Wall Street Journal (April 8)
“Japan knows the Ukraine stakes.” In contrast, U.S. critics, especially Republican members of Congress are wavering on Ukraine aid, suggesting “the war in Europe is a distraction from more serious threats in Asia.” Tokyo realizes “a Russian victory may encourage Chinese imperialism.” Hopefully, during his visit next week, Prime Minister Kishida “can disabuse” Republicans of their errant notion. His government’s foreign policy “reflects the seriousness of the current geopolitical moment. Japan recognizes that the threat to the well-being of free nations is global.”
Tags: Aid, Asia, China, Congress, Critics, Europe, Free nations, Japan, Kishida, Republican, Russia, Stakes, Threats, U.S., Ukraine, War, Wavering, Well-being
New York Times (May 30)
“No one walked away satisfied by the agreement reached late Saturday to raise the debt ceiling…. Yet with the risk of ruinous economic default less than a week away, Congress should pass this agreement as quickly as possible.”
Tags: Agreement, ASAP, Congress, Debt ceiling, Economic default, Pass, Risk, Ruinous, Satisfied
Wall Street Journal (August 23)
The Government of Japan “is already on the hook to pay out nearly $10 trillion to its creditors.” This may appear *an impossibly large sum to rustle up” when annual tax collections amount to “less than $600 billion.” But today’s “economists talk more about the risk of issuing too little debt” and the U.S. may soon follow Japan’s lead. “Congress is debating trillions of dollars more in proposed spending that would push America’s borrowing toward levels policy makers in Tokyo have long embraced.”
Tags: $10 trillion, Borrowing, Congress, Creditors, Debt, Economists, Government, Japan, Risk, Spending, Tax collections, U.S.
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
Wall Street Journal (January 8)
With 13 days remaining in Trump’s presidency, “the best outcome would be for him to resign to spare the U.S. another impeachment fight.” Though impeachment could send a valuable “message to future Presidents that Congress will protect itself from populists of all ideological stripes willing to stir up a mob and threaten the Capitol or its Members.” Doing this “so late in the term” wouldn’t be “easy or without rancor…. It is best for everyone, himself included, if he goes away quietly.”
Tags: Capitol, Congress, Ideological, Impeachment, Mob, Outcome, Populists, Presidency, Protect, Resign, Trump, U.S.
Los Angeles Times (July 16)
“Demeaning, offensive, nativist, unbecoming a president”—President Trump’s words telling 4 members of Congress to go back to their own countries were all of that and more, but “they were not politically stupid.” The president “wants to run against something scarier than he is, which is why he” wants “to paint Democrats as radical socialists.” He “wants the most liberal and controversial House members to become the face of the Democratic Party so he, the most disruptive and norm-violating president of modern times, will seem like the political equivalent of comfort food, or at worst the devil you know.”
Tags: Congress, Controversial, Demeaning, Disruptive, Liberal, Nativist, Offensive, Politically stupid, Radical, Socialists, Trump, Unbecoming
New York Times (June 9)
“Americans have been far too vulnerable for far too long when they venture online. Companies are free today to monitor Americans’ behavior and collect information about them from across the web and the real world.” U.S. lawmakers have fallen behind their European peers. In fact, widespread compliance with the EU’s GDPR means that “technocrats in Brussels are doing more for Americans’ digital privacy rights than their own Congress.” Finally, however, “there finally seems to be enough momentum to pass a federal law.”
Tags: Behavior, Brussels, Collect Web, Compliance, Congress, DPR, EU, GDPR, Lawmakers, Online, Technocrats, U.S., Vulnerable
Washington Post (May 31)
“If congressional Democrats will temper their enthusiasm for impeachment with lucidity about the nation’s needs and their political self-interest, they will understand the self-defeating nature of a foredoomed attempt to remove a president for aesthetic reasons. Such reasons are not trivial but they are insufficient, particularly when almost all congressional Republicans are complicit in, by their silence about, President Trump’s comportment.”
Tags: Complicit, Comportment, Congress, Democrats, Impeachment, Insufficient, Needs, Republicans, Self-defeating, Self-interest, Silence, Trump
Washington Post (May 22)
Despite the hubbub, “you shouldn’t expect impeachment anytime soon.” You may be certain President Trump has “already committed the ‘high crimes and misdemeanors’” necessary for impeachment, but that hurdle is “ill-defined. In the end, it amounts to ‘anything Congress thinks merits removal from office.’” This means “President Trump isn’t going to be impeached and removed from office unless the Republican Party decides it wants him gone.”
Tags: Congress, High crimes and misdemeanors, Hubbub, Ill-defined, Impeachment, Republican Party, Trump
Newsweek (April 17)
“The Mueller Report will be interesting for what it tells us about the evidence Congress will be considering in determining whether to impeach Donald J. Trump for obstruction of justice.” Most of “the offenses, including the felony campaign crimes we already know Trump has been accused of by federal prosecutors, are more serious than the offenses the Republicans impeached President Bill Clinton for not long ago.”
Tags: Clinton, Congress, Evidence, Felony, Impeach, Mueller Report, Obstruction of justice, Prosecutors, Trump
