Nature has been (almost) outshouting the politicians with “The earthquake of the century” in Mexico and “The greatest evacuation in history” in Florida. —
But there have been no lack of political earthquakes underway in Washington, D.C. Trump has hit another home run on judges, the judicially astute Powerline blog writes, and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos says the Education Department is moving to undo the legal, moral, and financial damage wrought by President Obama’s unconstitutional Title IX edict on alleged campus sexual assaults. Her full speech yesterday is here. —
President Trump is also on solid ground in his attacks on the Senate for its “Death Wish” in preserving the filibuster. —
Trump’s present alliance with the Democratic Party is not likely to help him in achieving meaningful tax reform. But it could help him achieve his protectionist tariff agenda, which is supported by both the Democratic Party’s AFL-CIO and NEA base, as well as Trump’s Breitbart, American Greatness, and other economic-nationalist supporters in the blogosphere. President Reagan, by contrast, supported expanded trade and open markets. —
The paralysis in Republican circles is not entirely without mirroring among Sanders loyalists in the Democratic Party. —
All this disorder in the U.S. political establishment has been music to the West’s enemies in the burgeoning “heartland” alliance of Iran, Russia, China, and (China hopes) Pakistan. —
The most promising development in Washington to heal divisions over health care and immigration policy has come from advocates of shifting responsibility from the national government to the states:
- Rick Santorum’s health care plan
- The Cassidy-Graham health care bill
- Sen. Johnson’s plan for states to set guest worker visas
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