As Donald Trump stays way out front in the Republican nomination race, the party hierarchy is in full fret and could have run out of time to stop its current worst nightmare. The next few days will be crucial for the party base, and the privileged old guard.
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The pull of the 51st State of America
The US Congress has managed to insert itself into the Iran nuclear negotiations but its reasons for doing so are highly questionable - more to do with sucking up to Israeli lobby election dollars and diminishing Obama than the safety of the rest of us - Americans included.
Read MoreAn embarrassing letter of sabotage
What on earth did 47 Republicans think they were going to achieve by writing to Iran's Ayatollah urging him not to trust Obama? Their hate on Obama is so desperate there seem no depth to which they will not descend even if it wrecks what is left of their country's reputation.
Read MoreA bit of spotted dick goes a long way
In the words of Orson Wells ‘Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.’ School lunches could make citizens out of all of us.
Read MoreSex and the Republicans - it's not pretty
The American economy must be on the improve, which explains why Republicans have entered the country's bedrooms in a desperate bid to demonise Obama as the destroyer of the constitutional right to freedom of religion. At least they are kidding themselves.
Read MoreOMG, that's the cream of the Republican crop?
A God-quoting, science-doubting, swaggering Governor from Texas for President...what could possibly go wrong?
Read MoreOMG that's the cream of the Republican crop?
A God-quoting, science doubting, swaggering former Governor from Texas for President...what could possibly go wrong?
Read MoreThe ugly reality of US tax cuts
To the rich the spoils. A Republican refusal to continue unemployment benefits for millions of unemployed Americans unless millionaires and billionaires got to keep tax cuts has seen Obama compromise, and arguably outsmarted
Read MoreMessage to Obama: Toughen Up
Three weeks into the job and Obama may have just reaslied he has to toughen up if he is to stay ahead of the great Republican machine and pass the legislation his team wants to get through – after all, they won the election didn't they?
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