Category Archives: Politics

GOP Debate: Nikki Haley Says GOP Needs To Find Consensus On Abortion

In reality, there is no finding consensus with Democrats on abortion. They are fanatics on abortion, as much as ISIS is fanatical on their version of Islam. It’s their 1st commandment, Thou shall fully believe in abortion and allow no restrictions. If the GOP said “we’ll give you an assault weapons ban and in exchange […]

House Passes Standalone Aid Package For Israel

What happens now? Will the Dems and Republicans in the Senate who love funding the never-ending war in Ukraine? Dumping oodles of taxpayer money to a war that’s going nowhere? And, if it passes the Senate, what does Biden do? Mike Johnson, House Republicans pass Israel aid bill, setting up clash with Schumer, McConnell and […]

House Boots McCarthy As Speaker

Unfortunately, most Republicans decided to be GOPe, and it was a small number of Republicans who do not want to play Republican Business As Usual with Democrats who did it House Votes To Remove Kevin McCarthy As Speaker The U.S. House voted Tuesday to remove Kevin McCarthy as speaker after Democrats joined with eight House […]

Squishy Republicans Give In, Pass Short Term Funding Bill

Democrats mostly got everything they wanted, except for Ukraine funding. Which lots of squishy Republicans also wanted Threat of government shutdown ends as Congress passes a temporary funding plan and sends it to Biden The threat of a federal government shutdown ended late Saturday, hours before a midnight deadline, as Congress approved a temporary funding bill to […]

Is McCarthy Getting Squishy On Impeachment Inquiry?

Or is he just measuring his words? McCarthy edges back from the brink of a Biden impeachment inquiry Kevin McCarthy edged back from the brink of an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden on Tuesday, less than a day after suggesting his party was close to announcing one. The speaker set off a Washington kerfuffle […]

Surprise: More Americans Think Political Violence Is Justified

This must mostly be about Trump supporters, since it is in the UK Guardian, right? ‘Anger and radicalization’: rising number of Americans say political violence is justified The June federal indictment of Donald Trump is “radicalizing” support for the use of force on behalf of the former president and current presidential candidate, according to the […]

Rubio Notes Next GOP President Will Have Great Pressure To Go After Biden

We sane people told you that it would be a monumentally Bad Idea to go after Trump. Look, Trump could have gone after Hillary Clinton, and, despite all the “lock her up calls” on the campaign trail, he never let the DOJ off the chain. Did Trump do wrong? Probably. And surely in the same […]

Indictment Fail: More Likely To Vote For Trump

It’s still pretty early, a lot can happen between now and November 2024, but, I don’t think this was the result the Trump Deranged were looking for Post-Indictment Poll: More Voters in Both Primary, General Election Say They’re Likelier to Vote for Trump New post-indictment polling data from former President Donald Trump’s campaign shows that […]

GOP House Moves Legislation On Parental Rights And Banning Trans In Women’s Sports

Almost every single poll shows that the citizens do not want men who pretend they’re women competing against biological women, and quite a few election results show that parents do not like the way schools are hiding what they’re doing from parents. Neither of these bills has a chance of passing the Democrat run Senate, […]

Democrats Whine About Being Kept Off Key Committees

Politics is a dirty business with a veneer of civility, and, don’t want none, don’t start none. Payback’s a bitch. Welcome to Politics 101 Schiff, Swalwell, Omar respond after Speaker McCarthy keeps them off committees: ‘Political vengeance’ Reps. Adam Schiff, Eric Swalwell, and Ilhan Omar, who were stripped of their committee assignments by House Speaker […]

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