
Bill Straub: We can’t have bipartisanship when McConnell says his job is to stop the administration
You can be forgiven if you viewed President Biden’s decision this week to meet with Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell…
You can be forgiven if you viewed President Biden’s decision this week to meet with Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell…
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell is notorious for playing things close to the vest. This is the man who, after…
WASHINGTON – Sen. Rand Paul is the political equivalent of the drunk sitting by himself at the far end of…
Now that Republicans have made hash out of the supposedly non-political U.S. Supreme Court with a series of underhanded maneuvers,…
The gossip sheets and the tabloids are constantly filled with reports about individuals who work closely together for years but…
The story goes that Charles de Gaulle, president of France, was riding in the backseat of his limousine with one…
It would be redundant to note that the term “infrastructure week,” invoked during the administration of erstwhile President Donald J….
We’re approaching the Spring after an election that saw Republicans lose both the White House and the Senate so, just…
Calling on any public figure to resign, retire, hit the road or however you might want to put it is…
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, as benevolent as ever, has graciously decided to forgive U.S. Circuit Court Judge Merrick Garland…
It was Lincoln, the pre-eminent member of a political organization formerly known as the Republican Party, who cited the synoptic…
You can always count on the sun to rise in the east and set in the west. You can always…
Reports about the impending death of the Republican Party are, as Twain once remarked about his own alleged demise, an…
It is obvious that the Republican Party has been stricken with a strange and exotic disease that leads to hallucinations…
There came a poignant moment during the inauguration ceremony for the new president of the United States of America, Joseph…
Now that President Donald J. Trump, aka Loser, has been impeached for an unprecedented second time – not the sort…
A little more than 85 years ago, during an era of rising fascism in Europe, Sinclair Lewis, who authored such…
There’s been considerable talk recently on the subject of Senate Republican Leader Mitch “Root-‘n-Branch’’ McConnell and how he has somehow…
Parsing the permutations of the COVID-19 relief bill is akin to fiddling with a Rubik’s cube while blindfolded in a…
Is there a more appropriate cover boy for the modern Republican Party – that toxic conglomeration of fabulists, conspiracy mongers,…
Sen. Rand Paul is laboring furiously these days to attract attention to his consistently curious views. The effort comes at…
Abbott and Costello – a grand remedy for the COVID-19 blues, by the way – used to perform a routine…