The Russian Candidate: Trump Must Go
President-elect Donald J. Trump’s narrow electoral win of the American presidency is a sham, a fraud. The Washington Post last night, and then the New York Times today revealed that the CIA … Continue reading →
Can the Christie Bridge Scandal Damage Democracy?
Brian Ross in The Huffington Post: The Northern White Rhinoceros is listed as the most endangered species on Earth, but truly, the other “RINO,” the moderate Republican is virtually extinct. With Chris … Continue reading →
Third Party 2.0 – Will Fiscal Conservatives Dump The Tea and the GOP?
UPDATED – Fiscal Conservatives. They’re the lost tribe of American politics, wandering the political desert for the GOP’s 40 year descent into extremist Tea Party Libertarianism. A recent NBC News/Wall Street … Continue reading →
Is the Neocon-Tea Party War Running American Democracy Over the Political Cliff?
The future of this Democracy is no longer a Republican-Democrat thing. It rests in the results of a dogfight for the steering wheel of the GOP’s 1966 Thunderbird as it … Continue reading →
MISSING: The Heel-Dragging Republicans of Congress – Why President Obama Won’t Take Them Down
Why aren’t Democrats asking dairies to put John Boehner’s picture on milk cartons? Billboards with Mitch McConnell’s face “Have you seen me?” Somehow, Republican Teahadis and their intransigence have gone … Continue reading →
A State of the Union, Without Rebuttal
Democrats have a few whopping-bad ideas that we inject from time-to-time into the political system. One of them, the “response” to the State of the Union address, initiated under King … Continue reading →
Losing Oreo America: One Nation, Divisible
Mr. Obama’s plea on behalf of the American people for jobs and his presidency remains stuck in a political no-man’s land. This is not because the majority of the country opposes his … Continue reading →
America Held Hostage by the Tea Party – Rewriting the U.S. Constitution at Gunpoint
“Your Constitution or your life!” The Tea Party Teahadis are trying to radically rewrite the government in their image, using the drop dead date of the debt disaster as their … Continue reading →
Liberals Need to Trust Mr. Obama’s Handling of Debt and the GOP
James Bond at the baccarat table. James Garner bluffing his way through a crooked poker game in a dusty Western saloon. We love the idea of the hero knocking … Continue reading →
Cap, Cut and Balance – Tea Party “Common Sense” is Constitutional Nonsense
Now I know why they call it the Tea Party. It isn’t for their links to American history in Boston Harbor. It’s their lineage to the delusional Mad Hatter and … Continue reading →