AG: Barack Obama really owes Bill Kristol—big time.
First, had Kristol and his fellow neoconservatives not pushed for a deadly, prolonged war in Iraq after September 11, there would be no President Obama. The first-term senator’s premature candidacy for president was based largely on his vocal opposition to the Iraq War, which had been supported by his primary opponent, Senator Hillary Clinton.
“Most of you know I opposed this war from the start,” Obama said in his announcement speech in February 2007. “America, it’s time to start bringing our troops home. It’s time to admit that no amount of American lives can resolve the political disagreement that lies at the heart of someone else’s civil war.”
Second, Kristol’s magazine, The Weekly Standard, just gave political cover to Obama’s most unforgivable scandal: The weaponization of our law enforcement and intelligence apparatus to target Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and violate the constitutional rights of private U.S. citizens.
In a flawed, dishonest, and truly contemptible cover article by April Doss, The Weekly Standard crossed the line from Trump foe to Obama defender; in the process, the allegedly “conservative” publication gave voice to a hyperpartisan Democrat who briefly worked for a disgraced Senate committee so she could smear a man who has been a real hero these past 18 months: House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.).
The article, “What We Can Learn About Carter Page, the FBI, and Devin Nunes’ Conspiracy Theory,” reflects the kind of willful ignorance and deceitfulness employed by pundits on the Left and the NeverTrump Right to make Nunes—and not the dozens of unelected bureaucrats who orchestrated this travesty—the real villain. It is straight-up, Adam Schiff-style propaganda.
Unreasonable and Belligerent
Ever since the Justice Department on July 21released a heavily redacted version of the application (along with three renewals) submitted to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in October 2016 seeking authority to spy on Trump campaign aide Carter Page, the anti-Trump media mob has focused its wrath on Nunes, whose committee authored the bombshell memo that first outlined the misconduct behind the FISA application. Kristol and the Standard have aided #TheResistance in attacking Nunes since his memo was issued last February. Kristol objected to the memo’s release, then ridiculously warned that “when the history of the degradation of the Republican Party is written, the Nunes memo will be a significant moment.” more
I figured THE STANDARD was a leftist “Republican” org when they backed GWB’s Common Core/NCLB . That they attack Don – both directly and obliquely -is just a continuation of their progressive (That term BTW was coined by the 1st far left GOP President – Teddy – over 110 years ago.) “Republican” belief.
Diva Kristol singing the tried and true Progressive songs for the disaffected Democrats. Must be his “Big Tent” method of attracting and recruiting democrats to the new progressive GOP.
Julie Kelly is a great writer. She’s also worth following on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2
Forget party labels, these scum are protecting the sewer they swim in. Divesting power from Washington leaves them without the kind of insider power that they’ve used to enriched themselves with.
I wonder if George Soros financially bank rolls them?
Will,
It is no question that they get moral support from the “Soros” element.
Up until the Bush2 era, I thought republicans had no finesse, no plans and they were scared of the democrats. Turns out, they wanted to be just like them so they let them do the dirty work for them. Dems do stupid crap and act insane, but a lot of the time the Repubs are OK with it because they can remain clean and not insane-looking like the dems. It’s the Uniparty vs the The Constitution now.
We should start calling ourselves Constitutionalists instead of conservative or republican – and let the rinos keep the “republican” moniker.
@MJA August 2, 2018 at 12:21 pm
> Turns out, they wanted to be just like them so they let them do the dirty work for them.
It’s the Republicans STILL doing the “dirty” work. The Democrats proudly proclaim, to all Columbia’s glee, “Commualism Über Alles!” And while the money flows silently and deep, everybody skims. Hard. But, sometimes, pictures, videos, spreadsheets, of the camps and the corruption, leak out. You can’t have that much flow without something leaking. That’s when the Republicans straighten their bowties, and bellow “Never fear! The loyal opposition is here!” and “We will form a committee (on more of somebody else’s dimes) to study what needs to be studied to determine what happened.” And after some communal street soldier shoots a few more peasants for disrespect (as xe should, admonish the “rule of law” Republicans), everybody forgets the study to study the mystery (that just happened again). And, eventually, for the good of the nation, some party members in good standing retire, on schedule. A report is filed that they did the best they could under the circumstances. They are thanked for their service. And the Democrats start calling the Republicans naughty, naughty xoys, and offer to spank them. For a fee. (Oh “fees,” as both get paid for participating in the televised spanking. And the peasants cheer.)
There was going to be a barack no matter what. Oprah and soros would make sure of that.
Tattoo “Trump Forever” on his forehead and drop him into an antifa riot.
We all know Podesta is a child raping pedophile, and we all know Kristol is great friends and attends Podestaphiles “dinner parties” and is also a child raping homo. So when the homopedos are hung from the lamp posts, lets make sure Kristol is among the first to swing.
I read the Weekly Standard for years, but gave it up when I realized they backed GWBush on his anti-conservative policies, notably the NCLB mess with Ted Kennedy.