I’ve seen some statements on Facebook that prompted me to reply, and it seems to me they should be collected in one place. First: Someone wrote “We’re getting the government we deserve.” My response: “I reject that. We are getting the government that 1/3 of us wanted, some of whom lived in strategically important states. …
We are really going to miss this man. Even if you disagreed with every policy he espoused you knew it was going to be well thought out. You knew he wasn’t going to overreact to events and do something without consultations with his staff, and you knew he wasn’t going to embarrass our country in …
Jonathan Chait thinks so. He’s got a post up at New York Magazine with the provocative title “Obamacare Repeal Might Have Just Died Tonight.” His reasoning is based in part on the narrow margin of the Senate’s Republican majority. It’s currently 52-48, and if they suffer the loss of three of their votes for the …
In future dictionaries we will see a line drawing of Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell’s face next to that term. He’s always been an obnoxious man, exuding righteous certainty in his positions from every pore, but this January alone has cemented his place in my mind as the worst and most shameless hypocrite the US Senate …
During the Cold War there were a lot of political thrillers published, ranging in quality from John le Carré to Robert Ludlum, with dashes of Fletcher Knebel, Allen Drury, Eugene Burdick and many others in between. You could find books in which “The President Vanishes” and ones in which submarine commanders defected. You could read …
Once again, the Republican party proves that it’s very concerned about deficits when the Democrats are in charge: From the text of the 2017 Budget Resolution: (4) DEFICITS.—For purposes of the enforcement of this resolution, the amounts of the deficits are as follows: Fiscal year 2017: $582,574,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: $541,560,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: $673,600,000,000. …
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It’d be a shame if anything happened to it. What am I talking about? Well, the House Republicans put a nasty little twist into the Rules package they enacted the other day. They revived an 1876 rule which allows any member of Congress to slash the pay of an individual federal worker all the way …
At least with Trump and with certain Congresspeople. “Hey, Duma, let’s talk!” So says Orange County’s gift to the US House of Representatives, Dana Rohrbacher. …he is planning to lead a congressional delegation to Russia next month and expects to meet with Russian officials to discuss “how we can work with the Duma.” “We’re going …
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Oh boy. Our future President hangs out with guys named Joey “No Socks” when he’s partying at Mar-a-Lago on New Year’s Eve, and it’s not the first time. Apparently no one felt the need to remind Trump that hanging out with convicted felons doesn’t look real good to the American public. Here’s a little background …
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Trump celebrates New Year’s Eve by selling tickets to his party. From The Huffington Post: “The transition is not concerned about the appearance of a conflict,” she [Hope Hicks, a spokeswoman for the Trump transition team who will be White House director of strategic communications,] told Politico. “This is an annual celebratory event at the …