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Do you want Trump to succeed or America?

Those 38 Republicans who frustrated Donald Trump’s demand that he be freed from the inconvenience of a debt ceiling vote early in his term were truly impressive. These are guys with whom yours truly disagrees much of the time. What Trump’s smarter knee-jerk defenders really believe is a matter of speculation. Scott Jennings used to work for normie President George W. Bush. He clearly sees his current job as left tackle, defending Trump from charges of lunacy, whatever their merit. Thus, he turned on these deficit hawks for not submitting to the demand that they remove a ...

Biden won’t be short sold forever

In her iconic song “Big Yellow Taxi,” an obvious lament about American presidents who have been underappreciated while in office only to finally be given their due with time’s passage, famed presidential historian Joni Mitchell wondered, “Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone?” Professor Mitchell clearly foresaw C-SPAN’s Presidential Historians Survey, a periodic survey of historians on presidential leadership asked to rank past presidents on the basis of 10 criteria. The survey illustrates how presidents who leave office with ...

Wishing for Santa-like efficiency in US

It’s the most wonderful time of the year, and Santa is done checking his list and deciding who’s been naughty and nice. Of course, whenever he stops by the U.S. Capitol, he finds evidence of a lot of naughty fiscal irresponsibility that has given us a budget and government that overflow with inefficiency and waste. So my holiday wish is that, one way or another, we get some fiscal cheer by putting a few government-run programs under the privatization tree. Let’s unwrap the possibilities! When it comes to deliveries, Santa’s sleigh reigns supreme. The U.S. Postal Service, on the ...

A light in the darkness

The week before Christmas in 2006, on the same day I lost my job, doctors gave my wife six months to live. I had to be the one to break the news to her. I sat in her recovery room following a lung biopsy surgery, waited for her to be awake and aware, and told her the doctors discovered she had an aggressive form of cancer that had spread to her lungs. There was nothing they could do. Merry Christmas. That night, in the hospital, though my wife insisted she was fine, we had the talks you only have when you do not want to have them. We had a 1-year-old. Where would I move? Should I get ...

Biden’s commutations racket

President Joe Biden, or whoever is running the White House, grotesquely abused the pardon power, yet again. Biden commuted the sentences of 37 out of 40 of the prisoners on federal death row in response to the lobbying of opponents of the death penalty, keeping intact his nearly unbroken record of bending to left-wing pressure groups while in office. Biden, or whoever is running the White House, put out a statement averring that the president has long been committed to “ensuring a fair and effective justice system.” Even if true, this is a non-sequitur, since there’s nothing ...

A Christmas in Congress column

“The hopes and fears of all the years ...” — Traditional Christmas carol WASHINGTON — Oh, the drama. The closing days of this Congress were a mad rush, more so than usual since the white mansion up Pennsylvania Avenue will soon change hands. The holiday parties given by the Bidens enchanted guests with a melancholy undertow. The candles at the court burned bright, but this was their last lights. Now what, for our little town? If the marble memorials of the capital city could talk, they’d say: What will 2025 be like? How would President-elect Donald Trump seek to gain ...