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Tom Sullivan over at Digby’s Place took note of a Biden campaign strategy: The Campaign You’ve Been Waiting For. Trump had given a press conference over the weekend, and apparently it was less than epic. The Biden-Harris campaign seized on it to put...
by xaxnar
on Wed Mar 27, 2024 at 09:17 AM PDT
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I really like C-SPAN, as they livestream Congress doing all sorts of Congress things. Not that great epiphanies are commonly realized, however it’s often interesting, and occasionally good theatre. This is obviously an important topic and I’m glad it’s...
by RachelinNYC
on Wed Jan 31, 2024 at 07:01 AM PST
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Despite the risk of TOO MUCH INFORMATION, I’ve put together this TL;DR compendium of writings addressing the constitutional challenge now facing the country. I realize it is a lot to go through, but when the regular media treats Trump vs Biden as “the...
by xaxnar
on Tue Jan 30, 2024 at 10:43 AM PST
with 20 Recommends
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Periodically, C-SPAN surveys historians, professors and other professional observers of the presidency on ten qualities of presidential leadership: Public Persuasion, Crisis Leadership, Economic Management, Moral Authority, International Relations,...
by stonehenge
on Mon Aug 21, 2023 at 12:51 PM PDT
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I think I get it finally. Hunter is by any definition of the word, handsome. I am not going to qualify that. I am comfortable enough with myself to acknowledge another man’s attractiveness. So it seems to me, maybe Marge has a crush on Hunter. I am...
by Rule of Claw
on Wed Jul 19, 2023 at 02:54 PM PDT
with 66 Recommends
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C-Span has a video of Jack Smith’s short press conference today, in case you missed it: June 9, 2023 Special Counsel Jack Smith Delivers Statement on Indictment of President Trump Jack Smith, special counsel investigating President Trump’s alleged...
by ybruti
on Fri Jun 09, 2023 at 12:39 PM PDT
with 34 Recommends
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We had some heady days there as C-SPAN's viewers got to see the whole sordid process of Republican House Speaker-for-Now Kevin McCarthy selling off his every limb and organ in order to achieve his childhood dream of being a disembodied head beholden to...
by Hunter
on Wed Jan 11, 2023 at 10:44 AM PST
with 89 Recommends
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This past week Americans experienced something that has not happened for 100 years: The House of Representatives took more than a couple of days—and no fewer than 14 votes—to agree upon a speaker. It has been something of a fiasco for the Republican...
by Walter Einenkel
on Fri Jan 06, 2023 at 03:21 PM PST
with 250 Recommends
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Kevin McCarthy is now an eleven time loser! His credibility as a political leader and the reputation of the Republican party have been irreparably damaged while Democrats are looking solid & unified. Representative Hakeem Jeffries is slated to become...
by Mark Taylor Canfield
on Thu Jan 05, 2023 at 02:44 PM PST
with 24 Recommends
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Elie Mystal, justice correspondent at The Nation, was recently on C-SPAN with host Greta Brawner discussing the slew of new abortion laws, or more specifically the attack on women’s reproductive rights being waged by conservatives across the country....
by Walter Einenkel
on Tue Oct 26, 2021 at 07:05 PM PDT
with 592 Recommends
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It was announced last week that C-Span had surveyed a group of 142 historians to rank all the Presidents in American history, and lo and behold Trump came out fourth from the bottom. Isn’t it obvious there’s something wrong with that? It’s not that...
by AndySchmookler
on Sun Jul 04, 2021 at 11:42 AM PDT
with 267 Recommends
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On Wednesday morning, three survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massare testified before Congress, as the House Judiciary subcommittee is holding a hearing to talk about the centennial of the massacre as well as the ongoing need for justice and...
by Marissa Higgins
on Wed May 19, 2021 at 09:27 AM PDT
with 146 Recommends
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Today is a very busy day on Capitol Hill ! . Cabinet hearings on C-Span How to watch the Cabinet hearings : . . (CNN)Five of President-elect Joe Biden's national security Cabinet nominees will face Senate panels on Tuesday in the...
by Dem
on Tue Jan 19, 2021 at 08:04 AM PST
with 16 Recommends
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Update: Donald Trump has been impeached. The next step? A trial in the Senate. On Wednesday, Dec. 18, the entire House of Representatives gathered to view and debate two articles of impeachment against Trump: one for abuse of power and the second for...
by Marissa Higgins
on Wed Dec 18, 2019 at 05:12 PM PST
with 105 Recommends
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Forget about Kool-Aid. These idiots would swallow battery acid if Dear Leader told them to. And, you know, in a way they kind of are. You may have seen the recent Economist/YouGov poll in which 53 percent of Republicans claimed that Donald Trump is a...
by Aldous J Pennyfarthing
on Thu Dec 05, 2019 at 12:30 PM PST
with 25 Recommends
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On Wednesday, the House held its first public impeachment hearing. While there’s a lot more to come (hearings resume on Friday), the first day was still full of important information, including a big reveal from Ambassador William Taylor, which we’ll...
by Marissa Higgins
on Wed Nov 13, 2019 at 03:03 PM PST
with 66 Recommends
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Kevin McAleenan, acting Homeland Security secretary, recently walked off stage at an immigration conference at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C., where he was scheduled to speak and then do an audience Q&A. The conference is an...
by Marissa Higgins
on Mon Oct 07, 2019 at 07:40 AM PDT
with 244 Recommends
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A friend sent this photo of a sign in the lobby of a VA hospital. He thought I'd be interested. And I am. I've written a few posts about what should be allowed to screen on common area televisions on military bases and other government facilities....
by pwoodford
on Thu Sep 19, 2019 at 12:32 PM PDT
with 20 Recommends
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And it could be argued, a devastating line of questioning (and answers too), for a certain “Individual One.”
Here’s is that series of questions, that opened the 2nd Hearing today, with the Intelligence Committee.
[The Transcript is a...
by jamess
on Wed Jul 24, 2019 at 06:31 PM PDT
with 42 Recommends
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Disgraced former Trump national security adviser Sebastian Gorka, who was grossly unqualified for any role in any White House, somehow landed a spot on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal show. If you are wondering why this accused Nazi sympathizer, who is so...
by Jen Hayden
on Mon May 06, 2019 at 08:54 AM PDT
with 471 Recommends
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