Neil Gorsuch was confirmed to the United States Supreme Court today. Let’s look at how we got here. In March 2016, President Obama nominated Appeals Court Judge Merrick Garland, a completely qualified judge, to the Supreme Court seat created by the death of Antonin Scalia. For much of election year 2016, the Republicans in the House and Senate said that “the…
Maureen Dowd Nailed It
Columnist Maureen Dowd really nailed the problems with Donald Trump and his presidency in her column that ran in the Sunday, March 26, 2017, edition of The New York Times, in stellar fashion. The column was written as a letter to Donald, and it contains many gems. It speaks for itself and is a joy to behold.
House Fails To “Repeal and Replace Obamacare”
On Friday, March 24, United States House Republicans pulled their American Health Care Act (AHCA) from further consideration, and pulled it from a vote on Friday. They’d previously said that they would have a vote on March 23, the 7-year anniversary of the date that President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010. After a month of wrangling…
Troubling Events In Trumpland: Wiretapping
There have been some very troubling and concerning events during the last two weeks. For example, on March 15, there was a very high-security, highly classified briefing held by FBI Director James Comey with Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Sen. Chuck Grassley. Grassley is the Republican and Feinstein is the Democrat. This briefing was held in a specially compartmented facility to…
The GOP Tries To Trash The CBO
Today, March 13, 2017, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its analysis of the GOP American Health Care Act. In its analysis, the CBO concluded, among other things the GOP finds very annoying, that in 2018, 14 million Americans would lose their health insurance. Ironically, Trump, in January, said that the “repeal and replace” solution provided by the GOP, would…
DHS Concludes Trump’s Travel/Immigration Ban Of No Value
There are three connected stories here. All three of these stories concern the Department of Homeland Security’s conclusion after examining all available information that the travel and immigration ban proposed by Trump provides no significant value in terms of national security. ….. One is that the Trump administration asked the Department of Homeland Security to prepare a report that concluded…
A Couple Things About Trump’s Travel and Immigration Ban
A couple of things are sticking in my mind about Trump’s travel and immigration ban, which is currently on hold pending judicial review. First, Trump rolled out this ban via an Executive Order several weeks ago and he told us that it was very urgent that the ban be put into place because those of us in the United States…
Trump Demonstrates His Divisiveness
For the last month, I have “given Trump a chance.” I have waited for him and his administration to do anything encouraging. I am still waiting. And I have no more patience. He has proven his administration to be corrupt: White House Chief of Staff Priebus interfered with FBI action, the White House told the DHS to…
Trump’s Immigration Actions Are Only A Distraction
Could Trump — or anyone — explain to me how deporting every illegal alien in this country, or even 50% of those people, is going to improve any aspect of my life? I am honestly trying to see how or if all Trump’s immigration activity is anything but an enormous distraction from the real actions Trump and his Cabinet are…
Trump’s New Deportation Rules — February 21, 2017
Just a couple of things that spring immediately to mind after reading about Trump’s new deportation rules for people in the United States illegally: 1) What will become of the millions of children who have been born in the US to the immigrants here illegally? Since the children — having been born here in the United States — are citizens…