Political Junkie

Now that my cousin’s wedding has come and gone, I have the opportunity to weigh in on the political developments of last week. For starters, Eric Swalwell became the first major candidate to drop out of the 2020 presidential race; just weeks after the first Democratic debate.  This should not have come as a surprise because last time around, one candidate dropped out of the race after the first Republican debate (Rick Perry).  As a sanctimonious Congressional Democrat from a deep blue House district in California, no rationale existed for Swalwell’s candidacy.  Pete Buttigieg has cornered the market on the “next generation candidates” while Kamala Harris has cornered the market on self-righteous California prosecutors.  Swalwell can now go back to his primary job : changing diapers. However, Swalwell’s disappearance from the 2020 Democratic field did not reduce the number of Democratic Presidential candidates. Billionaire Tom Steyer announced his intent...

Roughly two years ago, Canadian political commentators Lauren Southern and Faith Goldy released a video called “Canadian Politics for Americans,” which focused on the battle for the leadership of the Conservative Party.   In an effort to help their American audience, the duo compared every candidate for Conservative Party leadership to a 2016 Republican Presidential candidate.   Now, I have decided to do the same thing for all of the 2020 Democratic Presidential candidates.   I have compared each Democratic candidate to a candidate for the Republican nomination for President in 2016.   While many of these candidates have absolutely nothing in common ideology, they do share commonalities when it comes to their personalities and/or the situation they found themselves in prior to running for President.   My comparisons do not take race or gender into consideration at all.   In the interest of time and space, I will only come up with Republican equivalents for...

The Democratic Presidential field continues to grow faster than the national debt and the number of illegal immigrants living in the country.   Nearly ten Democrats have announced their intentions to run for President, or at least form an exploratory committee; New Jersey Senator Cory “Spartacus” Booker, South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro, Former Maryland Congressman and gerrymandering beneficiary John Delaney, Hawaii Congresswoman and neoconservative dartboard Tulsi Gabbard, New York Senator and girl-power feminist Kirsten Gillibrand, California Senator and religious bigot Kamala Harris, Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar, Massachusetts Senator and faux Native American “Goofy” Elizabeth Warren.   However, a candidate who has not officially entered the race for President has already led to mass hysteria among national Democrats as well as their allies in the mainstream media. At first glance, Howard Schultz seems like ...

Just fourteen days into 2019, it looks like the liberals have no desire to lay down their arms and surrender their war on Christianity.   While Christianity and religion as a whole have had victories in court and at the ballot box in the past year, that does not mean that liberals have decided to agree to disagree with Christians. In the 2014 Supreme Court decision Hobby Lobby v. Burwell, five out of nine justices agreed that companies had the right to refuse to cover employees’ birth control if their   religious beliefs prevented then from doing so in good conscience. Typically, when the Supreme Court makes a decision, it sets a precedent for lower courts to follow when similar cases come before them.   Lower courts typically abide by the doctrine of stare decisis, Latin for “let the decision stand.” However, as Ann Coulter pointed out , liberals’ definition of stare decisis is “what’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.”   Liberals treat Supreme C...

And that’s a wrap.   Primary season came to a close Thursday night when Cynthia Nixon did not end up capturing the Democratic Nomination for Governor in New York State .   Nixon ended up capturing slightly more than a third of the Democratic Primary vote, slightly more than Incumbent Governor Andrew Cuomo’s 2014 primary opponent, Zephyr Teachout.   New York City Councilman Jumaane Williams came much closer to ousting Incumbent Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul thanks to a strong showing in Brooklyn and Manhattan .   Hochul can attribute her victory to a strong performance in Upstate New York and the three remaining New York City boroughs.   As primary season came to a close, Teachout, a Fordham University Law Professor, ended up losing her third bid for political office.   Teachout ran for New York State Attorney General this year two years after running to represent New York ’s 19 th Congressional District (which she lost to now-Congressman John F...

Shortly after several Democratic Senators including Kamala Harris and Dick Durbin, suggested that the confirmation hearings for Judge Brett Kavanaugh should not take place until after the release of a whole bunch of documents related to his time in the George W. Bush administration, Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, who I will not vote for, went on a lengthy tirade against a series of Supreme Court decisions made by the “Roberts five,” which he defined as “all five Republican appointees” currently sitting on the Supreme Court.  The “Roberts five” currently consists of Trump appointee Neil Gorsuch, George W. Bush appointees Samuel Alito and John Roberts, George H.W. Bush appointee Clarence Thomas, and Reagan appointee Anthony Kennedy.   Although technically speaking, the “Roberts five” shrinked to the “Roberts four” following the retirement of Justice Kennedy, whom Kavanaugh will replace upon confirmation.   Hence, liberals have a desire to stall Kavanaugh’s conf...