Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., needs to go nuclear – now. That’s rumored to be the pitch from President Trump when he meets with Senate Republicans Tuesday, and the president is correct. There’s an election coming up and Republicans are furious that their hard-won majorities in the House and the Senate […]
Tear your eyes away from the Stormy Daniels brouhaha for a moment (I know, it’s hard) and here’s what you’ll find: a jobless rate that is the lowest it’s been in 17 years; modest inflation; a growing number of people back in the workforce; small-business profits at the highest level in at least 45 years; […]
Poof. One minute, Eric Schneiderman was one of the country’s foremost attorneys general, revered as a champion of the #MeToo movement and nemesis of President Trump. The next minute, Schneiderman was gone, resigning in a heartbeat after being accused of assaulting women. How does that happen? It happens because people knew. The New […]
l At the Milken Conference this week, Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Rossasked: Who thinks China’s large trade surplus has hurt their growth? Not one hand went up. Why then, he suggested, isn’t our large trade deficit a negative for growth? He has a point. Critics claim the Trump administration’s aggressive trade policies are creating damaging uncertainty, and […]
“A lot of you don’t know who I am”, said Michelle Wolf early in her odious remarks at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Unfortunately, now we do. And that, of course was the point. Wolf, the distinctly unfunny comedienne who spoke at this year’s annual celebration of Beltway journalism, created headlines by making nasty and […]
Kirsten Gillibrand has a big idea: make the Postal Service lend money to high-risk borrowers. What could possibly go wrong? The junior senator from New York thinks that turning the Post Office into a financial services outfit for Americans with low or erratic incomes unable to access traditional banking outlets is a winner, for two […]
Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) says the Democratic National Committee’s lawsuit against the Trump campaign, Wikileaks and the country of Russia will distract from the Democrats’ economic platform as we head into the midterm elections. What economic platform? Democrats seem especially bereft of ideas, especially as the economy barrels ahead, lifting wages and reducing unemployment. What […]
Who is James Comey? Is he the world’s tallest Boy Scout, as he tries to convince us through five hours of insufferable earnestness with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos? Or is he a self-promoter who has lied on several occasions, leaked information to the press, and who conducted a sham investigation of Hillary Clinton, whom he […]
Will House Speaker Paul Ryan’s retirement increase the odds of President Trump’s impeachment? Maybe, but Democratic leaders don’t want to talk about it. President Obama’s former Attorney General Eric Holder and former top Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod, among others, want their liberal allies to shut up about impeaching President Trump. They fear that threats […]
Facebook’s free ride is over. That will be the takeaway from Mark Zuckerberg’s appearances this week before Congress. No longer will Facebook have the ability to cash in through unfettered commercialization of users’ data. Either Congress will move to regulate how the social media giant sells the information users post on its pages, or Facebook […]