More than 100 national, state, and local advocacy groups will launch a mobilization Saturday to counteract the Republican Party’s systematic dismantling of the United States’ democracy, calling on supporters to help fight for legislation aimed at protecting the right to vote. Fight GOP Voter Suppression: John Lewis Day Of Action: At the John Lewis National … Read more
Jane Mayer at the New Yorker reports that the unpublished memoire of Republican strategist Harvey LeRoy “Lee” Atwater – an adviser to presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush and a chairman of the Republican National Committee – who took Richard Nixon’s Southern Strategy national, i.e., increasing political support among white voters by appealing to … Read more
The headline in the New York Times today reads Why Democratic Departures From the House Have Republicans Salivating. Nowhere in this analysis do the reporters even mention that 147 Republican lawmakers still objected to the election results even after the Capitol attack. Every one of these seditious insurrectionists should have been expelled from Congress. The … Read more
I never thought that I would be in the position of having to defend the spawn of Satan, Dick Cheney’s daughter Liz Cheney, but she has demonstrated that she has a bigger set of cojones than all of those quivering ass-kissing Trump sycophants in Congress combined. Respect, Liz. Liz Cheney was clear and concise in … Read more
“The Constitution is not a suicide pact.” And yet First Amendment absolutists would make it so, disdaining Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes’ recognition that there are limitations to the freedom of speech: “The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic.” Social … Read more