The other day I asked a few dozen progressive congressional candidates which members of Congress would they like to work with on future legislation. No one mentioned old party leaders like Hoyer or Pelosi or Clyburn nor any of their designated successors like Hakeem Jeffries, let alone the wretched Blue Dog Cheri Bustos. Instead there were 3 Democrats who got almost all the votes:
After the assassinations in Baghdad this week, CNN reported that the U.S. is deploying thousands of additional troops to the Middle East as tensions with Iran mount.
Earlier today, we noted Ro Khanna's leadership in regard to the excesses of Trump's Pentagon Budget, basically Trump ripping up Eisenhower's Military Industrial Complex speech and using if for toilet paper and then flushing it 15 times.
Ro Khanna's grandfather was arrested during the Indian independence movement and wound up sharing a British prison cell with Mahatma Gandhi. No doubt, that's from whom Khanna got the moxie to stand up yesterday in front of Congress and make this absolutely incredible speech opposing the NDAA-- which would be better named "the endless War and Corruption bill." I implore you to listen to what Khanna had to say. It's less than 2 minutes but it has enough in it to be worth an hour to every single American.
Congressional Terrorist by Nancy OhanianOver the weekend Trump TV reported that "Fox News has learned that the Pentagon, State Department and National Security Council were 'unanimous' in supporting the aid to Ukraine, and that Trump acted alone in withholding the aid over the summer." That was the a
Drug prices are too high for many reasons, but there is just one person blocking a fix: MoscowMitchI have to admit that Pelosi’s plan to lower drug costs is more progressive than I-- or anyone else-- expected.
Yesterday, Trump contradicted the NRA and congressional Republicans by claiming his party is coming around on background checks. It was an "optimistic assessment, based on nothing but... empty election strategy.
In his new book, American Carnage, Tim Alberta quotes Justin Amash, speaking of his Republican colleagues: "These guys have all convinced themselves that to be successful and keep their jobs, they need to stand by Trump. But Trump won’t stand with them as soon as he doesn’t need them. He’s not loyal.
In his State of the Union interview Sunday with Jake Tapper, Justin Amash (I-MI), Amash was steadfast in his position that it isn't Trump-- who he obviously detests-- that caused him to leaved the GOP but Congress itself. He told Tapper he had made the decision to leave the party before he called for Congress to begin the impeachment process and before Mueller issued his report. While Tapper kept trying to get him to say something negative about Trump, Amash wanted to make the point that he "had concerns with the Republican Party for several years.
