1. It wasn't incompetence, it was a miscalculation. Bad yes, but there are many reasons why they were caught out, not least a huge jurisdictional set of issues. 2. The number of National Guard p… (View Post)

I don't think invoking the 25th Amendment achieves much at this point, useful as it is to show that the GOP is 'doing the right thing'. Not least it offers Trump one or two useful effe… (View Post)

Jim Mattis, despite occasionally sounding like an early version Homer Simpson, is a man who knows how to get to the core. Probably the statement of the day. (View Post)

There is still an ongoing security issue in the Capitol Building. There is still going to have to be a sweep around a wide area related to the legislative machine in the city given the pipe bombs (or… (View Post)

I said it over 5 years ago, Trump is deeply corrupt, really only interested in himself and would screw his country. The US, however, can think itself lucky today. The main players in terms of organis… (View Post)