battle for the speakership
Republicans Ready To Give Up The House, Circle The Wagons To Save Their Slim Senate Majority
Albatross by Nancy OhanianThis morning, Politico made it sound like the McCarthy vs Scalise battle to take over as Speaker is breaking news. It isn't. The two of them have been aware Ryan won't be running in November and they have been quietly courting supporters for the better part of a month as Ryan gets ready for the big announcement.
Can Joe Crowley Be Stopped Before He Sells The Rest Of The Democratic Party To Wall Street-- A Young Woman From The Bronx Is Trying
Basically, Joe Crowley is just a hack politician from the Queens County of yesteryear, when it was an Irish and Italian enclave that still supported Republicans and conservatives. Queens is very different today but Joe Crowley-- ironically, still the Democratic Party Machine boss for the county-- may know it intellectually but doesn't experience the change, since he and his family live in Virginia.
When Should Pelosi Retire?
The DCCC's and Pelosi's Blue Dog in Chicago, Dan Lipinski, faces the voters in a week, on March 20th. The DCCC and Pelosi are supporting someone who is anti-Choice, anti-LGBTQ, anti-immigrant, anti-healthcare, someone who votes with Trump more frequently than almost any other Democrat. Does the Pelosi Party even mean anything any more. How many they throw core constituencies under the bus like this? Where would they draw the line?
Bannon Makes His Move Against Ryan-- The Move To Boehnerize The Speaker Is On
Very specific definition of "comrade"According to NY Times reporter, Glenn Thrush, the very "idea that Trump worked hard to pass health care is a joke. He put in a semi-strenuous week-- spent little time on prep, drafting, per aides." Thrush isn't alone in that analysis. Amanda Carpenter is a professional right-wing nut. She used to write speeches for Jim DeMint and washed up in Ted Cruz's office when DeMint bailed ion the Senate.
Bush Administration Official On The Post-Election GOP: "I don’t think the Party survives"
Thursday night, after Senator Mark Kirk (R-IL), one of the first high-ranking Republicans to disavow Trump, flubbed his debate with Democratic challenger Tammy Duckworth-- and flubbed it spectacularly. Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Con-Man immediately tweeted some Schadenfreude his way.
The End Of Paul Ryan?
A #BitterWayIt kind of looks like Paul Ryan's career is melting down. That's a good thing; he's a real threat to this country, a slick face of the plutocratic agenda. He doesn't call dismantling Social Security and Medicare "austerity" anymore. He called it a #BetterWay. But he got caught up in the maelstrom that is the Alt-right Trump campaign. And now the chatter that started on the Breitbart fringes has moved to the Republican mainstream.
GOP Finger-Pointing Has Already Begun In Ernest-- Over Two Weeks Before Their Debacle At The Polls!
Keith Olbermann: "It has long been anticipated that the runaway train quality of the Trump campaign would eventually claim as its collateral damage all or most of the GOP and its leaders... To the Republican leaders I ask again, when will you disavow this anti-democratic demagogue? When will you defund him? When will you deny him?
Trouble For The Republican Party On Its Far Right Flank
There's a crackpot version of this video courtesy of Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)This isn't the kind of video meant to give right-wing ideologues a warm, fuzzy feeling. It's scary to think about what does though.
When All Is Said And Done, It's Still Paul Ryan, The Ayn Rand Fanatic Who Wants To Gut Social Security And Medicare
In this morning's first post, we promised to explain how the Republican Party Establishment expects their new Speaker to protect them from the con men their own conservatism has created.
