Tag Archives: Mitch McConnell

Elizabeth Warren, Like Eve, Persists

By Robin Bates | Published: March 3, 2021

It was four years ago when McConnell said about Sen. Warren, “Still she persisted.” Milton’s Eve also persisted but the comparisons end there.

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Mitch McConnell, Master of Catch-22

By Robin Bates | Published: January 27, 2021

Mitch McConnell has invoked a Catch-22 to make sure Trump doesn’t face Congressional accountability for inciting an insurrection.

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Inferno’s Ditch Reserved for Mitch

By Robin Bates | Published: November 23, 2020

Republicans enabling Trump in his attempts to subvert the 2020 election have a special place reserved from them in Dante’s Inferno: Circle 8, Bolgia 8.

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GOP Bailout: Nothing If Not Consistent

By Robin Bates | Published: March 23, 2020

GOP obsession with lining the pockets of the wealthy, now on display in their COVID bailout package, reminds me of the Baron in Voltaire’s “Candide.”

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When the Court Itself Is on Trial

By Robin Bates | Published: January 20, 2020

The GOP may be preparing an impeachment trial that has a predetermined ending–just as the one that appears in “To Kill a Mockingbird.”

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GOP: Ignore the Trump behind the Screen

By Robin Bates | Published: May 7, 2019

Wednesday The GOP right now appears to be taking its cue from the Wizard of Oz. Pay no attention to what’s in the Mueller report, they tell us. It’s time to move on. Neither Donald Trump, Senate Judicial Committee Chair Lindsey Graham, nor Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell want Robert Mueller to testify before Congress […]

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Atwood’s Circe vs. Brett Kavanaugh

By Robin Bates | Published: October 8, 2018

Monday The contrast between an accommodating Christine Blasey Ford and an exploding Brett Kavanaugh is indelibly printed on my mind and may be the major thing I take away from the hearings. That white privileged men can use anger to assert dominance while women and people of color must speak in measured tones has become […]

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GOP Tax Plan and the Invisible Man

By Robin Bates | Published: December 4, 2017

If the GOP tax plan panders to the wealthiest Americans, maybe it’s because they are like H.G. Wells’s Invisible Man and believe they can act with impunity.

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Putin as Murakami’s Boris the Manskinner

By Robin Bates | Published: October 31, 2017

Murakami’s Boris the Manskinner has an unsettling resemblance to Vladimir Putin and wannabe authoritarian Donald Trump. Without strong beliefs, one cannot stand up to him.

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