“Iran-backed militias turn to drone attacks, alarming U.S. forces in Iraq” bellows the headline in the Washington Post. Louisa Loveluck and John Hudson unload a pulse-pounding narrative that is heavy on atmosphere, speculation, and innuendo, but short on, you know, facts, not to mention casualties. Because all this shrieking about those devilish Iranian devils and…
Tag: Joe Biden
Joe Biden does something right, and no one notices
Okay, all Uncle Joe and his State Department did was recognize that the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline connecting Russia with western Europe was a done deal (95% done, in fact) and thus will not impose sanctions on the Europeans for defying us, but in today’s xenophobic mindset, where everyone, but everyone, likes to hate…
Joe Biden, last seen sinking deeper into the Blobby bog
Daniel Larison has an excellent—“excellent” as in “deeply depressing”—take on President Biden’s stumbling—“stumbling” as in “clearly and severely wrong-headed”—Iranian “policy”, which is, in fact, so bad that I’ve exhausted a whole week’s supply of quotation marks in one goddamn sentence, which means I’ll have to take out a loan, something I can scarcely afford to…
President Biden proposes a $2.3 trillion infrastructure package. What could go wrong? Well, I can think of a few things.
Sure I can. For example, suppose we spend that $2,300,000,000,000 and end up with 1,000,000+ $2,000,000 bike shelters, like the one at the East Falls Church, Va. Metro station. Since that shed, the time that I visited it, was only utilized to, you know, 2% capacity, a lot of people—mostly Republicans, of course—might think we…
Linda Greenhouse, a few bricks shy of the truth
It never hurts to have a friend in the White House, does it? In what amounts to a love letter to Joe Biden, New York Times Supreme Court gal Linda Greenhouse tells us how the steel entered Joe Biden’s soul during the confirmation hearings for Judge—and not to be Justice—Robert Bork. Up until that time,…
Happy Days Are Here Again! Comparatively speaking, I mean.
Anyone reading this under—well, under fifty, I’m afraid—may not get the reference, to the once famous Democratic victory song, which goes back to Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, but getting Donald Trump out of the White House is sweet indeed, though taking the 2020 election results as a whole, it’s rather like sitting down to eat…
Today the Struggle Begins, Part II
Okay, I was a little overly pessimistic yesterday. Uncle Joe is, I don’t know, 60% of the way to the White House? 75%? 85%? So that’s better. Everything else, not so much. Yes, getting Trump out of the White House will be a staggering improvement, but other than that, it was Democratic failure all the…
Today the Struggle Begins
The odds for a Biden victory do not look good. Possibly the Democrats will win the Senate. Probably they gain strength in the House. Our long national nightmare just got longer. Obviously, we cannot surrender to Trumpism. We have to endure, so that, eventually, when the emotions that brought Trump to power exhaust themselves, the…
Re the election: Wake me when it’s over. But only if Biden wins.
Yes, that’s exactly what I want for the next few weeks: Sleep, blessed sleep. Back in 2016, my worst fears came true,1 and as a result I now try not to think. Not that I’m superstitious or anything—it’s just safer that way! Or at least you sleep better. Sufficient unto the day is the evil…
That is no country for old men. And neither is this one.
Democrats continue to pay the price for the “Democratic Drought”, the absence of new faces for the party during the Obama years, either because existing new faces went down to defeat in the disastrous elections of 2010 and 2014 and never re-emerged or simply never appeared at all, leaving us with fuddie-duddies like Hillary, Bernie,…