Congress

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step   Chinese proverb Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time   Steven Wright The old saying goes, “Ah, it seems like only yesterday,” but in this case it really freakin’ almost was! It was only a couple of days ago that I penned an article […]

Since the first time that Donald J Trump, Pestquire blustered and clanked his way down that schlock gilt escalator in Trump Tower, to the adoring applause of paid shills, it’s been like the guy in that hotel chain commercial with the deep voice, “How low can you go?” The reference of course being to the […]

Trump was so colossally off the walls in Iowa Tuesday, that even Fox Business had to do damage control with a fast cut away before Trump made an even bigger a$$ of himself. He started out doubling down on his insistence he knows more about tariffs than everybody else, then he incredibly claimed that California […]

You know, when you observe something for a long time, whether professionally, or out of perverse personal pleasure, after a while you start to get a kind of a deel for the object of your attention, a normal flow that tends to occur. In presidential political campaigns, there is normally an almost formal dance, a kind […]

Beware! Here there be tygers   Stephen King One of the big problems with trying to pin Trump directly down with anything is that Don Cheeto Cornholeone is an old fashioned Mafioso. It’s not just the fact that Trump refuses to have an e-mail account, because even he is smart enough to know that “delete” doesn’t really mean […]

(Above: My Improvement to their masthead.) A trump hatin’ female American/French hotelier and chef I follow introduced The Bulwark into my Twitter feed with her likes… and I admit I’m enjoying it. Nice to see some Republican on Republican aggression for a change. This article I found particularly amusing… “Only the Best Deals: How Trump Got […]

There have been all kinds of surprises so far in the Democratic primaries for President. One of them is that in the age of youthful activism, two old white dudes still top the field. Another surprise, at least to me, is the difficulty that well qualified candidates like Klobuchar, Harris, and Booker have had in […]

You were real funny out in the game zone. It’s not so funny NOW, is it bitch?   Dynamo   The Running Man There’s one overarching image if Bill Barr that I just can’t seem to get out of my mind. And that image is of him standing behind a podium at some conservative function, looking like […]

Chuck Schumer has come under fire in recent years for not being progressive enough. There may be merit to that argument. However, there is greater merit to the argument that he’s an old war horse who has been around for quite some time, and before we set him out to pasture, or talk about doing […]

Shit just got real Indeed it did. The absurdity of watching 19 Democratic candidate all descend at once on Iowa like a bunch of ancient high priests around a fatted calf shows that the primaries are now here in earnest. We are less than 3 weeks away form the first debate, and the Des Moines Register […]