When you get your butt kicked all sorts of lessons from history come to mind. But when that butt-kicking is self-inflicted the analogies narrow The lessons most learned from the Republicans’ self-immolation in the failure of their Obamacare repeal (sic)…
Category: Republican Party Establishment
St Crispin’s Day 2020, Donald Trump’s Locker Room Talk
February 6 may not be St Crispin’s Day, but it will be “remember-ed” along those lines because of what Donald Trump said on that day. And who he said it to, probably less than a hundred, mostly members of his…
A Few Words About Mitt Romney to Young MAGA-Trumpsters
Mitt is what he is, and his Friday night vote for calling witnesses is “what he is”. I have disliked Mitt Romney for over seven years because he lied to us in 2012. I don’t have to gain a special new…
Shameless Cravens and a Plea for History
This is only an opinion. There is not enough hard evidence available for me to say without equivocation that Lindsey Graham is a craven, much less a shameless one. But there is enough circumstantial evidence to cause one to pause and…
Cut Bureaucracy Down to Size Now
(Originally published in 2013,, as “Sequestration Pain Management” at the beginning of Obama’s second term, this is repeated with no changes.) Since LBJ’s Great Society we have spent $15 TRILLION dollars on the war on poverty. Put another way, the American…