Critical Alert: Congress is Broken
The Trump move to fascism succeeds because Congress is broken. The House and Senate have been fading for generations, and Trump stepped into that power vacuum.
Sessions Lied to Congress
Jeff Sessions lied to Congress again today, at length and in obvious denial of known facts, common sense, or even his own earlier words under oath. Everyone there knew that’s what he was doing as he lied, and they accepted it. How can I say that? Easy. Everyone knew the questions they were going to ask Sessions. They’re easy to predict, most especially for AG...
Insane Congress
Trump threatens yet another new war. Congress? So Trump has committed an act of war in Syria and Afghanistan, and now he’s saber-rattling around Korea, just as China warns us that this is a terrible idea. That’s what, three acts of war in three different nations in roughly the same week? Gotta be a new record of some kind. Trump is happy to talk about...
Republican Cowardice
Local chapter head of ‘Republicans for Ignoring the Constitution’. When Syrian President Bashar al-Assad first gassed civilians in 2013, Obama condemned Assad for violating the chemical weapons ban. He asked the Republican Congress for military authorization. There wasn’t an imminent threat to the United States, and none of the existing authorizations included Syria, so the Constitution requires Congressional approval: an Authorization for the Use of...
TrumpRyanCare Abandoned in Dumpster
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...