

The Republican Party’s Shame
The Party of Lincoln went over the cliff like lemmings in support. It’s tough to see how they recover.
The Party of Lincoln went over the cliff like lemmings in support. It’s tough to see how they recover.
Ted Cruz is the latest Republican Senator to repeat discredited Kremlin-backed conspiracy theories about Ukrainian interference in the 2016 election.
Those Republicans who recognize how bad President Trump is for he nation but are afraid to speak out against him are as bad as the true believers of Cult45.
Much like the President they obsequiously defend, Republicans have become useful idiots in Russia’s war on Western liberal democracy.
After arguing for a month about an “unfair” impeachment process, the WHite House is saying ‘no thanks’ to an invitation to participate in the next round of impeachment hearings.
Today the House of Representatives approved the procedures for the impeachment proceeding against the President.
The GOP’s efforts to defend the President are becoming more desperate and pathetic by the day.
The same Republicans who were outraged over Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server are silent about the use of private apps by Trump officials.
Welcome to Donald Trump’s Republican Party.
President Trump and the Republican Party have spent the last three years lying about the Federal budget deficit and the economy.
Despite having utterly mishandled both areas when they actually held power, Republicans think they can win back the House of Representatives by focusing on the budget deficit and health care reform.
Faced with an election next week, Israel’s Prime Minister is pushing a settlement plan that would be an utter disaster.
Prime Minister Netanyahu’s actions toward two Democratic Congresswomen,seemingly at the bidding of President Trump, is the latest example of the growing partisan divide over policy toward Israel.
President Trump says he’s thinking about commuting the sentenced of Rod Blagojevich, who has served seven years of the fourteen-year sentence he received for public corruption.
The only African-American Republican in the House of Representatives is retiring, and that should worry Republicans nationwide.
President Trump and the Congressional leadership have reached agreement on a multi-year budget deal that that busts through all remaining controls on spending.
On Wednesday, much of official Washington, and likely a good part of the country itself, will pause to watch what are likely to biggest hearings since the late 1980s.
For the first time in a century, a chamber of Congress has voted to condemn a sitting President. That won’t stop this President.
Some agree with him. Many others are cowards. But there’s more to it.
The House of Representatives passed a defense spending bill that seeks to limit Presidential authority when it comes to striking Iran and aideing the Saudi war on Yemen.
The Supreme Court rejected an effort by the Virginia House of Delegates to overturn a Federal Court ruling that the state’s district lines constituted gerrymandering by race. But they didn’t rule on the merits of the appeal.
With the Trump Administration continuing to stonewall investigations, the House of Representatives is seeking to ramp up the pressure.
Michigan Congressman Justin Amash has quit a group he helped found nine years ago after they voted to condemn him for advocating for the President’s impeachment.
The President’s foolish tariffs against Mexico are finally causing many Republican Senators to stand up against him.
As the Administration continues to stonewall legitimate requests from Congress for documents and witnesses, pressure is growing on Speaker Pelosi to authorize the opening of an impeachment inquiry.
Justin Amash doubled down on his criticism of the President and his call for impeachment even as he came under fire from fellow Republicans.
The House has passed legislation that would extend the protections of the Civil Rights Act to LGBT Americans, but it is probably doomed in the Senate.
Attorney General William Barr has opened a new investigation into the origins of the Russia investigation, a move that seems suspiciously political.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other firebrands aren’t steering the ship. Yet.
The Constitution’s invitation to struggle over foreign policy continues.
Sometimes symbolism is important. This is one of those times.
Republicans are blindly loyal to this President in a way we have not seen before. They are likely to end up paying a price for that.
Last week, the House passed two bills to strengthen the laws regarding background checks for guns, but they’re not likely to even make it to the floor of the Senate.
The House of Representatives voted yesterday to block the President’s declaration of an “emergency” at the southern border. Now the matter goes to the Senate.
Republicans face a choice in the coming days. Do they support the Constitution, or do they support Donald Trump? You can count on them making the wrong choice.
Steve King isn’t backing down from his history of white supremacy and racism. And he’s also running for re-election.
Following Donald Trump’s lead, the GOP is making clear that its game plan for 2020 is paint all Democrats as ‘socialists, baby killers, and anti-Semites.’
The right has spent a seemingly inordinate amount of time focusing on relatively powerless Members of Congress.
The White House isn’t ruling out the idea of a second government shutdown, but Senate Republicans have other ideas.
Not surprisingly, the President’s proposed shutdown deal is not being received well by Democrats on Capitol Hill.
As the shutdown drags on, it’s beginning to have an impact on the economy.
The House GOP has moved to rebuke Iowa Congressman for his racist remarks. What took them so long?
If you’re looking for the biggest obstacle to a resolution to the government shutdown, look no further than President Donald J. Trump.
As the shutdown drags on, Republicans are beginning to fear that members in the House and Senate may begin to fall away from supporting the President.
As the shutdown continues, there’s little sign of progress on either end of Pennsylvania Avenue.
As 2018 draws to a close, there’s no sign that the government shutdown will end any time soon.
There was no progress on resolving the government shutdown today, and little hope that anything will happen before late next week.
The government entered its third shutdown of the year with little sign of an immediate resolution.
With just hours to go, a partial government shutdown is becoming more and more likely.
Hours before the House was set to vote on a temporary funding bill for the government, President Trump has apparently changed his mind.