Paul Waldman

Rep. X is in this photo of Republicans pretending to be DemocratsI was invited to join a conference call yesterday with a group of committed activists in a red district with an ultra-right-wing Democratic congressmember, who I will refer to as X, so as not to give anything away I was asked to not write about yet. X, a freshman, immediately joined the Blue Dog and New Dems and has a ghastly (F) voting record already.

Washington Post columnist Paul Waldman thinks the media Is badly botching the Medicare-For-All debate. He's correct.

In his Washington Post column this afternoon, What’s the Democratic argument against Trump?

Kirsten Gillibrand by Nancy OhanianPaul Waldman welcomed Kirsten Gillibrand to the fray by citing psychologist Barry Schwartz's 2004 book, The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less, pointing out that "there's a point at which having more choices-- say for 75 different kinds of shampoo-- not only can become paralyzing, it makes us less happy with whatever option we eventually settle on." He's worried that the media, let alone the voters in Iowa, won't be ab

Paul Waldman, writing for the Washington Post Tuesday was almost matter of fact: Russia is going to attack our next election.

The DCCC launched an on-line ad campaign against something like 40 Republicans, including 9 California targets: Jeff Denham, Devin Nunes, David Valadao, Steve Knight, Ed Royce, Mimi Walters, Dana Rohrabacher, Darrell Issa, and Duncan Hunter. I'm sure there's a reason they're not including House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) in the campaign (nor for that matter Paul Ryan. Oh, that's right, Pelosi doesn't believe in targeting Republican leaders; I almost forgot.

Paul Ryan on TrumpCare: "This is who we are; this will come to define us."Earlier this morning we saw how the extremely cautious Cook Report has just downgraded the chances for Republicans to hold 20 congressional districts across the country.

by KenThere's a good chance, as we knew all through the 2016 presidential derby, that the Supreme Court we now think of as the "Roberts Court" is going to be transformed over the next few years into the "Trump Court."For now, President Trump has one vacancy to fill, the one that remains because Republicans took one of their more outrageous dumps on the Constitution by refusing to consider former President Obama's nominee, Merrick Garland, to fill the

Will Trump henchmen Newt, the Krispyman, and nutty Rudy be trying to "bring down the system"?

The Pam Bondi/Trumpanzee case isn't going away. It's classic Trump.