What’s Good for the Goose…
Senator Rand Paul must still be suffering from the effects of his backyard brawl. Maybe he should be in the “Senate concussion protocol” and held out until he passes the tests. This morning, on “Morning Joe,” Senator Paul took the following text “snippet” and made it into a conspiracy of senior FBI agents to overthrow the President.
“I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy’s (Andrew McCabe, Deputy Director of the FBI] office—that there’s no way [Trump] gets elected—but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk. It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you’re 40 …”
This a message between Senior Agent Peter Strozk and FBI lawyer Lisa Page, presumably about a conversation in Deputy Director Andy McCabe’s office. Paul describes this as evidence that there was a conspiracy to overthrow the government. The only evidence he has – of an FBI coup d’etat!
And yet, in the next sentence, Paul falls back on the refrain that there is no evidence of the Trump campaign colluding (not conspiracy – oh no, that’s a legal term with consequences) and in fact that the only collusion was by the Clinton Campaign!
Rand Paul has always been a “wild card” Senator. As a libertarian who aligns himself with the Republicans, he has usually avoided the “party line” when it comes to purely political actions. In that, even a “liberal” Democrat like me has found him fascinating from time to time.
Now he’s running the party propaganda. If that little text is evidence of high treason, than the Donald Junior emails, the Flynn connections, the Popadopulos actions: well, we need to start hanging people now.
Senator Paul, I’m disappointed. I hoped for more. But if there’s a conspiracy, what’s good for the goose, is good for the gander.
