Attorney General William Barr suggested during his Senate testimony that President Donald Trump has the authority to suspend any investigation if he chooses. Barr doesn’t say this, but that same argument implies in reverse: Trump could also begin an investigation into anyone he chose as well. Imagine that. Barr has suggested no limits, implying that our President could commit any crime without legal penalty. (He’s […]
Why do otherwise smart people waste so much of their talent on obvious lies? Worse, why do they want to waste our time with them? Is this some parlor game I missed? I have things to see, places to do, noses to pick, that kind of thing. Why are they still wasting our time? It should matter if someone lies to you. And we already […]
I have a message for Republicans. I’ve been watching the conservative hate machine chewing on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez like she’s a doggie toy. I have to say, it’s disturbingly Freudian. Conservatives struggling to mash AOC into their ‘scary pretty girl’ mold. Not submissive or deferential enough for you? Too strong? More importantly, I can’t figure out why none of you are embarrassed when every official Republican […]
Here’s a weird thing. Big changes are coming. We know that they’re coming; we’ve been watching the buildup for decades. It’ll be big and wide with lots of moving parts. In this post, I’m just looking at one possibility that scares me, both for what it might become, and how we’ll act if it does happen. Imagine if there was a new Dust Bowl. President […]
OK, look. Why do most of the big news sources spend so much time carefully evaluating Trump’s ‘diplomatic failure’ with Kim Jung Un in Vietnam? They dissect Trump’s goals, his actions, his assumptions, and so on. Why are they so determinedly credulous? It’s not like many people believe Trump’s version of what happened. We all know Trump panicked and bailed. President Donald Trump met with […]
OK, here’s my reality check. Republicans love trashing Michael Cohen. I can’t blame them, but after a point, it gets old. They attack the messenger, and yes, he’s an unreliable narrator, but there’s a problem. If you’re a lawyer, you trash the evidence, but then you present your counter-argument. That never happened. None of the Republicans so dutifully and energetically attacking Cohen seem to disagree […]
Veteran politicians across the globe can attest to a political rule of survival: never quote the price. According to popular culture, setting the bar too high is foolish, but setting the price is unequivocally dense. When you set the price of victory, you give your opponents the definition of your defeat. By setting the first-year price tag for The Border Wall, President Trump gave his […]
Americans are waiting for evidence about Republican corruption, even though we already know the answers. What does it say about America that we’re not willing to defend it?
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