It’s thigh-slappingly funny to recall that RNC chairman Reince Priebus said on the eve of this national race that “Republicans will choose from a deep bench of presidential material.”
Super Tuesday gave us some priceless moments — Donald Trump bellowing in his personal ballroom while neutered lapdog Chris Christie awaited his master’s command to fetch pipe and slippers — but arguably best of all was Paul Ryan’s hilarious attempt to distance the GOP from Trump’s raw racism.
The good news is that a prominent member of the cowed Republican establishment is finally speaking out against Donald Trump. The bad news is, it’s Mitt Romney.
What a wild night in New Hampshire! In the words of one political reporter, “The voters sent a powerful anti-Washington message.” A xenophobic Republican demagogue “stoked citizen anger against the inside-the-Beltway establishment, loudly invoking the ’30s populism of Huey Long.” The triumphant candidate fed off the “anxieties” of his fans. He “speaks his mind and damns the consequences.”
The poisoning of Flint, Michigan, is a national disgrace — and some of the people reacting to it have been disgraceful. Here’s an abbreviated list, going from bad to worse.
Why do Republicans nauseatingly refuse to address America’s gun murder epidemic? Why are they so determined to sustain our well-earned reputation as the most violent nation in the civilized western world? Why are they jerking their knees in reflexive opposition to President Obama’s modest attempts to defend our right to remain alive?
Donald Trump is out of his mind (nothing new there) if he really thinks that he can taint Hillary Clinton by recycling her husband’s infidelities.
A respected political analyst is writing about a certain presidential candidate. See if you can identify the candidate.
I would’ve preferred to watch “Fargo,” a pitch-black comedy about bloodlusting knuckleheads, but instead I dutifully tuned in the Republicans, and I got the same kind of characters.
In his remarks commemorating the 150th anniversary of the constitutional provision that abolished slavery, President Obama urged his fellow Americans to draw inspiration from their ancestors and “push back against bigotry in all its forms,” because “our freedom is bound up with the freedom of others.”
When I listen to Republicans talk tough about ISIS, I’m reminded of a old Steve Martin joke: “You can be a millionaire and never pay taxes! Yes, you can be a millionaire and never pay taxes! And you say, ‘Steve, how can I become a millionaire and never pay taxes?’ OK, first? You get a million dollars
One particular passage in President Obama’s Sunday night address to the nation caught my attention.
Month after month, execrable bullhorn artist Donald Trump remains perched atop the polls, and there’s growing concern that the guy might actually win the nomination. Various super PACs allied with the party establishment keep threatening to bomb him with ad campaigns, and Republican regulars are freaking out at the prospect of an autumn 2016 debacle that features landslide losses in every voter category except celebrity-besotted angry white people.
