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 […]
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A Winning Issue in Rural America: Defending Obamacare
Possible Republican defectors from McConnell’s bill to repeal and replace Obamacare represent rural states.
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The Senate Republican Who Could Stand Up To Trump
Senator Susan Collins had a front-row seat to witness courage in the Watergate era.
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Dirty Deeds: The Trumpist Threat to Clean Air and Water
Presumably, Donald Trump didn’t bring the hack he hired to run the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, along with him to Saudi Arabia because the fossil-fuel fetishist wouldn’t want to leave that petrostate. The New York Times, presumably trying to reduce the public’s contempt towards its decision to hire climate-change denier Bret Stephens to foul […]
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Cool Down, Everybody: GOP Climate Heroes Are Still Hard to Find
Sorry, but there’s no reason to pick up the pom-poms for Senators John McCain (R-AZ), Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Susan Collins (R-ME), whose votes were admittedly crucial to stopping the latest right-wing scheme to destroy President Obama’s climate-protection efforts. Let’s not label them climate hawks just yet, OK? McCain lost his credibility on this issue […]
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The Maine Non-Event: Don’t Believe the Hype About Senator Collins
Last week, I noted that self-styled “non-Trump” Republicans will try to blame “guilt by association” if they lose their seats in 2018–a crocodile-tear excuse, considering the fact that these Republicans had the option of leaving the party the moment Trump won the GOP nomination; these men and women could have easily declared back then that […]
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Sorry, Charlie: The Fiction of “Moderate Republicanism”
One week prior to the 2016 election, I observed that regardless of whether Donald Trump won or lost, “Elected officials who have positioned themselves as ‘reasonable’ Republicans (think Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker and Maine Senator Susan Collins) won’t be able to pull off that particular gambit for much longer.” In the case of the former, […]
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Findings of Fact
Regardless of whether Donald Trump wins or loses the 2016 Presidential election, the following will be true: * Those who support Trump have proven to be the most gullible citizens of the United States, the sort of folks who can fall for the simplest of scams. To invoke a famous Washington Post controversy, they may […]
