We Must Now Brace Ourselves

The Only Reason The President Insists On Raising [tax] Rates Is Because He Knows It Will Destroy Republican Unity, It Will Cause A Complete Fracture Of The Republican Majority In The House, It Will Hand Him A Congress That He Can Then Manipulate For The Next Two Years At Least Because The Republicans Will Be Neutered. ... This Is Entirely A Political Action, A Way To Get A Surrender From The Republicans.

If Russia Were To Do Something That It Could Do, It Looks Like It Might Even Be Preparing To Do, To Invade Ukraine And Essentially To Dismember It, This Would Be The One Item That Could Reflect Really Badly On Trump Because Of The Warm Way He Spoke About Putin.

Hawks Favor War On The Grounds That Saddam Hussein Is Reckless, Tyrannical And Instinctively Aggressive, And That If He Comes Into Possession Of Nuclear Weapons In Addition To The Weapons Of Mass Destruction He Already Has, He Is Likely To Use Them Or Share Them With Terrorists. The Threat Of Mass Death On A Scale Never Before Seen Residing In The Hands Of An Unstable Madman Is Intolerable – And Must Be Preempted.

Take All Your Dukes And Marquesses And Earls And Viscounts, Pack Them Into One Chamber, Call It The House Of Lords To Satisfy Their Pride And Then Strip It Of All Political Power. It's A Solution So Perfectly Elegant And Preposterous That Only The British Could Have Managed It.

Look, I Don't Mind If The President Sends A Budget Which He Knows Is Not Going To Achieve Anything. But When He Prefaces His Remarks As We Just Saw By Saying We Have To Put Politics Aside, Posing Again As The One Person In The Country Who Rises Above Partisanship And Party, Speaks For The National Interest, It's Really Grating.