Month: November 2014

Casual Observation

If the Republicans give the Kenyan Usurper the Trade Promotion Authority he wants, I will eat my hat. ‘Course, I ain’t never seen no queen in her damn undies as the fella says.

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Waving the Red Flag in Front of the Bull

As John Cassidy notes in The New Yorker, President Obama has been on a roll since his party took another midterm shellacking on November 4th. Far from cowering from the onrushing conservative bull, he’s toying with it,...

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Stick With the Seniority System

I am by no means an expert on the history of committee assignments in the House of Representatives, so my views here may be wrong in important respects. My impression, however, is that the Democratic Party has a solid history of...

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