Inauguration Day Entertainment
Apparently the Trump people are having trouble lining up acts willing to entertain their supporters at Inauguration Day events. Sure, as an embarrassment to Trump, this is a good thing. But it’s also...
View ArticleTrump's Universal Health Care
The Washington Post Interview The WaPo published yesterday an interview with Trump in which he drops the bombshell that his team is almost finished with their plan for an ACA replacement that will...
View ArticleThe Potemkin White House
Look, there's nothing about the disaster the Trump presidency is shaping up to be that we could not avert with a little bit of American ingenuity. Okay, Russian ingenuity, which is only appropriate,...
View ArticleThe Republican Power Agenda: Voter Suppression
The other side’s public policy agenda, items like ending the ACA, is one thing. It rightly attracts considerable attention on these pages. Public policy is, after all, is the only reason that people...
View Article25th Amendment Time
The Problem What we have in this latest 4AM outburst is not just another episode concerning for a disabling medical or psychiatric disorder. This time the delusional content leads inexorably to very...
View ArticleWhy the rush?
The only way the Unaffordable Care Act passes is in a crisis. But it's chances if their party is in crisis mode are pretty good because none of them actually care about public policy. The...
View ArticleTurning NATO into an American Empire
Trump’s latest 4AM rage tweet concerns the "vast sums of money" that Germany supposedly owes us for participating in NATO. What could possibly be the point of this latest outburst? Does Trump...
View ArticleThe only pertinent questions for Gorsuch
The only pertinent questions“Is your name Merrick Garland?”.If we’re talking about questioning Gorsuch over his views or qualifications, or even probing for scandalous stuff, we’ve already conceded...
View ArticleWould Trump Lose a Shutdown Fight?
Yesterday, here at dKos, Joan McCarter wrote about Mick Mulvaney's wall-for-subsidies hostage threat. Josh Marshall over at TPM, also wrote an item about the same threat. If you want an entertaining...
View ArticleThe Trump threat to shut down the government is real
Why wouldn’t Trump carry out his threat to shut down at least the part of the govt funded by the bill (or CR) that does the ACA subsidies?You can’t imagine that he will hold back because he cares about...
View ArticleThe Right to Medical Care
You may have heard that Raul Labrador, member of Congress from Idaho, recently told a town hall that "Nobody dies because they don't have access to health care."What these items tend to overlook, is...
View ArticleWhy is Mulvaney Still Talking about Shutdown and the AHCA?
·Trump budget director Mick Mulvaney went on Face the Nation yesterday and repeated statements that he and Trump made earlier about the need for a "good" shutdown in order to get the AHCA passed. They...
View ArticleMaybe Firing Comey Wasn't Just a Defensive Move
It’s obvious that firing Comey was a way for Trump to protect himself against the investigation into his ties with Russia. But that negative, defensive reason for getting rid of Comey doesn’t exclude...
View ArticleThe Impeachment Trap
No, my point is not that our side dare not pursue impeachment vigorously for fear of appearing too extreme. I actually think that there is far less downside with the public now than there was at the...
View ArticleChallenging Trump's Mental Competence
Reasonable people are agreed that, for the good of the nation, Trump should be removed from, office as soon as possible. It might actually be to our side’s political advantage to leave him in place to...
View ArticleTrump knew about the meeting even before it happened
The initial exchange of e-mails arranging the 6/9/16 meeting was on 6/3/16. Trump’s tweet of 6/7/16 promised that he would give a major speech on 6/13/16 about newly hacked Clinton e-mails. The...
View ArticleEnd Presidential Pardons
The whole idea of pardons is to leave some leeway in the system to correct the occasional injustice that will arise from the rigid application of the law. When laws systematically produce unjust...
View ArticleBringing Order to the White House
The word is that Trump chose General Kelly to replace Priebus as White House Chief of Staff because he wants someone who can bring order to the WH.Well, Trump has got the right man for that job. The...
View ArticleWhy Congress isn’t taking action to remove Trump
I don’t think the usual reason, he’ll sign whatever tax cuts and appoint whatever judges they want, is a reasonable explanation. Pence would do that for them as well as Trump, but without the Trump...
View ArticleHow the Trump Presidency Ends
Based on my careful study of recent patterns of bird flight, and the patterns cow livers make as they sizzle on the barbie, I have arrived at these prognostications: 1) Congress won't act to oust...
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