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What Makes a Wave Election?
What creates a wave election? Two things. Here’s one: In 1988, 1990 and 1992 Congressman David Price, a popular Democratic incumbent in a Democratic district, received over 100,000 votes in each election and won easily. Then, in 1994, a wave election came along that favored Republicans. Democrats didn’t vote and David Price received 76,000 votes…
Read MoreChina’s 3500 Year History
The President slipped four more times in an interview with the New York Times – he said: 1) Virtually every Democrat has said there is no collusion. 2) I brought (Luther) Strange up 20 points. 3) I know the details of taxes better than anybody. Better than the greatest C.P.A. 4) ‘President Xi… treated me…
Read More‘I would NEVER…’
President Trump’s single most popular tweet in 2017 (according to ABC News) was: Why would Kim Jong-un insult me by calling me “old” when I would NEVER call him ‘short and fat?’ So did Donald Trump, who’s not known for his subtlety, just make a back-handed insult? Or did he just do what he said…
Read MoreProving Fake News
The headline roared ‘Donald Trump has combined all the worst qualities of our former Presidents’ and the article by Robert Reich sailed across the Internet but how could it possibly be true? Other Presidents owned slaves. One fought in a duel. Could one man combine all the vices of 44 other men? President Trump is…
Read MoreA Brief Love Affair
The Republican Insiders in Congress trooped down to the White House just before Christmas and standing in lines on the steps overlooking the South Lawn pledged their undying love for President Trump. The holidays passed and after New Years both Republicans and Democrats sat down around a table in the White House and pledged they’d…
Read MoreLike a Politician
Hardly anyone likes politicians drawing districts to elect themselves but, to rip apart the Congressional Districts Republicans drew, Judge James Wynn spun a tale full of fictions. Judge Wynn described the Republican Plan as a vicious extreme ‘partisan gerrymander’ that would assure Republicans win 10 of North Carolina’s 13 Congressional seats for years and cited…
Read MoreFixing the Slips?
President Trump said over and over that his tax cut is the biggest in history but, then, the press reported the Treasury Department had ranked every tax cut (as a percentage of GDP) since 1940. Was Trump first? No. Was he second? No. Where did he stand? Last. Seventh out of seven. Which leads to…
Read MorePresident Shithead
At times like this I consult my friend Boweaver. Now 90-something, he’s seen it all. He grew up in the Depression, enlisted in World War II and would be happy if FDR had lived forever and stayed President. His counsel generally keeps my head from exploding. He wrote back: “Who cares if Trump called some…
Read MoreNo Guile
Michael Wolff wrote Trump was crazy and dumb and Trump fired back on Twitter that he was a smart, stable genius but the master of the put-down (who once immolated Lindsey Graham by calling him a dumb, crazy, nut-job in one breath) had slipped: Trump tweeting he wasn’t crazy sounded crazy. Wolff wasn’t entirely unkind…
Read MoreThe River
The ‘Tweet of the Year’ award doesn’t go to Trump or a Hollywood liberal but to Mike Huckabee who, after watching The Darkest Hour, tweeted ‘in Donald Trump we have found our Churchill.’ The Trumpsters set Twitter on fire with cheers and the ‘Trump Haters’ had heart-lock – and politics went crazy again. Later, the…
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