Bob Kerrey, the former Nebraska senator and governor, was always one of my favorite politicians
in part because his politics weren’t perfectly polished. Among other free-wheeling moments, he
called fellow Democrat Bill Clinton an “uncommonly good liar” and said a requirement for becoming
president is that you must “want it more than life itself.”
Kerrey moved on to academia and now to an investment bank, but hasn’t lost the willingness to break
ranks with his party. The habit surfaces in a withering criticism of current Democrats, in which he
says they are suffering from two major “delusions.”
“The first,” he writes in an op-ed in the Omaha World-Herald, “is that Americans long for a president
who will ask us to pay more for the pleasure of increasing the role of the federal government in our lives.”
The Dems’ second delusion, he says, “is that Americans were robbed of the truth when Special Prosecutor
Robert Mueller and Attorney General William Barr concluded that President Trump did not collude with
Russia in 2016.”
He goes on to say there is no reason to think the full report will change the finding that Trump is
an innocent man.
Those are remarkable observations — but Kerrey isn’t finished. He also supports the movement to find
out what the FBI was up to in 2016, and why it led the nation down the Russia rabbit hole.
“Congress needs to investigate how the Department of Justice got this one so wrong,” he writes. “If
the president of the United States is vulnerable to prosecutorial abuse, then God help all the rest of us.”
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in part because his politics weren’t perfectly polished. Among other free-wheeling moments, he
called fellow Democrat Bill Clinton an “uncommonly good liar” and said a requirement for becoming
president is that you must “want it more than life itself.”
Kerrey moved on to academia and now to an investment bank, but hasn’t lost the willingness to break
ranks with his party. The habit surfaces in a withering criticism of current Democrats, in which he
says they are suffering from two major “delusions.”
“The first,” he writes in an op-ed in the Omaha World-Herald, “is that Americans long for a president
who will ask us to pay more for the pleasure of increasing the role of the federal government in our lives.”
The Dems’ second delusion, he says, “is that Americans were robbed of the truth when Special Prosecutor
Robert Mueller and Attorney General William Barr concluded that President Trump did not collude with
Russia in 2016.”
He goes on to say there is no reason to think the full report will change the finding that Trump is
an innocent man.
Those are remarkable observations — but Kerrey isn’t finished. He also supports the movement to find
out what the FBI was up to in 2016, and why it led the nation down the Russia rabbit hole.
“Congress needs to investigate how the Department of Justice got this one so wrong,” he writes. “If
the president of the United States is vulnerable to prosecutorial abuse, then God help all the rest of us.”
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