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The White House issued a proclamation last week, of the sort that most presidents have issued about historical events that deserve commemorating, but that were missing, for the most part, during the Trump
It is only occasionally mentioned, perhaps because the details illuminated a truth people prefer to look away from, so they can pretend that sort of thing could never happen here.
As usual, the catalyst for the acrimony was Trump himself.
As the Washington Post summarized in a 2017 article, “Obama’s approach often seemed reducible to a single imperative: Don’t make things worse.”
Vocal support of the president pre- and post-election exists right alongside his philanthropic and mission outreach — such as recent efforts in the Bahamas — through the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association
In truth, though, the state has been the center of attention for a while because of actions of party members — and the gaze has not been kind.
Finkelstein’s style was “unmistakable,” wrote Howard Kurtz in The Washington Post in 1996, “an avalanche of attack ads painting Democrats as ‘liberal,’ ‘ultraliberal,’ ‘embarrassingly liberal’ and
Trump knew of and directed the Trump-Moscow [hotel] negotiations throughout the campaign and lied about it.”
But while all of Cohen’s statements should be regarded with caution, there is a significant factor that suggests that Trump’s longtime fixer may finally be fixed on the truth.
OPINION — Both CNN and The Washington Post ran stories Wednesday stating that Robert Mueller will deliver his secret report to the Justice Department next week or soon thereafter.
the reaction in the House chamber or the post-speech punditry.
Lamar Alexander, reflecting the freedom of a Republican senator retiring in 2020, got it right when he wrote in a Washington Post op-ed, “Government shutdowns should be as off-limits to budget negotiations
Sure, there have been bursts of post-election GOP independence on Capitol Hill, such as the party’s refusal this week to (mixed metaphor alert) walk the plank over Trump’s wall.
Crisis actor Every post-war president before Trump, with the conspicuous exception of Bill Clinton, had to confront fearful times. From Harry Truman to George H.W.
In truth, the only legislative power the House Democrats will have in 2019 is the ability to say “no.”
On the day after the budget deal was announced in 1990, The New York Post headline screamed, “Read My Lips: I Lied,” while The Times-Picayune in New Orleans added, “Re-Read My Lips,” and the Allentown
But unshackling GOP legislators from Donald Trump is a lock trick that would have baffled Houdini.
The truth is that all the polling in the world cannot prepare you for a midterm election with this broad a terrain.
This latest installment of Clinton buckraking should remind Americans to appreciate the altruistic post-presidential example of Jimmy Carter.