Looking ahead to the 2024 presidential election, Sen. Bernie Sanders accused many in the Republican Party’s leadership of not believing in democracy. “We live in a nation where you have a major political party, the Republican Party, where many, not all, but many of their leadership doesn’t even believe in …
Read More »Mike Pence Says Impending Trump Arrest 'Reeks' of 'Political Prosecution'
Hours after Donald Trump announced in a caps lock rant that he anticipates getting arrested next week, his former vice president Mike Pence joined the chorus of Republicans criticizing the Manhattan district attorney and questioning his motives. “Like many Americans, I’m just, I’m taken aback,” Pence told SiriusXM’sBreitbart News Saturday …
Read More »Tucker Carlson's Jan. 6 Propaganda Bomb Was a Giant Dud
For the second night this week, Tucker Carlson devoted the majority of his broadcast to his long standing campaign to re-write the history of Jan. 6. Tuesday night’s broadcast features virtually none of the 44,000 hours of Capitol surveillance footage to which House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy granted Carlson and …
Read More »Tucker Carlson's Jan. 6 Footage Dump Delivers the Sloppy Propaganda Kevin McCarthy Wanted
Last month, Fox News’ Tucker Carlson was granted exclusive access to the trove of more than 44,000 hours of Capitol surveillance footage by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. On Monday night Carlson released the first installment of his analysis of the tapes, telling viewers that the vast majority of the protestors …
Read More »Mike Lindell's Plan to Sue Kevin McCarthy Just Fell Apart
Late last month, MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell was busy working with staunchly pro-Trump lawyers on a plan to sue House speaker Kevin McCarthy. On Monday afternoon, the plan collapsed entirely, a “very disappointed” Lindell tells Rolling Stone. “The lawyers came back this afternoon and said after working on this and …
Read More »McCarthy Gave Tucker the Jan. 6 Tapes. Trump Allies Are Threatening to Sue
When House speaker Kevin McCarthy gave Fox News host Tucker Carlson, a leading Jan. 6 revisionist, exclusive access this month to a vast archive of unseen surveillance footage of the deadly Capitol riot, he — expectedly — pissed off the left. But the Republican lawmaker’s move didn’t just infuriate his …
Read More »A Piss-and-Vinegar Biden Dares Republicans to Try Him
President Joe Biden devoted most of his second State of the Union address to calls for unity and working across the aisle in a season of divided government. Except when he didn’t: As Republican lawmakers vociferously heckled the president throughout the speech, the president pushed right back. The shouts from …
Read More »Confessions of a Sometimes-MAGA Critic
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) did not intend to strip Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) of her seat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee —until, of course, she did. As a personal matter, Mace says she has nothing against Omar. “I don’t know her from Adam,” she says,an odd contention from someone …
Read More »GOP Preps to Boot Ilhan Omar Off Key Committee Because … Revenge, Basically
House Republicans are preparing to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) from the Foreign Affairs Committee, with a vote coming as soon as Wednesday. Why? It could be because they just don’t really like her — for some reason! — or perhaps it’s because they want to get back at Democrats …
Read More »Kevin McCarthy Is Stacking the Ethics Committee With Election Deniers
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has announced his picks to lead and serve on the House Ethics Committee. Three of the five, including incoming Chair Michael Guest (R-Miss.), voted against the certification of the 2020 election results. McCarthy previously announced a proposed set of rules for the Office of Congressional Ethics, …
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