Rep. Cummings: "200 Years From Now People Will Be Reading About This Moment"
February 27, 2019
Daniel Greenfield

What do we remember from 200 years ago? The burning of the White House?

According to Rep. Cummings, a courageous joke still searching for a punchline with a lantern and a scowl, this day when Democrats brought a convicted liar to lie on Capitol Hill is so memorable that it will be remembered 200 years from now.

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"Today, I think, was a very important day. I tell my staff that 200 years from now people will be reading about this moment," he told reporters. "We have a situation where we have strayed so far away from normal in our country. We've got to get back to center. And I think today was, at least, an opportunity to do that."

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People won't remember Rep. Cummings 200 years from now. Or twenty years from now.

Nor will they remember the latest round of antics a week from now.

What President Trump is trying to do in Vietnam may still matter two centuries hence. Cummings' desperate posturing won't.

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IF 200 years from now people are reading about that moment the response will be:


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Michael Cohen and the Problems of a Bad Lawyer
February 27, 2019
Daniel Greenfield

Whenever you need a lawyer, it's important to have a good one.

A good lawyer doesn't mean Perry Mason or whatever the TV idea of a good lawyer tends to be. It's an attorney who is trustworthy, and who can balance the demands of a sometimes mercenary profession with professional ethics.

There's bipartisan agreement that Michael Cohen, a wretched figure, is not that guy. His testimony is the latest episode of a political circus in which highly dubious figures provide entertainment plot twists for the media's conspiracy theories.

Cohen's lies are the product of two elements.

1. A leftist anti-Trump movement embedded within law enforcement that is willing to violate any and all rules, including attorney-client privilege, in the hopes of getting Trump.

2. Cohen's own basically mercenary nature. It's why his appearance counts as little more than political entertainment. He's proven that he will say anything if he thinks it will get him somewhere. Those kinds of transactional ethics in someone with a law degree can seem useful, but are actually quite dangerous. A lawyer with no ethics or morals isn't just bad at his job, which Cohen was, but is untrustworthy.

Period.

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If you are in the mood for some kabuki theater: