I wish that I had a more encouraging answer to the question the title of this blog post poses. Representative John Ratcliffe’s withdrawal of his name from consideration as the next Director of National Intelligence brings to mind Senator Chuck Schumer’s warning to President Trump just before his inauguration in 2017: “Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you.” This warning constitutes a “Kinsley gaffe” – accidentally telling the truth about Washington, DC.  It not only predicted the appointment of Robert Mueller to pursue the Russia Hoax, it probably explains why Ratcliffe’s nomination was so quickly torpedoed. President Trump blamed the media:   Our great Republican Congressman John Ratcliffe is being treated very unfairly by the LameStream Media. Rather than going through months of slander and libel, I explained to John how miserable it...(Read Full Post)