Political Junkie

With 2019 almost in the history books, the time has come for me to identify the lowlights and highlights of the year.   Just like any other year, 2019 had its ups and downs.   Let’s start off with the downs: The Impeachment Debacle: Just like I did with the midterm elections when compiling my lists of highlights and lowlights of 2018, I have decided to include the impeachment debacle on both lists in 2019.   The impeachment hearings amounted to nothing more than a taxpayer-funded opposition research campaign against President Trump; with House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff rolling out the red carpet for permanent bureaucrats eager to air their grievances against the President on national TV. In addition to preventing Congress from conducting more important business, the wall-to-wall coverage of the impeachment hearings robbed Americans of the ability to enjoy quality cable TV. However, the impeachment fallout; specifically, President Trump’s rising appro...

Believe it or not, just days remain between now and 2020.   As a leap year, 2020 will bring a lot with it; including the Summer Olympics and a presidential election.   In addition to all of the events normally associated with leap years and even years in United States politics, another notable event will take place in 2020: the decennial census.   The Trump administration caused heads to explode in the mainstream media when it announced that it would include a citizenship question on the 2020 census.   Because of litigation, the administration ultimately abandoned the effort to ask a citizenship question. The population figures outlined in the census determine the number of seats each state will receive in the United States House of Representatives and the Electoral College.   States with higher population growth rates enjoy more representation in those bodies in the first election following the census while states with lower rates of population growt...