It has been said that there are two parties in the United States; a stupid party and an evil party. Perhaps better described as a naive party and an opportunist party, the idea behind this concept is that the the poor decisions of one party allow for enactment of the unfathomable agenda of the other. [...]
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Politics of Process and Policy
Democrats will do anything to pass health insurance reform, even, it seems, subvert the constitution. Knowing that they still lack the votes to pass the kickback-filled Senate health reform bill word-for-word, Democrats in the United States House of Representatives have concocted what they think may be a way around having an up-or-down vote on the [...]
Petty Politicking Plagues Progress
Recent polling has found that a majority of Americans feel that the country is too politically divided. No, this does not mean that the American people feel that fifty states are too many, or that counties, cities, parishes, and boroughs should be dissolved across the board. Rather, the concern is that there is too much [...]
The Congressional Presidency
Historically, it is not very frequent that we see an incumbent United States Senator get elected President of the United States. It is even rarer that we see a U.S. Senator elected to both the Presidency and the Vice Presidency.
Bucking this historic tradition, our President-elect and Vice President-elect are incumbent United States Senators. And now, [...]
