What’s Left Behind
Grandma’s house was my happy place as a child, as is the case for many people; grandparent magic is a known phenomenon.
Tagged: House
Speaker Pelosi Names Impeachment Managers, Will Hand Articles Over to Senate
Naming managers and transmitting articles, after a few weeks wait the Senate will finally get on with the impeachment trial of President Donald J. Trump
About Last Night: Impeachment Edition
So now we have an impeached president, a pending senate trial whose machinations are uncertain even if the outcome is not, and oh-by-the-way the Iowa caucuses and rest of the presidential primary is relentlessly coming towards us.
Impeachment Day
The day has finally come: The House of Representatives is set to vote on the Articles of Impeachment against President Donald Trump.
Obligatory Impeachment Hearings Something or Other
The House Judiciary Committee will be kicking off their portion of the impeachment inquiry.
Nancy Pelosi Makes “Official Impeachment Inquiry” Announcement
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi made a statement about starting an “Official Impeachment Inquiry”
The House Knocks Back
It was inevitable that those seeking to knock down the House — the House who have their own constituencies, own concerns, and own political careers to worry about — would start knocking back.
House on Fire
Nancy Pelosi did not suddenly forget how to run the house, so the answer must be in the new makeup of her caucus.
Linky Friday: For the 116th Time…
Linky Friday is Ordinary Times’ end of week tradition of bringing you linked stories from around the world and across the web. This week, “For the 116th Time…” a look at the many stories of the incoming US Congress, plus remembering the music of Roy Clark.
ENDA’s Game
In which the necessity of a law is politically dismissed because of a massive public misunderstanding by a man with an eerily orange face.
Constitutional Authority Statements
I was getting ready to write something about the new Social Networking Online Protection Act (SNOPA for short – couldn’t get another O in there, guys?), and its intersection with the free market, libertarianism...
248 Small Government Party Members Vote “Yea” on CISPA
(Edited to add) Erik and I crossed the streams. From there: One important thing to glean from this, especially when held up in contrast with the defeat of SOPA and PIPA, two bills aimed...
Health Care and Ping Pong
By Wyeth Ruthven Forget conference committees, any observer of health care reform needs to add the term “ping-pong” to their legislative vocabulary. Ping-pong is a little known but increasingly used procedural device to pass...
Tricky Linguistics
I was an English major, so this really speaks to me. And it’s hilarious, as is everything Fry and Laurie did together. I don’t watch House, but I loved the old Jeeves and Wooster...
