Showing posts with label political tactics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label political tactics. Show all posts
Friday, October 6, 2023

McCarthy is voted out of the speaker position

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Of course there is going to be lots of drama in Congress when there is just barely a majority. Add in grandstanding fantasy-based reps, and ...
Wednesday, November 3, 2021

The end of Liz Cheney, a morality tale.

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 (Originally May 7) Liz Cheney is soon to be removed from her leadership position in the GOP hierarch in the House. Her unforgivable error w...
Thursday, April 30, 2020

Don't let a pandemic stop the partisanship

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Very few people are letting go of partisanship. Some examples: GOP senators want to increase the quarter-trillion dollar small business loan...
Wednesday, April 29, 2020

GRAND REOPENING - COMING SOON - RIGHT HERE!!!!

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Well, after all those quickly executed shutdowns and lockdowns, it was inevitable that we would need to have reopenings, but hopefully they ...
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Sunday, April 19, 2020

Trump craves attention but avoids real leadership

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As I've written before, Trump loves to have media and public attention on himself, but he doesn't generally know how to lead. So he...
Thursday, November 7, 2019

The Republicans Strike Back... they hope.

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Republicans are fighting against the Ukraine scandal and subsequent impeachment inquiry with all they have. They continue to push the theor...
Monday, September 9, 2019

Weather-gate and Trump's stubbornness

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Trump lies again and again. This isn't a surprise by now, but it's getting dumber. Trump made a mistake by saying Alabama was in ran...
Sunday, April 21, 2019

The first question to ask on a story about Trump

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I figured something out about Trump. He loves to capture the newscycle. Because of this, he frequently says incredible things just to grab h...
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Saturday, February 16, 2019

The symbolism of the wall

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Trump promised his loud rallies a wall on the border with Mexico, and that Mexico would pay for it. His fans ate it up, though it's hard...
Thursday, February 14, 2019

A test for Congress

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I've been neglecting my blog, and I'm sorry. One reason is that the political situation isn't changing much. The players are sta...
Sunday, November 4, 2018

October links: too many

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GOPers learn to negotiate. The GOPers in Congress learned and managed to fund the government . No shutdown. Trump was out of the loop. Lyi...
Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Trump administration in disarray - Not news

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Trump got a double-whammy last week. A new book by Bob Woodward was leaked. It detailed many cases when Trump's advisers got fed up wit...
Thursday, January 18, 2018

Reverse auction in Congress

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This is an explanation I developed in my comments on political threads, but I'm finally writing it here. On many issues, the GOP leaders...
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Sunday, August 6, 2017

Quick summary: Repeal FAIL

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This is an important issue, but I don't have a bunch of time to spend on it. The Senate failed to repeal and replace Obamacare. McConne...
Friday, July 28, 2017

Short: The cynicism of the GOP

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This issue is too important not to have its own post. The Washington Post pointedly tells how very cynical the GOP is in its push to do som...
Sunday, July 2, 2017

Fraud about voter fraud

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From this article , I learned that I need to watch out for the GOP commission that is investigating voter fraud. Why? Because the head of th...
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Wednesday, June 8, 2016

Predicting Trump's victory a year ago

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OK, the headline is a bit of an exaggeration. The historian/researcher, Norm Ornstein, didn't predict Trump would be the nominee, but wa...
Wednesday, March 23, 2016

The unknown territory of a contested convention

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Supposedly the last contested convention was the 1976 GOP convention. I don't remember it, That means I have no compass for guessing wha...
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Sunday, March 13, 2016

Short:Characteristics of Trump supporters

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There are questions flying around about whether the US is on the edge of its own Nazi era, with Trump playing the part of Hitler. I see the ...
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Sunday, December 13, 2015

Questioning whether Ted Cruz is an extremist

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I've seen Ted Cruz labeled an extremist so many times , and that's generally my own impression, but I forgot to actually ask the que...
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