Tag Archives: US Politics

I think this is correct, and if it is the question arises, why a deal? The political answer is simple. Both bases require it. The Democratic "resistance" requires impeachment and the Trump base requires speedy acquittal. Everyone is satisfied and DJT wins, too. Hey, politics is all about winning. Moon of AlabamaThe Impeachment Deal Between The House And The Senate

This is an excellent backgrounder. But where did the American deep state come from? Has it always been there?In fact, the evolution of the deep state (and this choice of term, “evolution” as opposed to “creation”, will be explained later) is — some might say ironically — found in a nearly 140-year old anti-corruption “reform” measure; one that was explicitly focused upon depoliticizing the civilian component of the United States government.... The architects of the reform also failed to...

If you take away the Korean threat, if you recognize the Iranians aren’t a threat, if you see that Russia is a tiny little country that’s not going to invade Western Europe and crash through the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, and so forth— All of a sudden somebody is going to do the math as we get into the coming fiscal crisis and say, “We can’t afford all this defense that we don’t need. Let’s cut it back dramatically.” They don’t want this to happen. And so, they have to keep these hot...

Is American politics basically a food fight?Not just Tulsi either. And just to make sure she finds yet another scapegoat for her loss, Clinton also accused 2016 Green Party nominee, Jill Stein, who ran against her and Donald Trump in 2016, of also being an asset of Russia: "That’s assuming Jill Stein will give it up, which she might not because she’s also a Russian asset."... Zero HedgeTwitter War Breaks Out Between "Russian Asset" Tulsi Gabbard And "Warmongering Queen" Hillary Clinton...

Richard Rorty on how what passes for the "left" in American politics, the Democratic Party, was losing the plot.  Here is another quote from Rorty:  My sense of the holy is bound up with the hope that some day my remote descendants will live in a global civilization in which love is pretty much the only law. Richard Rortyquoted by Jürgen Habermas, in "Philosopher, poet and friend," Sound and Sight (12/06/2007) MindorenyoProphetic Words from the Clintonian '90sDetroit Dan

The politicians and media don't know what to make of a real person, a person with strong conviction, a combat veteran and a person of honor.  There aren't many of those around at the upper echelons of TPTB in America, where only money talks and the name of the game is power. "Sell, grandma?" "How much are you willing to pay?" Disclosure: As a Vietnam era vet — naval officer serving on a ship in the Western Pacific 1964-1967, I support her non-interventionist position. She is the only...

No single cause, but Putin has a large part of the answer. Obama had the chance to deal with this in the aftermath of the crisis, but instead he made the banks whole and hung "the little people" out to dry.Ruusia InsiderPutin: US Middle Class Voted Trump Because Globalization Is Killing Them A Political Junkie

The HillThe 10 counties that will decide the 2020 electionReid Wilson

New fourth round of tariffs on Chinese goods will hit US consumers and firms especially hard, just as the US enters an election season. Who blinks first?Asia TimesMoment of truth approaching for Trump’s trade warNile Bowie

Written from a conservative angle but raises important issues and questions of concern to all, especially politicians that have to respond to them in the coming election cycle. This presents dilemmas for both parties in the US presidential election campaign that is now underway.New geographyThe American Working Class Dilemma Joel Kotkin is the R.C. Hobbs Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University in Orange and executive director of the Houston-based Center for Opportunity...