Tag Archives: Republican Party
Voting Day Prediction
I’ve never done it before, but tonight I expect to watch the returns in the US midterm elections. Some of them anyway. Even though I don’t have a vote. I am curious as to the outcome. Mostly, I want to see if my gut feeling about this election is correct. According to all the polls, […]
Electoral Interference – II
This post may be outdated by the time you read it. It was completely rewritten once already. The original mocked Donald Trump for ordering the Justice Department to prevent the certification of the Alaska Senatorial election should the Republican candidate lose. Such an attempt to interfere in the race before the votes were cast was […]
Electoral Interference – I
The words mean different things to different people, but there is no doubt Donald Trump is against electoral interference. Unless he is the one doing the interfering. He recently suggested Canada and Canadians were trying to influence the outcome of the US midterm elections that are taking place next week. He seemed quite upset about […]
Diesel Prices
Donald Trump has made his deal with the devil in the hopes of lowering American diesel prices. It remains to be seen whether Vladimir Putin’s promise brings lower prices at the pump before the American midterm elections. Is this a cynical move on Trump’s part just weeks after expanding sanctions against Russia’s oil and gas […]
Inauguration Day – Looking Back I
Donald Trump is being sworn in today as the 47th President of the United States of America. We’ve been here before. Here’s what I wrote eight years ago today. I think it still has value, even though we know Trump much better now than we did in 2017. There will be protests today, as Donald […]
Bowing to the Inevitable
It feels like 1968. The whole world is watching. Again. Five minutes into the June 27 American presidential debate, it was obvious Joe Biden was showing signs of his age. For the good of the country, he needed to withdraw his candidacy. He and his family seemed to be the only ones who didn’t understand […]
In His Own Words
Did you watch Donald Trump’s speech to the Republican National Convention Thursday night? Neither did I. It isn’t that I didn’t want to hear what he has to say. I was curious as to the tone in the wake of last week’s assassination attempt. But I write speeches for a living. Listening to Donald Trump […]
Are These Thoughts Dated?
In June 2016, right after the UK voted to leave the EU, I shared some thoughts about what the Brexit vote would mean for US politics and the upcoming presidential election. Seemed obvious to me, but apparently it wasn’t to the Democrats. Re-reading, I see some Canadian parallels as well. One paragraph in particular struck […]
Does It Matter?
The second impeachment trial of Donald Trump is underway in the US Senate, and all the experts are saying he will be acquitted. Not because he isn’t guilty, but because most Senators will vote according to political loyalties rather than the evidence presented. Because of that I haven’t been following the proceedings beyond reading the […]
Mailing It In
The US election is in two weeks from today, and the ballots are starting to roll in by the millions. President Trump has been screaming about massive fraud. But does he have credibility? Due to the pandemic, an unprecedented number of Americans are voting by mail this year. In ordinary times, mail-in ballots are a […]
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