Regarding the Democratic Party's offensively idiotic assault on Attorney General Barr

© 2019 Peter Free

 

04 May 2019

 

 

Aggressively and putridly stupid?

 

Consider the Democratic Party's continued — and completely irrelevant — assault against Attorney General Barr.

 

 

Former law professor Paul Callan's take is accurate

 

Callan wrote that:

 

 

"Snitty" fairly describes the tone of Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats during their Wednesday interrogation of Attorney General William Barr over the Mueller report.

 

Some of the insulting language hurled at him by the Senate Democrats in opposition to all things Trump might have amounted to actionable slander if used outside of the immunity-draped halls of Congress.

 

A particularly brutal example was the almost incomprehensible verbal assault directed at Barr by Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii.

 

"Mr. Barr, now the American people know that you are no different from Rudy Giuliani or Kellyanne Conway or any of the other people who sacrificed their once decent reputation for the grifter and liar who sits in the Oval Office," she said. [See more of what she said, here.]

 

In the end, the dispute about whether or not Barr fairly characterized Mueller's 400-plus-page report in his initial two-page summary to the public is almost completely irrelevant.

 

[U]nder the express wording of the Special Counsel Statute 28CFR 600.1, Barr didn't have to release anything. The report came to him as a "confidential" document and could have remained confidential under Barr's sole discretion as attorney general.

 

Barr's initial observations, which rankled Democrats so, are made largely irrelevant now that whole report is out. Congress can review it and members can form their own conclusions. They can even question Mueller, as Barr has stated he would have no objection.

 

Barr did not deserve Mueller's snit nor any of the snitty abuse heaped on him for doing his job.

 

His interpretations were a defensible analysis of a report that was poorly written and contained a number of confusing and vague observations on the question of obstruction.

 

© 2019 Paul Callan, Democrats gave Barr a really snitty time, CNN (03 May 2019)

 

 

I agree

 

From a law professional's perspective, there is little to bloviate at length about with regard to AG Barr's demeanor or actions.

 

 

This key point, as well

 

After two years of lying about the President's alleged puppet relationship to Vladimir Putin —it is a measure of the intellectual and moral smallness of the Phony Opposition Party that this mindless smearing nonsense continues still.

 

It is not as if the President cannot be fervently criticized on actually legitimate grounds.

 

So why avoid doing that?

 

Why drag in the mostly irrelevant — no disrespect intended — Attorney General?

 

 

The moral? — Keep acting like unprincipled dopes, Democrats — and the President is going to be reelected by a comfortable electoral margin

 

The continuing post-2016 election tumult has degenerated into a contest between two comprehensively repulsive factions — here (surprisingly) with the President arguably looking slightly better than his political adversaries.

 

That's quite an achievement, Donkey Folk. Massively out-turding the world's widely despised Donald of Orange.