The Blatant Lack of Character Barrett Just Showed Should Be Enough to...
Kamala Harris showed her shrewd prosecutorial skills in setting up her question to Judge Barrett on climate change. After Senator Harris got Judge Barrett to affirm that 1) yes, the coronavirus is...
View ArticleHas the Biden Camp Decided that "Court-Packing" is a Political Plus?
Over the weekend, an article by Daily Kos staffer Walter Einenkel — www.dailykos.com/… — reported that Democratic Delaware Senator declared that he was open to adding seat to the Supreme...
View ArticleRemember SAT Analogies? AmyConeyBarrett:RuthBaderGinsburg ::...
Lessons: What matters really is “the content of their character.”Dealing in categories can be dangerous.“You can’t tell a book by its cover.”
View ArticleThe Spirit I See Rising Among the American People Makes Me Optimistic
In America today there are signs of something that’s been gathering strength among the people of the United States – it’s a spirit that motivates Americans to want to get Donald Trump out of the...
View ArticleBiden Must Prepare Now for the First Crisis of His Presidency (Coming...
These ideas (and the additional ideas of the subsequent piece --see below) have been forwarded — by a well-positioned and outstanding member of Congress — to the Biden circle with the thought that they...
View ArticleTelling It Like It Is to a Radio Audience in Red Rural Virginia (What This...
I do a weekly radio show to discuss politics on the most powerful AM station in Harrisonburg, Virginia, which is a university town in the middle of rural Virginia Trump country. (I’ve been on that...
View ArticleCalculating Biden's Chances of Winning (They're Better than You Might Think)
OK. My mathematical skills a really rusty. (And besides, I’m old.) And it’s no fun seeing how much more I have to struggle to set up a problem than I did back in the early 60s (when I wasn’t in my...
View ArticleThe Rs' Disgraceful Conduct Must Be Punished-- and the Time for That Is Soon...
Let me start with two points: First, that I am not criticizing what the Biden side has done up to this point. It is probably right to let the Republicans expose themselves fully before bringing in the...
View ArticleA Funny (and Very Brief) Story About Party Loyalty
Yesterday, in our part of rural Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley, my wife and I stopped at the local orchard/store where we’ve been buying wonderful apples in season for years. The owner of the place,...
View ArticleWhy the High Turnout? It's the "It's All About Me" President
This piece will be appearing as a newspaper op/ed this weekend — under the title “The Meaning of the Massive Turnout in the 2020 Election” — in my very red congressional district...
View ArticleAnd God Said, "Uh Oh. It Looks Like I'll Have to Send America a Pandemic"
This isn’t intended as a serious thought about God. I don’t claim to know anything about God, though it’s a matter I’ve given a lot of thought to, especially lately.(And a propos of the fantasy...
View ArticleAre We Going to Start Repairing Things? (A Picture of this Pivotal Moment of...
This piece will be running as my weekly op/ed in the main newspaper in the part of Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley where I live, including my own county which Trump carried by better than two-to-one. My...
View ArticleThe Pathetic Man Trump Is Showing Himself to Be
How could the hollowness of this guy’s “strength” be shown any more starkly? Trump isn’t strong enough to cope with the reality that he lost his bid for re-election. Every loser in our presidential...
View ArticleBiden’s Dilemma: How to Deal with the Trumpian Crime Wave
Will Biden Repeat Obama’s Mistake?I’ve been very impressed with how Joe Biden is conducting himself so far. (See “Are We Going to Start Repairing Things?”) (And I expect no one wished more fervently...
View ArticleLet's Have More Forceful Condemnation from the Democratic Defenders of Democracy
We need something stronger now from the Democratic/Biden side of this battle against a Trumpian coup d’etat.What Trump and his enablers are doing about the election they lost is really unconscionable,...
View ArticleLet's Get All the Republican Face Cards of Old onto the Stage to Call out the...
Good old Mitt Romney. He’s got something unusual for a Republican in these times: enough of a moral core to have been the only Republican in the Senate to vote for Trump’s removal, and now to be the...
View ArticleBiden's Future Strength Requires Fighting Now to Minimize How Many Think His...
A current Monmouth poll reports:While 60% of Americans believe Biden won the election fair and square, 32% say he only won it due to voter fraud. Three-quarters (77%) of Trump backers say Biden’s win...
View ArticleThe Republicans’ Dangerous Delegitimization of Democratic Presidents
I posted here an earlier version of some of these ideas that I composed with the Daily Kos audience in mind. This version is written not just with the Biden world in mind, but also talking to the...
View ArticleBiden Shows He Recognizes Which is the Path to Political Benefit: Biden At...
It is reported that the Biden team is pushing the Congressional Democrats to strike a deal with the Republicans on an aid package, even if it is far from the package the Democrats want. The idea would...
View ArticleIf Trump's Level of Lawlessness Were to be Given a Pass.. The Cost of Not...
The issue of whether or not to deal with the crimes that have been committed by Trump and his gang is admittedly a very difficult one. But let me just lay out one important reason that not prosecuting...
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