Political Junkie

Last week, I shared my political bucket list.  Believe it or not, liberals have spent the last several weeks sharing their political bucket list with the American people and it includes far more than the release of the Mueller report, which appears to have disappointed liberals.  While the Democrats would like to check of all of these items in time for the 2020 Presidential Election, they know that they will have no such luck as long as Republicans control the Senate.  Nonetheless, liberals have decided to go big and bold when creating their political bucket list: The abolition of the Electoral College: Apparently forgetting that they have held the Presidency for 16 of the last 26 years, the Democrats have declared war on the Electoral College; which they blame for their losses in the 2000 and 2016 Presidential Elections.  The Constitution mandates the use of an Electoral College to elect the President but it does not specifically say how each state must allocate ...

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...

National Public Radio recently ran a story about a man who did not get to see his dying wish, perhaps the most recent item added to his bucket list, fulfilled. The man would die without getting to see the Mueller report.   I have a political bucket list of my own and I have included some of the highlights below with a little explanation on the recent progress the nation has made in achieving each goal on my political bucket list. The Repeal of Roe v. Wade : I know that I share this in common with many other conservatives, who have this at the top of their political bucket lists.   Roe v. Wade has served as a black mark in American history and a symbol of the cultural revolution that began sweeping through the nation in the mid to late 1960s and had fully engulfed the country by the time the Supreme Court made this landmark decision to legalize abortion in 1973. Even Norma McCorvey, the plaintiff in the case, wanted to devote the rest of her life to undoing the law that be...

Last year, a billionaire named Tom Draper proposed splitting up the mega-state of California into three distinct states.   He had previously tried to force a proposal to split California into six states onto the ballot.   Both efforts failed.   I wrote a blog describing why I saw three Californias as a bad idea.   Three Californias would have succeeded in the effort of making the gargantuan California smaller but as for giving the disaffected Californians in the northern and eastern part of the state a voice, it failed miserably.   Under the proposal, conservatives in Northern California would have had to watch their votes get cancelled out by liberals in San Francisco and Silicon Valley, the ultra-liberal Mecca that would have comprised the largest population center in the proposed state of North California.   The same would have applied in the proposed state of South California, where the more conservative voters in Central California would have had the...

Left-wing billionaire Tom Steyer has spent millions of dollars focusing on a campaign to impeach President Trump.  To a degree, it looks like Democratic members of Congress have heard him loud and clear.  The House Judiciary Committee has issued document requests to “81 agencies, entities and individuals with connections” to President Trump.  House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler has said that he already feels like President Trump obstructed justice.  Coincidentally, Nadler made these comments not long after Steyer held a town hall in his home district designed to put pressure on Nadler to support impeachment.  No member of Congress has gone further than freshman Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib who vowed to “impeach the mother***er” the day her term in Congress began, and indicated her desire to impeach President Trump again just this week. Now, Steyer has moved onto a different goal: putting pressure on Republicans.  In perhaps the dumbes...

At this time four years ago, exactly zero candidates had officially announced their Presidential runs on either side of the aisle. What a difference four years makes.   Already, a dozen candidates have announced their intentions to run for the Democratic nomination for President.   So far, the list includes New Jersey Senator Cory “Spartacus” Booker, the little known Mayor of South Bend, Indiana, Pete Buttigieg; former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julian Castro; Maryland Congressman and gerrymandering beneficiary John Delaney; Hawaii Congresswoman and neoconservative Tulsi Gabbard; New York Senator and Clinton backstabber Kirsten Gillibrand; California Senator and marijuana enthusiast Kamala Harris; former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper; Washington Governor and Al Gore apprentice Jay Inslee; Minnesota Senator and “comb fork” inventor Amy Klobuchar, Vermont Senator and self-professed Democratic socialist Bernie Sanders; and last but not least; Massa...