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The headline item from Tuesday’s elections is that Democrats wiped out Republicans in the House and the Senate. Congratulations. But do our newly minted senators, with their terms ending in January 2033, realize that they will be the cohort of legislators who face the exhaustion of Social ...
“Bluenami!” a friend said of the remarkable turnover of both chambers of Congress from Republican to Democratic control. Another way to look at the midterms Tuesday is that the voters’ verdict found Donald Trump guilty of attempted murder of our democracy. The jury of citizens rescued ...
Stop the talk about a triumphal arch at the gates of Arlington Cemetery. Stop bullying the Kennedy Center into putting the Trump name on its front. Stop obsessing over the Reflecting Pool. Stop cutting down trees at a public golf course in Washington to make a championship course. These ...
My ballpark estimate: In the recently concluded midterm campaign season, Democrats ran roughly eleventy-bajillion ads accusing Republican office-holders of voting — 98%, 99% or 100% of the time — “with Donald Trump.” Calling your opponent a “rubber stamp” is a smart tactic when ...
After former President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, the new president, Lyndon Johnson, was being urged by Democrats to name Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy as his vice-presidential running mate in the 1964 election. Problem was, Johnson despised Kennedy, and was going to make him his ...
An especially repellant political race is about to fade from the headlines. It would have been less ugly had more politicians traded invective for wit. Humor can take the edge off while retaining the bite. “Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand,” Mark Twain said. Clever ...