Opinion · 116th Congress
While Trump tweets, Pelosi prays and Schiff parodies
OPINION — Every now and then, politics simply goes off the rails, plowing through the collective American psyche like a runaway train.
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OPINION — Every now and then, politics simply goes off the rails, plowing through the collective American psyche like a runaway train.
And then, two days ago, people went through the same kind of upsetting moment when the China talks went off the rails and the markets reacted.
If Pelosi can keep her caucus between those guard rails, she’ll have managed the almost impossible and kept the integrity of her branch of government intact in the process.
As a record-breaking number of travelers hit the road, the rails and the skies for Thanksgiving, it is probably with no small amount of dread.
Sure, the Democrats, if they take back the House, could go off the rails as the Republicans did in impeaching Bill Clinton.
Going to pieces Without a comprehensive strategy, huge swaths of infrastructure will be left out, including roads, bridges, rails, and municipal water and wastewater systems.
When a Democratic president like Barack Obama or Bill Clinton rails against tax breaks for the wealthy and loopholes for the special interests, Republicans line up to denounce him for practicing
Instead, it’s like we’re living through a mashup of Hollywood’s best (or worst) 1960s-era government-off-the-rails films: “The Manchurian Candidate,” “Seven Days in May” and “Dr.
He rails against leaks and still picks up the phone and calls reporters himself. His staff is spinning out of control. He won’t stop tweeting.
He rails about debt but would slash revenue without enough spending cuts to offset the loss of tax dollars — because there simply isn’t enough money available to cut.
While Donald Trump rails against certain immigrants, his wife sounds just like so many who have made a home here, some serving in the military, opening businesses and becoming neighbors.
Instead, the Republican Party has gone off the rails with its decision to anoint as its putative nominee Donald Trump — that bilious billionaire whose arrogance is only exceeded by his ignorance