Paul Ryan on Trump’s Muslim Ban

Paul Ryan on Trump’s Muslim Ban

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A curious statement by Speaker Paul Ryan, "This is not conservatism. What was proposed yesterday is not what this party stands for. And, more importantly, it's not what this country stands for"...Maybe Ryan speaking out like this is exactly what is needed to start shutting down Trump’s insanity, lest he continue on and win the nomination.
Guest Post: Delaware’s Government Channels Its Inner Trump

Guest Post: Delaware’s Government Channels Its Inner Trump

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Secretary of Finance Tom Cook’s recent op-ed epitomizes the strategy of hiding things in plain sight.  Secretary Cook and Governor Jack Markell’s revenue review panel has concealed among its recommendations for making Delaware tax revenues more “elastic” an ideologically driven agenda of tax cuts for the wealthy and out-of-state corporations at the expense of our state’s middle class, senior citizens and local business owners.  That our governor could sanction such recommendations is a prime example of how politics in Delaware has been hollowed out in favor of profit taking. Let’s first notice that in a era of declining revenues and increasingly challenging budgets to balance Governor Markell’s instructions forbade raising new revenue:  “if a recommendation was made that could be expected to generate additional revenue for the state, then a corresponding revenue reduction would also be proposed to offset it.”  This means (in English) that Cook’s panel was not interested in providing more money to balance our budget, but in changing who pays the bills.
Why Does The Republican Establishment Expect Trump To Apologize To Megyn Kelly?

Why Does The Republican Establishment Expect Trump To Apologize To Megyn Kelly?

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I've come to accept that the Republican establishments only chance of getting rid of Donald Trump is to get him to self implode - since not one of these professed leaders will ever take him on. The best they can do is lob a few personal attacks at him, tsk tsk his tone, and (dare I say it?) point out how un-PC he is. What they don't do is call out his policy or the substance of his comments. When Trump made his remarks about Mexican immigrants and the GOP feigned outrage he said, "The crime is raging and it’s violent. And if you talk about it, it’s racist.” Ooh, that line is straight out of the Republican playbook. In GOPland, being called a racist is a gazillion times worse than being a racist. When Trump said, “He’s (John McCain) not a war hero. He’s a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.” the Republican establishment thought, "Ah ha! Now we've got him!" What they ignored was the fact that Republicans are quite comfortable in not supporting all the troops. Swiftboating and booing a gay serviceman is a-okay with them. Which brings us to Trump's remarks about Megyn Kelly.