Category Archives: democrats
Democratic Socialist
Twenty-eight year old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won a primary victory over long-time Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-NY).
Not only is she young, she’s a Democratic Socialist. And she’s ambitious. She wants to impeach Trump and abolish ICE. And her mom says she wants to be president some day.
DNC Chairman, Tom Perez says she’s the future of the party.
But George Will seems to think we already have a socialist America.
Peak Spock Speaks
Aspiring novelist Ben Rhodes created narratives for the Obama administration. In a NYT story he once took credit for creating a media echo chamber to push the president’s Iran nuclear deal.
But on election night 2016 Rhodes found himself at a loss for words.
Peak Spock Speaks
Now he’s written a book. It’s titled “The World as It Is.” Or “Peak Spock” as Maureen Dowd calls it.
In the book President Obama consoles despondent young Ben by telling him, “There are more stars in the sky than grains of sand on the earth.”
Back on earth Obama says, “Sometimes I wonder whether I was 10 or 20 years too early.”
To which Matthew Continetti asks, “What was he early for?,” “Fundamentally transforming America?” “The moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow”?
Nope. According to Ms. Dowd, “We just weren’t ready for his amazing awesomeness.”
Ben Rhodes now works for MSNBC. His brother, David Rhodes, is president of CBS News.
White Lies of Hope
Republican Congressman Tom Rooney is a member of the House Intelligence Committee. Here’s what he had to say to CNN about the committee’s Russian collusion investigation:
“It’s been going on for a year. We’ve interviewed scores of witnesses and now we’ve gotten to the point where we’re literally bringing people in for nine hours just so the Democrats can leak to the press something as ridiculous as ‘white lies.’ “
White Lies
Hope Hicks, the 29 year old White House communications director, was such a witness. Democrat Eric Swalwell asked if she ever lied for her boss. After consulting with here lawyer Hope confessed that yes she had. White lies. Like “the president is in a meeting” when he’s not really in a meeting.
She resigned the next day.
Rigged Elections
It was Donald Trump and other Republicans who fretted about rigged elections – before Trump actually won one. But now the tables have turned.
By The Book
Susan Rice didn’t let the door hit her on the way out of the White House. Instead she sent herself an email.
It was time stamped 12:15 pm January 21 – the day of President Trump’s inauguration. And her self-message recapped a January 5 meeting President Obama held with top staffers.
By the Book
In that meeting Obama instructed his staff on the transfer of information to the new administration. Or the non-transfer of information as National Review’s Andrew McCarthy suspects.
At any rate, Susan Rice let the record show that President Obama insisted it be done “by the book.”
