“Traitor” Kevin McCarthy has been trying to get President Biden to negotiate against himself, but Biden has been having none of it since January. Biden’s message to McCarthy ahead of critical White House meeting: Show me your plan: ‘Biden, asked by CNN what his message to McCarthy would be in that meeting, said it would … Read more
The Hill reports, House passes voting rights package, setting up Senate filibuster showdown: The House passed voting rights legislation on Thursday in a way that is intended to set up a battle in the Senate over that issue as well as the filibuster. The measure passed in a 220-203 party-line vote. Senate Majority Leader Charles … Read more
This has not received the attention it deserves in the Arizona political media, because voting rights, go figure. The Guardian reports, Arizona students stage hunger strike to urge Sinema to support voting reform: Since Monday, a group of 20 college students from the University of Arizona and Arizona State have been on hunger strike in … Read more
Igor Derysh at Salon takes a deep-dive look into prima donna diva Senator, Kyrsten Sinema. “Utter betrayal”: Angry activists who helped elect Kyrsten Sinema say “she has no values”: Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, the Arizona Democrat who has perplexed the nation, once criticized the filibuster’s 60-vote threshold and urged Democrats to pass critical legislation with a … Read more
As Jennifer Rubin says: [Republicans’] attitude toward nominations is symptomatic of their entire approach to politics: It is about theater, about feeding right-wing media (which loves nothing better than to paint progressives as extreme radicals) and never about governance, let alone bipartisanship. If you have been watching any congressional hearings this week, this has become … Read more