Joe Arpaio, a former Arizona county sheriff, has announced he will run for the U.S. Senate. (Angie Wang/AP)

A convicted, later pardoned criminal: “Flake on [Joe] Arpaio Senate bid: ‘Write about it fast because it won’t last long.” So much for the party of law and order.

It should be easy for Dems to beat an ex-con. “The Democratic candidate in a race that represents one of the party’s best pick-up opportunities on the 2018 midterm map is Rep. Kyrsten Sinema. Arpaio’s entry into the race could be a boon for Arizona Democrats who will lean on Latino turnout in hopes of winning the Senate race.”

If hypocrisy were a crime, she’d be put away for life. “Almost a year into her transformation from striving Manhattan lifestyle guru to Washington power player, Ivanka Trump on Monday night proved what many of her colleagues acknowledge privately about the player behind the controlled façade: She is still prone to rookie political mistakes. And she seems blind to her circumscribed position as a self-professed champion of women who is simultaneously an unquestioning aide to a president who’s been accused of groping women.” Maybe she’s just unqualified.

So much for isolating the regime guilty of crimes against humanity. “South Korea sought unsuccessfully to raise the North’s nuclear program during bilateral talks, but the two sides reached a deal Tuesday for Pyongyang to participate in the Winter Olympics and agreed to revive cross-border military communications, as Seoul pursues a diplomatic path to try to end the long-running standoff.”

Democrats accuse the GOP of being uninterested in finding criminal or other wrongdoing. “Russia’s aggression towards the United States and the Trump Administration’s efforts to cover up its communications with the Russians demand an immediate, whole-of-government response. Yet, Republican House leaders and Committee Chairmen have blocked, stonewalled, and rejected our basic requests to investigate, hold public hearings, and advance legislation to address these matters.  House Republicans have chosen to put President Trump ahead of our national interests.” Read the whole thing.

Not even to stop all those “criminals” coming across the border. Trump: “We don’t need a 2,000 mile wall.” I sense a cave coming, not a wall.

Republicans original crime was pretending he knew what he was doing and what’s going on. Now this: “By the time the president finally kicked reporters out of the meeting, he had said yes to everyone while clarifying virtually nothing. And what was undeniably a victory for government transparency had turned into another frustrating experience for Republicans, who repeatedly implored Trump to tell them exactly what he would accept in a DACA bill.”