Be warned, the Vice President’s foreign policy positions invoke a messianism not seen since the Bush Administration.
Barbara BOLAND
As Congress lurches towards impeachment, complete with Cabinet-level subpoenas, the specter of a Mike Pence presidency looms larger.
Americans don’t do it voluntarily, but mainly because they don’t understand the way the US system works. Part of that is the nation’s legal system; part of it isn’t, but is instead international.
The impeachment of Donald Trump is more likely than a lot of people realize. While the Democrats are over the moon at finally getting something on the President to hang on him, the reality is the Republicans who will ultimately decide Trump’s fate.
Impeachment is a political process, not a legal one. There is no legal standard for ‘high crimes and misdemeanors’ as stipulated in the Constitution. That definition will stand on what the nominally Republican-controlled Senate think.
There are several correlations currently being made between the current move by the US Congress to impeach Donald Trump for high crimes and misdemeanors and a similar action that resulted in the resignation of President Richard Nixon as a result of the Watergate scandal. However, there is a major difference between then and now: The Internet and the dissonant cacophony of polemics from non-journalists whose sole goal is to muddy the informational waters with far-out conspiracy theories and libelous prose.
When it comes to marketing, one of the most basic and yet most important skills is the ability to turn your weakness into a strength or more importantly the enemy’s strength into a weakness. If your enemy is experienced call him “old and out of touch” if he is young and brash call him “dangerous and inexperienced”. In a war of words always go right for the enemy’s strength head on.
This isn’t about the law; it’s about circumventing another vote by the deplorables in 2020.
Peter VAN BUREN
But if they’re trying to shoehorn some broad or flippant statement by Trump into a bribery charge, it will crash with voters.
Peter VAN BUREN
This is the moment Democrats—the entire #Resistance—has been waiting for. A formal inquiry, announced by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday, has brought the much anticipated impeachment train into the station, ready for boarding.
Rep. and Presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) brought the hammer and the house down on Twitter for calling out President Trump on subordinating the US military to a foreign power’s prerogative.
There is consensus amongst the Washington foreign policy élite that all factions in Iran understand that – ultimately – a deal with Washington on the nuclear issue must ensue. It somehow is inevitable. They view Iran simply as ‘playing out the clock’, until the advent of a new Administration makes a ‘deal’ possible again. And then Iran surely will be back at the table, they affirm.
Review of ‘Malevolent Republic : A Short History of New India’ by K. S. Komireddi ‘The idea of a peace-loving, nonviolent India exists, persists, as part of a selectively constructed and assiduously cultivated national self-image in the midst of a society pervaded by social and political violence…’ argued Prof Upinder Singh, in her well-researched voluminous book ‘ … Continue reading Wishful visions, dishonest tales and bitter fruit →
