President Donald Trump speaks at press conference in the Rose Garden at the White House on June 9, 2017. (Erie News Now) Oh, Lordy. Trump still feels inadequate about his election. Again. Why can’t he act like most conservative Americans? Donny. Just go out and buy yourself some big pistol,...
I can’t claim I thought of this, but once my wife mentioned it, I had to agree. Unless Trump was wearing a bugged carnation in his lapel, he doesn’t have tapes or recordings of the Comey conversations. The dinner was in the President’s residence, not the oval office. I kind...
Yesterday, James Comey called President Donald Trump a liar. He did this in sharp,, specific detail. He cited his contemporaneous documentation and the people he spoke to at the time. Comey was specific, detailed, and damning. Today, Trump responded to Comey’s accusations, saying everything Comey had said was a lie. ...
This is a paraphrase from Paul Ryan as reported in the Washington Post: [Rep. Paul Ryan] added: “I would just say that of course there needs to be a degree of independence between [the Department of Justice], FBI and the White House and a line of communications established. The president’s...
This Oct. 11, 1991 file photo shows University of Oklahoma Law Professor Anita Hill testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. HBO says that Scandal star Kerry Washington will play Hill in a film about the 1991 Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Clarence Thomas. (AP Photo)...
The Comey testimony had so many bombshells it’s hard to summarize it, but I wanted to touch on Sen. John McCain. He was listed as an ex officio member, which means he isn’t a voting member, but they let him ask questions. He was the last questioner. The most charitable...
I’m still a little shocked at how casually the White House lies about stupid stuff. When NBC asked the White House spokeswoman about the Comey hearings, the press corps could hear every TV in the White House playing the Senate hearing. And yet deputy press secretary Sarah Sanders insisted that...
I’m watching the Comey hearing, but thinking about yesterday’s testimony by DNI Daniel Coats, Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, NSA Director Michael Rogers and Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein. Sorry not to give the direct quote, but here’s a CNN description: “I am not going to discuss the specifics of interactions...
Senators in today’s Intelligence committee hearing questioned the four top intelligence officials in the Trump administration: Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats, Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, National Security Agency Director Michael Rogers and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. The Senators wanted to know if Trump had asked any of...
As other people are pointing out, the Trump version of “Law and Order” seems to mostly involve breaking it, and making sure nobody will stop him. Around half the U.S. Attorneys resigned, but except for two guys, Trump fired the other half outright, abruptly and without notice. It was another...
Finally done, I hope. Sorry if people had trouble reaching Three String Raconteur over the past day or so. Migration had some odd twists and turns, but the third (or fourth) try was the charm.
As much as I lament that Democrats are the new party of “Not being Republicans” — and yes, it still drives me nuts — now it feels like the Republicans can’t see any action of their own beyond tearing down whatever the Democrats did. Think about the Republican agenda. First...
You’ve been redirected to our new digs! Don’t freak out. We’ve moved the website to its (hopefully) permanent location: ThreeStringRaconteur.com. I’ve even bought a real SSL certificate and everything. It’s like I’m a grown-up or something. The Three-String Raconteur blog is now at https://ThreeStringRaconteur.com. Tell all your friends Please update any...
Still haven’t decided if this is just an accident, or amazingly good planning. I swear, I’m trying not to wear out “Orwellian’, but it’s hard. I’m watching Trump yank the US out of our leadership on every front he can — military, social, ecological, economic, moral, et al — all while regularly...
I admit, I do the David Brooks dance now and then. In my version, I see how many paragraphs I can read from a Brooks column before he simply asserts something that’s more than mildly dubious, completely undefended, and yet essential to his argument. (Evidence isn’t really his gig.) No...
Yes, Trump is a Republican. So Trump decided that America wouldn’t be a world leader anymore. He already ditched the EU and NATO, and now he’s repudiated the Paris agreement. He’s finally convinced everyone that the US is no longer a world power. Nobody’s surprised that Trump’s empty justifications clearly...
Ethical consistency is so 80’s. This is one of the pictures that got Kathy Griffin in trouble. I’m wondering about our reaction. Do I find the image offensive? No. But it wasn’t especially funny, either. Mimicking a President’s death is uncomfortable, so for this to work, she’d need a better...
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