"The latest bit of shameless hypocrisy from Sen. Chuck Schumer is an attempt to blame rising gasoline prices on President Trump's decision to pull out of the Iran deal.

"Remember, that's the deal that Schumer voted against.

"Hypocrisy from Schumer in and of itself wouldn't be new or newsworthy. The latest from the Senate minority leader, though, is a window into the coming campaign.

"Take it as a warning. The Democrats will wilt away on foreign policy, even if only for political advantage at home, and, bereft of pro-growth ideas, will use government to strong-arm the markets.

"It's what they do."

"The first question that comes to mind when hearing that Hillary Clinton would like to be CEO of Facebook is: How would they fit all their servers into her bathroom?

"We learned about Clinton's desire to run the social media giant from a question posed to her during an event at Harvard University where she was receiving an award for her 'leadership.' This for a woman who didn't even have the courage to face her distraught supporters on election night 2016, own the defeat and tell them the truth. As her lackey John Podesta was lying to the confused and crying crowd at her election night party about it not being over, she was on the phone conceding to her rival Donald Trump.

"'Speaking at Harvard University before receiving an award Friday, Clinton was asked a hypothetical. ... If Clinton could be chief executive of any company right now, which company would she choose? "Facebook," Clinton said without hesitating,' the Los Angeles Times reported.

"'Clinton said that she'd want to be in charge of the social media giant because of the immense power it has over the world's flow of information. It's the biggest news platform in the world ... but most people in our country get their news, true or not, from Facebook,' according to the newspaper.

"It makes sense that the woman who set up bootlegged email servers and installed them in her bathroom while secretary of state would like to run Facebook. It's apparent her goal, since she was guaranteed to win the race (you know there are insurance policies for that, right?), was to make sure she controlled the flow of information."

"T.S. Eliot famously wrote that 'April is the cruelest month,' but when it comes to America's fiscal picture, nothing could be further from the truth about this April. The latest government numbers confirm that last month was a blockbuster for growth, federal revenues and deficit reduction.

"One of the key principles of Trumponomics is that faster economic growth can help solve a multitude of other social and economic problems -- from poverty, to inner-city decline, to lowering the national debt.

"We're not quite at a sustained elevated growth rate of 3 percent yet, but the latest economy snapshot tells us we are knocking on the door. The growth rate over the last four quarters came in at 2.9 percent, which was higher than any of the eight years of the Obama presidency. Halfway through this current quarter, which began on April 1, the Atlanta Federal Reserve estimates growth at 4 percent. If that persists through the end of June, we will have reached an average growth rate of 3 percent under President Trump. ...

"Now for the even better news. We are already starting to see a fiscal dividend from Mr. Trump's tax, energy and regulatory pro-business policies. The Congressional Budget Office reports that tax revenues in April -- by far the biggest month of the year for tax collections because of the April 15 filing deadline -- totaled $515 billion, which was a robust 13 percent rise in receipts over last year."

"I'm proud to be an American where at least I know I'm free, and I won't forget the men who died who gave that right to me ..."

"Without China, neither Iran nor North Korea can obtain the diplomatic cover or the technological support needed to build a sophisticated nuclear-missile arsenal. And China can be convinced not to endanger its lucrative commerce with the West for the sake of irritating the United States and Europe with rogue nuclear proxies.

"Finally, Russia is a regional neighbor of North Korea and Iran. It has no strategic self-interest in having two unhinged nuclear countries nearby.

"Before the onset of the hysteria about Russian 'collusion,' the United States and Russia discussed areas of mutual benefit, such as limiting the number of dangerous third-party nations with nuclear weapons.

"For all the evil of Russian president Vladimir Putin, the potential evil of a nuclear Iran and North Korea is greater. It is time to talk about mutual strategic interests with the Russians to nullify a North Korean and Iranian nuclear threat.

"In sum, for all their obnoxious bluster, the rogue governments of North Korea and Iran are more vulnerable than ever."

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"It has been said that if you live long enough, you will see everything. I'm experiencing that feeling as I watch the New York Times and Washington Post abandon their ultra-liberal leanings to defend government spying on innocent American citizens.

"The case shows Trump Derangement Syndrome in action as it turns two of the nation's prominent newspapers into the type of organizations they spent 50 years attacking. ...

"This latest version of media madness involves the confirmation that the FBI and perhaps the CIA sent a spy -- or maybe two spies -- to see whether Donald Trump's associates were in cahoots with Russia during the 2016 campaign.

"The spying is an event of enormous consequences, with no known precedent in American history, because it catches the incumbent party targeting the candidate of the opposition party. Even Richard Nixon didn't weaponize law enforcement and intelligence agencies to this extent."

"Many agents in the FBI want Congress to subpoena them so they can reveal problems caused by former FBI Director James Comey and former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, three people in direct contact with active field agents tell TheDC.

"'There are agents all over this country who love the bureau and are sickened by [James] Comey's behavior and [Andrew] McCabe and [Eric] Holder and [Loretta] Lynch and the thugs like [John] Brennan -- who despise the fact that the bureau was used as a tool of political intelligence by the Obama administration thugs,' former federal prosecutor Joe DiGenova told The Daily Caller Tuesday. 'They are just waiting for a chance to come forward and testify.' ...

"DiGenova -- who along with his wife, Victoria Toensing, has represented government whistleblowers in the past -- agreed, telling TheDC, 'It's an intelligent approach to the situation given the vindictive nature of the bureau under Comey and McCabe. I have no idea how to read Chris Wray, who is not a leader and who has disappeared from the public eye during this entire crisis. You know, he may be cleaning house but if he's doing so, he's doing it very quietly.'"

"I don't know if there's a big conspiracy by the deep state. But it's pretty obvious to me that leaders of our institutions aren't above engaging in spying. John Brennan spied on the legislative branch and lied about it to the American people. James Clapper spied on the American people through a domestic surveillance program and lied about it to Congress. Although the Obama administration never tweeted nasty attacks on journalists, it did spy on and prosecute them. It's completely plausible that those in the upper echelon of law enforcement saw Trump as a threat, then used wobbly evidence as the pretext to investigate his campaign. If not, it'll be good to clear their names. ...

"If, as I've been assured by numerous smart people, the FBI and DOJ would never ever engage in such partisanship or recklessness -- or maybe ineptitude -- then a methodical accounting of events leading up to the special counsel investigation would help them."

"The 'deep state' is in a deep state of desperation. With little time left before the Justice Department inspector general's report becomes public, and with special counsel Robert Mueller having failed to bring down Donald Trump after a year of trying, they know a reckoning is coming.

"At this point, there is little doubt that the highest echelons of the FBI and the Justice Department broke their own rules to end the Hillary Clinton 'matter,' but we can expect the inspector general to document what was done or, more pointedly, not done. It is hard to see how a year-long investigation of this won't come down hard on former FBI Director James Comey and perhaps even former Attorney General Loretta Lynch, who definitely wasn't playing mahjong in a secret 'no aides allowed' meeting with former President Clinton on a Phoenix airport tarmac.

"With this report on the way and congressional investigators beginning to zero in on the lack of hard, verified evidence for starting the Trump probe, current and former intelligence and Justice Department officials are dumping everything they can think of to save their reputations.

"But it is backfiring."

"The blue wave that Democrats are counting on to win the day in November, and the Congress with it, just can't seem to break out of the swamp. This week's party primaries were counted on to produce candidates moderate enough, or at least sane enough, to restore credibility to Democratic prospects. It didn't happen quite that way.

"'Tuesday,' observes The Washington Post, the house organ of the party, 'was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day for Democratic moderates. The success of very liberal candidates in primaries across four states is causing a new bout of heartburn among party strategists who worry about unelectable activists thwarting their drive for the House majority.'

"Indeed. It's going to take more than Alka-Seltzer to relieve that heartburn. The Democrats start with a severe handicap in the Senate. They hold 24 of the seats (plus two independents who caucus with them) up for election this year, and Republicans have to defend only 9. With a 51 to 49 split, every seat matters, and the results on Tuesday were good news for the president and his party.

"Democratic prospects in the House of Representatives are better, but still muddy. The Democrats should gain seats, as opposition parties almost always do in the midterms, but Republicans now have a few things going for them this year. The economy is going gangbusters, with unemployment below 4 percent. The generic ballot polling shows that the Democrats hold only a 3-point lead over the Republicans, down from double digits several months ago. ...

"It's not yet summer, but this year the Democrats have, so far, cornered the market on terrible, horrible, no good, very bad doofus candidates."