West Wing Reads ‘No Wonder Democrats Are Doing Their Best to Ensure That All the Headlines Are About Impeachment’

‘No Wonder Democrats Are Doing Their Best to Ensure That All the Headlines Are About Impeachment’ “‘Stellar.’ ‘Blowout.’ ‘Blockbuster.’ That’s how even left-leaning analysts described Friday’s stunning jobs report. The US economy continues to steam ahead under President Trump, despite a global slowdown — with big gains for Main Street, not just Wall Street,” the New York Post editorial board writes. “The gains are broad and deep. Minorities continue to see record or near-record low unemployment rates . . . And recent research from Bloomberg News shows that the Trump-era recovery has most benefited those in the lowest 40 percent of incomes.” No wonder Democrats are so desperate to change the narrative, the editors write. Click here to read more. “As Adam Schiff’s kangaroo court has unfolded, with Republicans barred from presenting defense witnesses or exculpatory materials and with much of the proceedings held in secret, it’s becoming clearer that the Republicans’ charge of a ‘show trial’ is gaining merit,” Robert Knight writes in The Washington Times. Years ago, Democrats warned Americans about the dangers of snooping tactics. “That was then. Today, House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff not only employs the power of the surveillance state to smear his colleagues and press his political agenda, he has set a number of dangerous precedents by ‘unmasking’ his political rivals,” David Harsanyi writes in the New York Post. “Fighting leukemia from her bed at Children’s National Hospital, Caoilinn McLane, then 15, met the first lady in 2017.” On Friday, they saw each other again—“when McLane was given the honor of introducing Mrs. Trump when she returned to the hospital to continue the tradition of first ladies reading to patients at holiday time,” Darlene Superville reports for The Associated Press. “Congress struck a tentative bipartisan agreement that would authorize 12 weeks of paid parental leave for all federal workers, in a potentially historic deal negotiated with the White House.” White House Legislative Affairs Director Eric Ueland said that Ivanka Trump played a key role in making it happen, Lindsay Wise and Michael Bender report in The Wall Street Journal.