The House on Wednesday passed a bill to establish a commission to investigate the MAGA/QAnon seditious insurrection on the Capitol on January 6. More House Republicans voted to whitewash this horrific assault on American democracy, in an attempt to disappear it down the memory hole, than the 138 House Republicans who gave aid and comfort … Read more
By now I think I have made myself abundantly clear that I think Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) is a naive fool who is putting the very survival of our American democracy at risk by appeasing a radicalized anti-democratic insurrectionist GQP with his version of Neville Chamberlain’s “peace in our time,” insisting that he can negotiate … Read more
The 147 Republicans in Congress who gave aid and comfort to the violent MAGA/QAnon seditious insurrectionists on January 6, in their failed coup d’etat to end American democracy and to impose a GQP autocracy under America’s first dictator, the corrupt and criminal Donald Trump, 147 Republican lawmakers who still objected to the election results even … Read more
The Senate Rules Committee marked up S. 1, the For The People Act on Tuesday, and it went as well as you might expect with the Prince of Darkness, the “Grim Reaper of Democracy,” Mitch McConnell making a rare appearance, and two of the insurrectionist senators who voted not to certify the results of the … Read more
The damn fools actually did it. House Republicans oust a defiant Liz Cheney for her repudiation of Trump’s election lies. House Republicans purged Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming from their leadership ranks on Wednesday, voting to oust their No. 3 for her refusal to stay quiet about Donald J. Trump’s election lies, in a remarkable … Read more