“There’s some parts of it I’ve found easier,” Congressman Kevin Cramer told me yesterday during our radio interview. I had asked him what it was like to go about making policy amid intense media scrutiny of President Trump. “You don’t have this scrutiny of the hyper media,” Cramer added, though he conceded that while the…
Audio: Cramer Calls Heitkamp Vote for Methane Rule “a Poke in the Eye of North Dakota”, Calls Comey Firing “Appropriate”
I wrote earlier today about Senator Heidi Heitkamp making a surprise vote against repealing an Obama-era methane rule implemented through the Bureau of Land Management. The rule, if you haven’t been following long, is duplicative and of dubious provenance. The EPA already regulates methane emissions (as does the State of North Dakota, for that matter),…
For the Left Comey Went From Scapegoat to Martyr Pretty Darn Quick
I don’t think President Donald Trump handled the firing of (now former) FBI Director James Comey all that well. For one thing, it wasn’t all that long ago that Trump was expressing to Comey how much confidence he had in the man. This, from January: When Mr. Comey and the president-elect met at Trump Tower…