The current border wall issue offers an excellent example of Democrats failing to make their case. In the usual budgeting process last fall, the White House requested Congress to provide $1.6 billion in border security funding. The House and then the Senate passed a budget including this $1.6 billion. Then goaded by right-wing media people … [Read more…]
Five of our 45 Presidents have come into office without winning the most popular votes nationwide. It has happened twice in the last five elections—in 2000 and 2016. Al Gore won the most votes but lost in 2000, and Hilary Clinton received the most votes in 2016 but lost. Clinton had nearly three million more … [Read more…]
After the private meeting that Trump turned public with Democratic leaders on December 11, 2018, Nancy Pelosi said she and many other Democrats considered Trump’s wall “immoral, ineffective and expensive.” That was a good start, but it needs to continue. Once again society may suffer because Democrats do not explain themselves, even when they are … [Read more…]
Issues Over Party The public has come around to several of the positions that liberals and progressives have been pushing for years. A year ago, Peter Dreier in The American Prospect magazine followed the results of various polls and showed that to be the case. This is true on health care, taxes, gun Safety, criminal … [Read more…]