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The White House is now shamelessly hawking the debt-ceiling shakedown bill by saying “it could have been a lot worse.” Had Biden done his job, it could have been avoided altogether. It’s uncanny: Biden seems to be channeling Obama, rather than … Continue reading →

The hard truth that a lot of liberals are going to have to finally accept is that Obama’s capitulations to right-wing extremists led the country into the catastrophic clutches of Trump. God only knows where Biden’s capitulations are taking us.

We knew he would. The reason we knew he would is because he wanted to. The Chamber of Commerce said no 14th Amendment and so he didn’t invoke it. These are the people he listens to. A neoliberal cannot change … Continue reading →

Biden s is trying to throw away his presidency and is sacrificing a second term.  We need a president who will stand firm against Republican extremism. Gavin Newscom? Josh Shapiro? The debt-ceiling fiasco makes it official: the Dems have to … Continue reading →

Didn’t Nancy Peloisi reportedly say that about the Obama team, before saying she never said what she said? To the point: Who allowed Biden to walk into this trap? Robert Reich identifies the missteps: “I admire Joe Biden but he … Continue reading →

Unlike Trump and DeSantis, she didn’t insult them. She said she knew many of them and what they did was very important. Unlike the GOP, she believes in the  Constitutional right of the media to question our government. But she … Continue reading →

I just want to remind everyone of that, now that Kevin McCarthy, in one of his fake, simpering, churlish, manufactured-outrage press performances, has said that he problem with the debt ceiling debacle is that the Democrats are “so far to … Continue reading →

Only two more performances of Peter Mattei starring in a new Don Giovanni at the Met Opera. I precis for Air Mail.

So now the House Democratic leader is shillling for the Republicans’ spending freeze. Biden & co’s surrender signalling has made the GOP’s demands ever-more outrageous. The White House has disastrously bungled their response to GOP hostage-taking.  They simply refuse to take … Continue reading →

If that doesn’t say it all about the deception, intolerance, and hypocrisy of the right wing.