West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin (photo, left), 77, who didn’t run for re-election in 2024 and would’ve lost if he did, torched the Democratic Party in a CNN interview on Sunday, December 22, 2024 (read story here). Manchin, who spent his career as a Democrat, re-registered as an independe[...]
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Lara Trump won’t be a senator
Marco Rubio (R-FL; photo, left) is leaving the U.S. senate to become Trump 2.0’s secretary of state. I don’t want to dwell too much on Rubio, because this posting is about Lara Trump, but that doesn’t strike me as a great career move. At age 51, Rubio is young enough to run for pre[...]
December 19th, 2024 - 10:40 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Elon Musk won’t be House speaker (video)
That’s Kentucky GOP Sen. Rand Paul’s idea (see story here). Won’t happen, folks. Why would Musk want the job? He has companies to run. And he doesn’t have the patience for it; he’s used to giving orders, and that’s not what a speaker does; as this article says, &#[...]
Can Musk be president and speaker at the same time?
The U.S. is heading toward one-man rule, but not by who you assume. It’s becoming clear the White House will be a “Weekend at Bernie’s” affair, whereby staffers prop up a physically and mentally defunct Trump, but Elon Musk wields power behind on the throne. Musk isn’t [...]
December 18th, 2024 - 5:59 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Texas governor and Musk caught lying about D.C. stadium
“Texas Gov. Greg Abbott applauded Elon Musk’s commitment to stopping … the federal government from funding … a new football stadium” in Washington D.C. in the omnibus spending deal the House just passed to avert a government shutdown a week before Christmas. “Go[...]
December 17th, 2024 - 9:47 pm § in America, Biden, Democrats, Donald Trump, Economics, Foreign Affairs, Politics, Republicans
Kamala Harris won’t be president
Kamala Harris will never be president. I’m not saying she won’t run; but if she does, she won’t be elected. The 2024 election proved it. Sure, she was dealt a tough hand to play, and played it better than anyone had a right to expect. She was a last-minute nominee, saddled with Bid[...]
Trump’s pardons won’t solve Jan. 6 rioters’ problems
If Trump pardons the Jan. 6 rioters, outraging law enforcers and liberals, there’s a big historical precedent for it: Lincoln pardoned the millions of southerners who rioted against his 1860 election win for four long, bloody years. In the spring of 1865, as that violent demonstration was wrap[...]
This is why we need federal consumer protection
Elon Musk, who’s worth $400 billion, making him the world’s richest man, wants to “delete” the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) (see story here). The federal agency may not survive the Trump administration. Here’s what it does, and why ordinary Americans ne[...]