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Tag: Mike Pence

  • Recrimination is not a winning message

    Can we get back to the future sometime soon? A certain former President ripped into Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell before a Republican National Committee donor event Saturday evening 04-10-21, deriding him as a “dumb son of a bitch.” Mitch McConnell may be many things. A ‘dumb son of a bitch’ he is not. This…

  • This kid is ready for the White House Correspondents dinner

    Gigging the sitting president is o.k., especially if you are a member of the establishment Washington press corps, particularly if that president is Republican, and most certainly if that president is Donald Trump. We speak of a sad woman named Michelle Wolf, who laid a stink bomb at the white House Correspondents Dinner. Is anything…

  • Donald Trump: irritating boor with the Right policies

    The essential Joseph Epstein is always a welcome guest at the Stately Manor. In today’s Wall Street Journal, Professor Epstein perfectly captures the Squire’s considered position on our current President. Professor Epstein, you have the podium: My son … nicely formulated the Donald Trump problem for thoughtful conservatives. “I approve of almost everything he has…