San Bernardino office shooters in 2015 ; and the Orlando Pulse nightclub shooting in 2016, to name just a few. The FBI also tripped and stumbled all over itself in fumbling the Hillary Clinton email investigation -- basically banging a slam dunk off the rim, to use a basketball analogy. This agency is corrupt and compromised by hacks that infiltrate it like cockroaches. (See Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, et al.)

Yet here's a tweet Comey sent out on Sept. 3:

Despite two years of Trump’s lies aimed at degrading the FBI, it remains a revered institution made up of good people focused on finding truth and doing justice. Stay true to your mission. America needs you.

Is this guy full of himself, or what? "Revered institution?" Dream on, delusional one. 

I get damned sick of pompous-ass progressives lecturing me with conceit, arrogance and disdain. Especially when they're berating me for criticizing an institution that is rotten to the core with corruption, politics and mismanagement.

To use a great line from a classic movie -- "Animal House" -- that is rife with quotable one-liners (this one comes from character Dean Wormer, played by the late John Vernon): "Don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining." 

Zip it up, Comey. Don't be a Lyndon Johnson!