April 24, 2017
Trump: Republicans’ FDR?
(Also published in The Hill) Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the first president to make a big deal about a new administration’s first hundred days. FDR was sworn in on March 4, 1933, and his first hundred days didn’t conclude until...
April 16, 2017
Trump The Pragmatic Populist
(Trump, the pragmatic populist is also published on Political Storm) Donald Trump, as a businessman, is the ultimate pragmatist. He wants to make money and enhance his brand, which helps him to make more money. Before entering politics, he schmoozed...
April 12, 2017
Chuck Schumer, Tax Reform: There’s a fine line between clever and stupid.
Chuck Schumer, the Senate Minority Leader, thinks he is being clever by linking action on tax reform/business tax relief to President Trump’s own tax returns. Here is how the Washington Post reported it: “It’s going to make tax reform much...
April 9, 2017
Donald Trump Has Had a Disastrous Start to His Presidency…
Donald Trump has had a disastrous start to his presidency… Except for all his huge victories. If you listen to the media, he is a stooge for Vladmir Putin; his White House staff is in complete disarray; Hill Republicans are...
April 6, 2017
Murder on the Orient Express and Judge Gorsuch
“Murder on the Orient Express” was one of the first movies that I remember seeing at the movie theater when I was a kid. Based on the Agatha Christie novel, it was a classic period piece, with terrific actors and...
April 5, 2017
Trump Survival Guide
This originally appeared in the website Political Storm. Although Republicans have a bigger majority in the House than the Senate, the conventional wisdom holds that the GOP is in more danger of losing control of the lower chamber than the...