With health care and prices still too high, it’s hard for Moms out there to approve how the president is governing. Mom gets pretty disgusted by some of what she sees on television these days.
If only government could be run like local Christmas funds. It shouldn’t matter who gave to the fund or who benefited from it, no court actions necessary to make sure the benefits are released. It shouldn’t hinge on anybody’s budget, or get caught in the crossfire of two battling parties.
Shutdown will only get more painful — its impact is starting to really be felt; plus some thoughts on pardons, ceasefires, benefit of the doubt and golden ballrooms
We’ve had enough of them in our history, haven’t we? I wonder what this country might have come to had Facebook or other social media existed in 1968 or thereabouts. Would Kent State have happened or would things have been even worse?
This Republican party has to have Ronald Reagan rolling in his grave, especially on immigration. The Trump administration’s policies go so against what Reagan believed, it’s as if they really never listened to what he said
Let’s look at this Social Security ‘tax cut’ in Donald Trump’s big bill; and what really happened during and after all that flooding in Texas? What will happen the disaster next?
We have to have something to which to cling as our country continues on a turbulent spin that started Jan. 20. We have to hope our democracy can survive the chaos wrought by the deep divisions in our politics — divisions that threaten families, friendships and freedoms we’ve known all our lives. We have to hope the millions who marched in cities across America had an impact on other political leaders who may be able to keep our democracy from becoming an autocracy.
There is no point in bringing up specific issues now because they will change tomorrow. Or next week. The will of the people will be ignored because 47 believes he can do anything he wants and, despite the Constitution, seems to be getting away with it
Illinois needs the downstate representation that Dick Durbin delivered in replacing him; Consumer Sentiment is kinda scary. It had a score of 50.8, its second lowest in more than 70 years.
President Trump wants to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Why not sell the gulf’s naming rights to the highest bidder? Can you imagine how much money Trump could raise?
