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Delay is the enemy Let there be no mistake: Republicans are forcing the current debt ceiling crisis for political purposes. It is not about fiscal responsibility. If it were, the Republicans would not have cavalierly raised the debt ceiling three times during the Trump presidency, thereby pumping up the debt by about $7 trillion. The … Continue reading “Debt Ceiling Impasse: Biden Needs to Go on Offense”
An inexplicable delay: what really happened here? Who’s to blame for Donald Trump having a horde of classified documents including Top Secret and Top Secret compartmentalized (a narrower category than mere Top Secret) at Mar-a-Lago for 18 months? Well Donald Trump obviously. But he had plenty of help, starting with the people who elected him … Continue reading “Trump Stolen Document Drama: Even Split on Responsibility”
[Most of the content below is probably familiar to you, but I wanted to put it all together in one place to get a sense of how much of an impediment to democracy and human progress the United States Senate is—at least as it presently operates. Conceivably it could be reformed to conduce to the … Continue reading “Democracy’s Deathbed: the U.S. Senate”
What Mitch McConnell’s Total War Tells Us Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell had no qualms about squashing the Democrat Party’s attempt to filibuster the Gorsuch nomination to the Supreme Court, any more than he had qualms about refusing to allow Obama’s nominee Merrick Garland even to be heard in committee a year ago. The Garland episode was … Continue reading “Civility on the Chopping Block: Why Democrats Lose”