Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on Sunday took aim at House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) days after audio leaked of his remarks to fellow GOP leaders about his plans to ask then-President Trump to resign after Jan. 6, which McCarthy previously denied.
Continue reading “‘Liar And Traitor’: Warren Rips McCarthy For Lying About Plans To Ask Trump To Resign”Meadows Was Warned Of ‘Intel Reports’ On Possible Jan. 6 Violence, Court Filing Says
Then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows was warned of possible violence ahead of Jan. 6, 2021, according to testimony released in a court filing Friday night by the Jan. 6 Select Committee.
Continue reading “Meadows Was Warned Of ‘Intel Reports’ On Possible Jan. 6 Violence, Court Filing Says”The Single Point of Failure Explanation
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Continue reading “The Single Point of Failure Explanation”You and numerous other observers have commented on the peculiar passivity of the Democrats going into what was always going to be a challenging midterm election, which will of course be even more challenging if they don’t really make much of an effort to contest it. What could be responsible for this malaise in the party?
tl;dr: Joe Manchin.
Vodka, Red Bull, And Unpaid Debt: One Of The DC Imposters Led A Wild Pre-Arrest Life
Before it all went down in a storm of FBI agents and murky claims about Pakistani intelligence, one of the two alleged D.C. federal imposters lived a lavish life while rarely footing the bill.
Continue reading “Vodka, Red Bull, And Unpaid Debt: One Of The DC Imposters Led A Wild Pre-Arrest Life”McCarthy Is Caught In A Lie On Live TV After Denying That He’d Planned To Ask Trump To Resign
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was caught red-handed after insisting that news from the New York Times that he’d told House members he would push then-President Donald Trump to resign after Jan. 6 was “totally false and wrong.”
Continue reading “McCarthy Is Caught In A Lie On Live TV After Denying That He’d Planned To Ask Trump To Resign”‘I Don’t Recall’: MTG’s Memory Under Oath Seems Pretty Terrible Today
Up until Friday, none of ex-President Donald Trump’s goons in Congress have had to testify under oath about the events of Jan. 6 last year, including their role in ginning up rage among Trump’s base over the 2020 election that culminated in the Capitol insurrection.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), staring down the barrel of an effort to disqualify her from ever running for elected office again, got to be the first goon on Friday.
Continue reading “‘I Don’t Recall’: MTG’s Memory Under Oath Seems Pretty Terrible Today”Incitement to Genocide Rising Under the Waves
One of the abiding features of early 21st century American politics is that a lot of change on the right happens in the subterranean world of what we used to call “the Crazy.” In the pre-Trump years it’s not that any of this was really hidden. It wasn’t subterranean in that sense. But it was off the radar of most of conventional journalism and the mainstream political discourse because it wasn’t serious. It wasn’t real. It was just crazy antics on the margins. But as we’ve tried to chronicle for decades now, that was never the case. That was the real GOP politics. It controlled and drove the presentable mainstream leaders — the Boehners, Ryans, McConnells and more. The ascension of Donald Trump was in many ways a simple inversion of this dynamic, putting “the Crazy” in formal and open leadership of the party.
Something has happened as recently as the last four to six weeks that follows this pattern, is important and dangerous and is still mostly coasting under the radar of “proper” U.S. political discourse and reporting.
Continue reading “Incitement to Genocide Rising Under the Waves”Bannon’s GoFundMe Border Wall Buddies Plead Guilty While He Lives Free With Trump Pardon
Steve Bannon is a free man today thanks to Donald Trump’s pardon of the far-right power player in the last minutes of his presidency. Others involved in the same scheme as Bannon weren’t so lucky: Two of them pleaded guilty Wednesday to defrauding donors to the $25 million GoFundMe border wall project known as “We Build The Wall.”
Continue reading “Bannon’s GoFundMe Border Wall Buddies Plead Guilty While He Lives Free With Trump Pardon”GOPer Sends Fake Appointment Confirmations For ‘Your Child’s Gender Reassignment Surgery’ In Fundraising Texts
Michigan state senator and U.S. House candidate Tom Barrett (R) is taking the GOP’s war on transgender youth to an even greater extreme.
Continue reading “GOPer Sends Fake Appointment Confirmations For ‘Your Child’s Gender Reassignment Surgery’ In Fundraising Texts”Joe Manchin Said Ohio Was Proof The Senate Didn’t Need To Pass A Voting Rights Bill. That Example Isn’t Looking So Great Anymore.
As TPM readers likely know, Democrats’ efforts to pass voting rights legislation in Congress have stalled in the face of the Republican filibuster, and because Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) refuse to change the filibuster rules in order to pass voting rights legislation by simple majority.
Continue reading “Joe Manchin Said Ohio Was Proof The Senate Didn’t Need To Pass A Voting Rights Bill. That Example Isn’t Looking So Great Anymore.”