Posted on 03/04/2017 7:00:02 AM PST by LS
Over the past week the hysteria on the right and among some weak-kneed Trumpers has been over the top. Even Rush Limbaugh began to wiggle uncomfortably, fearing Trump did know what he was up against, and hadn't moved fast enough to deal with the "silent coup" against him.
Jeff Sessions' recusal supposedly showed that Trump, like all the rest of the Republicans, didn't know how to play hardball.
Ooops.
I can always tell when something big is about to happen at Team Trump when my contact messages aren't returned. And I'm always pleasantly surprised that Team Trump is one to a dozen steps ahead of anything I'm thinking.
Case in point: yesterday I drafted a memo urging Trump to go on offense against the Democrats, specifically the Congressional rats. And as usual, I'm thinking of building a bowling alley while Trump is envisioning a gleaming skyscraper.
Today Trump's offensive began. But only after cleverly baiting the hook, luring the enemy Cannae-style into an envelope from which there is no escape.
He didn't fight back against the guys in the ring. He went after their manager, their coach, and their funder-in-chief. Trump went after the head of the snake.
By Tweeting that Trump Tower and his personal residence were bugged---and apparently the evidence of such a wiretap approval exists---Trump again shows why he plays 3D chess and his enemies are playing Parcheesi. The Bible says it this way: "They will come at you one way and go away fleeing seven."
Other than the fact that this is OBAMA he is going after, the juciest part is that Sessions did NOT recuse himself from a wiretap investigation of Obama. Get it?
Trump just leapfrogged the whole Russia thing with an "It ends today." Now Team Trump has leverage to force a full and total standdown of all opposition to Trump inside Congress, all end to the disruptions, and meek and timid confirmation of all appointees. Or Zero goes to jail. That simple.
Many here will want blood. But I'm reminded of Sam Houston after he defeated Santa Anna at San Jacinto. Instead of hanging the dictator, he merely took all of the American Southwest. Santa Anna was out soon anyway, but we still have Phoenix, Denver, and (unfortunately) California. It will be a negotiation from strength, and the Dems will have no choice but to comply. They won't completely give up---there will be surreptitious acts with enough deniability---but this was a perfectly baited hook that all of Trump's enemies just walked into.
During the Watergate process, President Nixon was named as an unindicted co-conspirator. That linked him to the conspiracy but avoided the problems of trying a former president. It also effectively denied him the opportunity to defend himself.
Possibly they went beyond what the FISA warrant auhorized, or involvement in illegal leaks of the information obtained.
Welcome back Miss M, we need your analytic skills
[[His skin pigment makes him immune from ANY legal action for any reason
Unless the Trump backers are willing to take on violence from the black and leftists in general]]
Bingo- I’ll happily be wrong on this- but I think you are right-
Would not surprise me at all if old Jug Ears, in a fit of hubris tempered with stupidity, ordered the wire taps against more seasoned DemocRAT advice. I think he shares a brain cell with Pelosi.
Won’t come to that point. And that’s the pipe dream.
Read more carefully.
At common law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners.
And then:
"Some authorities go further and include as citizens children born within the jurisdiction without reference to the citizenship of their parents. As to this class there have been doubts, but never as to the first. For the purposes of this case, it is not necessary to solve these doubts. It is sufficient for everything we have now to consider that all children born of citizen parents within the jurisdiction are themselves citizens. "
As you can see, the Court NEVER had any doubts about the class of natural born Citizens.
Whether persons born in the US to non-citizen parents were “citizens” was not a question before the Minor Court because Mrs. Minor was natural-born, whereas Wong Kim Ark was not. The determination of his citizenship required the 14th Amendment, whereas Mrs. Minor’s did not. It was held that Mrs. Minor was a US citizen – as the syllabus states in point 2 – because she was born in the US to parents who were citizens. This was the independent ground that springs forth precedent. (See Ogilvie Et Al., Minors v. United States, 519 U.S. 79 at 84 (1996)).
Bad analogy. Trump is Cortes.
And RINOs know already they have nowhere else to go.
‘in a fit of hubris tempered with stupidity’
You have a way with words!
The establishment republicans (ER’s) have been brain washed from decades of democrat dominance in congress and decades of left-wing media attacks. These ER’s will do everything to curry favor with the media by attacking other republicans. Prime example: Maverick McCain. But attacking democrats is a no-no because then the media will not love them. Anyone recall McCain attacking any prominent democrat?
Donald Trump again shows he is heaven sent. Will be enjoyable to sit back and watch how this unravels.
It made them think for a week that the Russia thing was the Russia thing.
As if anyone is surprised. Trump should Tweet "See you in court!"
Very nice.
Your analysis was a pleasure to read. Thanks for taking the time to lay it all out so clearly; I couldn’t argue with a single word.
Well, let me say I know something of Trump’s temperament. He doesn’t look backwards, i.e., punishing people. To him, victory is punishment enough.
You suggested that Trump should trade the scorched earth for a cease-fire so he can get his agenda passed. I wouldn't trust Obama and the Democrats to keep that promise.
-PJ
“Valerie Jarrett”
Female version of John Mitchell?
I don’t consider getting everything you want “cease fire.” I consider it total capitulation and surrender.
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