The right danced a jig of joy over Dr. Anthony Fauci’s invoking the Fifth Amendment before Rand Paul’s Senate Homeland Security Committee. The Kentucky Republican knew in advance that Fauci would give no substantive testimony. Yet he paraded the 85-year-old doctor before the cameras to invoke his Fifth Amendment rights over a hundred times, then […]
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Congressional Republicans Could End Trump’s Madness
The Founders designed our democracy with a failsafe against would-be despots: impeachment.
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Donald Trump Is Raising Your Taxes, and Republicans Won’t Stop Him
The President’s partial tariff retreat still leaves his biggest import taxes in place, and the Congressional Republican tax cut plans won’t offset them.
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What Is Rand Paul Hiding About His Attacker?
His neighbor charged onto his lawn and caved in his ribs, and Rand Paul doesn’t want us to know why.
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Why Is Rand Paul’s Attacker Charged With a Misdemeanor?
He raced across the senator’s lawn and caved in his rib cage. There must be more to this story.
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Did McCain Just Kill Obamacare Repeal, Again?
The Republican senator is the third member of his party to publicly denounce the Graham-Cassidy bill.
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Graham-Cassidy Doesn’t Pass the Sanity Test
In a sane world, any party that attempted this would be shunned by the American people.
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Graham-Cassidy: Can the Senate Republicans Get to 50?
Republicans are panicked to repeal and replace Obamacare, but so far they lack the votes to pull it off.
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The Danger to Obamacare Is Real
The Republicans are panicked enough by polls to risk a a really futile and stupid gesture.
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Despite McConnell’s Delay, Trumpcare Could Still Make It Through the Senate
Like the proverbial horror-movie character whose hand rises up from the grave, let’s not assume that the monster known as Trumpcare is dead and buried yet. Yes, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has, ironically enough, delayed the effort to kill the Affordable Care Act until after Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) recovers from surgery to remove […]
