Jeffee Palmer
Lawyer, history buff, writer, mother, grandmother, native Texan, UT grad, and proud Austinite!-
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Tis the Season for Fearing
Writer’s note: In case you feel like I’m repeating myself, you subscribers may remember a post by the same title that I published here last month. For reasons that you would not really care about, I removed it from the website. … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged demagoguery, fear-mongering, gerrymandering, gridlock, Juan Linz, President Obama, Trump, U.S. Constitution
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Can a Dysfunctional Government Reinvent Itself?
Like most Americans, I have never found reason to question the notion that our founding fathers, endowed with genius, forged a virtually perfect foundation upon which to create a more perfect union of states and individuals within a republic. Until … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Women
Tagged Congress, Constitutional convention, Federalist Papers, gridlock, Pope Francis, Sandford Levinson, U.S. Constitution
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Let the Campaigning End and the (Mc)Governing Begin
These days of so much political vitriol being directed at whoever is not on the side of the vitriol-spewer, makes it easy to turn away from the negativity and forget that it doesn’t have to be this way. I can … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged Bob Dole, Congress, George Bristol, George McGovern, gridlock, President Obama, Texas Book Festival
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