"What has really happened since Donald Trump Jr. released his email chain setting up a meeting last June with a Russian lawyer? Are Democrats and their allies in the media any closer to having their high crime or misdemeanor?"

"Answer: No."

"To effectively manage its relationship with the special counsel, the White House will need to wall off its dealings with any Russia-related investigations. And, above all else, the president should assign the responsibility of scandal management to a few disciplined lawyers and utility players who can keep their mouths shut. This administration knows all too well just how damaging leaks can be. Right now, everything from the White House needs to remain airtight. We should not see Sean Spicer at the daily press briefing reading out status updates of the investigation, propping up and legitimizing the media’s unfounded rumors, or speculating as to how things are going. He should only refer questions elsewhere."

It’s hard to imagine a situation in which President Trump and GOP leaders could have negotiated a better budget than they did with this funding bill.

"The left is hyperventilating and pretending they care about the stress and strain that law enforcement officers will feel if they are required to enforce laws that are already on the books. If anything, law enforcement in liberal jurisdictions are stressed because they are often forced to look the other way when they know a dangerous element is roaming free within the population that they are sworn to serve and protect. In sanctuary cities, police are often put in a position where they can only act if summoned by a 911 call after the fact."

"The Trump plan offers a radical shift from what we know didn’t work during the Obama years, when low growth resulted in trillions of dollars of lost economic activity and a historic erosion of faith in the American dream. Rather than try to maintain the veneer of the talking point that growth will fill in and pay for the tax cuts, I think Republicans might as well concede the point that deficits may rise for a while but the corrosive effects of low growth on every aspect of American society are worse than adding incrementally to the already-too-high debt."

In situations such as these where baseless allegations are coming at you in every direction, it’s best to hunker down and let the howling mob exhaust themselves. Even prior to his recusal, the so-called resistance issued calls for the attorney general's resignation. But the whole idea is a joke. Exactly who is being accused? And of what? The Democrats are fishing here, and no Republican should cooperate.

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and national security adviser H.R. McMaster are expected to be early alarms in the event that life in the Trump administration becomes untenable.

At CPAC, Bannon spoke about President Trump’s plans for the economy, alluding to the “deconstruction of the administrative state” as the framework for how Trump wants to approach tax reform, regulatory reform and trade.  Having been a swamp-dweller for quite a while, I’m not sure I understand what “deconstruction” really means in that context. Maybe that’s the point.

The Republican universe is still unstable. The Republican Party/Trump relationship is still evolving, but as Reince Priebus said during his appearance with Stephen K. Bannon at CPAC, Republicans do need to stick together. It is a fact that Trump has the party and the party has Trump — and the party is just getting started.

“Deep state” is the new label being used in Washington to describe embedded anonymous bureaucratic bias against President Trump and Republican rule. Specifically, the deep state is leaking documents, making confidential conversations public, pushing rogue social media accounts and otherwise acting in an underhanded manner to discredit the president, his Cabinet and the policy objectives of the Republicans. The use of encrypted chat programs to communicate and the continued leaks to various media outlets are just the start. Their tactics are beginning to spread to other Democratic sympathizers and form a continuous partisan assault both from within the government and from outside groups.