Being a member of congress is a great gig, despite all the “sacrifice and exhausting public service.”   Why do some of these characters hang on for decades? I agree with Randy Bryce, Paul Ryan’s long shot iron worker opponent. They should trade places – an excellent idea.  Rand Paul is warning his colleagues that […]

  According to Fred Barnes in an opinion piece in WSJ 7/17/2017: “Politics is a team sport…. legislative success depends on operating as a team”. Wouldn’t a better measure of success be based on legislation that works for the country rather than winning as a team for political benefit? Granted, there are times when having […]

  The Commander-In-Chief has given “total authorization” to the military. This seems better than having a man-child making decisions to shoot or not, but does represent a fundamental dereliction of duty. There is a reason that tradition and the constitution assign the authority (and responsibility – that is the rub) to the President for control […]

The U.S. appears to be out of step. Our guy is a Mad Men era character with the grabbing, stream polluting, and sclerotic thinking about us against them. Canada seems so much more evolved and now probably France. Sure, if you are in the “us” camp you can look forward to tax breaks but pity the […]

  What is so vile and scary about a “path to citizenship”?   Amnesty, from Greek amnēstía, “forgetfulness of wrong” seems like a good concept. Who wants to hold on to resentment for someone who bravely escaped a hard and often dangerous life and crossed a border? Could it be simply a dislike and fear […]

  The motives are suspect, “beautiful babies” notwithstanding. Now he has a taste and with no semblance of strategy or thoughtful engagement can feel the power he has at his tiny fingertips. This was a win, win, win, win for him: major distraction, demonstration of toughness and new sheriff in town, favorability bump and awesome sense […]