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For 150 years, the Grand Old Party (GOP, aka Republican Party) was the proud standard bearer of Lincoln’s legacy. Yet, in just four years, Donald Trump transformed the Republican party into a cult led by a mafia don. This transformation must have Lincoln rolling over in his grave. The party now thrives solely on loyalty to Trump –… Read more.
As the country hurls closer to a government shutdown, a handful of hard-right Republican lawmakers who have been impeding nearly all progress toward funding the government, appear undeterred, even as a shutdown risks disrupting the lives of millions of Americans. … The most vocal of this handful is Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., who has threatened… Read more.
Is like Klansmen calling on blacks to embrace diversity. No doubt you’ve heard President Trump leading Republicans in calling on Democrats to compromise to end this government shutdown. They would have you believe they’re compromising by insisting on $5.7 billion in funding for a wall as part of broader border security. For Democrats, though, this… Read more.
Which perfectly symbolizes the dangers, diatribes, disaffection, discrimination, disillusionment, dissembling, dithering, and dysfunction that have characterized his first year as president of the United States. In the final moments leading up to Friday’s midnight deadline, Senate Republicans and Democrats were unable to agree on a stopgap funding measure to continue government services. … Whoever works… Read more.
I fully appreciate why so many Americans winced at Russian President Vladimir Putin presuming to lecture the United States about the shortcomings of its democratic practices (in what had to have been a deliberately dated op-ed in the New York Times on 9/11). After all, with the notorious blunders of Iraq and Afghanistan still so raw in public consciousness,… Read more.
