Something is keeping Rep. Matt Gaetz up at night—and no, it's not an (alleged) underaged girl. Nope, instead he's worried about something that could really be good news to Democrats and therefore bad news to the Republicans. So he...
Friends, you do not need to be Nostradamus to see how the conflict du jour is going to go in the House of Representatives. All roads lead to Democratic rule -- oh not *formal* Democratic rule. Things are not...
Republicans have had a tough time filling former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's shoes. Kevin McCarthy tried to do that, but he didn't even last 270 days, and according to CNN his was the third-briefest speakership in more than 140...
I'm starting to get a twitch in my whiskers. There's no way that current House Speaker Mike Johnson has the nickname of MAGA Mike. But as other MAGAts have already shown, being a Trump supporter doesn't necessarily make him a brain...
House Republicans, at least the crazies in the Freedom Caucus and some MAGA-Lite types who aren't are mad at Speaker Mike Johnson these days. Whether they can do anything about it is suddenly open to question. In fact, there...
If you need a good laugh you could hardly do worse than watching House and Senate Republicans in action. Especially during this last week when the GOP has seemed like one enormous farce. I mean really, these people couldn't...
It must really suck to be Speaker Mike Johnson. Not that I feel the least bit sorry for him. Earlier I wrote about his face-plant in calling for a floor vote on impeaching DHS Secretary Mayorkas - and NOT...
In theory at least Mike Johnson is Speaker of the House of Representatives. In practice, despite his increasing insistence to the contrary Donald Trump is the one actually wielding the enormous power that goes with the title and job....
Let's just say I'm a bully. And for the last couple of weeks I've been having a helluva time making life miserable for the skinny kids with the taped together glasses and the pocket protector. The thing I didn't know was...
I have to admit I was stunned to see this news. What a start to the day! There was already tension in Colorado over Rep. Lauren Boebert's abandoning her current Congressional District to run in a more solidly GOP...

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