A Northam Defeat Would Only Be Existential For Establishment Democrats
The vote for Governor in Virginia is not the existential threat that ever-worrying Democrats are fretting about. Ralph Northam’s defeat would...
Yearly Archive: 2017
Loads of Republican Committee Chairs In The House Are Retiring
Republicans control both houses of Congress and the White House. In a normal world, rather than the Trump world we live...
The AG Has Committed Perjury Multiple Times But Gets To Stay To Protect Mueller
People have remarked how Donald Trump pollutes and taints everything he touches. The most perfect example of that is how Democrats...
Trump Continues To Break Norms; We Will Never Get Them Back
Chuck Schumer was on Maddow last night and, in discussing Trump’s attempt to immediately politicize that attack in New York City,...
Why Does Everyone Think The GOP Must Pass This Tax Bill To Be Saved In 2018?
I know that the current Congressional Republican caucus is pretty much entirely in the pocket of plutocratic billionaires like the Kochs...
Gitmo – The Black Hole Of American "Justice"
It is all so predictable. This morning Donald Trump raised the possibility of sending accused NYC terrorist to Guantanamo Bay in...
The Triumph Of Capitalism, The Tyranny Of The Minority, And The End Of History
Way back in 1989, a little known political scientist and early neoconservative, Francis Fukuyama, wrote an essay entitled “The End Of...
Texans Tell Puerto Rico "Money For Me, But Not For Thee"
A few days ago the Washington Post had a classic article about how some of those Texans who had received government...
White (Collar) Justice
David Dayen has a great review of Jesse Eisneberg’s new book, “The Chickenshit Club”, which describes the nexus of the incestuous...
Georgia Officials Seem To Be Sabotaging Investigations Into Potential Voting Irregularities
As those of you who read me regularly would know, I have been raging against the quickening erosion of our democracy...