Rachel Maddow reported last night that after Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin finished briefing a bipartisan group of House members yesterday about the admin’s decision to drop sanctions against Manafort’s BFF Oleg Deripaska, he complained to reporters about having having to take a...
I’m getting too old for this shit. When i began obsessing on politics, back in my teens, following the game the way other guys followed box scores, and housewives followed soap operas, there were two kinds of politicians. There...
The old saying goes something like “Hang separately or hang together.” And boy, oh boy, are we ever getting a full length feature film on that principle right now. And if “elections have consequences,” those consequences are pounding the...
Poor John Kasich, he just blew his cover. He likes to come off as this calm, steady, measured, serious kind of blowhard. He was an early and frequent critic of Trump, and of the Republicans that enabled his nonsense....
Lines you never hear in movies; "Do what you want to the girl, just leave ME alone!" George Carlin
If the content of the allegation were not so serious, and the personal suffering involved so emotionally wrenching, there would be...
Every cycle, this is the “Uncle Krusty Show” time for the congress. It’s a unique blending of hubris and rampant indifference. Look what happens every time during a "lame duck” session. You have a combination of incredibly important stuff...
You know, when you get older, you spend a lot of time thinking about, and fondly remembering, “the good old days.” Politically speaking, only in the Age of Trump can “the good old days” literally be, like, two years ago. Resignations in a Presidential administration tend to fall into two categories, benign and malignant. Benign […]
Now we have to worry about what's going on with Rand Paul.
Just a few days ago, we speculated that the Russians had something on Lindsey Graham, given that the Russians had hacked into the RNC server at the same...
As Chuck Grassley started the confirmation process by attempting to re-write of history, and it became clear that the Republicans have every intention of voting to confirm Brett Kavanaugh, Democratic senators of the Judiciary Committee simply started to walk out.
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Conservative Mark Green (R-TN) sponsored a measure to require the House Oversight Committee to forward a transcript of Michael Cohen's remarks to DOJ for investigation, alleging that Cohen had perjured himself by lying to Congress. That measure was tabled...
