The New York Times today joins The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, USA TODAY, the Tampa Bay Times, the Orlando Sentinel, the Boston Globe, the New York Daily News, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer and the San Francisco Chronicle in calling for the impeachment of Donald Trump. UPDATE: add the Salt Lake Tribune. What about … Read more
Republican defenders of Donald Trump deny reality and create an alternate reality where truth goes to die. In an interview today with CNN’s Manu Raju, Arizona Rep. Debbie Lesko demonstrated that she is the “queen of denial” and/or a shameless liar. But you already knew that. Steve Benen reports Arizona Republican in denial about core impeachment … Read more
The House Judiciary Committee today quickly approved two articles of impeachment Friday against President Trump on party-line votes accusing him of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. The full House is expected to vote to impeach Trump next week. 45 years after Watergate, Republicans are all Congressman Earl Landgrebe now: At the height of … Read more
Now that the House Judiciary Committee has settled on two articles of impeachment for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, there are only two questions that every member of Congress must answer: Is it OK for a president of the United States (and his political party) to solicit a foreign government to interfere in … Read more
Pseudo-intellectual and resident GOP apologist at the Arizona Republic, Robert Robb, continues his series of opinions today excusing Donald Trump’s extortion and bribery of U.S. ally Ukraine, using taxpayer money appropriated by Congress for desperately needed security assistance to Ukraine as leverage to open an investigation into Russian-inspired conspiracy theories about the 2016 election to blame … Read more