Comey's Firing and Artificial Outrage



Here are quotes concerning former F.B.I. Directory James Comey:
“I do not have confidence in him any longer.” 
“Maybe he’s not in the right job.”
“Of course, yes.” a response to a question of whether or not Comey should resign. 
"I called on FBI Director James Comey to resign his position…”
“The F.B.I. Director has no credibility.”
“My confidence in the FBI director’s ability to lead this agency has been shaken.”
     Who are these scurrilous Right Wing nut jobs who want to remove the warrior of justice who, like Daedalus, flew to close to Trump’s sun and had to be removed?  Well, the intelligent among you have already figured out that each one was said by a Democrat.  The media’s interlocutor and date of indictment are as follows:
“I do not have confidence in him any longer.”  Schumer, November 2
“Maybe he’s not in the right job.”  Pelosi, November 2
“Of course, yes.” a response to a question of whether or not Comey should resign.  Reid, October 31
"I called on FBI Director James Comey to resign his position…” Cohen, November 3
“The F.B.I. Director has no credibility.” Maxine Waters, after walking out of the Directors hearing on Russian hacking of the election and refusing to ask questions to or listen to answers from Director Comey.
“My confidence in the FBI director’s ability to lead this agency has been shaken.”  Johnson after walking out of the same hearing.
     And then you have the Denier in Chief, Hillary Clinton, saying to Christiane Amanpour in a May 2 interview: "If the election had been on October 27, I would be your president. It wasn't a perfect campaign, but I was on the way to winning until a combination of Comey's letter and Russian WikiLeaks. The reason why I believe we lost were the intervening events in the last 10 days."
     All of these people hated Comey and wanted him out until Trump actually fired him.  There was tremendous media tongue clucking as recently as yesterday about Comey’s admission that the Weiner emails numbered in the handful instead of his original estimate of “thousands.”  The implication was that Comey was a tool of the right, a puppet of the Russians (former Clinton advisor James Carvelle made that assertion in an October 31 MSNBC interview), or simply incompetent. 
     All of that animus stopped the minute Comey was fired.  It was like the neighborhood grouch who dies and suddenly becomes “good old Jim.”  None of this, by the way, fools the great “unwashed” that the Democrats have already written off and ignored for two decades (you know, all those erstwhile Democrats who have given up on them and handed the White House to Trump).  Neither their whiplash concerning Comey or their assumption that they can slip this vacillation by the voters will work.  Unfortunately, as Amber Phillips of the Washington Post (no bastion of conservatism by the way) says “If the Democratic rhetoric sounds extreme, that’s because casting serious doubt on Trump and his intentions is really the only play Democrats have left.”
            I would also advise the Democrats and their Pravda-esque news services to stop calling this move Nixonian.  Nixon was as paranoid as Trump but he was also whip smart and a workaholic.  Trump is just paranoid.  If the Democrats want to win the next election they need to dump the artificial outrage and start working for the American people—and that includes respecting people whose only crime is not being a minority. 
            I’m still angry at everyone and still keep the faith.

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