Lindsey Graham breaks the rules to ram a cruel asylum bill through his committee (Updated)
August 2, 2019
The littlest rebel, little Lindsey Graham (R-SC), spent many years as John McCain’s loyal puppet boy. Whatever John McCain had to say, Lindsey Graham was right there at his puppet master’s side, parroting whatever John McCain had to say in a bad ventriloquist puppet act. Jeff Dunham McCain was not. But when John McCain died, the … Read more
Drain the swamp: coal baroness buys UN ambassadorship with GOP campaign donations
August 2, 2019
More of Mitch McConnell’s corruption. Kelly Knight Craft, the wife of billionaire coal baron Joseph Craft, and a longtime GOP fundraiser, including for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (who with her husband has donated considerable sums to the Republican Party), was approved by a vote in the Senate yesterday to become our next UN Ambassador. Roll Call … Read more
Is Elizabeth Warren the Democratic Ronald Reagan?
August 2, 2019
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In 1980 the Jimmy Carter people were thrilled to have Ronald Reagan as a general election opponent, thinking, wrongly as it turned out, that the Wall Street loving Republican nominee would be too extreme for voters to put in the White House. Could history be repeating itself in the opposite direction? Is Elizabeth Warren, the … Read more
Drain the swamp: Why ‘Moscow Mitch’ is going to stick to McConnell
August 2, 2019
In May, Democratic lawmakers called on the Trump administration to review an investment in Kentucky by a Russian aluminum company that they say has raised concerns about Russian influence on the economy and national security of the United States. Democrats Seek Review of Russian Investment in Kentucky: The Russian aluminum company, Rusal, announced on Thursday … Read more
Trade wars and ‘Trump taxes’ increase the risk of recession
August 1, 2019
If the U.S. economy is really the “best economy ever” as Trump likes to claim, why did the Fed just lower interest rates for the first time since 2008 in the throes of the Great Recession in order to juice the economy? The Fed cut rates for the first time since 2008: The Federal Reserve … Read more
Former public prosecution lawyer Julie Gunngile aims to become the first female Maricopa County Attorney
August 1, 2019
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When political junkies last read about Julie Gunnigle on the Blog for Arizona, she, along with Jennifer Samuels and Kristin Dybvig-Pawelko, were knocking on thousands of household doors in Legislative District 15, hoping to win seats in the Arizona State Legislature during the 2018 elections. While they did not prevail, they markedly helped increase turnout … Read more
Chairman Richard Neal explains why he needs Trump’s tax returns
August 1, 2019
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D-MA) is famous (infamous?) for not making statements to the media. If you are looking for a quote, even off the record, he is not your source. But today Chairman Neal has an op-ed in the Washington Post explaining Why my committee needs the president’s tax returns: … Read more
Now that the CNN reality TV show is over, can we please now get down to the serious business of picking a nominee?
August 1, 2019
The reason we have a bad reality TV show actor as president is because the “news” media has turned political reporting into a reality TV game show, ostensibly for ratings. You may recall that I mocked the media for this in 2016 with a series of posts about “Survivor – GOP Presidential Primary.” Now the … Read more
