If there’s one thing Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is good at reading, it’s the political tea leaves when it comes to his own party, and right now the leaves show a very dark future for the GOP. Politico is reporting that McConnell, along with GOP Chair Ronna Romney McDaniel, is telling President Trump that Republicans will likely lose […]
Why is it that so many Republicans who were once highly critical of Donald Trump — Bob Corker (TN), Lindsey Graham (SC) — have suddenly become so compliant and complimentary? Have they had a genuine change of heart, or could they be operating out of fear? On MSNBC Thursday evening, author and expert on authoritarian regimes Sarah Kendzior […]
You may think you’ve seen some disgusting things over the years — surgery shows, shark videos, grossly obese people wearing Speedos on the beach — but Mike Pence has just rocketed to the top of the list with his fawning worship of Donald Trump at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday. Pence all but kneeled and kissed Trump’s […]
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan is a very happy man. He’s finally managed to pass massive tax cuts for the rich that will explode the deficit so he can then implement his plan to cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Appearing on the Today show Wednesday morning to discuss the GOP tax bill, host […]
Paul Ryan — who only reluctantly agreed to be Speaker of the House when the GOP was desperate to find a consensus candidate — could be on the verge of giving up his position as soon as the Republican tax bill is completed. According to The Huffington Post: “When the House Freedom Caucus gathered Monday night, […]
A campaign official who works for GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore tried to assert that Moore’s accusers are all lying and got a firm slapdown from ABC News host Martha Raddatz Sunday on This Week. Dean Young said the accusations against Moore don’t stand up to scrutiny: “Their stories are falling apart. Accuser Beverly Young Nelson] told you […]
Imagine you’re at home, minding your own business, maybe surfing the web or posting something on Facebook. The phone rings. You answer it. It turns out to be a creepy, threatening robocall telling you that you need to stop criticizing Donald Trump on social media. Big Brother has arrived in America. Gizmodo reports that people across the United States […]
If, like me, you’ve questioned the sanity of Donald Trump, then something suggested earlier this week by reporter Kurt Eichenwald suddenly takes on a greater relevancy: Eichenwald tweeted out and then deleted this choice nugget of information on Tuesday: “I believe Trump was institutionalized in a mental hospital for a nervous breakdown in 1990, which […]
Not long before President Trump left for his trip to Asia, one of his senior advisers, Stephen Miller, was interviewed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. As a result, a new report suggests that Miller may be on his way out of the White House. The reason Miller is suddenly being asked to tender his resignation? Simple: Turns […]
If you’ve noticed that Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump are much less in the spotlight recently, that’s deliberate, as both have scaled back their agendas and taken to lowering their profiles in the midst of news of indictments in the Russia investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Now, thanks to a new report from Vanity Fair, we know that the two […]