Michael O. Allen

Tag: Republicans

  • Let’s make all members of Congress undergo security clearance

    The situation surrounding George Santos—whose identity, even at this late date, we’re still not sure of, what his purpose is, and who exactly is behind installing him in our government—sets me thinking. Why not make people elected to Congress undergo Top Secret Security Clearance? Our democracy is in an existential crisis, especially because one of…

  • Republicans’ Frankenstein Monster

    Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) did something today that Democrats should have been doing everyday for the last eight years. He called out Congressional Republicans for their unrelenting obstructionism. History will look back and note that the Republican Congress treated President Obama with unprecedented disrespect. No one expected them to agree with everything that…

  • Donald Trump’s Noxious Vision

    After Donald Trump’s scary, dark musings last night–laden as it was with lies, threats and his profoundly disturbing vision of what he aims to do as president–a little reflection is in order. Think about it. Is our common public weal more imperiled today than it was in those dark days of 2008? Yet, neither of…

  • Trump: “More Profiling, Please”

    It is no longer a rumor that Bill Clinton talked to Donald Trump in the weeks before he ran for president. For the people who believe that, Trump gives them ammunition daily. It’s like Trump calls the HRC campaign headquarters each day to get his talking points about how to further kneecap himself. Or, maybe…

  • The 2013 State of the Union Address

    February 13, 2013 | 1:01:01 | Public Domain Remarks by the President in the State of the Union Address U.S. Capitol Washington, D.C. 9:15 P.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, members of Congress, fellow citizens: Fifty-one years ago, John F. Kennedy declared to this chamber that “the Constitution makes us not rivals…

  • Sanders’ October 2010 Filibuster Against Corporate Greed

    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhOAzqfMoms[/youtube]So many people are talking about Rand Paul’s filibuster of John Brennan’s CIA nomination in the U.S. Senate that I thought I would remind people of Vermont’s Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders made a much loved speech on the senate floor that was turned into a book. It was in Oct. 2010 and the U.S. Senate…

  • Mitt Romney’s Extraordinary Lie

    He didn’t have to tell this particular lie because it gains him absolutely nothing. Yet, he felt need to perpetrate this particular fiction. Why? Mitt Romney said during his acceptance speech last night that Republicans rallied behind President Obama when he won in 2008, hoping that he would succeed. “We are a good and generous…

  • Strange Political Seasons

    I keep hearing how the Congressional race in New York is, somehow, a referendum on the presidency of Barack Obama. Usually, I would scoff at such fatuous prognosticating. But then, it’s been a strange political season. So, why not? This one will end when Obama leaves office. Things will return back to normal. The only…

  • The Gentleman from Vermont

    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcLWDGb0RqA[/youtube] As only he can tell it, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) took to the Senator floor to spell out some truths. Love0 Share Tweet Share Pin

  • A Recurring Nightmare

    The BP Deepwater Horizon catastrophe is a perfect Republican Party trap: Watch as a Democratic administration and Congress drown in the oil disaster while they clean up at the polls. Then Republicans return to office and begin the cycle by laying the bombs that’ll detonate under the next Democratic administration. Does anyone remember Dick Cheney’s…