by jpitney | Jul 30, 2023 | Civility, Social Media
Steve Kelman at The HIll: The main suggestion I would make is to serve as a model for civility by being civil oneself. When I am responding to a post, I typically begin my response by writing “Thank you for your post,” or, if this represents my genuine feeling, “Thank...
by jpitney | Jul 29, 2023 | Congress, Russia, Ukraine
Mark Thiessen at WP: Ever since Russia’s full-scale invasion more than a year ago, the anti-Ukraine right has been working to convince the American people and the Republican Party that it is not in the United States’ interest to support Ukraine. They are failing...
by jpitney | Jul 28, 2023 | Congress, House of Representatives
Peter Cohn and Herb Jackson at Roll Call: House Republicans have so thoroughly stacked the earmarking deck in their favor in appropriations bills for the upcoming fiscal year that the top Democratic recipient doesn’t even appear in the top 60 among lawmakers in that...
by jpitney | Jul 27, 2023 | Congress, House of Representatives, Impeachment
Don Wolfensberger at The Hill: Here is the expungement paradox. On the one hand, there is a close precedent involving the president and Congress in which action was taken by one house against a president in a previous Congress. [The 1834 “censure” of...
by jpitney | Jul 26, 2023 | Crime
Jill Lawrence: Democratic pollster Doug Schoen and former Rep. John LeBoutillier, an anti-Trump New York Republican, just floated a full-blown “universal plea agreement” in a weekend op-ed in the Messenger: Federal and state prosecutors suspend their criminal cases...
