Mike Bloomberg wants to save the Democrat Party from itself. He may be too late. Over the past year, the former New York mayor has grumbled about his newly adopted party’s hard left turn; as a pragmatic pro-business politician and self-made billionaire, he is clearly far removed from the anti-rich progressive panaceas […]
Former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg is stepping toward a presidential run. His move suggests that he, like so many others, considers Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) too extreme to defeat President Trump, and former Vice President Joe Bidentoo weak to successfully represent moderate Democrats. He sees an opening. By every normal political calculus, […]
It is an article of faith among political analysts that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is a master strategist, and indeed her career is studded with significant accomplishments. Yet, more recently, she has made two grievous errors that could well cost Democrats the election in 2020. The first was putting Adam Schiff in […]
Here’s bad news for Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.): Turns out that to pay for “Medicare for All,” we’ll need a whole lot more rich people. Today’s crop just won’t come close to providing the vast sums needed for his single-payer plan. That would appeal to the crusty Vermont senator, who has said billionaires shouldn’t exist, about as […]
President Trump announced Sunday that U.S. special operations forces have killed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the “world’s number one terrorist,” and “the founder and leader of ISIS.” Surely that is cause for celebration. Especially since in recent days New York Democrat Senator Chuck Schumer, among others, have publicly fretted that the president’s recent […]
Joe Biden, astonishingly still the front-runner in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary race, wants to take on the Trump economy. Good luck with that. With the majority of Americans, even many who detest him, giving President Trump high marks for his handling of the country’s financial affairs, Biden will struggle to convince voters that they […]
The New York Times reported recently that Democrats have “resigned themselves to the likelihood that the impeachment proceedings against President Trump will extend into the Christmas season…” The reason for the extended timetable, we read, is that Democrats want to make the “simplest and most devastating case” possible against the president. What […]
The 2020 election is not about capitalism or socialism; it’s not about Ukraine or Syria or Joe Biden or even Donald Trump. The vote in November of next year will be about freedom – personal freedom. It will be about former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Texas) wanting to confiscateAmericans’ guns and restrict religious freedom. It will be about […]
Just when you thought the Democratic primary race could not get any nuttier (Bill de Blasio’s hapless quest sets a high bar), along comes Hillary Clinton accusing Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of being a Russian agent. Or, words to that effect. More accurately, in a podcast hosted by former Obama apparatchik David […]
President Trump’s critics derided the partial trade agreement announced by the White House last Friday. These very same folks who lambasted the president for inflicting a trade war on the global economy, for crushing farmers’ exports and for shattering CEO confidence, seemed disappointed that the dispute might be winding down. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), for […]