President Trump has ordered Russia-gate data to be declassified but will likely be stonewalled, raising questions about whether Trump is his own man, writes Ray McGovern. By Ray McGovern Special to Consortium News Don’t hold your breath. While the media…Read more →
Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings began Tuesday, marking perhaps the first truly real political news in a couple weeks.
Congressional Democrats, led by Senator Chuck Schumer, orchestrated a disruption campaign at the confirmation hearings for Brett Kavanaugh. Judge Napolitano says that Democrats resorted to disruption because they lack the votes to block Kavanaugh's nomination legally. [...]
Brain Fallon's in his mid-30s and he's been the picture of an up-and-comg establishment Democrat for a decade. Even before he graduated from Harvard, he had worked as a press aide in the doomed 2004 Kerry-Edwards campaign. Two years later he was the press secretary for Bob Menendez's Senate race and then went to work as the spokesman for Chuck Schumer and his Senate Democratic Policy and Communications Center.
Sputnik – July 18, 2018 Democratic leaders are demanding an open hearing in which Trump administration officials, including the American translator, would explain what transpired in Monday’s meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. “This is too important not to get the full story out before the Senate and the American people,” Senate Minority […]
By Joe Lauria | Consortium News | July 14, 2018 Charges against 12 Russian intelligence agents for allegedly hacking emails from the Democratic Party during the 2016 presidential election were announced by the U.S. Justice Department on Friday at the very moment President Donald Trump was meeting Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle and just […]
Earlier today, I noted that the worst candidate the DCCC recruited this cycle and that Democrats nominated for the House is Jeff Van Drew in New Jersey. How do I know? He's a state senator and has a long and putrid voting record-- easy peasy.
The Democrats are calling for civility in the matter of the latest immigration enforcement flap. However, this is not without calculated motives.
The Los Angeles Times reported that several prominent Democrats, ranging from former Obama chief adviser David Axelrod (also a Clinton-era assistant) to no less than Senator Chuck Schumer and Representative Nancy Pelosi, are urging Democrat constituents and voters to walk back the extremely vitriolic calls to personal harassment given by California Representative Maxine Waters, as reported here.
If more proof was needed to persuade anyone that the Democrats are indeed a war party, it was provided when Senator Chuck Schumer and other Democrat leaders in the Senate engaged in a cynical stunt to stake out a position to the right of John Bolton on the summit between Trump and Kim Jong Un.
Press TV – June 5, 2018 US Democrats have warned President Donald Trump that they will block any deal with North Korea that does not guarantee a “verifiable” dismantlement of the country’s nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs. In a letter to Trump on Monday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senator Bob Menendez said […]
