Category: Web Briefing
Impeachment Ends the Need to Pass Legislation, Gives Trump the Edge
The House impeachment effort, followed by a Senate trial that will last as long as President Clinton’s, has taken the pressure off President Trump’s need to produce any legislative achievements. To expect any legislation...
Grim News for Middle Ground in the Endless Health Care Wars — Political Death for Harris and Warren Who Squished-Out on Sanders’ Medicare for All
The Morning Consult is reputable and considered by the media to have reliable polling. This is why their conclusion from polling that: “the Massachusetts senator’s proposal to create a public option as a transition...
Medicare For All is a Progressive Campaign Killer Column: Harris and Warren fell for the fool’s gold of socialized medicine
“The proposal is liberals’ fool’s gold. It appears valuable but is actually worthless. It gets the progressive politician coming and going: Not only do voters recoil at the notion of having their insurance canceled,...
America the Hot Mess
“We’re a hot mess, this bad-tempered country of ours. More than 40 percent of Republicans are slouching toward full-blown autocracy, favorably disposed, in one poll, toward a presidency unfettered by constitutional checks and balances. An even...
Andrew Yang on impeachment: ‘This is going to be a loser’ ‘The more attention [President Trump] gets, the better for him,’ 2020 hopeful says
Mr. Yang said he feared that Mr. Trump could wind up being “totally exonerated” if the inquiry drags on for too long. That, or the Democrats could end up wasting so much “precious” time attacking the...