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Thank you, Congressman John Lewis for unequivocally saying what should be obvious to all: Trump is not a legitimate president.

Why would she humiliate herself following Trump’s latest tirade? Why would she legitimize someone who is shooting to hell American democracy? His hysteria over the Comey investigation tells us all we need to know about his own complicity.

His abuse of power is unsurpassed. Now he’s trying to harass Walter Shaub for speaking out about Trump’s non-divestment hustle. Will the announced investigation into Comey reach to Rep. Chaffetz?

Yes, Mr. Carson, you’ve got yours and so to hell with everyone else. Have you by any chance noticed the punishingly low payments and punishingly stringent welfare requirements?  Of course not. You couldn’t care less. But as Rep. Gwen Moore … Continue reading →

After McConnell cracked his whip, it didn’t take much time, did it, for Sen. Collins and the four other alleged GOP moderates to fall into line, withdraw their amendment asking for a short reprieve for ACA,  and go along with … Continue reading →

Farron Cousins at Ring of Fire decries the 13 turncoats, who valued their Big Pharma contributors more than the plight of the American public.

What is going on with Trump and the GOP defies imagining. John Judis at Talking Points Memo describes the latest outrage: “If the Senate passes this act, and President Trump signs it, federal agencies entrusted with enforcing the Clean Air … Continue reading →

Quite a spectacle, Sen. Gardner pounding that gavel and trying to shut up and shut down the Democratic caucus as it presages its “No” votes last night with a sentence “on behalf of,” each referencing a population sector that will … Continue reading →

So there’s one conflict-of-interest statute that doesn’t apply to the President. There are plenty that do, including one in the Constitution. The Trump gang jump on the one that doesn’t, extrapolate a parrot insistence that the President can’t have a … Continue reading →

Oh, so Eric Holder’s going to lead the charge against GOP gerrymandering? Is this the same Eric Holder who was going to lead the charge against GOP voter suppression?