In a closed door meeting among frantic Senate Republicans like Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and Thom Tillis, who expressed worry about what Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans Big and Beautiful Economic bill would do to their electoral prospects when the people they suckered into voting for them realized by the decrease in the money going … Read more
Update to President Biden Rope-A-Doped The Howling Mad Hyenas of the MAGA Fascist Caucus in his SOTU Address. Steve Benen reports, Mitch McConnell makes Rick Scott’s troubles quite a bit worse: Sen. Rick Scott isn’t having a great week. In his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, President Joe Biden used the Florida … Read more
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema takes a perverse pleasure in trolling the voters who elected her to office as a Democrat. This is not normal or healthy behavior for a senator. The Washington Post reports, Sinema, McConnell engage in mutual admiration — and some Democrats seethe: Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) on Monday engaged in a mutual admiration … Read more
When President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union Leader Mikhail Gorbachev worked on nuclear disarmament treaties in the mid to late 1980’s, the 40th President liked to borrow the Russian proverb “trust but verify” in describing his attitude in dealing with his Soviet opposite number. Fast forward 35 years and Americans can use a variation of … Read more
Update to 70 former senators rebuke ‘the Grim Reaper,’ Mitch McConnell, for killing the Senate (February 2020) (excerpt): I have oft repeated in several postings over the years, including this one, The ‘Enemy of The People,’ Mitch McConnell, is the real radical (snippet): As Dana Milbank wrote, Mitch McConnell, the man who broke America: By rights, … Read more