“Obscure Rule Could Let Harris Take Over Senate”
Here’s a fascinating idea, with apparently some serious Constitutional and historical precedent: The Vice President could take over the Senate, no matter what the outcome in Georgia on January 5th.
Cowardly GOP Lyin’
Cowardly GOP Lyin’
“Ding-dong, the jerk is gone. But read this before you sing the Hallelujah Chorus”
by Don Pelton I can’t improve on Thomas Frank’s title (above) for his recent essay in the UK Guardian (see excerpt below) for calling attention to the most important political issue in America today. The issue is how the Democratic Party, beginning with Clinton and continuing through Obama, created the conditions for Trumpism to…
Is It Possible for Kamala Harris to Take Over the Senate, Making McConnell Irrelevant?
Thom Hartmann has a fascinating idea, and he finds support for it in the Constitution: Vice President Kamala Harris, he suggests, could take over the Senate and set its agenda, pre-empting McConnell’s role, which he enjoys only because of tradition. The role of Majority Leader is not prescribed in the Constitution, nor in the…
Historian Heather Cox Richardson’s “Letters from an American”
By Don Pelton If you’re not reading the daily dispatches by historian Heather Cox Richardson, her nightly newsletter called Letters from an American, you’re missing one of the most enlightening and enriching commentaries of our time, giving an historical perspective on current events. You can signup to receive it by email here. So far,…