I wonder if Victoria Sparz could actually defect to the Democrats over this: she quit the Republicans, but still voted Johnson for speaker. (View Post)

I was very much opposed to the bail out, and have been proved conclusively wrong. (View Post)

Quite: It's extraordinarily self harming behaviour. (View Post)

Not quite: in a previous life I was the energy lead at a large investment fund. And my investment in Polish shale gas was one of my worst missteps. (View Post)

Maybe it would be better to just pull the bandage off now, and actually dissolve NATO. That would also give lie to the suggestion that Ukraine is trying to drag the US into war with Russia. (View Post)