I can’t be the only one who finds this coverage to be more than a little creepy: As he battles brain cancer and the debilitating side effects of his aggressive treatment, Mr. McCain himself is reckoning with his history and the future, as he and a stream of friends share memories and say what needs […]
Ted Kennedy
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Romney’s Senate Run Will Be a Comedy of Errors, Even if He Wins
Like his previous campaigns, Romney’s Senate bid will be gloriously degrading and morbidly funny.
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The Covfefe Chronicles: How Many Lies Will Trump Pack into His Presidential Memoirs?
It’s inevitable. Once Donald Trump is removed from office—either through term limits, a 2020 loss, a resignation or (if there is enough Congressional courage following the 2018 midterms) an impeachment—he and a right-wing ghostwriter will secure a big-money contract for his presidential memoirs. There will be a built-in audience for such a book—the still-loyal members […]
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The GOP’s Woeful War Over Warren
Massachusetts Republicans are incapable of making a coherent case against Warren.
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Elizabeth Warren’s GOP Challengers Have No Credentials and No Credibility
Like a championship team whose top rivals are nowhere in their class, it appears that US Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) will be facing off against a member of the GOP B-team next year. Apparently, the days of Republicans recruiting main-event players (Mitt Romney in 1994, Bill Weld in 1996) to challenge the Bay State’s senators […]
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The Real Story Behind a Romney Aide’s Challenge to Elizabeth Warren
So, is this the best the Massachusetts Republican Party can offer? Longtime Republican operative Beth Lindstrom, a former senior aide to Mitt Romney and manager of Scott Brown’s victorious Senate campaign, said Wednesday she is considering a challenge to US Senator Elizabeth Warren. Lindstrom has held a series of conversations with top state Republicans about […]
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Southern Discomfort: The Enemies of Jon Ossoff
When it comes to special elections, this is usually the time right-wingers smell blood…and try to draw some, too. One month from today, the runoff election in Georgia’s Sixth Congressional District between Democrat Jon Ossoff and Republican Karen Handel will take place. Between now and June 20, Ossoff will become the right’s Public Enemy No. […]
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Code of Silence: Will Obama Finally Call Out Trump?
Now, there’s just no excuse. It’s hard to figure out just why the 44th President of the United States won’t directly criticize his incompetent and insane successor, but Barack Obama refused to do so again a few days ago in his John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award acceptance speech (and in his remarks at […]
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This is What You Call Getting It Terribly Wrong
Almost as bad as the mainstream media’s pre-debate obsession with normalizing Donald Trump is the Fourth Estate’s fixation on promoting the idea that there are still reasonable, moderate Republican politicians in this country, that the GOP hasn’t completely gone goofy, that the party isn’t consumed by cynicism. Case in point: the questionable coverage of a […]
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The American Dream vs. The American Nightmare
While the hazmat crews continue to clean up the raw sewage that flowed from the podium at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland last week, I hope Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, Senator Tim Kaine, Senator Bernie Sanders, Vice President Biden and President Obama can make some last-minute adjustments that will strengthen the speeches they […]
