What\u2019s Good for the Goose\u2026<\/p>\n
Senator Rand Paul must still be suffering from the effects of his backyard brawl. Maybe he should be in the \u201cSenate concussion protocol\u201d and held out until he passes the tests. This morning, on \u201cMorning Joe,\u201d Senator Paul took the following text \u201csnippet\u201d and made it into a conspiracy of senior FBI agents to overthrow the President.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy\u2019s (Andrew McCabe, Deputy Director of the FBI] office\u2014that there\u2019s no way [Trump] gets elected\u2014but I\u2019m afraid we can\u2019t take that risk. It\u2019s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you\u2019re 40\u00a0\u2026\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n This a message between Senior Agent Peter Strozk and FBI lawyer Lisa Page, presumably about a conversation in Deputy Director Andy McCabe\u2019s office. \u00a0Paul describes this as evidence that there was a conspiracy to overthrow the government. The only evidence he has \u2013 of an FBI coup d\u2019etat!<\/p>\n And yet, in the next sentence, Paul falls back on the refrain that there is no evidence of the Trump campaign colluding (not conspiracy \u2013 oh no, that\u2019s a legal term with consequences) and in fact that the only collusion was by the Clinton Campaign!<\/p>\n Rand Paul has always been a \u201cwild card\u201d Senator. As a libertarian who aligns himself with the Republicans, he has usually avoided the \u201cparty line\u201d when it comes to purely political actions. In that, even a \u201cliberal\u201d Democrat like me has found him fascinating from time to time.<\/p>\n Now he\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n Senator Paul, I\u2019m disappointed. I hoped for more. But if there\u2019s a conspiracy, what\u2019s good for the goose, is good for the gander.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"