PHONIES – AT 11:17 A.M. ET:  The hypocrisy flows.  "Progressive" groups and "journalists," thoroughly indifferent to the slaughter of 450,000 Syrians in their own country, now express deep anguish over the fact that some potential refugees seeking to enter America may be delayed by newer and better vetting procedures.

Why, there has even been some confusion over implementing President Trump's new immigration order.  This never would have happened under Barack (come to save us) Obama, who was kind, warm, and understanding.

One "journalist," in obvious agony, wondered out loud whether the president knows the delays may cost lives.  Unasked was whether the former system, with poor vetting, cost, or will cost, the lives of Americans killed by terrorists who slip through among the deserving newcomers.

We're told that the president is violating "American values."  Nothing is said about whether the refugees have any plans to adopt those values once here.  Why, we must respect their cultures, which may (or may not) include religious hatred of the worst order.

We have had to listen to the outgoing (thank the Lord) president of France, lecturing President Trump on the value of more liberal immigration policies.  Certainly worked for France, didn't it?  The country is a mess, its citizens subjected to one terror attack after another.  Whole "immigrant" areas outside Paris are virtually closed off because entering them is so dangerous.  They're lecturing us?

And yet, we must admit that Trump did it badly.  Impetuously.  There was no preparation for the order, no explanatory speech to the nation, no study of the impact of each step, no input from the very people who will carry out the directive.  There has been an international uproar, led by the hard left.  Some of it could have been prevented by better management.  It is, sadly, the same old story with the president.  He can be brilliant for a few days – vastly better than the failure Barack Obama – then step all over his success with a ridiculous comment or an unwise action.

We hope the new administration will smooth itself out because Trump has the potential to be a giant president...if he can overcome the lesser angels of his nature.  He has some good people around him, but a press corps that dreams of his impeachment.  He's got to be at his best every day, or the jackals will get him.  The jackals are already at his neck.

January 29,  2017