When Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan voluntarily relinquished the power of the purse to Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi in last week’s budget deal, it confirmed what conservatives have known for some time now; GOP promises to reign…
Though the bankruptcy-inducing McConnell/Schumer budget deal was eventually passed by Congress and signed into law by Donald Trump because the “deal maker” was powerless to stop it—we can add “presidential veto” to the list of things Trump doesn’t know is…
When I wrote an article earlier this week about how Democrats and Republicans—but I repeat myself—had joined hands to create a two-year budget deal that adds trillions of bankruptcy-inducing dollars to our unsustainable national debt, I was chastised by a…
Yesterday we learned how Republicans and Democrats joined hands to obliterate any semblance of fiscal responsibility to create a two-year budget pact that adds trillions of bankruptcy-inducing dollars to our already-unsustainable national debt. The budget fiasco is just the latest…
When the Budget Control Act of 2011 passed in the GOP-controlled House of Representatives, then-House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan praised the bill as a “positive step forward in getting government spending under control.” In an official statement, Paul also…
In the days following Trump’s Obama-esque State of the Union address last week, we witnessed an avalanche of outrage by members of the so-called conservative media, along with the Trump chorus line and establishment Republicans—but I repeat myself—over the behavior…
It was American writer and humorist Samuel L. Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, who once said, “Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.” Though he lived over 100 years…
