The American Civics Act requires that all Arizona students pass a basic civics test before graduating from high school. It was the first bill Governor Ducey signed, making Arizona the first state in the country to enact such a law. Twitter-troll-in-chief Donald Trump failed basic American Civics today. Shouldn’t there be an American Civics test … Read more
There are principled Republicans calling for the impeachment of Donald Trump. Unlike the Watergate era, none of these principled Republicans are currently serving in Congress. Prominent conservative attorneys released a public statement on Tuesday saying the framers of America’s Constitution would have held an impeachment trial in the Senate for President Donald Trump. Press Release: … Read more
On Monday, April 22, 2019 the Democratic Leadership led by Speaker Pelosi reaffirmed their intentions to continue Congressional Investigations building on the voluminous results of the Mueller Investigation and other potential misdeeds by this “President” and members of his administration. She would not commit to instantly commencing impeachment hearings. This due diligence on the … Read more
I want to borrow an idea from Roderick Kefferpütz at Medium last year. Trumping Trump: A Gulliver Strategy: “What seems to be effective in countering Trump is a “Gulliver strategy” — a convergence of many different smaller actors to contain him, as in Jonathan Swift’s novel Gulliver’s Travels.” This is effectively what the House congressional committees are … Read more
From the Nixon Tapes: John Dean: I think that there’s no doubt about the seriousness of the problem we’ve got. We have a cancer within-close to the presidency, that’s growing. It’s growing daily. It’s compounding. It grows geometrically now, because it compounds itself… Today the husband of the Wicked Witch of the White House, Kellyanne … Read more