Republican stalwarts like Mitch McConnell, to whom obstruction of any forward progress is like breathing, are not just trying to make life difficult for folks like Bernie Sanders or Chuck Schumer. He wants them to not even bother trying.
Politics, Corruption & Criminality
Dissatisfied voters targeted election officials in 2020. Accustomed to working behind the scenes, many were cast as villains and now fear for their personal and professional safety.
If you want to know what crimes Trump has committed or is committing now—just because he's no longer in office does not mean he stopped being a criminal—simply make notes of what he accuses others of doing.
FOX News is working overtime to attack Critical Race Theory. And they are not alone. So what is the intent?
As reported in today's Washington Post, we have now officially passed the threshold of 600,000 deaths from Covid-19.
Oregon Republican Representative, Mike Nearman, was expelled from the legislature on a 59-1 vote. The only "no" vote was his.
The majority of Joe Manchin's constituents including a majority from the opposition party want to see S 1, the Senate version of HR 1, the "For the People Act" and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act passed.
The refusal of FOX News to broadcast an ad containing true information about the Jan 6 Insurrection makes FOX an active player in the coverup of the attempted overthrow of our government.
Joe Manchin insisted in the pages of the Gazette-Mail on Sunday that the For the People Act is a partisan measure, even though 79% of his own constituents including 76% of West Virginia Republicans support the legislation.
The linchpin to Republican opposition to progressive legislation is the filibuster. Majority Leader Schumer can do it quite quickly with a vote of 51 Senators. But he has to have the 51 votes...
Probably the most infuriating figure in the Senate today is Joe Manchin. He seems perfectly comfortable in the role of foil against efforts to break the McConnell embargo against progressive efforts in Congress.
A Republic is a form of government in which a state is ruled by representatives of the citizen body. Modern republics are founded on the idea that sovereignty rests with the people, though who is included and excluded from the category of the people has varied across history.
There are open questions as to how much actual support was given to the insurrectionists by sitting members of Congress. If this support was given, these members would be accessories either before or after the fact, or both.
Sure, the followers of Qanon in any of its forms are suckers. But these suckers are sometimes only too happy to be the canon fodder of those who see them as easy marks.
Former casino mogul and former finance chair of the Republican Party, Steve Wynn, is about to be sued by the DOJ to force him to register as a foreign lobbyist.
What is profiteering? It is “the act or activity of making an unreasonable profit on the sale of essential goods especially during times of emergency.” For anyone who needs an essential medication for their health, an emergency would be not having that drug.
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