President Trump’s efforts to calm investors while he launches a full-scale trade war with China showed signs of cracking this morning, as one of his top advisers admitted the approach could damage the U.S. economy, a Goldman Sachs report predicted it might lead to higher interest rates, and China vowed to impose tariffs on $60 billion in U.S. goods on … Read More
The Hillary Clinton Paradigm
Courtesy of the Rolling Stone, this is how it works: You start with the assumption that Hillary Clinton is corrupt. After all, there have been whispers and accusations and investigations and allegations and scandals with ominous names like WHITEWATER and BENGHAZI for years. Even if you can’t describe exactly what she’s done wrong, there must be something to all these … Read More
Dear Glenn Greenwald
Dear Glenn Greenwald: I read your article in The Intercept which basically asserts hypocrisy on the part of Democrats/Obama when it comes to Putin. You are correct in pointing out that Obama himself suggested a “reset” with Russia, that Obama did not want to go to war with Russia over that country’s invasion of the Crimea, and that Obama suggested … Read More
Benghaziiiiiiiiiiii! Report!!
The New York Times headline says it all: But you wouldn’t know that reading the right wing blogs. Sure the report condemns many things, but not Hillary Clinton. Of course, wingnuts will try to blur the lines. Here’s what the New York Times says: Ending one of the longest, costliest and most bitterly partisan congressional investigations in history, the House … Read More
Trump Implies Obama Is A Terrorist
In an interview with Fox News, Trump strongly implied that President Obama either condones or was actually connected to the Orlando shootings. This is the Washington Post article that enraged Trump so much he revoked their press credentials. Donald Trump seemed to repeatedly accuse President Obama on Monday of identifying with radicalized Muslims who have carried out terrorist attacks in the … Read More
Short Takes
(1) Trump likes to say that he is bringing enthusiasm to the GOP and people are voting in the Republican race in massive numbers, which means that Democrats should be worried about the general election. Is he right? He is not. As many have pointed out, voter turnout is an indication of the competitiveness of a primary contest, not of what will … Read More
Garland
Is it hard to do cartwheels over President Obama’s choice of Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland today. Professor Epstein seems to think he’s a good liberal… … but you always have to question the methodology of these things. Merrick Garland is 63 years old and currently serves as chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of … Read More
Obama’s Three Supreme Court Nominees
They are not as progressive as some might hope. This is a feature, not a bug, of Obama’s choices. He wants to nominate a Supreme Court justice that can’t be dinged for being a radical communist. So who are these guys (and yeah, they’re guys…)? Srinivasan, 49, was born in India and emigrated as a young child with his family … Read More
The Scalia Gambit
Without question, the death of Associate Justice Antonin Scalia has set all sides of the political spectrum into a frenzy. Everybody is weighing, but the stupidest comments are coming from Republicans who say that Obama shouldn’t nominate a justice at all because there is an election coming up. Rand Paul, who supposedly loves the Constitution, says that Obama has a … Read More
Activist Supreme Court Rules On Climate Change
Crazy: In a major setback for President Obama’s climate change agenda, the Supreme Court on Tuesday temporarily blocked the administration’s effort to combat global warming by regulating emissions from coal-fired power plants. The brief order was not the last word on the case, which is most likely to return to the Supreme Court after an appeals court considers an expedited … Read More
One Last Time (Teach Them How To Say Goodbye)
Last night saw President Obama’s last State of the Union address, the first of many lasts to come this year. In many ways, it was a typical SOTU address with a laundry list of things he wants to accomplish, but never will, because Republicans. On the other hand, he spoke about the broken politics of Washington, and how it is … Read More
Worse Than Watergate
The Benghazi investigation has been the longest in special congressional investigative history: The House committee investigating the Benghazi attacks is now the longest congressional investigation in history, committee Democrats announced today. As of Monday, the House Select Committee on Benghazi, has been active for 72 weeks — surpassing the record previously held by the Watergate Committee in the 1970’s. Of course, … Read More
What If They Overthrew Texas And Nobody Came?
Hey! Remember Jade Helm 15? The U.S. Military operation this past summer that was supposed to overthrow the state of Texas and was somehow supposed to keep Obama in office for a third term that 1/3 of all Republicans and 1/2 of all Tea Party members believed to be an actual thing? Yeah… good times.
GOP 2016 Race Shorts
(1) IRAQ WITHDRAWAL Let’s get one thing clear, because I don’t think this is the first time it is going to come up. Regardless of whether you think it was good or bad, the withdrawal of troops from Iraq was Bush’s idea, not Obama’s. I say this because Jeb was on the campaign trail yesterday spewing nonsense: The former Florida governor … Read More
This Says It All
Obama Derangement Syndrome: Atlanta resident Ted Souris, 62, describes himself as an “arch-conservative” who initially opposed the health law. He said he had mixed feelings about the ruling. He receives what he calls “a pretty hefty subsidy” to buy insurance — he gets $460 and pays $115 a month for insurance. “I’m so against Obama, and I hate that he … Read More