Obstructionist Senate Republicans End Their Tantrum, Agree To Deal On Honoring Our PACT Act
The Hill reports, GOP agrees to deal on veterans bill: Senate Republicans have reached an agreement to pass legislation expanding benefits for veterans who are suffering illnesses due to toxic exposures, after they blocked the bill last week and sparked outrage from the veteran community and comedian Jon Stewart. “We expect to have an agreement … Read more
Democrats Introduce The Supreme Court Review Act To Rein In Activist Court
The Huffington Post reports, New Bill Would Make It Easier For Congress To Fight Back Against Hard-Right Supreme Court: Democrats introduced legislation Thursday that would enable a simple majority in Congress to override Supreme Court decisions like those that overturned the right to an abortion and gutted the government’s ability to regulate carbon emissions. The … Read more
If They Won’t Support A Carve-Out For The Senate Filibuster Rule, It’s Just A Political Stunt
The media villagers breathlessly reported this morning that a bipartisan bill has been introduced to guarantee abortion rights in all 50 states. See, the New York Times for example, Bipartisan Abortion-Rights Bill Sets Up a Midterm Debate: A bipartisan group of senators released a bill on Monday that would create a federal baseline for abortion … Read more
Wasting No Time, The Katie Hobbs Gubernatorial Campaign Exposes Extremists Kari Lake and Karrin Robson in New Campaign Ads
The Arizona Primary is not over yet but Secretary of State Katie Hobbs is not wasting no time in educating voters on the extremist positions of the two leading Trumpist Republican candidates for Governor, Kari Lake, and Karrin Taylor Robson. In the ad, “Too Dangerous,” the Hobbs campaign brands Kari Lake as “radical,” “dangerous,” and … Read more
Extremist Trump Republicans Are Singing the Same False Song with Regards to the Inflation Reduction Plan
Political observers have heard this false song before. In 1993, united extremist Republicans, led by family values hypocrite Newt Gingrich, said that the Clinton/Gore Economic Plan, with its mix of tax increases, tax relief in the Earned Income Tax Credit, spending cuts, and targeted investments designed to help people, would spell disaster for the American … Read more
‘Krazy Kari’ Lake, The Candidate From ‘Q’
Media Matters reports, Kari Lake uses QAnon show to fundraise and promote campaign days before primary: Days before the state’s August 2 primary, Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake appeared on a QAnon show where she asked viewers to donate to her campaign and vote for her. The hosts also endorsed her; invoked the QAnon … Read more
AG ‘Nunchucks’: Arizona Senate’s GQP Sham ‘Fraudit’ Dead Wrong About Dead Voters
The timing of this suggests that Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich aka “Nunchucks” has accepted his inevitable primary defeat on Tuesday. The Arizona Mirror reports, Brnovich: Senate ‘audit’ dead wrong it its claims that deceased voters cast 2020 ballots: The Arizona Senate’s partisan “sham fraudit” last year claimed 282 dead voters cast a ballot in the … Read more
