Thursday, March 23, 2023

Tag: president

Biden wants to prevent a strong primary challenge. He shouldn’t get...

A president is not a party’s king, and he has no automatic right to renomination.

Biden made it harder for Democrats to win. He’d be an...

He’s a drag on the party, a boon to Republicans, and—if he runs again—he’d be a weak candidate against the GOP nominee in the 2024 presidential campaign.

Is Joe Biden channeling Tom Paine?

The new White House budget plan echoes wealth tax perspectives over two centuries old.

Trump planning to run in 2024? From his jail cell?

This guy is a political crook that has been allowed to run free—so far.

Independent impeachment & emoluments scrutiny essential—or Trump II looms

Until strict categories about impeachment or emoluments, let alone lying, are enacted, with strong penalties levied by independent commissions, the uncivilized barbarians among us will wreck havoc.

The world welcomes Biden but hedges its bets

Will political volatility be America’s downfall?

Post-inauguration, restoring the soul of Biden’s America must be truly inclusive

If we are to include the substantive contributions of African Americans in our discussion of an American soul, we cannot presume that this is limited to the mere inclusion of African Americans in a Biden cabinet that “looks like America.”

The worst president

“On Jan. 20, we can still presume Trump will be gone from the White House.”

Trump accused of ‘criminal extortion’ after asking Georgia officials to ‘find’...

"Everyone who has a tape of Trump abusing his power should release it now."

The great clanging, self-inflicted, farcical Trump implosion

I conclude Trump took himself out of the race because he was and is in self-destruction mode.

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Senior climate activists rally across US to ‘stop dirty banks’

"We must break the big banks' addiction to Big Oil."

Black residents of Cancer Alley sue local government for discrimination in siting chemical facilities

“We’re being ignored and we have to do whatever we have to do to stop it.”

A highway to peace or a highway to hell?

Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry, fully engaged in corralling, containing, and constraining it, Eisenhower concluded, could save democracy and bolster peaceful methods and goals. 

Is pretend politics—hawking a counterfeit self—the ultimate right-wing propaganda?

For “real” Rethugs one looks in vain –/ It’s quicksand, whether frauds or insane.

What red state vs. blue state looks like to an ant

Signs of decline and decay are all around us, behind the glitter and the glitz.