While Joe Biden waits for his bipartisan infrastructure plan to get through Congress, Senate Democrats have announced another infrastructure plan that will provide funds for everything that did not make it into the bipartisan plan. This would include funding for...
Chuck Schumer
National politicians respond to the Chauvin verdict. Do you see a pattern here?
In case you still don’t know, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of the murder of George Floyd. Here is how Twitter is responding: As of 8:43pm on Tuesday evening, April 20, 2021 the following national politicians...
Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith uses the Old Testament to lecture Senator Chuck Schumer (he’s Jewish) about why it is wrong to vote on Sunday
This is why we have separation of church of state. It also illustrates how the belief that America was founded as a Christian nation informs the legislative agenda of the country’s highest GOP lawmakers. Does Hyde-Smith really believe our voting...
How did Democrats lose “Joe Bailey”
Over at Dissent, historian Gabriel Winant reviews two new books on working people. The first is David Paul Kuhn’s The Hardhat Riot: Nixon, New York City, and the Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution. The other is Jacob S. Hacker...
Here’s One for the Trump Presidential Library:
From Whitehouse.Gov:...
Trump Seems Incapable of Leading
Earlier today a Facebook friend wrote on my wall: I do appreciate your academic research and study on Politics and History, but I would strongly encourage you to not use this time for divisive discussion and rhetoric! It should be...
Which Response to a Presidential Address Was Worse?:
This (2018): Or this (2013): [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19ZxJVnM5Gs&w=560&h=315]...
James Fallows on Yesterday’s “Surreal” Oval Office Exchange
In case you missed it, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer had a showdown in the Oval Office with Donald Trump about his border wall. James Fallows of The Atlantic called it “surreal.” [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wm-NtMkqz8&w=560&h=315] Fallows has two questions about what happened:...
Why Chuck Schumer Hopes Trump is Right About the Wire-Tapping
It looks like Donald Trump may have backed himself into a corner with this tweet: How low has President Obama gone to tapp my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy! — Donald...