{"id":1942,"date":"2017-02-21T16:14:17","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T07:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/?p=1942"},"modified":"2017-07-06T17:46:25","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T08:46:25","slug":"plausible-accountability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/plausible-accountability\/","title":{"rendered":"Plausible Accountability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been musing a bit over the McCain-Graham axis and the Putin Collaboration Theme versus the Trump Administration. McCain\u00a0 is the head of the Senate Armed Services Committee and has a long tenure in the DC morass to accumulate opposition troops in the bureaucracy.<\/p>\n<p>With the selection of McMaster for National Security Advisor it is pretty clear that Trump&#8217;s intent\u00a0is to amass between Mattis, Kelly and now McMaster a phalanx of proven honor, skill and courage to offset both McCain and Graham&#8217;s expertise, especially in a Senate hearing.<\/p>\n<p>(I found the following Instapundit link on McMaster to be\u00a0quite illuminating<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/instapundit\/257917\/\">https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/instapundit\/257917\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>So far , the media has not tried any character assassination on Kelly for the immigration moves and enforcement, they are content to let Trump be the lightning rod.\u00a0 I expect Mattis will get little flack for any issues with war fighting.<\/p>\n<p>So a potential strategy emerges of Trump taking the heat and pushing back on the media while his staff gets change made. Almost private sector behavior.\u00a0 The opposite of plausible deniability.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-1\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"1942\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><div class=\"pld-dislike-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-dislike-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"1942\" data-trigger-type=\"dislike\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-down\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-dislike-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\"><\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been musing a bit over the McCain-Graham axis and the Putin Collaboration Theme versus the Trump Administration. McCain\u00a0 is the head of the Senate Armed Services Committee and has a long tenure in the DC morass to accumulate opposition troops in the bureaucracy.<\/p>\n<p>With the selection of McMaster for National Security Advisor it is pretty clear that Trump&#8217;s intent\u00a0is to amass between Mattis, Kelly and now McMaster a phalanx of proven honor, skill and courage to offset both McCain and Graham&#8217;s expertise, especially in a Senate hearing.<\/p>\n<p>(I found the following Instapundit link on McMaster to be\u00a0quite illuminating<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/instapundit\/257917\/\">https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/instapundit\/257917\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>So far , the media has not tried any character assassination on Kelly for the immigration moves and enforcement, they are content to let Trump be &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/plausible-accountability\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3898,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3898"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1944,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942\/revisions\/1944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}