Last week Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, who defend the filibuster, voted in favor of a budget resolution by the reconciliation process. That budget resolution includes President Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID relief package that includes $1,400 relief payments to Americans (combined with the $600 enacted in December, rounds up to $2,000). Sens. Joe Manchin … Read more
Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) writes at the Washington Post, My fellow Republicans, convicting Trump is necessary to save America: Winston Churchill famously said, “Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.” All Americans, but especially my fellow Republicans, should remember this wisdom during the Senate’s trial of former president Donald Trump. … Read more
GQP lawmakers in both chambers of Congress are demanding answers as to why the National Guard is still maintaining a heavy presence in Washington, as normal government business resumes, and that the additional security fencing/barriers put up since the Trump terrorists stormed the Capitol in a seditious insurrection on January 6 be removed. 42 GOP … Read more
After the November election, The New York Times reported that Donald Trump was replacing the civilian leadership at the Pentagon with unqualified Fox News commentators and his political sycophants. Trump Stacks the Pentagon and Intel Agencies With Loyalists. To What End? Luckily, these malignant “embeds” are being weeded out by the new Secretary of Defense, Lloyd … Read more
Permanent musical accompaniment: Ozzy Osbourne’s Crazy Train. On Monday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell tried to put pressure on his House counterpart, “You are the weakest link” Kevin McCarthy, to do something about QAnon Queen, Marjorie Taylor Greene, before she dragged down the entire Republican Party’s 2022 midterm chances with her. Mitch McConnell Says Marjorie … Read more