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Note To Readers: Please read the “Program Note” I posted today, for an explanation of the changes to the site. The moral decay of the Republican Party continues apace, as there is seemingly no low that they will not stoop to in a desperate bid to stay in power.  Two completely different examples of this occurred…

Welcome back to ChrisWeigant.com.  As you can see, things look a little different. For those of you that have been wondering, I tried to update people with tweets, but not everyone uses social media, so I’ll recap what happened.  Last Wednesday, an artificial intelligence program blasted out a serious security flaw in the underlying computer…

So the Senate has left Washington, to head out on the campaign trail for the rest of this month. Before they scarpered off, Republicans tried to pass a few bills that were no more than performative — they seemed like they were doing something to address a problem, but when you actually examined the details,…

Donald Trump is being forced to face a rather brutal political reality. His popularity and approval ratings are reaching new lows, even among his fellow Republicans. This is evidenced by his first big foray into the midterm campaign season. What is pretty obvious from the announced stops on his campaign tour is that few Republicans…

Since we’re now only five weeks away from the midterm congressional elections, it’s time once again to take a quick look at all the competitive Senate races. The map has been expanding, as more and more states that used to be considered solidly in the Republican column have moved to being close races. This is…

Last week, Iran offered Donald Trump an offramp. Days later, Trump announced he was refusing to take it. The offer reportedly came after a meeting on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly, where the two sides talked for the first time in months. Iran essentially offered up virtually the same deal that was agreed…

Donald Trump just hosted the leader of China on a state visit, and in the end it turned out to be a total flop. No big announcements happened, no big deals were cut, in fact nothing much of anything took place, other than Trump trying desperately to impress Xi Jinping with his new heliport and…

When the American economy sours, voters react. Usually, this means punishing whichever party is in power in Washington in a generalized “throw the bums out” sort of way. The voters see that the people running the country have screwed things up, so they decide to give the other team a chance at making things better….

That headline, while meant to be amusing, is contemplating a rather broad definition of the historical political metaphor. The term “lame duck” actually predates its use in politics (according to Wikipedia), and was first used in a political sense in America in 1863. Political cartoons depicting lame ducks date back over a century. Used in…

Donald Trump just signed a new “deal” (or maybe: a “new” deal) with Denmark and Greenland. The scare quotes are there to signify the fact that this really isn’t a new deal at all — it mostly just reaffirms the existing agreement that has been in place since the dawn of the Cold War, back…