Michael McKenna
Columns by Michael McKenna
Virginia voters can stop congressional Democrats’ entire legislative agenda
Published October 6, 2021
For progressives, takedown of infrastructure legislation makes perfect sense
Why are the progressives in the House prepared to turn down free money in the infrastructure legislation? Published October 3, 2021
Time for Trump and GOP to get over 2020 election
The party and the man both need to get back into the fight and stop worrying about yesterday's game. The 2020 elections were lost. Published September 29, 2021
Sen. Bernie Sanders’ takeover of American health care
The reconciliation legislation has so many bad features, it is easy to lose track of some of them. Published September 25, 2021
House Democrats voted for child slave labor (you read that right)
As we careen downhill towards the finish line of reconciliation/debt ceiling/FY 2022 appropriations, things happen that make you wonder. Published September 22, 2021
Politicizing January 6th: Fences versus the Constitution
Last Thursday, in a bit of theater fit for our times, Congressional leadership ordered the fencing around the Capitol reinstalled, ostensibly to protect against the several dozen protestors anticipated on Saturday. Published September 17, 2021
Bush’s failures radicalized an entire generation of GOP voters
In case you missed it, President George W. Bush re-entered American politics by equating Trump voters with the 19 murderers who hijacked the four planes and used them to kill 3,000 Americans. Published September 15, 2021
Americans should build U.S. Navy ships in the United States
In the House Armed Services Committee recently, something very terrible, very damaging, and very Washington happened. Published September 11, 2021
‘Devout’ Biden using Catholicism as a political tool
If the question about preserving innocent human life ever crossed President Biden's mind concerning the Texas law, he made sure no one knew about it. Published September 8, 2021
Let the incompetent Democrats own the shutdown
Lost in the mess that is the Biden administration and its enablers in Congress is the fact that Congress has yet to pass appropriations for the fiscal year 2022. Published September 6, 2021
Remembering Sept. 11: Each generation has to preserve all that has been gained
As the 20th anniversary of Sept. 11 approaches, and we are inundated with competing narratives about what should be remembered and learned from that day, it is important to take a moment and reflect on a few things. Published September 1, 2021
Next time you vote for a president, vote as if the lives of our soldiers depend on it
A few hours after the bombing of a checkpoint at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul last Thursday, President Biden presided over his version of a press conference. Published August 28, 2021
Team Biden tired of talking about Afghanistan
To borrow from a friend, Team Biden seems in some disarray. Published August 25, 2021
What Afghanistan tells us about Team Biden’s incompetence
Last year, during the presidential campaign, Joe Biden promised the American people his administration would be characterized by order, discipline, experience, and, above all, competence. Published August 22, 2021
Failure in Afghanistan: Undeclared wars can’t be won
In 105 AD, the Roman Emperor Trajan, anxious to control gold mines north of the Danube, built a bridge - the Bridge of Apollodorus -- just downstream from Belgrade. Published August 19, 2021
GOP senators that voted for infrastructure bill need to be held accountable
There are plenty of reasons not to like the infrastructure legislation that recently cleared the Senate. Published August 14, 2021
Making energy more expensive is regressive and stupid
You may have missed it or more likely not cared about it, but a few days ago, an outfit that calls itself the Climate Leadership Council suspended Exxon, which had been a member in good standing. Published August 11, 2021
Stop the infrastructure bill madness
A few days ago, the Congressional Budget Office was rude enough to release its assessment of the actual cost of the infrastructure legislation being considered by the United States Senate. Published August 6, 2021
Senate’s infrastructure bill is a disaster: New energy taxes, no new roads
In an attempt to (again) make their intention to raise consumers' energy prices as explicit and obvious as possible, a handful of Senate Democrats earlier this week announced legislation that would impose a carbon tax on large companies. Published August 4, 2021
The infrastructure deal stinks like a dead fish
This week, the United States Senate will debate, vote on amendments, and perhaps vote on final passage on "infrastructure" legislation that will spend at least $1.2 trillion of taxpayer money. Published July 30, 2021
