The auto scrap billionaire who is funding South Dakota’s deployment of national guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border told TPM in an interview that he was making the contribution because “this President would rather help other countries than help America.”
Campaign Of OH Senate Candidate Hungry For Trump’s Approval Is Already Hitting Snags
The Senate campaign of Josh Mandel, the former Ohio state treasurer who ran twice against Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), is already running into some trouble. Continue reading “Campaign Of OH Senate Candidate Hungry For Trump’s Approval Is Already Hitting Snags”
GOP Prez Primary Race Moves into State Militia Rental Phase
Here’s a new story that manages to be both absurd and silly and also pretty outrageous. As part of her 2024 presidential ambitions South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem is deploying elements of the state national guard to the Texas boarder to combat the “border crisis” which is mainly an element of the Republican campaign agenda for 2022. And the money to do it is coming from a private donor.
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The Emperor’s New Mini-Bill
This is an issue I first mentioned on Friday. While Senate Republicans are going full performance art drama about whether they can still support the proposal they already agreed to support, there’s another element of the drama in some ways just as interesting.
The bill – or rather outline proposal, there’s no bill – could not include any new taxes and had to be paid for. Republicans insisted on those conditions. The bill includes a number of “payfors” meant to accomplish this. But they are at least half phony. Some are more real than others. In some cases there’s legitimate debate about how much revenue they could yield – stepped up tax enforcement on the super wealthy is an example of that. But the core issue is that a lot of it is pretend. Now the Post has talked to experts about the list of payfors and it confirms in detail what was pretty clear in general: a mix of wishful thinking and hocum. In other words, the negotiation over the bipartisan mini-bill was largely a process of finding notional ‘payfors’ that Republicans could pretend were real.
Nothing is Too Vile for the GOP House Caucus
Here’s the Holocaust humor from a guy named Nick Fuentes, a far-right holocaust denier and white supremacist commentator who is holding a fundraiser July 1st with Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona. Classic joking, smiling denial of the death of six million Jews and being endorsed by a Republican member of Congress in good standing – committee membership, campaign support, the whole deal. Video after the jump.
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Manchin Speaks on “Linkage” and GOP Whining
There’s been a lot of fretting over the last couple days about whether a group of Republicans who had not actually committed to support the bipartisan mini-bill were no longer going to support it, thus putting in doubt President Biden’s entire infrastructure agenda. But that’s the wrong way to look at this. This has always been and remains an issue in Democrats’ hands – especially Joe Manchin’s hands. Republicans are just players on a chess board in which Democrats are making the moves. And Joe Manchin made this pretty clear this morning.
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In Reality, Manchin And Sinema Are The Only Dems Completely Opposed To Changing The Filibuster
In a word cloud of conversations about the filibuster, the biggest names would almost certainly be Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), the two outspoken Democratic defenders of the Senate rule who ensure its continued existence, to Republicans’ delight.
House Will Vote Again To Remove Confederate Statues In Capitol
The House on Tuesday again will vote on legislation to remove Confederate statues from the Capitol, after the measure failed to gain traction in the then-GOP-controlled Senate last year after it passed in the lower chamber. Continue reading “House Will Vote Again To Remove Confederate Statues In Capitol”
Where Things Stand: Trump-Appointed Judge Allows Rep Boebert To Block Twitter Critic
The Colorado gun congresswoman is now allowed to block critics on Twitter.
Manchin Suggests He’s Good With The Dems’ ‘Tandem’ Approach On Infrastructure
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) dropped a few hints on Tuesday morning about his thinking on the infrastructure deal. Continue reading “Manchin Suggests He’s Good With The Dems’ ‘Tandem’ Approach On Infrastructure”