{"id":60847,"date":"2018-09-02T05:02:26","date_gmt":"2018-09-02T05:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=60847"},"modified":"2018-09-21T18:39:38","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T18:39:38","slug":"metaphors-and-catchy-phrases-contd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=60847","title":{"rendered":"Metaphors and catchy phrases, cont’d"},"content":{"rendered":"

[ by Charles Cameron<\/strong> — following on from Metaphors, more iv, featuring Oliver Roeder & Chris Cillizza<\/a> ]
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Trump’s War on the Justice System Threatens to Erode Trust in the Law<\/a>:<\/p>\n

It is a once-unimaginable scenario: Sometime soon in an American courtroom, a criminal defense lawyer may argue that the prosecution of an MS-13 gang member is a politically motivated \u201cwitch hunt\u201d built around a witness who has \u201cflipped\u201d and taken what the lawyer calls a plea deal of dubious legality.<\/p>\n

He will be quoting the president of the United States.<\/p>\n

That is potentially the gravest danger of President Trump\u2019s sustained verbal assault on the country\u2019s justice system, legal experts say. In his attempt at self-defense amid the swirl of legal cases and investigations involving himself, his aides and his associates, Mr. Trump is directly undermining the people and processes that are the foundation of the nation\u2019s administration of justice.<\/p>\n

The result is a president at war with the law.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

at the end of a week that featured criminal conviction for Paul Manafort and a guilty plea by Michael Cohen<\/a>, President Trump over the weekend took aim at the FBI. The president tweeting out new accusations against Hillary ..<\/p>\n

pick up the ball ..
\nthis is really a base play..<\/p>\n

Winners and losers from the Arizona and Florida primaries<\/a><\/p>\n

The story of the 2018 primaries usually centers on President Trump. And there\u2019s plenty of that narrative in Tuesday\u2019s gubernatorial, Senate and House primaries in Arizona, Florida and Oklahoma: For another week, Trump is in our winner\u2019s column. But liberal Democrats are an even bigger winner, for reasons we\u2019ll get into. Here are the winners and losers from some of the most consequential primaries of the year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Trump spars with Andrew Gillum, the surprise Democratic nominee in Florida\u2019s governor\u2019s race<\/a><\/p>\n

President Trump and Andrew Gillum, the surprise Democratic winner of Florida\u2019s Democratic gubernatorial primary, exchanged barbs on Wednesday morning, underscoring the role the president is expected to play in a marquee race this fall.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The life and character of John McCain in his own wordsBy Steve Almasy and Nicole Chavez, CNN<\/a><\/p>\n

After he was awarded the National Constitution Center’s annual Liberty Medal in 2017 for his lifetime of sacrifice and service to the nation, he delivered a pointed speech.<\/p>\n

“I’ve had the good fortune to spend 60 years in service to this wondrous land. It has not been perfect service, to be sure, and there were probably times when the country might have benefited from a little less of my help. But I’ve tried to deserve the privilege as best I can, and I’ve been repaid a thousand times over with adventures, with good company, and with the satisfaction of serving something more important than myself, of being a bit player in the extraordinary story of America. And I am so very grateful.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

whether sen shumer is playing a 3-dimensional chess here ..
\nunscrupulous golfing ..
\nthere may be a lot of balls in the air ..<\/p>\n

The greatest sports achievement in my lifetime?<\/a><\/p>\n

Football players seem even more like gladiators when they play in short sleeves in a winter storm, and baseball players who don’t wear batting gloves feel like throwbacks to a more rough and tumble era. What category of admiration should we reserve, then, for someone who ascends a sheer rock face of 3,000 feet using only a pair of climbing shoes and a bag of chalk?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cHe is under an attack like no president has faced,\u201d DeSantis said. \u201cThe last thing I want to do is go up there and lob hand grenades at the president.\u201d ..<\/p>\n

Maxine Waters<\/a> (D-CA) is at again, this time saying she has \u201ctaken off the gloves\u201d to fight President Donald Trump ..
\nwhatever he does himself, he assumes others are.. [katy tur]
\nit’s like reading every fortieth page of moby dick .. [check when transcripts are available
\nOhr says Steele told him Russian intel believed they had Trump ‘over a barrel’<\/a>
\nevery thread has three other avenues we want to go down ..
\nso far they’re batting 1,000, and that’s pretty good ..
\nwhere do you think .. if you had to put it on a hundred yard field .. ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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