Once there were Sunday News shows – which might jocularly be remembered as “Fake the Nation,” “Defeat the Press” and “Issues and Evasions.” Solemn men in suits tried to get a straight answer out of pompous men in suits. On … Continue reading
Category Archives: Politics as Usual
It’s budget season again, when the parties introduce Potemkin budgets that embody myths but never become reality. Until the Reagan era, a symbiotic relationship existed between the communitarian and libertarian strains in America. Many in Congress wanted to tax and … Continue reading
Forty-seven Republican Senators made haste to sign on to a freshman’s ill-considered letter and some are now repenting at leisure. Why did they do it? They have said they wanted to stop the president from letting the Iranians get a … Continue reading