Trump Just Got from AG Barr the Kind of Corrupt Move He Wanted from Zelensky
Donald Trump has a special relationship with the law. The law is important to him. Not that he has the least respect for law, nor the least concern for its role in achieving a just order in society....
View ArticleWhy I Think Pelosi Would Be Mistaken To Confine the Impeachment to Ukraine-gate
News has it that Speaker Pelosi wants the impeachment inquiry to focus somewhat exclusively on the Ukraine scandal.Although apparently the door has not yet closed on the possibility of other Trump...
View ArticleBolton Aide's Going to Court Does the Dem Impeachers a Favor
A former aide to John Bolton — Charles Kupperman — was supposed to testify before the impeachment inquiry today. But when he received his subpoena, he filed a lawsuit before a federal judge asking if...
View ArticleShould Elizabeth Warren Back Away from Her Medicare-for-All Position? Will She?
Elizabeth Warren has been my favorite for the nomination since near the beginning of the campaign. As time went on – and she came out quickly for impeachment, performed excellently in the early...
View ArticleHow To Bring the Mueller Report to Life for Inclusion in the Articles of...
Ukraine-gate is Not EnoughIn an earlier posting (www.dailykos.com/…), I made a case for why the Articles of Impeachment should go beyond a sole focus on Ukraine-gate. (In summary, the argument is that...
View ArticleDems Should Be Pounding the Rs for Their Indefensible Pursuit of the...
Let’s start with three general propositions: The political darkness afflicting America may be focused right now on Donald Trump, but he is also an expression of what’s gone wrong in the Republican...
View ArticleI Hope Those Great Witnesses Are Preparing to Give Great Performances
It has been stirring to hear the sworn-to-secrecy Democratic congress-people talking about the sterling, patriotic, morally upright nature of some of the witnesses who have been testifying behind...
View ArticleOur Times in America Reveal the Nature of Evil
This piece is appearing as a newspaper op/ed in my very red congressional district (VA-06).******************************Evil: A coherent force that spreads a pattern of brokenness.Liberal America...
View ArticleNC, WI, MI, and Now KY: Clearly, Today's GOP Respects Only Those Elections...
I suppose I should lay out the history, starting with how the Republicans of North Carolina started stripping powers from the governorship once a Democrat was elected to the office, moving on to...
View ArticleAll Americans’ Patriotic Duty: Be Good Jurors (Op/Ed in My Very Red VA-06)
Tomorrow morning, this will be appearing in newspapers in my very red congressional district, VA-06.**************************Our nation has entered a legal process of great import. In the balance are...
View Article"I'd Like to Remind My Republican Colleagues.."Make Sure the People See the...
For the Dems to say to the Rs:“Let me remind my Republican colleagues that the oath we all took was to defend and protect the Constitution of the United States. None of us has sworn to defend a...
View ArticleHearings Show "Patriotism" Is the Noose that Can Hang Trump
The Hearings Reveal the Means to Pry Away Trump’s Support: It’s about Patriotism vs. the Betrayal of the NationUkraine is on the front-line of a battle central to American national security—the battle...
View ArticleHow Ukraine-gate Violates the Heart of Patriotism
In the previous piece — “Hearings Show ‘Patriotism’ Is the Noose that Can Hang Trump” — I proposed that the picture that the hearings are showing is – and can usefully be presented as – a matter of...
View ArticleBarr Believes in a "Theory" of Executive Power? I Don't Believe It for a Second
For months, I’ve been hearing commentators — people of intelligence, most of whose utterances I take seriously — talk about AG William Barr’s positions as reflecting his belief in a particular kind of...
View ArticleThe Problem Isn't That Trump Doesn't UNDERSTAND, It's that He Doesn't Give a...
There certainly are a lot of jobs to be done, these days in America, as we struggle to salvage our profoundly afflicted political realm. One of those jobs is to make some changes in the ways we see,...
View ArticleHow the Netanyahu Indictment Might Impact the Trump Crisis
The parallelism between the situations of the heads of state of the United States and Israel has been widely noted. The wrong-doing of President Trump is presently being exposed through an impeachment...
View ArticleImpeachment: It's About Patriotism
A week ago, I published here two pieces proposing the way the Democrats should pitch the wrong-doing of President Donald Trump to the American people to maximize the proportion of the American public...
View ArticleA Test for the American People
This piece will be appearing in newspapers in my very red congressional district.***********************The dynamics at work in our world are beyond anyone’s capacity to fathom. We can’t be certain,...
View ArticleAddressing the Rebellion in Virginia Over Anticipated Gun Laws
This will be appearing in a couple of newspapers in my red congressional district (VA-06), under the heading, Guns and the Defense of the Constitution Here in Virginia. (In one case, the NOTE will be...
View ArticleRemember, It’s Not Just Trump but Also this Disgraceful Trump Party that Must...
Remember, It’s Not Just Trump but Also the Trump Party that Must Be DefeatedIt’s not just because the Republican Party is what gave us Donald Trump.It’s not just because the Republican Party has long...
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