The U.S. House of Representatives sits on one side of the Capitol building, and the Senate on the other side. It's a long walk from one chamber to the other but in many respects they might as well be...
Whelp, it looks like Matt Gaetz’s decision to fire (to borrow a phrase) former Speaker Kevin McCarthy like a dog has put an end to the over the top farce that was the House Oversight Committee’s public hearings on...
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...
Excellent reporting by Joshua Benton in The Atlantic informs us that Trump’s newly selected Speaker of the House Mike Johnson’s great-great-great-grandfather, Alfred Johnson, having been a confederate soldier, was required to swear an oath in Aug. of 1867 of...
Never Trumper George Conway, noting that Super MAGA Congress Critter Greg Steube of Florida has posted on Twitter a photo of himself kneeling in prayer on the floor of the House of Representatives with the new Speaker and several...
With the practiced certitude of a grifting television evangelist, Bossier City, Louisiana’s finest Mike Johnson (foreground, left of center above), claimed in his speech after he was sworn in as Speaker of the House of Representatives yesterday that his...
As I warned this morning it appears that the Dotard has given his marching orders and the GOP Congressional horde has coalesced behind a single candidate for Speaker, voting 220-O for the election denying, Trump fluffing, live-birth abortion lie-teller...
It was smiles all around late yesterday afternoon as GOP caucus members gathered to support their latest sacrificial lamb…er…nominee in the most contentious and potentially consequential contest for the House Speakership in U.S. history.
The next Speaker of the House...
I'm totally fed up. From where I'm sitting, you can stop calling this the Party of Trump, and instead start calling it the Q-Anon Cult. I have often opined that you can't teach the willfully stupid. Mostly I use that in reference to...
Brother, can you spare a dime? Depression era plea
If you know anybody who has insomnia, do your good deed for the year, Hell, it's already October, and tell them to tune into MSNBC at 9 AM EDT tomorrow. because...
