It has been a bad week for ethically embattled Congressional District Six Representative David Schweikert (R-Scottsdale). First, election predictors at Roll Call-Inside Elections. have downgraded his bid for reelection from Solid to Likely Republican. The Cook Report has the race in a worse state for Schweikert, rating Congressional District Six “Lean Republican.” Second, in a … Read more
Last week, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and former Vice President Joe Biden showed Democrats how to push back against Republican Talking… lies and disinformation. First, the Speaker, in a response to Sinclair journalist James Rosen’s question (and popular Republican ) about whether she hated Donald Trump, strongly defended herself and her decision to … Read more
The next few weeks may be critical for US-North Korean diplomacy. North Korean missile and Kim Jong-un’s ‘Christmas gift’ decision: Talks with Donald Trump have not gone according to plan. Strict economic sanctions remain in place and it appears Washington is not going to budge despite Pyongyang’s insistence that they come up with another deal … Read more
Since the House of Representatives began its impeachment inquiry into potential abuses of power by Donald Trump, Trump and his Republican congressional defenders have repeatedly claimed it was making other legislation impossible. This is the alternate reality world of Republicans, i.e., lies and propaganda. The reality is House Democrats have passed nearly 400 bills. Trump … Read more
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Friday put an administrative one-week hold on a lower court’s order for President Trump’s bank records to be turned over to Congress. Release of Trump’s Banking Records Delayed by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Justice Ginsburg serves as the circuit justice for the Second Circuit, which is based in New York, … Read more