The events in El Paso and Dayton over the weekend give new meaning to the phrase the enemy within. The country is under siege from what law enforcement officials are calling domestic terrorism inspired by white supremacist ideology. What to do? All roads lead to Mitch McConnell, the Senate...
They don’t call him the Grim Reaper for nothing.
Killing
legislation is what he does. But this time it’s different. The
legislation is bipartisan, and it’s about election security. It would
modernize voting machines and require back-up paper ballots, and Mitch
McConnell is...
After
decades singing the same song about wanting strict constructionist
judges who will follow the law and not make it, in the mold of Justice
Scalia and Justice Thomas, the GOP took a sharp right turn with a
memorable exchange this month when Senator Ted Cruz questioned...
Maine Sen. Susan Collins was once one of those rare politicians who received rave reviews across party lines. Democrats loved her because she is pro-choice and works across party lines. Republicans loved the independence that let the party hold a seat in New England. ...
Remember Newt Gingrich? The former bombastic speaker of the House who gained prominence by denigrating his political opponents as “radical,” “sick,” and “traitors,” rhetoric that was not commonplace at the time, and sent shock waves through the body politic. It was Gingrich who led...
The homemade peanut butter ice cream is great. The gnats are awful; they dive-bomb your eyes. Plains, Georgia hasn’t changed much since Jimmy Carter returned home after losing re-election 40 years ago. It’s still a pretty isolated place to my urban eyes. The only restaurant in town...
Medicare for All is a nice catchphrase, but for a party seeking to
unseat President Trump, it is a poison pill that the Democratic
candidates should not swallow whole. The popularizer of
the idea, Bernie Sanders, conceded under questioning on the debate stage
that the middle class would...
If a Democrat wins the White House in 2020, Joe Biden thinks Mitch McConnell will have an “epiphany” and work across party lines to solve the country’s problems. Other Democratic candidates have scoffed at that idea, as Biden’s insistence that the impasse in our...
