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My current read is “Patriot,” by Alexei Navalny, who courageously tried to save Russia from Vladimir Putin’s dictatorship. That raised at question: Who is currently the U.S. patriot playing the same role as Navalny was in Russia? I immediately thought of former U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney and her courageous dedication to saving our democracy from wannabe dictator President Donald Trump. At the bottom end of the courage scale, my recent read was the Aug. 18 Time magazine featuring Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson. Notably, our f...
After enabling President Donald Trump for many years, is our recently retired US Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers feeling guilty? She should be, but the proposals she lists in her new initiative (Spokesman-Review, June 4) certainly aren’t adequate to absolve that guilt. Former Wyoming US Representative and Republican House leader Liz Cheney, in her book “Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning”, describes long-time Trump-idolater and current Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson’s actions following the Trump-o...
Michael Baumgartner is hostile to his constituents and generally all Washingtonians. He claims to be a “state’s rights guy”, as Republicans used to be until most congressional Republicans now cowardly won’t stand up against President Donald Trump’s wannabe all-powerful dictatorship. Accordingly, Baumgartner fell in line with House Republican colleagues by recently joining a letter from the House Judicial Committee to Washington state Attorney General Nick Brown. The letter, in effect, claims that Trump’s extremely c...
Michael Baumgartner is, figuratively speaking, “all-over-the-map” about Ukraine—but effectively supporting Russia. He agrees that Russia clearly started the war and was/is the aggressor, and he’s assured Thrive International Ukrainian refugees that he opposes their deportation. But he completely undercuts that by his Ritzville Town Hall statement, “I don’t think [Ukrainian President Volodymyr] Zelenskyy is doing a great job”, and by his outlandish calls for Zelenskyy to resign after President Donald Trump humiliated Ze...
Has U.S. Rep. Michael Baumgartner, no nation-wide condemnation and world apology for how President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance humiliated Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Feb. 28? Baumgartner’s subsequent call for Zelenskyy’s resignation makes no sense, given his statement that Russia clearly started the war and has been the aggressor. On second thought, it makes great sense considering his already evident cowardice in standing up to Trump, Vance and Elon Musk. Baumgartner certainly lacks the spine of P...
Spokesman-Review’s February 2 lead article described the deafening silence from congressional Republicans, true of our new US Representative Michael Baumgartner, in their response to Donald Trump’s unprecedented destructive and dangerous executive orders during his first two weeks in office. This silence was especially evident in Baumgartner’s long January 31 Email message, his first to constituents since Trump’s orders commenced. So is Baumgartner closely following in the steps of his predecessor, Cathy McMorris Rodgers...
One of six initiatives introduced by Republican-allied group Let’s Go Washington, Initiative 2081 gave parents and guardians of school children certain rights, including the right to examine textbooks, curriculum and any supplemental materials used in their children’s classrooms. Although that’s innocent language, the 2024 Democratic-majority state Legislature was understandably suspicious. So, it passed a similar parental “bill of rights” that removed the initiative from the upcoming Nov. 5 ballot. Two other initiativ...
