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There’s no denying that Russian President Vladimir Putin interfered in the 2016 presidential campaign to help Donald Trump. Only that explains why Trump keeps acting like Putin’s useful idiot. And yes, Trump is really that stupid and transparent. Trump is Putin’s useful idiot Of course, Putin keeps playing the coy mastermind who pulled off that electoral feat. He started mere days… Read more.
Mitt Romney is a former Republican presidential nominee. As such he commands considerable respect in political and media circles. This is why many “Never Trumpers” are looking to him to take up the mantle of the late Republican Senator John McCain, namely as President Trump’s most credible and indignant critic in Congress. Arguably, Romney has… Read more.
Here in part is how The Economist explained this tribalism and dysfunction in a recent issue (on May 24) under the heading “The primeval tribalism of American Politics.” No longer able to fathom how their partisan rivals can hear, and also see, think and say the things they do, Americans are increasingly liable to consider… 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.
The U.S. economy grew at a sizzling 5 percent annual rate in the July-September period, the fastest in more than a decade, boosted by strength in consumer spending and business investment… It was the fastest quarterly growth since the summer of 2003. It followed a 4.6 percent annual growth rate in the April-June quarter… The… Read more.
I’ve coined the term “irrational intelligence” to define that which informs people to do and say plainly ignorant things … with the conviction of a genius (or a saint). Think, for example, of people who say that President Obama is an incompetent leader whose socialist policies have ruined the economy. (Incidentally, polls indicated that the… Read more.
Republicans are not going to like the New Yorker’s latest cover. The illustration nods to Obamacare’s recent victory, and shows President Obama feeding medicine to a little boy… Artist Barry Blitt told the magazine ‘I enjoyed drawing Ted Cruz, John Boehner, and Michele Bachmann as petulant children — and I especially wanted to draw an… Read more.
