So much for the alleged breakup between the Republican Party and newly “woke” corporate America. Republicans are still the servile lickspittle lackeys for the corporatocracy, protecting corporation’s low tax rates. Even though corporations have been demanding an infrastructure bill for years, the catch is that these freeloaders want someone else to pay for it, or … Read more
William F. Buckley, Jr., the patrician founder of the National Review rag, declared in its mission statement that “A conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it.” Buckley, as so often was … Read more
Roll Call reports, “With House Democrats poised to pass their 791-page campaign finance, elections and ethics overhaul as soon as next week, outside groups that support the measure are turning to the Senate.” House set to move on elections overhaul as outside advocates focus on Senate: Left-leaning organizations such as Indivisible, Public Citizen, Democracy 21 … Read more
For some unexplained reason, the U.S. Supreme Court uncharacteristically has failed to take any action on Donald Trump’s lawyers’ emergency filings related to a Manhattan grand jury’s subpoena of Trump tax returns, effectively thwarting part of the investigation. CNN reports, The Supreme Court is still sitting on Trump’s tax returns, and justices aren’t saying why: The … Read more
Mitch McConnell and his gang of Rethuglican senators will revive his “total obstruction” policy from the Obama era today out of retaliation for President Biden and Democratic leaders not capitulating to their bad faith weak-ass counterproposal for COVID-19 economic relief by attempting to sabotage the budget reconciliation process for the Democratic COVID-19 economic relief bill. Why … Read more