Just a quick note: I read and hear a lot of nonsense about “reform.” Politicians love slinging the word, since it sounds, ya know, responsible and all, without actually committing making anything better. Remember how many scalawags and carpetbaggers were elected on ‘reform’ tickets. Boss Tweed, anyone? Nonetheless, the word...
That didn’t take long. Yesterday, I suggested one consequence of the GOP’s decision to go it all alone was that they couldn’t lose many votes, making every wingnut and dipwad the master of the GOP for a day. Every single senator knows that if they make the slightest fuss, they’ll...
Today, Senate Republicans released their draft of Trumpcare. You remember, the one they were going to rewrite from scratch? It’s like the kids who did their homework on the bus into school. Republicans changed a couple of words from the House version, cut even more money from the poor and...
Who here would be surprised and shocked — shocked! — that Donald Trump lied to us? Hands? Anyone? Yeah, me neither. With all of the recently reported electronic surveillance, intercepts, unmasking and illegal leaking of information, I have no idea… — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 22, 2017 …whether there...
Michael Gerson, a former chief speechwriter for President George W. Bush and a Washington Post Op-Ed writer, wrote an article in today’s Post titled The GOP’s hard, messy options for destroying Trumpism. It’s honest and clear-eyed at first, but then veers sharply into the exact same morass Gerson excoriates. Gerson...
Sorry, but it’s Twitter time. There’s another fun re-tweet by Donald the POTUS: What’s happening in our country isn’t just an assault on our @POTUS @realDonaldTrump it’s an assault on the American people. #WattersWorld pic.twitter.com/SYRNEyHU26 — Joe Gooding (@joegooding) June 18, 2017 So… criticism of Trump isn’t criticism, it’s an...
I keep saying this, but it’s worth repeating: nobody wants healthcare insurance. I keep reading semi-confused articles about it. With the Democratic ACA and the subsequent Republican sabotage, we get lost in partisan positions, but the goal isn’t — or at least, shouldn’t be — to get everyone a shiny...
As much as I love the new flood of good news reporting, every major news source continues to fail miserably at basic, essential judgements. I haven’t a clue why, since it’s both obvious, and inexplicable. I’ve been talking for a while about how politicians tear at the social fabric. Need...
What do we call a day where there were two mass shootings, with a combined total of five dead and six wounded by two shooters, both of whom were killed or killed themselves? Apparently, we call it ‘Wednesday’. According to the Gun Violence Archive, there have already been 154 mass...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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. ...
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...
This Oct. 11, 1991 file photo shows University of Oklahoma Law Professor Anita Hill testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. HBO says that Scandal star Kerry Washington will play Hill in a film about the 1991 Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Clarence Thomas. (AP Photo)...
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