Outside the Beltway

The vagaries of our Presidential election mechanism gave us a surprising result in 2016. That’s unlikely this year.

The President of the United States is on the precipice of fascism.

The mayhem surrounding the demonstrations is drawing attention away from the grievance behind them.

The evidence is clear. Injustice feeds rage and rage sometimes boils over.

The President has been Twitter on their own platform. Now, he’s following through.

The conversation continues. (Warning: it is over 3000 words).

Jo Rae Perkins may be a nut, but she won a four-person primary.

Trump fires another Inspector General.

We won’t have whatshisname to kick around any more.

And I don’t mean not wearing a mask to Costco.

Pandemonium during a pandemic.

More evidence that walls don’t work as well as claimed.

Wrongheaded thinking about the pandemic won’t go away.

We now have more context but not more relevant facts.

Should public employee pensions be an asset in the administration’s foreign policy?

Things are going to get better. And far worse.

A useful graph from WaPo

The erstwhile Tea Party Republican is making a run for President.

Until our kids go back to school, we can’t go back to work.

An 8-1 rebuke from the nation’s highest court.

Things are not looking good.

We’re putting people in an impossible position.

President Trump can’t handle the truth.

The CDC director predicts a double whammy when flu season hits.

A fiasco wrapped in a clusterfuck.

Cable news “experts” frequently aren’t.

Or just a bump in the road?

The President is learning more about the Constitution every day.

A much-needed call for unity.

Some internal cracks in terms of continuing?

Social distancing is helping but too many aren’t taking it seriously enough.

A series of Friday night firings.

Leadership matters (as does sources of news).

Orban has used Covid-19 to kill whatever vestiges of democracy remained.

Conflicting guidelines from the CDC are unhelpful.

Political considerations overruled warnings from national security and health professionals.

Ego trumps all?

The 1990s country star is dead at 61.

Exactly the opposite of what we need in a crisis.

Everything is easier with money.

We are governed by the petty and myopic.

Despite our poor showing against COVID-19, we have the best infrastructure in place.

Even amidst a national crisis, he refuses to do the right thing.

Finally.

On Tucker last night, Patrick made an odd appeal (to be kind).

The President tweeted, “We cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself.”

We may be in a national crisis but it’s still politics as usual in Washington.

Richard Burr, Jim Inhofe, David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler should go to jail.

Dueling Washington Post op-eds are sowing confusion.