QUESTION: How can the President 'subvert' foreign policy?

Answer: He can't.

WHEN THE VILLAIN IS OBAMA, news suddenly becomes not worth reporting.

More tweets.

CNN'S DON LEMON: Anyone who still thinks Trump did nothing wrong is 'mental'.

Lemon's right, it is mental - on the part of the beholder. It's called 'projection'.

DEMOCRATS please keep the impeachment clown show going.

IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS: Ego and the Ambassador, and a mistake by President Trump.

The Diplomad is unimpressed:

I hate false bravado. The whole "we are the hostages of Tehran, the martyrs of Tripoli" shtick in defense of the Foreign Service was almost more than I could bear. I have never heard a military man or woman do something similar. Braggadocio is not a trait of the best of our military, and should not be a feature anywhere else in our bureaucracy. It was all rather embarrassing, particularly given that both the hostages in Tehran and the dead in Tripoli were abandoned to their fate by lefty Democrat policies and administrations--something I wish the Republicans had pointed out.

On Ambassador Yovanavich:

She had the nerve to claim that Trump was undermining HER position as Ambassador, and, thus, of course, he was undermining US foreign policy! She breathlessly informed us that after about two-plus years at her post, Ukrainians were asking her if she was going to be replaced. Horrors! Ukrainians can do math. They knew that her usual tour likely would be coming to an end. The President does not need to undermine her; he can yank her out any time for any reason or even for no reason. Ambassadors, as well as FBI and CIA Directors, etc., serve at the pleasure of the President. Period. She must have thought she was King Louis XIV, you know, 'L'état, c'est moi'. But to be kind, let's just agree that she is just another in a long line of State officials who seem to have forgotten that the President sets and directs foreign policy, not State.

Read it all.

AVAILABLE: YOUR OWN BULL-SCHIFF T-SHIRT:

At the Trump store. Get one before they run out....

OH, MY: Trump's a Democrat?

THE UNRAVELING BEGINS: Burisma reportedly indicted for money laundering.

WHY KANYE WEST is leaving California:

For entrepreneurs and visionaries, California’s regulatory climate is more than just frustrating—it’s innovation-killing.

He's helping California go bankrupt one capitalist at a time....

RANDOM THOUGHT:

Such a small man for such a large chair.

THANKS OBAMA, but these patronizing lectures are getting old.

Instapundit comments: "The change that’s mostly needed is the addition of 20 or 30 IQ points, plus some experience in a real job, to the activist left. And even Barack can see that."

SOME THOUGHTS on the impeachment clown show.

I enjoyed this comment: "[H]ow did so many once-masculine fields, ranging from sports journalism to the CIA, become dominated by prissy, self-important weasels?"

An excellent question.

LAWSUIT: Schiff colluded with Politico to leak false info to further sham impeachment.

On Monday, Kash Patel, a White House official serving on the National Security Council (NSC), filed a $25 million lawsuit against Politico, alleging that Adam Schiff, the California Democrat, leading the sham impeachment against President Trump, “weaponized the media” with defamatory information to advance his goal of removing the president from office.

I'd rather he sued Schiff himself....

HEH: Ukranians demand President Trump investigate suspicion of U.S.-Ukraine corruption.

WELCOME TO THE INTERSECTIONAL CESSPOOL: 'Stay in your lane.'

EMINA MELONIC: How I never learned math.

SORRY, PROGRESSIVES: Education is not about your ‘lived reality’.

MEAT POLLUTION? Vegan sues Burger King for cooking vegan burger on meat grill.

Perhaps that's why vegan burgers taste like real burgers.

RANDOM THOUGHT: I tuned in briefly to see the 'I think, I feel, I presume' impeachment hearing is underway.

OH NO. The demand for white supremacists has exceeded the supply. I suspect Antifa might have some available....

THE REASON DEMOCRATS ARE ANGRY: the man that they keep telling themselves is a bumbling moron has been besting them .

Instead of 'besting them', the phrase 'beating them like a rented mule donkey comes to mind.

CHRISTMAS ORNAMENTS, DRYWALL AND JEFFREY EPSTEIN, three things that don’t hang themselves.

A CLEAR UNDERSTATEMENT: Ben Carson accuses Maxine Waters of ‘shamelessness’ and lacking ‘basic manners’.

A NEW POLITICAL DIVIDE - blue jeans.

Whatever, but the 'deplorable' stores I shop at mostly sell Wrangler jeans. I buy whatever fits.

A REPUBLIC but only if we can keep it.

As we consider the impeachment of Donald Trump, I hope that both sides will keep their grievances in perspective and remember that it is only “a Republic” if we can keep it. Or in the lingo that millennials understand, “Democracy … means sharing a country with assholes you can’t stand.” Thank you for that, Bill Maher. Ben Franklin and Abe Lincoln are nodding and smiling.

It's long but well worth the time to read.