There Is Bound to Be a Law

Against one administration trying to sabotage the incoming administration.

Obama was in it all along.   PJMedia reports:

On January 5, 2017, a meeting was held in the Obama White House in the Oval Office. Both President Obama and Vice President Biden attended. This meeting, it turns out, was critical to the anti-Trump operation by the Obama administration, reports Mollie Hemingway at The Federalist. “It was at this meeting that Obama gave guidance to key officials who would be tasked with protecting his administration’s utilization of secretly funded Clinton campaign research, which alleged Trump was involved in a treasonous plot to collude with Russia, from being discovered or stopped by the incoming administration,” she wrote.

This meeting happened just 15 days before Trump was inaugurated on Jane 20th.

 Also in attendance at this meeting was then-CIA Director John Brennan, then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, then-national security adviser Susan Rice, then-FBI Director James Comey, then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, and other members of the national security council.

 Go read the whole thing at the link above.  This puts Obama squarely in the middle of the Russia investigation scandal.

Staggeringly

President Trump gave his State of the Union speech last night.  I didn't watch all of it, but the parts I saw, I liked.  The Daily Mail reports on the public perception of the speech.

Within minutes of President Donald Trump's first State of the Union speech, CBS News revealed their YouGov poll approval ratings on it.
Unsurprisingly, 97% of Republican speech watchers liked it.
More surprisingly, 72% of Independents liked it.
Staggeringly, 43% of Democrats liked it.

From what I did see, when the cameras panned over to Nancy Pelosi, her face was drawn tighter than a possum who had been eating green persimmons.  Pore ol' Chuck Schumer looked like he was sitting on his hands.  He didn't want to hear something American, inadvertently applaud, and suffer the approbation of Nancy's laser-like gaze.

But, the initial stats are instructive.  Nearly everybody liked it, except for the small percentage who don't like America.

America's Constitution is Terrible.

That the partial title to an article at The Week.  The first four blurbs are interesting.

he American Constitution is an outdated, malfunctioning piece of junk — and it's only getting worse.

When written, the Constitution made a morally hideous compromise with slavery that took a war and 750,000 lives to make right. And while its basic structure sort of worked for awhile in the 20th century, the Constitution is now falling prey to the same defects that has toppled every other similar governing document the world over.

The truth seems clear: America is going to have to overhaul its basic structure of government, or eventually it will fall to pieces.

The major problem with America's Constitution is that it creates a system in which elections generally do not produce functioning governments, and there is no mechanism to break the deadlock (like calling snap elections). Most of the time, control of the House, Senate, and presidency is split between the two parties in some way. Bipartisan compromises to keep government functioning used to be common, but are near-impossible anymore due to extreme party polarization. So as Michael Kinnucan points out, during divided government "there is de facto no legislative body."

Ever since the election and inauguration of Hillary Clinton (oh, yeah, that didn't happen), the liberals have been liberals have been in a deep dark depression.  It's bad enough that they want to looks for scandals everywhere, while ignoring clear felonies on their side, but now they openly state that they want to re-do the Constitution.

Kevin Hayward, at Poerline thanks them for simply coming out and saying it.

We should be grateful to Ryan Cooper for acknowledging so forthrightly in The Week what has been obvious to conservatives for a long, long time—liberals really really hate the Constitution, because limited government is an impediment to their endless dreams of ruling over us more completely and fixing every human problem:

Mr. Cooper's odious piece is interesting reading, if only to see the mind of liberalism unhinged.  Mr. Cooper's biggest problem is not the Constitution itself, but the hundreds of thousands of people like me, who have sworn an oath to "preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign add domestic".

I don't know that I have ever been relieved of the responsibilities of that oath.