The “election season” is too long. Way too long. We’re up to the point that presendential campaigns are major news for more than a year before the actual election day. That is just too long. Most of the other large…
Inalienable: A Democracy Cannot Take Away A Citizen’s Right To Vote
This one seems to be inexplicably controversial. But seriously, follks. The right of all citizens to vote is what makes a democracy a democracy. Or a republic, for all you pedants in the back. It’s so much a part of…
Tax This: All Taxes Should Be Progressive
Oooh; it’s that word. In this case, it has a specific meaning though. Progressive taxes are important. Progressive taxes are ones where the percentage you pay goes up the more resources you have to pay it with. In the United…
Impeachment: Not An Effective Solution
Well, that ended pretty much exactly the way everyone except Senator Romney expected it to. And he was only half surprised. I actually have several other things I want to write about. Right now, I even have 7 posts already…
Iowa: Don’t Learn The Wrong Lesson
Yeah, Iowa screwed up. You can check out Iowa: Not What You May Be Expecting for more on that. But don’t learn the wrong lesson from it. A lot of political media folks seem to have decided that what they…
Iowa: Not What You May Be Expecting
You’re gonna be hearing a lot about the Iowa caucuses today. And not for why we all expected to anyway. You’re probably already aware that last night the Iowa Democratic Party failed rather dramatically in the one job they had…
Impeachment: IOIYAR Triumphant?
‘IOIYAR: acronym for “It’s Okay If You’re A Republican,” shorthand for discussing hypocrisy.’ Inconceivable! Well, not really; I just wanted to use that header. It’s actually been quite conceivable for a while, as I discussed the other day in Impeachment:…
Impeachment: A Stupid Thing Happened On The Way To The Senate
Well, lots of really stupid things. And even more stupid things have happened after it got there. There is one stupid thing that matters more than all the rest. Trump seems to genuinely think that he’s a king. To be…
Impeachment: How’s That Goin’ For Ya?
Since we’re getting a live test of how well the Constitution’s oversight of the Executive branch works at the moment, let’s evaluate how it’s doing vs. my suggestion from Failed Constitution Check: Executive Oversight that the Executive branch needs to…
Constituent Service: Making Politicians Face The Music
Politicians really are a class all their own. That’s not a good thing. Even politicians who famously start their careers straight out of a blue-collar life find themselves dragged into the bubble of political culture: seeing mainly other politicians, speaking…