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If the media werent so desperate to beat their anti-Trump drum, the only headlines wed see today would deliver harsh indictments of the Obama Justice Department.

In his testimony yesterday, former FBI Director James Comey dropped the bombshell that former Attorney General Loretta Lynch asked him to publicly lie to the American people about the investigation into Hillary Clintons emails.

Yet Democrats and liberal talking heads are solely focused on twisting Comeys testimony to impose their own negative narrative when the facts that just dont support them. Despite the huge disappointment to the liberal media machine, the testimony Thursday reaffirmed exactly what we already knew: at no point has there been any evidence of the alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian actors, nor any effort to impede the FBI investigation into the matter.

In a political atmosphere driven by unsubstantiated leaks it is often hard to cut through the constant, deafening din of unsourced rumors often reported as facts. The only way to cut through the noise was to have Comey himself to speak openly about the facts of the case. President Trump knew this, which is why he didnt invoke executive privilege and members of the administration encouraged Comeys testimony.

Democrats across the board have criticized Comeys decision making abilities, questioned his fitness for the job, or outright called for removal from his post. A large part of this, in the words of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., was due to the fact that they believed he had caved to political pressure in ways that might make him unfit to lead an independent FBI.

My friends on the left are right about one thing: an FBI director must insulate himself from political winds. Thursday, James Comey further underscored his inability to do just that. In fact, even members of the media admitted that Comey was extremely political and knew exactly what he was doing during his testimony in order to get a desired outcome.

What was even more alarming was Comeys admission that he intentionally leaked the memos he wrote in an attempt to compel the Department of Justice to appoint a special counsel. This outright confession of his manipulative intent is as out of the ordinary as it is proof that Comey has become nothing but another D.C. political operative.

This just reinforces that President Trumps decision to remove Comey from his post at the FBI was based solely on the overwhelming lack of public confidence in his inability to carry out the job.

From his gross misstatement of facts regarding evidence to his showboating throughout the entire Clinton email investigation, this is not a man that instills confidence in his judgment.

In fact, the most potentially damning indictment of Comeys judgment is the allegation that he used a crucial piece of information related to the Hillary Clinton investigation that he knew to be fabricated by Russian intelligence.

The pernicious influence of James Comeys carelessness has eroded all trust in his integrity and ability to lead.

For months Democrats have demanded answers from James Comey and Thursday they got the answer they are still reluctant to accept: there is no there there.

Yet they will continue to fan the flames of faux outrage, and their allies in the liberal media will dump fuel where there is no fire.

Brett M. Decker is a member of the White House Writers Group and best-selling author of The Conservative Case for Trump.

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Comey testimony: The liberal media ignores big questions about Obama's Justice Department - Fox News

So it looks like there really was a post-Brexit realignment just not in the way pundits expected. Theresa May really did make inroads into the Leavey north and Midlands (for instance,taking Stoke South). And Remainers may have taken the election as a second referendum, coalescing around the choice they thought would ensure the softest Brexit.

But why was that so overwhelmingly Labour, rather than the Lib Dems? Aren't many Remainers supposed to be free trade centrists, not socialists? Part of the answer is surely that Labour seemed more likely to win, Beyond that with the disclaimer that this is all very early and tentative I canthink of two main possibilities.

The first is that all the vagueness and vacillation that fascinated political observers about Mr Corbyn either escaped or did not bothermost voters. Perhaps that's because Labour's pre-existing reputation for Europhilia trumped the minutiae of its positioning (once upon a time focus groups regularly said they had no idea what Labour's policy on Brexit was). Or perhaps Mr Corbyn's vagueness was successful in letting everyone read into his words what they wanted. He was therefore perceived as the Remain candidate by those who were looking for one.

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Was this the revenge of the liberal metropolitan elite? - Telegraph.co.uk

Some political moves are complex, requiring a delicate balancing of competing interests and priorities. Some are tough moral calls, with reasonable people disagreeing over the right course.

And then are those political moves that should be the equivalent of empty net goals. Theyre supposed to be an easy score. Theyre supposed to be hard to miss.

And yet, faced with such opportunities, the Trudeau government has often displayed a remarkable ability for seeing an open net, misfiring and instead scoring an own-goal.

Theres a discernable pattern of unforced errors, lapses in judgment, self-harming secrecy and worse. Coming from a PMO that sees itself as Mensas gift to Ottawa, its more than a little puzzling.

Consider the botched appointment of Madeleine Meilleur to the post of Official Languages Commissioner.

As a Franco-Ontarian and former Ontario cabinet minister, Ms. Meilleur is arguably well qualified for the position. But shes also a just-retired Liberal politician, being offered what is supposed to be a non-partisan job. And most importantly, the job the government tried to give her wasnt its to offer.

Read more: Madeleine Meilleur drops bid to be Canadas languages commissioner

The Official Languages Commissioner is an officer of Parliament. She reports to Parliament, not the government of the day. Traditionally, the appointment is made by across-the-aisle consensus, or something close to it. That the government didnt clear Ms. Meilleur with the opposition before announcing the appointment is hard to understand and impossible to justify which is why it provoked such an outcry.

Heritage Minister Mlanie Joly, who is ultimately responsible for putting forward a nominee and conducted the final round of interviews with prospective candidates, is surrounded by people who used to work for or with Ms. Meilleur. It turns out that Ms. Meilleur also spoke prior to her nomination with senior staff in the Prime Ministers Office, who also used to work at Queens Park.

The process that led to the appointment initially held in secret; later revealed amid public pressure has even drawn fire from minority language groups who fear the office has been tainted.

Theyre not far wrong; this has every appearance of a Liberal government looking after a member of its political family, while undermining its own claims to believe in greater parliamentary accountability and transparency.

This week, faced with the ongoing outcry, Ms. Meilleur withdrew her name from contention.

This should have been a simple, non-controversial, non-partisan appointment. The government transformed it into an own-goal.

And remarkably, this is not the Trudeau governments first such hubris-driven, self-inflicted wound.

There were those attempts plural to rewrite the rules of parliamentary procedure without all-party consensus.

There was that time the Liberals presented draft legislation clearly aimed at undermining the arms length Parliamentary Budget Officer.

And there is the ongoing controversy over the Prime Ministers Christmas vacation on the Aga Khans Caribbean island. The story began when the government refused to tell the media, and Canadians, where the PM was. The move was pretty much the definition of self-defeating: A sure sign that you have something to hide is that you are very visibly hiding it.

More recently, an entire Question Period was devoted to Mr. Trudeau repeatedly refusing to say whether hed been interviewed by the federal Ethics Commissioner about the trip.

In a related vein, the obvious solution to the controversy provoked by Liberal ministers holding secret pay-to-play fundraisers involving people who do business with his government would have been to stop them, immediately.

The newly-introduced Bill C-50 is an important step forward, as was the Liberal Party decision earlier this year to make its fundraising more transparent. Both go a long way to removing the secrecy around party fundraising. The government has ultimately moved in the right direction but first, it spent months exhausting all other options, while denying there was a problem.

The paradox is that this is a government that has at times demonstrated flexibility and shown a willingness to change its mind. Reversing course on the PBO legislation was the right thing to do, even if it required last-minute amendments in committee to do it.

But why not just take the right course, first?

The Liberals came to power promising radical transparency, and a clean break with practices they decried under former PM Stephen Harper. And yet, for all the Sunny Ways branding and all the carefully curated photo-ops, there are too many moments when the Trudeau government comes across as puzzlingly, insistently Harper-esque.

It is not a good look.

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Globe editorial: Another case of Liberal hubris and self-harm - The Globe and Mail

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No Liberal MP in Wales for the first time since 1859 BBC News There is no Liberal MP in Wales for the first time since the party formed. The only Lib Dem MP Mark Williams was defeated by 23-year-old Ben Lake, who stood for Plaid Cymru in Ceredigion. Mr Lake, the country's youngest MP, defeated the Lib Dem's ... and more »

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No Liberal MP in Wales for the first time since 1859 - BBC News

Wayne Allyn Root, a right-wing commentator and conspiracy theorist, has a warning for anyone in his audience who might date a liberal, cat-loving, Donald Trump-hating, feminist woman: RUN!

Not because the two people might disagree over important issues, but because shell eventually pull a Lorena Bobbitt.

He made the comments on his show Wednesday:

Find me a woman who is a feminist and a liberal and likes cats and I will find you someone who ought to be in an insane asylum every single time, Root bellowed. Hey guys, if any of you out there are single and you ever meet a woman who admits to being a liberal and hating Trump and when you get to her house, shes got cats, run for your life. Run, run, run. Like those ads in Britain, run and hide and tell other men to run and hide.

No man can ever live with a liberal woman with cats, he continued. Shell cut your pee-pee off, I promise you. Liberals are mentally unstable and mentally insane. Theyre unhinged.

Thats not how it works. Everyone knows liberal women who hate you will just pour poison in your kale smoothie.

And Im amazed by how Root says the most offensive things he can think of to describe liberal women but feels the need to sanitize the word penis. As if thats the worst part of his little monologue. Either that, or he took abstinence-only sex education and doesnt know the proper anatomical term.

Since many readers of this site have probably dated liberal women before, feel free to tell us all in the comments what life is like post-castration.

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Religious Right Activist: Don't Date Liberal Women or They'll Cut Your Pee-Pee Off - Patheos (blog)