Tag: Saturday Night Massacre

• Fiddling while the USA burns

  Reputedly Emperor Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Republicans pretty much reenacted this event this week when the Senate passed its version of a “tax reform” bill in the wee hours yesterday. As if Americans were not sufficiently appalled by the House’s version of the bill, the Senate’s version turned out to be even more of…

  Mark

  December 3, 2017

  Politics 2017

  Donald Trump, Election 2018, Mitch McConnell, Oligarchy, PT Barnum, Republicans, Roy Moore, Saturday Night Massacre, Tax reform

• Do we have a constitutional crisis now?

  Last November before Donald Trump assumed office I opined that it wouldn’t be long before we had a constitutional crisis. It wasn’t a hard call to make and I was hardly alone is predicting how his administration was likely to unfold. Tuesday’s abrupt firing of FBI Director James Comey though seemed to suggest to many…

  Mark

  May 11, 2017

  Politics 2017

  Archibald Cox, Constitutional crisis, Donald Trump, Elliot Richardson, Henry Kissinger, James Comey, Michael Flynn, Mike Pence, Republicans, Richard Nixon, Sally Yates, Saturday Night Massacre, William Ruckelshaus