Why won’t people admit it’s self-inflicted? And after writing the subtitle, I wonder if I need to say more? Start with Paul Ryan. Over the past seven years, Ryan spent cumulative man-centuries of government time repealing Obamacare. He swore he had a replacement plan, and now we know he lied. Ryan showed he was just a hollow phony. Trump strutted his ‘something much better’ line...
It’s odd how liberty is such a strong Republican meme, given their practical hostility toward its practice. Republicans are the party of most social conservatives. That seems reasonable. Republicans have professed to be conservative for generations. Social conservatives don’t like abortion. Fair enough. Hell, I agree; I don’t like abortion, either. I don’t know anyone who does. I think that legal, safe abortion is necessary,...
Accuse an enemy with your own sins, that they be distracted. I’ve come to the conclusion that the Republican Party of old is either dead, or kidnapped and replaced with a pod party. Time and again, I see Republicans either discard their core principles, or relegate them to third or second priority at best. I think ‘Republican’, and I think military hawk, fiscal conservative, social...
I still live with the Zebra Myth. I’m pretty sure I’m still living in the past. I try to talk a good game, I pretend I know the score, I aspire to be sophisticated, and talk about perceptions, but I haven’t come to terms with modern life. I think I’m missing something critical. Even Time Magazine is wondering if we’re at the end of Truth...
No good can come of this. (This is a 3D model of the hole in the ozone layer.) Trump pretended the TrumpRyanCare hadn’t happened, instead crowing that he’d signed the 2017 NASA Authorization Act. That act funds NASA, which is good, and even includes a $200M increase. Remember that nothing has been budgeted yet, and Trump’s draft budget had a $100M cut in NASA spending,...
Really, you can’t make this stuff up. On Friday, after almost 17 days of part-time work, Trump got tired. Hey, two weeks is what, 20 months in Trump-years? He told the Republican party that the first draft of the Obamacare replacement bill — the one they’d cobbled together without any expertise or detail? — that was all they’d get. No fixes, no improvements, no filling...
Life in the post-truth landscape. I chose a busy time for my vacation. Thank god. I didn’t miss it at all. Look, this is what kind of week it’s been. Earlier in the week, the Wall Street Journal had a huge scoop: Michael Flynn, while working as both Trump’s National Security Advisor and a secretly paid agent of the Turkish government, plotted with Turkish government...
Jeeze, what a putz! I swore I was going on a Trump vacation, but with the London attack, I looked anyway. What a waste of my time. Trump spouted some new lies trying to distract us from his real dealings, in this case, his deeply corrupt Russian connections. For the new lie to work, he has to be shrill enough to drown out his last...
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