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Dan Pfeiffer: Un-Trumping America

02/19/2020 PMSwithESP 0

The GOP Doesn’t Need Trump—It’s Already Rigged the System The Daily Beast featured an excerpt from a new book by Dan Pfeiffer, detailing how the GOP has put their thumb on the scales of democracy. MORE

Joe Walsh drops out of Republican race: “The Party has become a cult.”

02/07/2020 Ms. G 0

“I am ending my candidacy for president of the United States. I got into this because I thought it was really important that there was a Republican — a Republican — out there every day MORE

In Private, Republicans Admit They Acquitted Trump Out of Fear

02/06/2020 forkless 0

Not guilty. Not guilty. In the United States Senate, like in many spheres of life, fear does the business. MORE

Team Trump and Senate GOP sycophants do not want Bolton or Parnas to testify in impeachment trial

01/21/2020 Ms. G 0

Trump’s legal defense team and Senate GOP sycophants have quietly plotted out contingency plans should Democrats win enough votes to force witnesses to testify in the impeachment trial, including an effort to keep former national MORE

The Texas’ GOP’s Strategy: Praise the Lord and pass the Xenophobia

01/14/2020 Community 22

In case anyone was in doubt about just how ugly the 2020 election season will be, last week should have served as a five-alarm warning. The Signal: Big-city mayors in Texas want to maintain the MORE

New Conservative Super PAC to Target Trump Includes George Conway

12/18/2019 PMSwithESP 0

A small group of President Donald Trump’s fiercest conservative critics, including the husband of the president’s own chief adviser, is launching a super PAC designed to fight Trump’s reelection and punish congressional Republicans deemed his MORE

Is the GOP trying to get Ilhan Omar killed?

12/07/2019 Community 0

While soliciting campaign contributions through email, George Buck, a Florida Republican candidate who is running for Congress, called for Omar’s execution, then denied doing so, then suggested it again later that same day. Meanwhile, in Minnesota, Danielle Stella, MORE

The Republican Impeachment Scholar Is a Hack

12/05/2019 Community 33

Three of the professors agreed that Trump should be impeached: Noah Feldman of Harvard Law School, Pam Karlan of Stanford Law School, and Michael Gerhardt of the University of North Carolina School of Law. The MORE

Laughable new GOP report: Yes, Trump did it. But his motives were pure!

12/03/2019 Rachel Kennedy 77

Boiled down to its essence, the Ukraine scandal is really a tale about a president who has subverted the interests of the nation to his own by putting our foreign policy at the disposal of MORE

Eight GOP Congressmen Who Will Vote on Impeachment Reportedly Spent July 4 in Moscow

12/03/2019 PMSwithESP 26

A former Democratic National Committee official, Adam Parkhomenko, is raising questions about the partiality of eight republican congress critters who reportedly spent an Independence Day in secret meetings in Moscow. “The meetings of American guests MORE

House Republicans release report arguing Trump’s contact with Ukraine not political; find no wrongdoing

12/02/2019 Ms. G 52

After last month’s first round of House impeachment inquiry hearings, House Republicans have penned a 123-page document defending Trump claiming he acted on “genuine and reasonable” skepticism of Ukraine. Both The New York Times and CBS MORE

Skittles’ Book Reached #1 Thanks to the GOP Buying it in Bulk

11/29/2019 Community 44

The mystery over whether Donald Trump Jr’s new book deserved its place at No 1 in the New York Times bestseller list has deepened after it emerged that the Republican National Committee (RNC) spent $94,800 (£74,000) on MORE

GOP Senate Foot Dragging Puts Native Women’s Live in Danger

11/29/2019 Community 16

The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), a landmark 1994 bill aimed at curbing domestic and sexual violence, which currently has to be renewed every five years, lapsed in February. On Thursday, the GOP unveiled its counterintuitive, anti-Indigenous VAWA replacement. MORE

Republicans for the Rule of Law warn Congress: “History is watching.”

11/13/2019 Ms. G 48

The Republicans for the Rule of Law, a GOP group critical of Trump, purchased air time on Fox & Friends to air a commercial that urges “GOP lawmakers to stand up to President Donald Trump MORE

GOP Rep. Peter King announces retirement; wants to spend more time with his family

11/11/2019 Ms. G 32

Long time GOP Representative, Peter King (R-NY) announced he will not seek another term. King said he was retiring so he can live full-time in New York and spend more time with his family. “ This MORE

Laura Ingraham blames GOP losses in VA on Soros, changing demographics, and immigrants

11/07/2019 Ms. G 0

“Democrats took control of both state houses, giving them full control of the entire government for the first time since 1994,” Ingraham said. “Now the road to Democrat dominance in the commonwealth was paved long MORE

Sorry, pundits: The problem isn’t “polarization” — Republicans have lost their damn minds

11/01/2019 forkless 0

When the final vote tally on a formal resolution governing the impeachment inquiry concluded on Thursday with a party-line split — all Republicans present voted against the resolution, and all but two Democrats voted for MORE

Trump Bribes GOP Senators with Cash

10/31/2019 PMSwithESP 20

President Donald Trump is rewarding senators who have his back on impeachment — and sending a message to those who don’t to get on board. On Wednesday, the Trump reelection campaign sent a fundraising appeal to its MORE

The Crisis of the Republican Party

10/20/2019 Rachel Kennedy 24

By the New York Times Editorial Board: In the summer of 1950, outraged by Joseph McCarthy’s anti-Communist inquisition, Margaret Chase Smith, a Republican senator from Maine, stood to warn her party that its own behavior MORE

GOP lawmakers describe Trump’s half-baked Syrian plan as a ‘grave mistake,’ ‘disaster in the making’

10/07/2019 Community 6

Several Republican lawmakers on Monday panned President Trump to withdraw U.S. troops from northern Syria ahead of a planned Turkish invasion, marking the latest break within the party over foreign policy. Republicans warn that the MORE

Trump: ‘Those light bulbs make me look orange.’

09/13/2019 Ms. G 40

While ten, Democratic hopefuls took the stage to discuss real issues the United States and the rest of the world face, Trump went to ‘rat infested’ Baltimore to deliver a speech at the GOP’s retreat. MORE

Trump’s ‘African-American’ leaves GOP, slams president’s ‘white privilege’

09/12/2019 Community 79

Gregory Cheadle, the black man singled out by President Trump as “my African-American” at a rally, is leaving the Republican Party and pursuing a congressional run as an independent, PBS News reported Thursday. The 62-year-old real estate broker told the outlet MORE