August 10, 2016 – 8:31 am
So, Donald Trump, surprisingly, said something very inarticulately. I know, you’re shocked that someone off teleprompter could say something poorly. Funny, the media never made a big deal out of some guy saying “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun”, in which the full quote is even more violence laden “If […]
August 8, 2016 – 7:51 am
Well, according to the Daily Caller, they’ve swapped positions Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton just switched positions with Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, this week by supporting a state Supreme Court ruling which prohibits local governments from banning the process. Trump told reporters in Colorado last Friday that he supports […]
August 7, 2016 – 8:47 am
Something amusing for a Sunday morning (The Hill) A new Donald Trump video is mocking Hillary Clinton as a malfunctioning robot, a reference to her recent remark that she “short-circuited” when speaking about the FBI’s probe into her email server. “Is robot Hillary melting down,” the video, posted by Trump on his Facebook page Saturday, […]
August 5, 2016 – 7:03 am
This presidential election should have been a slam dunk for the GOP. Democrats were intent on making damned sure that Hillary Clinton would be their nominee, and virtually any Republican could have beaten her handily. She’s a candidate with incredible negatives, and really doesn’t inspire much excitement. So, what do enough GOP voters do? They […]
August 4, 2016 – 8:01 am
From the “For the love of all that’s Holy, just stop ad-libbing and stay on message” files (The Hill) Donald Trump argued Wednesday that his immigration policies could have prevented the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks by keeping the hijackers from entering America in the first place. The GOP presidential nominee brought up the issue […]
August 2, 2016 – 7:22 am
Of course, this all probably matters little, because the Little Climateflakes will still vote Democrat. Here’s Newsweek dragging an article from the climate extremist site Grist into the mainstream MANY MILLENNIALS THINK HILLARY CLINTON AND DONALD TRUMP ARE THE SAME ON CLIMATE CHANGE One presidential candidate says scientists who work on climate change are “practically […]
August 2, 2016 – 6:57 am
It’s really not a good thing when a candidate is signaling that he’ll lose at just under 100 days to the general election Did you catch that? (Politico) Donald Trump empathized with Bernie Sanders supporters on Monday, saying the Vermont senator lost the Democratic primary because the election was rigged, and said he feared the […]
August 1, 2016 – 11:40 am
Yesterday, we had the Washington Post being all concerned with too much executive action. But, only if Trump wins. Not really that Obama has gone hog wild with them. Today, James Surowiecki at the New Yorker is a bit concerned THE PERILS OF EXECUTIVE ACTION Obama used the power of the pen to make policy. […]
July 30, 2016 – 8:06 am
Breitbart’s Scott Pinsker takes a swing at attempting to woo those Conservatives who do not support Trump in one form or fashion, starting out with What’s more important: Conservative beliefs or conservative outcomes? The two are not the same. In American politics, the relationship between beliefs and outcomes isn’t necessarily causal, and for generations, this […]
July 22, 2016 – 7:05 am
I’ll admit that I did not watch all of it, just snippets for a few minutes at a time. Reading the transcript, though, is very, very different from having seen it on TV. You truly lose the flavor, which, IMO, seemed angry and bellicose. Perhaps I missed the parts where Donald was soft. Rather than […]
