You know, it's easy to make fun of the Klown Kar circus that is the House GOP, especially when you're a progressive blogger like me, who can maybe even turn a buck off of the stupidity. But as much...
Mike Johnson is Jim Jordan in drag. --  Charlie Sykes We just spent the last three weeks with the House GOP looking for all the world like one of those National Geographic shows where they look through a microscope at...
The Democrats might be in the minority in the House but their leader, Hakeem Jeffries isn't taking a back seat when it comes to what happens next to prevent a govt. shutdown in the new year. The new Speaker...
Rand Paul and John McCain were adversaries. On March 15, 2017, they had quite the scuffle in the Senate, when the topic of Montenegro being admitted to NATO came up. That was captured on C-Span and you can read...
Before he dashed off to Paris for a few days new House Speaker Mike Johnson teased that he had an idea to "solve" the government shutdown problem. Frankly, I thought he might just be doing a weak Trump imitation...
Ok, it's not a done deal yet but it seems as though the House of Representatives has managed to pass another short-term Continuing Resolution to avert a government shutdown during the holidays. More importantly it's a "clean" CR that...
That's right folks. New House Speaker Mike Johnson who says he's got a plan but he doesn't want to show it to anyone yet (channeling Trump?) gaveled the House into a three day recess. So he can be in...
It's Unhappy Hour in Washington, D.C.. Kevin McCarthy left the House before 5:00 p.m. according to Politico, after a chaotic scene and shouts of "regular order!" rang through the air. It's still stalemate time, because Tuesday, a small faction...
You knew it was going to get nutty, right, but I'm going to bet that you weren't expecting this. Mike Johnson and his GOP ghouls have a plan to shut down the government unless Joe Biden signs a bill...
At least he didn't wipe his a$$ with it, I suppose that's something. Matt Gaetz -- we presume it's Matt Gaetz, it could have been somebody else -- left a draft of a resolution to remove Kevin McCarthy in...

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