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By naming names, confronting every GOP senator up for reelection, as the Democrats have refused to do for decades, with their voting records: a. every vote for a subversive, spoiler cabinet secretary engaged in destroying the agency with which he or she … Continue reading →

That grotesquely distended blowfish orifice is part of his intimidation routine.

So what he stood up for the First Amendment–is that how low the bar for political courage is among Republicans? Sen. Sasse will inevitably go right along with Trump and the GOP’s cataclysmic tax cuts for the rich, tax raises … Continue reading →

An important piece by Robert Freeman at Common Drams, questioning Ken Burns’s failure to provide context or draw cautionary criteria from the Vietnam disaster that would enable Americans to evaluate the way our government continues to lead us into one new Vietnam … Continue reading →

who says he doesn’t want money going to insurance companies, but instead to poor people. Does that mean he’s endorsing Single Payer? His endorsement of junk insurance last week is a windfall for  insurance companies, while Trump Care itself orchestrates an even greater deregulation  … Continue reading →

and their overthrow of U.S. democracy. President Mike Pence? Perhaps we’d better perish that thought. In The New Yorker, Jane Mayer describes “The Danger of President Pence.”

The  Obamas come to heel when the GOP cracks the whip, while Biden spouts drivel about the patriotism of the rich and positions himself as the anti-populist. Bernie Sanders doesn’t. In the Guardian, he writes: “Today, we have a corrupt campaign … Continue reading →

“The Republican Party is Dr. Frankenstein, and Donald Trump is its monster,” Ian Reifowitz writes at Daily Kos.com. “By opposing in a knee-jerk fashion everything Barack Obama proposed and by nurturing white grievance and white identity politics—the GOP created Trump, they chose … Continue reading →

“We’d also like to know where was the outrage from the Republican leadership when Roger Ailes’s and Bill O’Reilly’s perpetual sexual harassment became known? “Why was it that President Trump defended both Ailes and O’Reilly?” “We have too much respect … Continue reading →

embodies a complete inversion of morality, a nihilistic reversion to atavistic savagery, and a full-bore attack on the American people. Bannon tells the disturbed attendees of the “Value Voters Summit” that Trump is blowing up our health care system–and they cheer. And who … Continue reading →