These folks have lost almost all credibility with me. ===== WSJ 3/25/2017 House Republicans pulled their healthcare bill shortly before a vote on Friday, and for once the media dirge is right about a GOP defeat. This is a major blow to the Trump Presidency, the GOP majority in Congress, and especially to the cause of reforming and limiting government. The damage is all... Read more
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The ObamaCare Republicans
March 29 | Posted by mrossol | ObamaCare, Party Politics, Republican(s), The RightSchumer’s Rosenstein Extortion
March 7 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Party PoliticsWSJ 3/7/2017 Well, that was predictable. Senate Democrats hounded Attorney General Jeff Sessions to recuse himself last week from any investigation into Russia and the Donald Trump presidential campaign, and no wonder. Now Democrats are threatening to hold up President Trump’s nominee to be deputy AG unless he promises to appoint the special prosecutor they want. On Tuesday the Senate Judiciary Committee... Read more
Robert Bork and the FISA Follies
March 7 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Party Politics, US ConstitutionWSJ 3/7/2017 Robert Bork saw it all coming. Not, of course, today’s clash of recriminations, between a sitting Republican president who’s accused his Democratic predecessor of having tapped his phones even as the other side accuses this same Republican’s campaign team of having colluded with Moscow to steal the November election. For all his wisdom, the late judge and onetime Supreme Court... Read more
The Real Democratic Party
February 9 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Education, Party Politics, The Left, Unions===== WSJ 2/8/2017 The Senate made history Tuesday when Mike Pence became the first Vice President to cast the deciding vote for a cabinet nominee. The nominee is now Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. The vote came after an allnight Senate debate in a futile effort by Democrats to turn the third Republican vote they needed to scuttle the nomination on claims that... Read more
Chuck Schumer vs. the ‘Resistance’
February 9 | Posted by mrossol | Democrat Party, Party PoliticsTalk about a tough job. ============== WSJ By William A. Galston 2/8/2017 Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has the toughest job in Washington, and nothing on the horizon is likely to make it any easier. By Election Day the tactics and tone of the Trump campaign had already rubbed Democrats’ nerves raw. The massive turnout for the Women’s March the day after the... Read more
The Non-Silence of Elizabeth Warren
February 9 | Posted by mrossol | Democrat Party, Party Politics, The LeftThe Democrat Party wants to live by separate rules. And yet they wonder why Donald Trump was elected. It was their “President Obama” who said, many times over: Elections have consequences. But God forbid a non-Democrat to think the same?! Is this really where they want to take this country? If the answer is yes, I hope they are ready. ====== WSJ Feb. 8,... Read more
