Biden’s Proposed FY 2024 Budget: Too Woke and
Too Expensive
It is time to show America who will lead and
who will simply give speeches.
who will simply give speeches.
Congress
Biden’s Proposed FY 2024 Budget: Too Woke and
The One-Sided Debt Ceiling Debate
If we spend more than 17.4 percent of GDP on a regular basis the nation will continue hurtling ever-faster toward the dreaded default. But, of course, that will be someone else’s
mess to clean up.
mess to clean up.
Dems Spit Fire as House Votes to Boot Rep. Ilhan Omar Off Foreign Affairs Committee.
On a party-line vote Thursday, the House of Representatives voted to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) from the House Foreign Affairs Committee. The resolution to […]
A Win for Security and Sanity
Notes on the U.S. House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party.
We Don’t Need Another Church Committee, We Need a Reformation
What Congress did in the 1970s to “fix” the FBI and the CIA is the problem, not the solution.
Electioneering and the Spirit of Democracy
Constraints on electioneering do a lot to weed out the sociopaths and narcissists from higher office. And these constraints are almost entirely absent in American politics.
Boot Buttigieg
As Republican leadership debates which members of the Biden Administration deserve impeachment, the secretary of transportation belongs at the top of the list.
Courage Time in the House of Representatives: Part Two
The Republicans now have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to stop the Democrats and remake America—and not just remake it, but to strengthen its very soul.
McCarthy Learns His Three Rs: Reset, Revelation, and Retribution
The hard nudge from his hard right appears to have instilled some useful forgetting and learning in Kevin McCarthy.
The Merry-Go-Round Never Stops
No one will remember the details of the speaker fight in years to come. But the takeaway isn’t in the details.
In Praise of Regular Order
The American legislative process is broken. It can be fixed, but only if leaders on both sides work together to make it happen.
Speakership Battle Is Just More Bread and Circuses
All of the endless drivel about a “dysfunctional” House is nonsense. It was well-functioning Houses that put us under the thumb of powerful, untouchable, invisible federal authoritarians.
The Truth Behind George Santos’ Lies
His dishonesty, in an ironic way, is more truthful than the posturing of the preening hypocrites denouncing him.
McCarthy Is Not the Right Leader for the Moment
In order to avoid chaos on January 3, Republicans need to embrace reality.
Raise Corporate Taxes
Democrats say they want to bite the hand that feeds them. Republicans should agree to help them.
Spoiler Alert: Cheney Crony Makes a Run in Missouri
Have Show Me State Republicans finally had enough?
Abolish the House of Representatives
In the face of assaults on federalism and fundamental rights, it is time to strike a counterblow against the tyranny of the self-proclaimed majority in favor of deliberative government and diversity.
What the January 6 Committee Might Have Been
A real committee would also investigate the other, far larger and more lethal riots on iconic federal property months earlier.
Trump as Speaker of the House?
A determined speaker of the House theoretically could do much more to weaken the permanent bureaucracy.
Let God, Not Marco, Decide the Placement of the Sun
The Senate’s job is to “refine and enlarge” public opinion, but no refining or enlarging took place on this occasion.