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.
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.
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.