Update to President Biden Rope-A-Doped The Howling Mad Hyenas of the MAGA Fascist Caucus in his SOTU Address. Steve Benen reports, Mitch McConnell makes Rick Scott’s troubles quite a bit worse: Sen. Rick Scott isn’t having a great week. In his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, President Joe Biden used the Florida … Read more
Republicans have always opposed the “entitlement” programs of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid from the time that these programs were first enacted (it is an entitlement because it is a payroll tax on your earnings – for earnings in 2023, the cap is $160,200 – which you pay into over your working life. It’s your … Read more
Steve Benen writes, On prescription drug costs, Rubio makes a risky election year bet: It was one of the biggest wins in the Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act: For the first time, Medicare will be empowered to negotiate the cost of some of the most expensive prescription medications with the pharmaceutical industry. Democrats have worked on … Read more
According to a recent Lincoln Project ad called “Fire the Feds,” the only group that would be happy if “Kook” Kari Lake is elected Governor of Arizona is the drug dealers. Why is that? Because, according to the ad, the Seriously Dangerous Extremist Trump-Maga, Republican Gubernatorial Nominee’s plan to “fire the federal government” would cripple … Read more
This Tuesday is the Wisconsin primary, so this is as good a time as any to talk about perhaps the stupidest millionaire senator in the U.S. Senate, Ron Johnson (yes, I am aware he has stiff competition for the title). Wisconsin media openly derides him as Putin’s puppet or usesful idiot. For example, Urban Milwaukee … Read more