(Political Ramblings from a Little Left of Center)
As much as I enjoy being right, there are times that I would dearly love to be proven wrong. Unfortunately, many of my old blog posts appear to be sadly prophetic. The Democratic nominating process is convincingly demonstrating that it wasn’t designed to pick a nominee that can actually win the general election. Iowa was…
The sixth Democratic Presidential Debate was Thursday night. It occurs to me that these debates are starting to look a lot like moon landings. Seriously. Anyone remember the sixth moon landing? No? That’s exactly my point. Yeah, okay. I do remember it. It was 1972 and Apollo 17 was crewed by Cernan, Schmitt, & Evans. …
I was almost finished with yet another post about impeachment. Upon review (and despite it being extremely well-written), I deleted it. Nothing substantial has changed since my last post on the topic: Trump deserves to be impeached and removed from office; Trump was impeached by the House; Trump will not be removed from office by…
Yeah, it’s been a while. I warned you. I keep getting distracted by ever-breaking news, but thought I’d try to jump back in with the topic that remains the elephant in the room: Impeachment. While I stand by my opinion that impeachment is a lousy political strategy for Democrats, the President did force their hands. …
Trump finally pulled the trigger to divert military funds to make a down payment on his White Whale Wall. The Fake News reported that he’d make Mexico pay when he very clearly said he’d make the Military pay. You remember that, right? I could easily use this post to complain about what an obsessive “Moby…
One of the 2020 metrics I’m tracking is candidate endorsements. Here’s my take on which endorsements matter: I’m only considering endorsements made in the Democratic primary as there won’t be ton of surprises in the general election. Most Democrats and Republicans will endorse their respective candidates with varying degrees of enthusiasm; most celebrities will endorse…
Some Progressives in the Democratic Party appear to have declared war on Moderates within their own party. While there are numerous examples from several sources, here’s a representative soundbite from the second debate: We’re not going to solve the urgent problems that we face with small ideas and spinelessness. We’re going to solve them by…
Please bear with me while I explain why a contribution to the Senate campaign of Amy McGrath is my personal response to yet another wave of mass shootings in our country. I have no desire to echo the hollow platitudes that have been offered by many of our political leaders. I won’t concentrate for now…
Today is the one-year anniversary of Parenthetical Politics. I wondered at the start if the frequency of my blog posts would have an exceptionally long wavelength. However, with 66 posts over the past year, I averaged well over one post a week. Not bad for a hobby that mostly serves as my online pressure release…
The first set of Democratic debates were gigantic wastes of time and I fear that the second set may be yet another edition of Hunger Games meets Keystone Cops. However, I thought I’d offer a few last-minute ideas that could make the upcoming debates at least slightly more useful. To begin with, if I was…