The legal word ’emoluments’ is not often bandied about. A more common phrase is ‘time to talk turkey’, that is, ‘time to talk the hard facts’. It was time to talk turkey, ’emoluments’ and more this week as a US Senator spoke
Category: Republican Party
A Failed Coup, Now Slow-Mo
January 6th’s insurrection, riot, attack on the U.S. Capitol, call it what you will, wasn’t a frolic of citizens out to ‘visit’ their ‘representatives’ and express ‘free speech’ as ‘protected by the Constitution’. In fact, the January 6th attempt at an election coup has now become a calculated, manipulative slow-motion coup
Republicans in Congress, A Vote to Block National Security?
How can last week’s action by the US House of Representatives Republican majority to block the Pentagon’s national security work be described? Experts are attempting to decipher the straight party line vote and consequences of the Grand Old Party/GOP denial of real and rising threats to the nation’s security
