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Wartime Effort, Free to Speak

Friday, January 22, 2021

The Planning Department: The Biden team arrived at the White House this week only to find that the Trump administration had no real federal plan for vaccinating hundreds of millions of Americans against the coronavirus. The Trump people merely shipped vaccines …

Grownup in the House, Undoing Trump

Thursday, January 21, 2021

A Different Tone: A full grown adult was inaugurated yesterday as the 46th President of the United States. Joe Biden hit the ground with a speech that was kind, reassuring, intelligent, and above all, absent anger.   “So now on this hallowed ground …

Biden Arrives With Class, Trump Slinks Away

Wednesday, January 20, 2021

Lights in the Darkness: Joe Biden, his wife Jill, and extended family arrived in Washington last night and immediately went to a memorial for the Covid-19 dead at the reflecting pool on the National Mall.   Biden spoke after a rendition of …

Trump’s Last Day, State of Siege

Tuesday, January 19, 2021

King Lear: Facing his last full day in office today, President Trump has been closeted in the White House drawing up a list of pardons and raging about his fate, according to reports from the inside.   NY Times reporter Maggie Haberman posted …

Undoing Trump, Half a Million

Monday, January 18, 2021

Ordering Up: Joe Biden is moving into the White House this week with a satchel full of executive orders to get the country moving, fight the coronavirus, and undo the Trump Administration.   The day he takes office, Biden plans to return the …

Vaccination Blitz

Saturday, January 16, 2021

Shot in the Arm: With daily deaths approaching an average of 4,000 a day, President-elect Joe Biden yesterday promised an ambitious effort to vaccinate Americans against the coronavirus. “You have my word,” he said, “we will manage the hell out of this …

Impeached Again, Palace of Lies

Thursday, January 14, 2021

Impeached: Donald Trump, the President of self-proclaimed firsts and superlatives, yesterday became the first American president to be impeached twice. To paraphrase Trump, “It’s like nothing you’ve ever seen before.”   Trump is accused of “incitement of insurrection” in last week’s capitol …

Impeachment Today

Wednesday, January 13, 2021

Being There: The House of Representatives is expected to begin debating the second impeachment of President Trump at 9 this morning.   Vice President Mike Pence rejected calls for him to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove President Trump saying, “I will not …

State Capitols Threatened, Article Introduced

Tuesday, January 12, 2021

Urgent Threat: As House Democrats introduced a single article of impeachment against President Trump, the FBI issued a warning about plots for armed protests in all 50 state capitols if the President is removed before his term is done.   And just …

How to Get Rid of Trump?

Monday, January 11, 2021

The Trumpdown: Articles of impeachment against President Trump may be introduced in the House as soon as today, but Democratic leaders are talking about waiting several months before putting Trump on trial in the Senate.   The Republicans still control the Senate …