LA Times (January 13)
“Trump was rightly impeached. Now the Senate must do its job and convict…. There is no reasonable way to defend how Trump undermined the public’s faith in elections for his own gain, or how he recklessly stoked the passions of his followers in the hope of intimidating Congress into voiding Biden’s win.”
Tags: Biden, Congress, Convict, Defend, Elections, Gain, Impeached, Intimidating, Passions, Reasonable, Recklessly, Senate, Trump, Undermined
New York Times (January 12)
“As America went through a week from hell, with the prospect of fresh hells yet to come, financial markets signaled … growing optimism.” This actually makes sense. Other things that happened, aside from the act of insurrection, like the Georgia win giving Democrats control over the Senate. This makes “a huge difference for economic policy, making it almost certain that we’ll have an additional large relief package, and fairly likely that we’ll get some much needed investment in infrastructure.”
Tags: Control, Democrats, Economic policy, Financial markets, Georgia, Insurrection, Investment, Optimism, Relief package, Senate, Sense, Signaled, U.S.
Washington Post (August 11)
“If the economy is in a rut, the party in power usually tries to maximize the power of incumbency to improve conditions before an election,” but these are strange times. “This White House and the current Senate Republican majority… are doing everything in their power to minimize or even prevent a stimulus deal.” Perhaps “Trump still does not understand he has wrecked the economy.” Come November, it looks like “he and a whole lot of Republicans are going to join the list of the unemployed.”
Tags: Economy, Election, Incumbency, Majority, Power, Prevent, Republican, Rut, Senate, Stimulus deal, White House, Wrecked
Los Angeles Times (February 5)
“No one should be surprised that President Trump was acquitted by the U.S. Senate. That outcome was a virtual certainty from the start of the impeachment process. But that doesn’t make it any less disheartening and dangerous.” The President’s acquittal “is a stain on American history and a dangerous marker of what’s to come.”
Tags: Acquittal, Dangerous, Disheartening, Impeachment, Senate, Stain, Surprised, Trump, U.S.
NBC News (January 20)
“On Tuesday, the impeachment trial of President Donald John Trump will begin in the United States Senate. It ought to be a moment of pride in our constitutional order, a testament to the framers’ vision that no one, not even a president, is above the law.” But instead of “patriotic duty,” this trial is being driven by fear. Ultimately, in years to come, “many Republican senators will wish they’d been driven not by fear of a bully, but by the courage of their convictions, and pride in carrying out their solemn duties.”
Tags: Bully, Constitutional order, Convictions, Courage, Fear, Impeachment, Patriotic duty, Pride, Senate, Trial, Trump, U.S.
LA Times (January 14)
“Convicting Trump will take a two-thirds vote of the Senate, which means that even if all Democrats and independents vote to remove the president, he’ll remain in office unless at least 20 Republicans turn against him. Those are long odds, and if McConnell has his way on witnesses, they’ll stay long.”
Tags: Convicting, Democrats, Independents, McConnell, Remove, Republicans, Senate, Trump, Vote, Witnesses
New York Times (September 30)
Driving “the United States government to the brink of shutting down,” the House of Representatives “decided that crippling health care reform was more important than keeping the government’s doors open. It was one of the most irresponsible votes since the last shutdown in 1996.” The Senate should “reject the entire House package immediately,” but “it may be impossible to prevent a shutdown at this point if the House continues to prefer dueling to governing.”
Tags: Governing, Government, Health care reform, House of Representatives, Ｉrresponsible, Senate, Shutdown, U.S.
Washington Post (August 2)
The Senate gave up on climate change legislation. There aren’t enough votes. Ironically, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) just made separate releases underscoring “the risks humanity runs if it continues to pump carbon into the atmosphere.” The EPA reaffirmed the scientific consensus that global warming is occurring while NOAA found that each decade has gotten warmer during the last 50 years.
Tags: Climate change, EPA, NOAA, Senate
