President Joe Biden met with a group of 10 Republicans at the White House on Monday to discuss COVID relief legislation, but he quickly made it clear following the meeting that he won’t settle for a watered-down GOP proposal. The full statement: The President and the Vice President had a substantive and productive discussion with … Read more
Not since John C. Calhoun, the fiercely pro-slavery senator states’ rights advocate for state interposition, nullification and secession (he nearly precipitated a civil war with the nullification crisis over tariffs in 1832-33, and his political doctrines did serve as the doctrinal foundation of the Confederacy in the Civl War almost 30 years later), has there … Read more
If you are curious what a field of 52 stars on the U.S. flag would look like, see above. Last summer, In Historic Vote, The House Approved Statehood for the District of Columbia. The bill of course died with Mitch McConnell, “The Grim Reaper” of the Senate graveyard of legislation. This asshole is no longer … Read more
The Senate’s 50 Democrats represent 41 million more Americans than do its 50 Republicans. Yet Mitch McConnell and his tyranny of the minority took the Senate hostage and refused to agree to an organizing resolution unless Democrats acceded to McConnell’s demand that he be allowed to exercise the “McConnell Veto,” by way of the Senate … Read more
You are going to hear a lot of bullshit in coming days from Republicans and even some Democrats like Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) about how the Senate needs to preserve the filibuster. A new book released this week by Adam Jentleson, Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy, explains … Read more