Just in case the House minority leader’s sleeping arrangements were keeping you up at night — he told “Fox and Friends” this morning that he will soon be back to sleeping on the couch in his office on the Hill where he, apparently, belongs.
Nature is healing, etc.
But why are Kevin McCarthy’s sleeping arrangements a topic of discussion? Continue reading “Where Things Stand: McCarthy’s Back On The Couch”
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There’s a fascinating dynamic at play in the Cheney drama. While Trump’s presence and influence have receded on the national stage, they have only grown within the Republican Party. Since he lost the election Trump has occupied very little of my headspace. I don’t know anyone who still talks about him. It’s amazing in its own right how quickly most of us have learned to ignore him. And yet at the same time fealty to Trump has become the sole organizing principle of the Republican Party. For a while it looked like apostates like Cheney might survive in the party, but now it’s clear they will not.
Over 350 scholars, historians and political scientists urge Congress to take action on filibuster reform in a new letter first obtained by TPM, arguing that the Framers never intended for the Senate to rely on supermajorities to pass even routine, bipartisan legislation.
A Justice Department official all but quashed the National Rifle Association’s hopes at declaring bankruptcy and moving to Texas on Monday.
Continue reading “NRA Gets Rare Rebuke From DOJ Bankruptcy Official As It Tries To Escape NY AG”
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) on Tuesday once again refused to go to bat for Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) as House Republicans threaten to oust the third-ranking Republican as conference chair. Continue reading “McCarthy Again Passes Up Chance To Defend Cheney As GOPers Push For Her Ouster”
Kevin McCarthy signaled this morning that Liz Cheney may be on the way out as conference chair. She can’t effectively deliver the message, he says.
The truth is he’s right. And that is damning. It confirms that the GOP message is loyalty to Donald Trump, embrace of the Big Lie of a stolen election and – subsidiary to these two points – pretending the insurrection never happened.
Ohio state Sen. Andrew Brenner (R) was on a video conference call while he was driving on Monday — the same day his Republican colleagues introduced a bill on distracted driving while using electronic devices in his state’s legislature.
The Food and Drug Administration appears to be poised to authorize use of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine in adolescents 12 to 15 years old by early next week, according to multiple reports.
Continue reading “FDA Is Expected To Authorize Pfizer Vaccine For Adolescents By Early Next Week”
Rudy Giuliani, ex-President Donald Trump’s former lawyer, on Monday night railed against the now-retracted media reports that the FBI had given him a briefing warning him that Russian operatives were using him as a bullhorn to spread disinformation about Joe Biden and his son, Hunter.
As a cohort of House Republicans angle to oust Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) as conference chair, the names reportedly floated to replace the House GOP leadership’s most ardent critic of former President Donald Trump appear to primarily be women who have defended him. Continue reading “If House GOPers Vote To Oust Cheney, Who Would Replace Her?”
