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Impeach him!

Wednesday, September 6, 2023

From what I’ve been reading, I understand that poor Kevin McCarthy is in a quandry. You might say he’s stuck between a rock and a hard place. He knows that holding the economy hostage at the behest of the crazies in his caucus is a losing proposition for the Republican Party. He also knows that […]

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Book review

Monday, August 28, 2023

A few weeks ago one of my few (only?) remaining readers sent me an email after reading this post, in which I pointed out that yet another example of Never-Trumpers ignoring history, and pretending that the decline of the Republican Party began only when Trump descended that escalator. He suggested I read Profiles in Ignorance, […]

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New Front runner (if you disregard Trump)

Friday, August 25, 2023

Vivek Ramaswamy He’s the guy who will get the Republican nomination if Trump doesn’t. Like just about everyone else in America I never heard of the guy until recently, and up until today I simply classified him as a Republican rich guy with a big ego, but after Wednesday’s debate, and reading this article at […]

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Every allegation is a confession, part 1000

Monday, July 17, 2023

There’s probably not a single liberal type blogger who hasn’t commented about the fact that every time a Republican accuses a Democrat, or Democrats, of something heinous, it is a sure bet that it is something Republicans are already doing or planning to do. I suppose it’s possible that someone in the mainstream media, possibly […]

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Are the Republicans flailing?

Wednesday, July 12, 2023

I’ve been reading a lot about the efforts Republicans are making to smear Joe Biden. You know, with “credible” whistleblowers that just got indicted for spying for China, etc. My overall impression is that they’re not getting much traction, even with a media that is usually anxious to prove it’s impartiality by hyperventilating over stories […]

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Too stupid to be president? Not if you’re a Republican.

Thursday, June 8, 2023

It seems like every Republican that has announced his or her candidacy for the presidency immediately finds a way to say something that proves beyond doubt that he or she is far too stupid to be president, or, is pretending to be far too stupid to be president, because you can’t get the Republican nomination […]

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Republicans in disarray

Sunday, June 4, 2023

The Democrats in Disarray! trope has been a favorite of the mainstream media for some time now. There are a lot of reasons they have pounded on it, often manufacturing the disarray in order, for instance, to prove their evenhandedness for, after all, both sides!. It will be interesting to see if we’ll be hearing […]

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Why are the Republicans in Texas impeaching Paxton just because he’s a criminal?

Monday, May 29, 2023

I have been mulling over the Ken Paxton situation in Texas, ever since I read this article. He has been impeached, the argument being that he has committed various crimes, which is undoubtedly true. However, we are long past the time when Republicans care about criminal behavior by their fellow Republicans. The standard response is […]

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Fellow alum makes good

Tuesday, April 11, 2023

I am quite proud of the fact that Justin Pearson, one of the two legislators thrown out of the Tennessee legislature, apparently for the crime of being black, is a fellow alum of Bowdoin College, as is Deray McKesson, a well known Black Lives Matter activist. Speaking of Black Lives Matter, I seem to recall […]

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Something that might happen in an alternate universe

Tuesday, March 7, 2023

It occurred to me that there might be an opening in the GOP primaries for a candidate whose message is “I am sane” or words to that effect. I do think there remains within the Republican Party a significant segment of people who are not insane, but have simply failed to accept the fact that […]

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