Democrats
trying to sustain a controversy around U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions
meeting with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak during the 2016 election are
overplaying their hand, a Washington
Post reporter said Thursday.
Philip Bump wrote a
timeline on Sessions’ interactions with the Russian ambassador:
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This has been a Democratic theme since
the election. It has already been investigated, supposedly by 17 intelligence
agencies, yielding zero evidence of actionable wrongdoing.
All of the drama surrounding this
issue, amounts to nothing more than speculation, innuendo, conjecture and
grandstanding. There is zero evidence of actual wrongdoing.
Unable to deliver, the Democrats have openly
announced that they have decided to "resist".
Distraction, division and distortion
are the handmaidens of this "resistance". Democrats have become the
party who cried wolf, and they are suffering huge credibility damage as a
consequence. The same is true of their allies in the media.
Yes, Republicans obstructed Obama. It
was wrong then and it is wrong now. At some point, it needs to stop. How long
will we allow this to continue? How much more dysfunction can we endure?
While it may offer some measure of
satisfaction, to poke out the eye of the guy who poked out yours, that approach
yields nothing but blindness. We deserve better than that.
Resistance, is the antithesis of
progress. It's not a badge of courage. It's not an effective strategy. Instead,
it's evidence of incompetence. It's proof of an inability to build consensus
and/or perform at a higher level.
The "Russian distraction", is
transparently political and, given the myriad of real problems we face,
indefensible.
We don't need Congress pursuing
fruitless endeavors. We need them focusing on real problems that are facing
real people. We need them to be constructive. We need them to work across party
lines. We need them to do their jobs!
Sessions did NOT lie about anything. He
was asked about meetings with Russians, relating to the campaign. He had NO
meetings with Russians, relating to the campaign.
Moreover, there is zero evidence that
he did anything improper, in meeting with the Russian Ambassador, as a sitting
U.S. Senator. Sessions met with multiple foreign ambassadors, during that same
period, including the Ukrainian Ambassador.
Should he have volunteered that
information. Yes, in hindsight he should have. But few people, answering the
question posed, would have. He was not obligated to offer information that went
beyond the question asked. He was obligated to answer the question asked
truthfully. He did that, based on his reasonable understanding of the question
asked. There is no evidence whatsoever of any intent to evade. Moreover, it would
have made absolutely no sense to do so, given the innocuous nature of the
meetings in question - meetings that were widely know to have occurred. There's
nothing here.
To be asking for his resignation is
absurd. It makes people like Pelosi look like an irrational caricature. If
Democrats continue their irrational, obstructionist behavior, voters will hold
them responsible in 2018 and 2020.
This witch hunt will yield nothing! And
the partisan hacks who are calling for an investigation, which yields nothing,
are costing all of us precious resources, focus and time. They are not
advancing our national interests and they should and will be held accountable
at the polls.
The Democratic Party charted a failed
course in 2016. The indisputable evidence of that was Trump's election. Yet
rather than change course, they have allowed those who charted that failed
course, to keep their hands on the wheel. Obama, now operating from the
sidelines, is one of those hands. HRC, one of the least trusted figures in U.S.
politics, is another.
Neither Obama nor HRC were ever able to
cross party lines and build consensus. The were both highly polarizing figures.
Trump needs to try to be different. He
needs to at least try, to again overcome insurmountable odds, and build
consensus.
I don't envy him. Democrats are
determined to deny him that opportunity. They think that's the only way they
can win. Only by destroying Trump, some D's believe, can they succeed.
They're wrong. It's a false premise. By
destroying the POTUS, they harm all of us and they lose future elections as a
consequence.
You win with winning ideas, ideas that
are widely embraced, ideas that reflect the will of the people, and are
therefore able to generate bipartisan consensus.
The important point here, is that
consensus building should not be the exception to the rule. It should be the
rule. And we as citizens need to demand that our elected representatives, both
Republicans and Democrats, adhere to that rule.
Absent compromise and consensus,
victories are fleeting and unsustainable. No one wins.
By chasing a non-existent Russian
conspiracy, D's have once again charted a failed course, one that in the end,
will only serve to increase support for Trump.
Anyone who thinks that this is a winning strategy for
Democrats, is in for a rude awakening in 2018 and 2020. Absent a significant
course correction, Democrats are going to get trounced in future elections.