Yesterday I wrote a post about impeachment in which I mentioned that they are about to hold public hearings. The post ended like this: If this report is correct, Republican counsel will be allowed to ask questions. Fancy that. Note … Continue reading →
Yesterday Trump gave a speech Wednesday in Louisiana in which he quoted tweets made by the current “whistleblower’s” lawyer back in 2017: “I don’t know if you saw, I’m coming off the plane and they hand me — look at … Continue reading →
Mollie Hemingway writes: …[T]he witnesses thus far cannot point to a single crime, much less a high crime, for which to impeach the president. Instead, the witnesses either broadly support the president’s handling of foreign policy or are livid with … Continue reading →
I’ve watched Dancing With the Stars for a season or two a few years ago, and haven’t viewed it in ages. But I’m well aware of the brouhaha around the fact that execrable dancer Sean Spicer, former press secretary of … Continue reading →
From commenter “Snow on Pine” a few weeks ago: It seems to me that Congress has gone so far off the rails that it no longer really represents the people–no more traditional “regular order” budgets, no major bi-partisan legislation of … Continue reading →
A lot of people have opined about this comment by former acting director of the CIA John McLaughlin: McLaughlin embraced the term when asked during an event with other former intelligence officials whether a CIA whistleblower complaint that sparked an … Continue reading →
A UK vote is scheduled for December 12 in an attempt to break the Brexit stalemate. PM Boris Johnson is gambling that he will win a majority and be able to execute Brexit as promised, without Parliament blocking him as … Continue reading →
It is allegedly (and almost certainly) Eric Ciaramella, and he’s not exactly what you’d call an objective observer: Former White House officials said Ciaramella worked on Ukrainian policy issues for Biden in 2015 and 2016, when the vice president was … Continue reading →
The Democrats pretended to do something today, but it was nothing or worse than nothing. Byron York calls the resolution they passed “The Adam Schiff Empowerment Act.” But Schiff was already informally empowered to do what the act still allows … Continue reading →
Will it happen or won’t it? Steny Hoyer, the House Majority whip, refused to commit to an actual vote on the matter, even though Mrs. Pelosi insists that it is, in fact, happening on Thursday. “We’re going to have to … Continue reading →
An interesting discussion ensued in the “Being a Socialist means you never have to explain” thread. In the post, I had pointed out that both Sanders and Warren were promoting single payer health care and refusing to tell us how … Continue reading →
Commenter “mhjhnsn” writes, in the thread about the Democrats’ reaction to the killing of Baghdadi: …[W]hat this really says to me is that there is NOTHING that Trump can do to mollify, even for only a day, those who hate … Continue reading →