Trump’s CPAC speech: a sad refresher on who occupied the White House for four years
After a couple of months of sulking, Donald Trump is back, unchanged.
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Check out Ezra Klein on Texas, climate change, and ‘humanity’s superpower’
Klein begins by talking about the amazingly lame excuse and ignorant analyses coming out of Texas after its energy debacle.
Kathleen Hall Jamieson on the resilience of the U.S. system of politics and government
“When we faced a genuine crisis — and there were challenges to what we knew about the outcome of the election — our courts did their job,” said Jamieson.
U.S. Senate representation is deeply undemocratic — and cannot be changed
Few, if any, other “democracies” have anything this undemocratic built into their systems.
Peter Wehner, unwavering in opposition to Trump, speaks out again
The prominent Republican’s Sunday New York Times op-ed was headlined “Why Are Republicans Still This Loyal to a Mar-a-Lago Exile?”
A Jamie Raskin gem from 2006
In reading through some of the Jamie Raskin profiles published in recent days, I stumbled on this in a brief New Yorker profile by Bill McKibben.
How could the U.S. political system work better? Thomas Edsall explores the ways.
The New York Times op-ed contributor mined the wisdom of serious scholars and experts to discuss ideas for reforming our system.
Raskin closes morning session of impeachment trial with powerful remarks
Of those who stormed the Capitol, Raskin said, “He knew they were coming. He brought them here. And he welcomed them with open arms.”
After Wednesday’s evidence against Trump, might some GOP senators have second thoughts?
I continue to assume that the 50 Senate Democrats will not find the necessary 17 Senate Republicans to get up to the necessary two-thirds to convict Trump. But …
GOP lawmakers’ slippery answers on whether election was ‘stolen’ are contemptible
It’s their job to take a position on such things, and say why.
How Biden learned from Humphrey, and what that may say about him today
Norman Sherman, whom HHH admirers know as a long-serving adviser to and staff member for Humphrey, wrote a piece linking the two for The Hill.
That was some defense from Marjorie Taylor Greene
The excuse of this alleged adult and leader and “representative” of her district is that she was “allowed to believe things.”
Trump says no to Rep. Raskin’s invitation to testify in impeachment trial
“The use of our Constitution to bring a purported impeachment proceeding is much too serious to try to play these games,” wrote Trump’s attorneys.
Inside Elections finds eight Senate seats likely to be competitive in 2022
They break down perfectly, with four currently Republican-held seats and four Democrat-held seats on the ballot in battleground states.
Comparing the economy under GOP and Dem presidents
“The economy has grown significantly faster under Democratic presidents than Republican ones,” Times columnist David Leonhardt writes.
It’s bizarre for Trump to still press the argument that he won the election
The non-question of who won in 2020 has been investigated and adjudicated; Trump lost every argument. And by departing the White House, however gracelessly, he accepted that Joe Biden was president.
Mitt Romney: Still willing to buck his party
“Five human beings died” because of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, Romney said. “And there’s no question but that the president incited the insurrection that occurred. To what degree and so forth is something we’re going to evaluate in the trial.”
On QAnon and closed-minded adherence to falsehoods
Changing minds is hard. But at least listening occasionally to someone with opposing views is vital.
How Eisenhower thought Supreme Court justices should be chosen
Susan Eisenhower noted on the “Skullduggery” podcast that her grandfather, Dwight D. Eisenhower, a Republican, had appointed a liberal Democrat to the court.
‘Trump’s American Carnage’ looks back at what we just survived
“This is not over. This is an ongoing attack on democracy,” says anti-Trump Republican commentator Charlie Sykes.
