Potential topics of investigation into Trump administration actions numbering in the dozens — as many as 85, by one estimate.
The last month has been the worst for the Trumpian approval picture in quite a while.
The “poll” had only one question: “How would you rate the President’s Address?” But it offered four potential responses.
Health
A universal flu vaccine would cover multiple strains of the virus so scientists don’t have to play a guessing game, predicting which varieties of the ever-mutating flu will be prevalent in a given season.
National
Minnesota’s tribes signed treaties ceding their land to Washington in return for financial support. Those obligations aren’t being honored during the shutdown.
D.C. Memo
Shutdown continues; no one wants to run Defense Department; no longer too early to look at 2020 presidential field; and more.
Eric Black Ink
From Gail Collins’ snide but funny review of President Trump’s big/small/heavy-snorting televised address on the shutdown, headlined “Trump hits the wall”: Now we know why Trump never made a speech from the Oval Office before. He’s a guy whose great political talent is yelling applause lines to a howling mob of supporters. If they cheer, […]
Eric Black Ink
Was it just me, or was that Donald, Chuck and Nancy show last night a complete waste of air time and overhyped rhetoric?
National
Democrats’ first bill sounds a lot like what Rep. Dean Phillips campaigned on.
Foreign Concept
He’s just going about it in the worst possible way.
Eric Black Ink
Chris Wallace made some serious hash out of Sanders’ effort to invoke the threat of terrorism as one of the justifications for the Trump-beloved border wall-fence-barrier-curtain.
Eric Black Ink
I use the term “impeached” precisely, by which I mean the first step in the constitutional process for removal of a president, the one that occurs in the U.S. House and requires only a majority vote.
Eric Black Ink
I reached two wise Minnesota-based political scientists who follow this stuff closely and asked what they expected to see during the next two years of re-divided government.
