So how are you celebrating? President Trump told us that deaths would be held to 60,000 but that proved a bit too aspirational, and based on modeling created within the White House, the new death toll would be 95,000. The President pitched his new modeling to some friendly governors, and Read more…
Strap in folks. It’s getting out of control. Trump can see what is going on. The news isn’t in his favor in the current cycle, the only measurement of time that retains relevance. Ever since he limped off stage after Lysolgate, things have changed. His humiliation was total. Even normally Read more…
There Will Be Blood. (Hope you like movies, too.) The hope is it is metaphorical. Political blood will certainly be shed. This is a rhetorical blitzkrieg that has no boundaries, no rules of engagement. It is venal and it has only just begun. All the President’s enemies are getting an Read more…
Doesn’t Nixon look like a piker now? Breaking and entering? Kids do that in High School. Sure, it steamrolled into a horrifically criminal cover-up, but when it finally spiraled out of control leading to the firing of people that would not comply, that was about it. It was over fairly Read more…
I feel a bit embarrassed. Humiliated if I’m honest. Big fancy know-it-all with my blog pontificating about the day’s goings-on, and all this time I thought I was writing about a health crisis that had been compounded by the resultant economic collapse of both the macro- and the micro-economy and Read more…
The lack of a focused response from the Federal government has passed beyond frustration and has simply become Federal policy. There won’t be a coordinated effort with specific goals and strategies, a clear direction that all efforts are enlisted toward a common goal. Empathy is in short supply in the Read more…
This was a very big news day. It was discovered today that the United States government has three branches. Who knew? Two of them got very busy. The other lurked. The Supreme Court was hearing arguments for why they should coronate Trump as emperor. They seemed disinclined, but that could Read more…
President Trump walked off the Rose Garden podium, and it was really crazy. He called on one reporter but decided she took too long so he tried to pass her and she said “Sir, you called on me” but he was going to be bad-ass and she wasn’t letting it Read more…
Reopening is the story now. Over 40 states are making some kind of attempt to reengage their economies in the midst of a pandemic. None of them met the Federal guidelines of two weeks of declining cases before opening the doors. Not one. This is a free-for-all. There are no Read more…
The interesting question is what comes next. The battlelines are drawn. The President has made it very clear. Crystal. We can’t handle the truth. It’s the economy, stupid, and that is his priority. This is the only way he could ever see this. It would be an obvious political advantage Read more…