Breathe. Collusion. Breathe. "Did not reach a determination as to whether the president committed a crime." Breathe.
Those paper bags popped in and out, out and in, when Democratic media wizard
"The
He's already elevated the hard left of the Democratic Party -- the socialist "Squad," or as I'd call them, The Gang of Four -- as his true ideological opponents in 2020. And then
"This is delicate to say, but Mueller, whom I deeply respect, has not publicly testified before
It was as if Axelrod had just sentenced the former special counsel to be turned into crackers.
Tribe agreed.
"Much as I hate to say it, this morning's hearing was a disaster," Tribe tweeted. "Far from breathing life into his damning report, the tired
That was after the morning session. It didn't really get much better in the afternoon. Politicians and pundits spent the evening in those little boxes on TV, jabbering about how many angels can fit on the head of a pin -- but
So what happens when liberal
Breathe. Breathe. Stay calm. Breathe.
Mueller seemed lost in his testimony, seemingly unsure of just what was in his own vaunted report about Trump and that mythic conspiracy with Russians.
Mueller seemed confused, asking committee members to restate their questions so that he might grasp them.
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Ouch. His acuity?
When the great gray lady slaps the old gray man, the lady wins.
It's all clearly unfair to Mueller. It was as if you were watching an aging uncle sitting helplessly in a dentist's chair for a root canal, his one foot kicking.
He wasn't confident in his knowledge of his own report, which was clearly staff-driven, not Mueller-driven, and having his lawyer sworn in, sitting next to him, ready to help, said as much.
Mueller and the
That wasn't the Robert Mueller America knows, not the Robert Mueller who took over the FBI just before 9/11. This wasn't the Robert Mueller who served honorably and bravely in
This was a
And so
The left's anxiety attacks are their own affair. It's what happens when people insist on clinging to a fantasy, that Mueller would appear and make their dreams a reality.
Mueller had warned them he wouldn't perform for them. He told them he'd stay with what was in the report, but the
And he wouldn't.
Is that Mueller's fault? No, it's their fault.
The
The Mueller report made it clear that there wasn't enough to prove a conspiracy with the Russians. And without a crime, all the
As Trump puffed his chest in victory, the
They'll keep beating their Russian horse. But Trump and the
"I believe what you're going to find out, you are going to find out a lot of things that were done very wrong," Trump said. "That's something you haven't been writing about. And that has to do with the other side, with this thing called 'investigate the investigators.' Let's see what happens. That's going to be very interesting."
It will be. And that's what elections are for.
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John Kass is a columnist for the Chicago Tribune who also hosts a radio show on WLS-AM.