Democrat lawmakers agreed with Trump’s wall — 25 percent of the way

There’s a question I meant to raise a few weeks ago about the budget debate in Washington and President Trump’s Great Wall idea. “What would you prefer Congress to fund — $5 billion for border security or $5.7 billion for a border wall?” Yeah. That was a debate. In real life. Sure, I think paying […]

THE MYTH OF TRUMP CHANGING THE GOP

Oooh, baby — this sounds desperate. Wall Street Journal’s Gerald Seib just made an indirect appeal to the Party of No Brains supporters’ sense of ideology as a way to stop Donald Trump’s raging campaign for the party’s nomination. In his Donald Trump Nomination Would Change GOP Philosophy, Not Just Leadership piece, Seib writes about […]

THE PARTY FOR SEGREGATION!

New readers who wonder why I call American Democrats the Party of No Guts and Republicans the Party of No Brains can look to East-West Gateway’s latest Where We Stand report (pdf) on St. Louis Racial segregation for part of my reasoning. Go ahead and point out the PNBs’ legendary record of racial hang-ups to […]

WHY DEMOCRATS CAN LOSE THE SENATE THIS NOVEMBER

In the coming mid-term election battle between the Party of No Brains and the Party of No Guts, you will hear the latter point to the much-improved US economy as a reason for why they must maintain control over the Senate and retake the House. But this chart published by Bloomberg in August explains why Democrats […]

WHAT BUSH JR MEANT ABOUT ‘OUR WAY OF LIFE’

China’s Vice Finance Minister Zhu Guangyao made a statement earlier this week about President Obama and Washington’s risk of a debt default due to the current partisan battle that I found a bit unsettling: “As the world’s largest economy and the issuer of the major reserve currency in the world, it is important for […]

STOCKMAN ON REPUBLICANS – REBELS WITH A JACKED-UP CAUSE

(Laughing) A “Coalition of gangs.” You’ll find that I will make regular references to US Democrats as the Party of No Guts and Republicans as the Party of No Brains, and I have a suspicion that Former Reaganomics architect and budget director David Stockman would agree with me on the latter based on a recent […]