They did the same thing to Ronald Reagan’s key appointments.
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr June 20, 2018
Do you remember when we called those utterly frivolous though dreadfully ominous news stories of yesteryear Black Cat News Stories? They filled the media in the 1980s during the presidency of Ronald Reagan. Not a week passed when a Reaganite was not being hounded by reporters for committing some minor misdeed or often no misdeed at all, for instance, forgetting to wash one’s hands after lunch or neglecting to hold the door for a lady. That was back in the days when it was permissible to call a lady a lady, and her gender was a matter of fact not of litigation.
As I recall Michael Kinsley, the comic genius of that faraway time, once accused Attorney General Ed Meese of jaywalking despite Meese’s vaunted support for law and order and even the death penalty. I do not recall if Michael was calling for the Attorney General to step down at the Justice Department, but I do remember Michael was very disturbed and might even have called for a Congressional inquiry. Then there was his indignation over Reaganites’ misuse of government frequent-flyer mileage. He persuaded a lot of Reagan’s critics that this was a symptom of far-reaching corruption.
Well, now we have the closest approximation to President Reagan in the White House. That that would be President Donald Trump, and the Black Cat News Story has returned. His latest presidential appointee to suffer its ensnarement is Scott Pruitt, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency. He has not been accused of jaywalking or riding his bicycle the wrong way down a one-way street, but he did accept tickets to football games. He paid for them, but critics — that is to say environmentalists and possibly vegetarians—have claimed he did not pay enough for them. Also he might have had a secretary pick them up..........To Read More....
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