By now I think I have made myself abundantly clear that I think Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) is a naive fool who is putting the very survival of our American democracy at risk by appeasing a radicalized anti-democratic insurrectionist GQP with his version of Neville Chamberlain’s “peace in our time,” insisting that he can negotiate … Read more
The Arizona Republic fka The Arizona Republican – and don’t kid yourself, it is still a media mouthpiece for the Republican Party – only loves so-called “moderate” Democrats who roll over for Republicans and echo their talking points. If you are a Democrat not seen as any kind of serious threat to the decades long … Read more
Update to A Creative Solution To Democratize The Senate Filibuster Rule. I posted about a creative solution to the anti-democratic Jim Crow relic Senate filibuster rule that even Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema would be hard pressed to argue against. Don’t eliminate the filibuster. Democratize it. They proved me wrong this past week. I suppose … Read more
The Senate’s 50 Democrats represent 41 million more Americans than do its 50 Republicans. Yet Mitch McConnell and his tyranny of the minority took the Senate hostage and refused to agree to an organizing resolution unless Democrats acceded to McConnell’s demand that he be allowed to exercise the “McConnell Veto,” by way of the Senate … Read more
Despite a joint session of Congress having been attacked by a violent mob of MAGA red cap insurrectionists incited by Donald Trump last Wednesday in a seditious coup attempt to overthrow American democracy and install him as America’s first tinpot dictator, five people dead including a Capitol Police officer, and their own lives having been … Read more