The good thing, and perhaps the only good thing, about the Trump Administration (shudder) is that you never really have to wait very long before the real story becomes apparent. This is decidedly not a regular presidency or White House where the shrouds of secrecy and intrigue hide covert actions for months or years at… Continue reading Witch Hunting for Nuts
Author: Robert I. Grundfest
I am a teacher, writer, voice-over artist and rationally opinionated observer of American and international society. While my job is to entertain and engage, my purpose is always to start a conversation.
The Comey Storm
The editorial boards of these reliable conservative newspapers were geniuses in the fall, and they’re geniuses now because they saw what other Republicans refused to see: that Donald Trump was, and is, not fit to be president. I’m not psychoanalysis him. I’ll leave that to the professionals. He doesn’t have the personal skills or ideas… Continue reading The Comey Storm
You Think This Is About Health Care? Sucka.
This is not about health care, and as a matter of fact, the Republican self-immolation this past week has never been about health care. Or health insurance. Or health. Or care. It’s the taxes, stupid. That’s what the Republicans care about. That’s what they think will make them healthy and insure their political future. Taxes.… Continue reading You Think This Is About Health Care? Sucka.
100 Days of Ineptitude
With sincere apologies to Gabriel Garcia Marquez. After all, Marquez knew it wasn’t easy to write a book, which is more than we can say about how easy Donald Trump thought (?) being president was going to be. It’s really a stunning admission given that, well, almost everyone else in the country over the age… Continue reading 100 Days of Ineptitude
Wrong Way Flows The Don(ald)
I imagine that to a Trump supporter, the president’s moves seem like a new direction for the country. For me, we are taking giant steps backwards. It’s not just the denial of climate science or the reversal of protections for LGBTQ citizens, or the hounding of Muslims or threatening North Korea with a ship that… Continue reading Wrong Way Flows The Don(ald)
Who Knew It Could Get So Dangerous?
On the (months ago) heels of a 40 watt light bulb going off in the president’s head about how complicated health care could be, comes another revelation – unstated, about how dangerous the world could be. Perhaps Donald Trump believed that throwing 59 missiles at Syria would startle Presidents Assad and Putin to the point… Continue reading Who Knew It Could Get So Dangerous?
Trump Has a Good Week: The World and Country Suffer
Some in the media are hailing this past week as Trump’s best as president, so let’s take a look at the highlights: The chair of the House committee looking into the Russia scandal had to recuse himself. The Republicans had to alter Senate rules to get their Supreme Court nominee into a seat that was… Continue reading Trump Has a Good Week: The World and Country Suffer
The Emperor Has No…Power
Remember the good old Obama Administration, the one the Republicans accused of treason and fascism and abuse of power because the president had the audacity to use…executive orders? That’s when America was great, right? Congress obstructed the president from improving people’s lives so he leaned on the only legal authority he had to run the… Continue reading The Emperor Has No…Power
The Madness Will Last Beyond March
This is what happens when you’ve hitched your political wagon to a semi-trailer that has “Government Sucks” written on the side in patriotic colors. And when the driver of that semi has no political skill, cogent philosophy or enough sense to know that he’s being led by the nose by unrelenting, uncompromising, unapologetic conservative ideologues… Continue reading The Madness Will Last Beyond March
Reality Sinks In
Really now: What did you expect? The great know-nothing Donald Trump is president, having run on an incoherent mixture of lies, half-truths, innuendo, sexism, nationalism, xeno- and Islamophobia and promises about jobs that he couldn’t possible keep. Add in an ultra right wing Congress that’s committed itself to acting first and thinking about consequences later.… Continue reading Reality Sinks In
To Hell With the Health of the State
I really do try to see the intellectual arguments behind the politicians that utter them and I really do try to keep my judgements closely aligned to the agree/disagree axis, as opposed to the anger/unreasonably mean axis that seems to be in vogue these day. But on both health care and the environment, I just… Continue reading To Hell With the Health of the State
Beware the Idiocies of March
Yes, my friends, this is getting frighteningly Shakespearean. And we have a variety of dysfunctional, murderous, illegal and psychologically damaged examples to choose from. Is the Trump White House Macbeth? Hamlet (soon to be starring Jared Kushner as the prince)? Othello? Any of the histories? We know there’s no Falstaff because this really isn’t funny.… Continue reading Beware the Idiocies of March