COMEY – QUOTE OF THE DAY – AT 9:31 A.M. ET:  We are in day three of the GCC, the Great Constitutional Crisis, brought about by the firing of James Comey.

Do you sense the country collapsing around you?  Do you see those men in pickups heading for the countryside with their shotguns to fight the traitors?  Do you notice the "not taking new patients" signs on the offices of psychiatrists, their schedules overfilled with distraught liberals?

I don't know how we'll survive this.

Scott Johnson of Powerline says it perfectly:

We await the definitive account of the reasons behind President Trump’s firing of Comey. It is reasonable to doubt that the reasons proffered in the Rosenstein memo prompted the termination. It would be a mistake to take them at face value without more. Even so, one can reasonably conclude (as many Democrats and Republicans believed) that Comey’s termination was warranted. If so, Trump’s termination of Comey was proper if not desirable.

The media hysteria over Comey’s firing is almost unbelievable. It is certainly insufferable. The media are like five-year-olds whose crying compounds upset each other until it reaches a crescendo of wailing and lamentation. The hyseteria of the media, however, is not without point. It amplifies the talking points of the Democratic Party protesting Comey’s firing, which Democrats were of course more or less demanding up until Trump pulled the trigger. As for the Democrats, hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to opportunism.

In firing Comey, Trump exercised his unquestioned constitutional prerogative as president. How this can be converted into a “constitutional crisis” or a “coup” — as both the Democrats and their media adjunct assert — is a mystery beyond rational explanation. As in all earthly matters, they believe because it is absurd.

COMMENT:  There are perfectly legitimate reasons to criticize Trump's action.  Like many of Trump's moves, it was abrupt and ham-handed.  The president could have gotten the same result by quietly giving Comey the chance to resign "for the good of the Bureau."  He has inadvertently provided cannon fodder for his opponents, who always look for it.  CNN is in a state of bliss as strong as its state of journalistic decline.

But the Constitution is intact.  Trump is preparing for a major trip to the Mideast, which will attempt to firm up resistance to Iran and restart the Arab-Israeli peace process.  Let's see if the Democratic Party will give him some breathing space for this important mission.

We must again note the contrast between the treatment of President Trump by the media and the treatment accorded Saint Barack of Chicagoland.  Obama is traveling around the world making enormous amounts of money selling the presidency.  He is apparently planning to break precedent by interfering in American politics right after leaving the White House.  Any cricitism by the press concerning this new Obama ego adventure?  I hear only silence.

May 11,  2017