Tag Archives: US Politics

Giving the GOP establishment heartburn. Hey, they asked for it. RawStoryJoe Arpaio tells GOP he’s hot on the trail of Obama’s birth certificate and running for Congress Newsweek also Newsweek Joe Arpaio Revives Birtherism, Defends Record As Sheriff, Teases Return To Politics In Fresno Alexander Nazaryan See also FortuneRoy Moore Makes Ted Cruz Look Like a DemocratAllen Tullos is a professor of history at Emory University

Progressives will make political gains when they stop assuming voters respond to nuanced arguments and ideas.… Progressives lose at the ballot and across the culture because they consistently overestimate the intelligence and decency of the American people.  SalonDumb it down, Democrats — or prepare to lose again David Masciotra

Former White House strategist and current Breitbart News executive chairman Steve Bannon has teamed up with conservative donors Robert and Rebekah Mercer to promote insurgent candidates to challenge the GOP establishment and create an organizational apparatus to advance the populist and economic nationalist policies championed by those candidates.... Breitbart News The Long Game: Bannon Creates Political Coalition to Advance Populist Economic Nationalist Agenda and Smash the Establishment...

In Part 1 of this mini-series – When relations within government were sensible – the US-Fed Accord – Part 1 – I examined the pre-1951 agreement between the US Treasury department and the US Federal Reserve Bank, which saw the bank effectively fund the US Treasury. The nature of that relationship, which began when the central bank was formed in 1913, changed in 1935 when the legislators voluntarily chose to change the capacity of the currency issuer to buy unlimited amounts of US Treasury...

The “Wall Street Democrats” is the wing of the party created by the Clintons and nurtured further by Barack Obama. It takes money hand over fist from Wall Street for political campaigns, wags a warning finger at Wall Street from the public podium while stuffing its administrations with Wall Street execs, then its leadership reaps millions of dollars in personal speaking fees from the robber barons after leaving office. As of this morning, there’s no longer any debate that Obama is firmly...

Trump's success as the "Not-Hillary" candidate was based on an anti-establishment insurgency. Representatives of that insurgency, Flynn, Bannon and the MAGA voters, drove him through his first months in office. An intense media campaign was launched to counter them and the military took control of the White House. The anti-establishment insurgents were fired. Trump is now reduced to public figure head of a stratocracy - a military junta which nominally follows the rule of law.... The soft...

Hillary Clinton's attacks on Bernie Sanders in her new book "What Happened" show why she lost the election. Her comments illustrate how out of touch Clinton still is and point to why she didn't recognize widespread voter anger during her presidential campaign. Sanders and Trump still come off as authentic fighters who were able to capitalize on voters' anger. In addition, HRC to Bernie Sanders, HRC also blames Barack Obama, Joe Biden, James Comes and, of course, Vladimir Putin. And she...

Blame game. The Democrats have no chance of winning forthcoming elections on this path. Losers.Sputnik InternationalSanders’ ‘Character’ Attacks ‘Paved the Way’ for Trump, Clinton Says in New BookAlsoZero HedgeAngry Hillary Blames Everything From Bernie Sanders To "There's Something About Mary" For 2016 Loss Tyler Durden

Since Donald Trump became US president, his core economic agenda has been sidetracked repeatedly by so-called cultural issues. However, now the administration is stepping up its tax reform effort. Even so, other issues threaten to derail this agenda item too (like nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula!). Of course, it’s not even clear we’re talking about tax reform here. Much more likely, Trump has sold out and is now merely pushing for tax cuts for the wealthy. Nevertheless, the risk to the...

There's hope in the younger generations. The state of Vermont has now seen it all, as thirteen-year-old Ethan Sonneborn has thrown his beanie into the ring to run for governor of the state in the 2018 elections.The ambitious teen — too young to vote legally — told The Burlington Free Press that he can seriously run for governor in Vermont because there are no age restrictions in the state for that position.… If elected, the middle-schooler promised to get implement a "practical and...