Political Theatre category archive
“A Party of Apparatchiks” 0
Paul Krugman points out that today’s Republican Party has no boundaries. Here’s a bit from his article.
Today’s Republican Party is a vile and loathsome thing.
All in the Family 0
Dick Polman finds himself sickened by Republican complicity with Trumpery’s Russian impulses.
I can’t excerpt or summarize it. Just please follow the link.
All the News that Fits 0
Thom reads Fox News headlines to show how Fox News is not reporting bad news about Donald Trump and discusses how right-wing media is polluting dis coarse discourse.
The Wreck of Old No. 45 0
Alfred P. Doblin has never seen anything like it:
Follow the link to learn why he said that.
Trumpling Freedom of the Press 0
Reporter Dan Heyman describes Tom Price’s having him arrested for daring to ask a question of said august personage. Here’s a bit:
(snip)
The day after my arrest, Price commended the police and pointed out that I wasn’t asking my question as part of a news conference. I would have preferred to go to a news conference — ask my one question, sit down and shut up. But Price, like many of the other public officials supporting the American Health Care Act, has been tightly restricting press and public access when he might be asked about health care.
Do read the rest for a victim’s view of the nascent culture of Republican despotism.
Fallout 0
If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it–oh, wait. The question is moot.
Everyone heard it.
Well, That Didn’t Take Long 0
The justice, it is obstructed.
The primary question is quite clear. Is the Republican Party as craven as we already know it to be?
We’re Nowhere Near
to the Nadir
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to the Nadir
Eli Lake opines,
(snip)
In addition to being incompetent in a national security sense, the flub is also politically embarrassing for the president. Remember that Trump campaigned on the idea that Hillary Clinton was unfit to be president because her use of a private email server was evidence of mishandling classified information. Clinton must find in this story a delicious Schadenfreude.
Follow the link for his reasoning.
You do know, it’s just going to get worse.
Public Engagement 0
Continuing on the theme of “We are doomed,” not only are we doomed, we are doomed through our own inaction.
The Jan Brady Defense 0
We are doomed.
Nixon Redux 0
Richard Nixon once said, “. . . when the president does it, that means it is not illegal.”* Shaun Mullen explains.
There is one overwhelming difference between Donald Trump and Richard Nixon.
Nixon was smart.
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*Cite.
The -Gate of the Day Is Suffix Thereto 0
Jack Ohman suggests that it’s time to show -gate the gate. A nugget:
And the Grant administration had the massive Credit-Mobilier Scandal, which shattered the careers of Gilded Age politicos. Frankly, I’d love to revive both: Suffixgateghazidomemobilier.
