How is it that so many supposed conservatives are so credulous in the face of policy betrayals by Trump and Republicans that they fall for every distraction? Sadly, this reveals a more uncomfortable reality that the modern conservative movement and…
When the House of Representatives passed the Trump-approved fake repeal of Obamacare known as the American Health Care Act (AHCA) last month, Mitch McConnell and his minions shot it down immediately. Not because AHCA failed to repeal Obamacare, but because…
The likelihood that Obamacare would be repealed “root and branch” as Mitch McConnell once promised went the way of the dodo bird once Donald Trump was elected president.* When you consider Trump’s two-tongued approach to Obamacare repeal—promising to get rid…
With Trump’s maybe we will / maybe we won’t announcement that he was pulling the US out of the Paris Climate Agreement along with the terrible terrorist attack in London dominating the news last week, two major betrayals by Trump…
As his first foreign trip as President of the United States came to end, Donald Trump hailed his nine-day tour of the Middle East and Europe as a “home run.” However, upon further review by the replay officials, it appears…
One fact that has become crystal clear ever since voters gave the GOP complete control of Washington is this: they are nothing more than a parade of pachyderms existing only to serve their own political self-interests. For Republicans, campaign promises…
When the GOP-controlled House of Representatives passed the increasingly unpopular fake-repeal of Obamacare last week, known as the American Health Care Act (AHCA), they did so by using the same tactics employed by Democrats when they originally passed Obamacare. Two…
