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Mitch McConnell, with apprarent support from most Republicans, shut down bipartisan marijuana normalization bills this year. Several pieces of legislation passed the House as part of the must-pass spending bills.

Starting with Don Jr, the Trumpists lost their collective shit when Greta Thunberg was named 2019 person of the year. Trump really, really, really wanted a legitimate Time Magazine cover to put in his golf club houses celebrating his illegitimate presidency.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell talks about how the Senate will handle the upcoming impeachment inquiry.

I was on the phone a few minutes ago, talking with a super-progressive running for a congressional seat in central Texas and she brought up Lloyd Doggett, chair of the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee, and more progressive than anyone else in the Texas congressional delegation.

I didn't go to Thanksgiving dinner last night. I just didn't want to political arguments with friends. Oh, obviously all my friends hate Trump's guts and they all want to see him impeached and removed. The only arguments there would be between those who want to see him in prison and those who want to see him face... well something more final. No, the political arguments I didn't want to face have to do with the primary.

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This week Kevin Gosztola joined me to discuss the Trump-Ukraine whistleblower case and the possibility of a presidential impeachment. Kevin started by laying out what we know about the CIA whistleblower in question and what is in his complaint. Kevin described how the whistleblower went through the proper channels, and how this was handled by […]

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Ohio reactionary, Gym Jordan (R-OH) is a leading Republican on two committees: Oversight and Government Reform ,where he is the ranking member, and Judiciary. That's it. He's not on any committees that deal with passing actual laws, just committees that most deal with bad behavior. So when he goes on Fox every other day to warn about how Democrats don't deal with anything substantive, he's referring to his own committees-- and he's lying.

Miss McConnell is being pummeled over his self-proclaimed Grim Reaper role that has him blocking dozens of bills passed by the House to promote good government and policies to help working families-- many of them with bipartisan support. But the epidemic of NRA/GOP massacres over the summer just cracked the old queen.