It was certainly a spectacle. Very Kim Jong-Il. It is the greatest privilege of my life is to serve as vice president to the president who’s keeping his word to the American people. — Mike Pence The first cabinet meeting of the Trump administration started with each cabinet member praising their boss. We are receiving, as you know — I’m not sure the rest of...
Bernie Sanders wrote a New York Times Op-Ed: How Democrats Can Stop Losing Elections. It’s more or less what I’ve been saying for a while, so of course he’s exactly correct. This is the start: In 2016, the Democratic Party lost the presidency to possibly the least popular candidate in American history. In recent years, Democrats have also lost the Senate and House to right-wing...
Donald Trump campaigned as the “Law and Order” candidate. Not a big surprise, since every Republican before him positioned themselves as the same savior. And, like the Republicans that came before him, he’s shown a… unique vision of what that means in practice. So far, that’s included Trump firing all the US Attorneys. Including, just by accident, the US Attorney (Preet Bharara) who had suggested...
Republicans won their power by changing political wars into cultural conflicts. I can’t begin to tell you if it was an intentional plan or just dumb luck, but every election these days is more about winning than any actual goal I can find. People seem to buy that, anyway. There’s a huge investment in winning, but all the effort ends at the election. Once a...
President Donald Trump speaks at press conference in the Rose Garden at the White House on June 9, 2017. (Erie News Now) Oh, Lordy. Trump still feels inadequate about his election. Again. Why can’t he act like most conservative Americans? Donny. Just go out and buy yourself some big pistol, maybe an assault rifle. Fondle them a bit, load and unload, then swagger in manly...
I can’t claim I thought of this, but once my wife mentioned it, I had to agree. Unless Trump was wearing a bugged carnation in his lapel, he doesn’t have tapes or recordings of the Comey conversations. The dinner was in the President’s residence, not the oval office. I kind of doubt the President’s personal staff were drilling bugs into the historic woodwork. But…. Imagine...
Yesterday, James Comey called President Donald Trump a liar. He did this in sharp,, specific detail. He cited his contemporaneous documentation and the people he spoke to at the time. Comey was specific, detailed, and damning. Today, Trump responded to Comey’s accusations, saying everything Comey had said was a lie. Trump wasn’t especially specific about his counter-charges. And yet Trump (and his sleazy lawyer) were...
This is a paraphrase from Paul Ryan as reported in the Washington Post: [Rep. Paul Ryan] added: “I would just say that of course there needs to be a degree of independence between [the Department of Justice], FBI and the White House and a line of communications established. The president’s new at this. He’s new to government, and so he probably wasn’t steeped in the...
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