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Wednesday morning’s House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing, titled “Influence Peddling: Examining Joe Biden’s Abuse of Public Office,” was yet another chance for Democratic ...
by Walter Einenkel
 69 comments
on Wed Mar 20, 2024 at 03:45 PM PDT
with 287 Recommends
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Tuesday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing examining special counsel Robert Hur’s anticlimactic report on Joe Biden was disastrous for the GOP Congress members hoping to tarnish the sitting president’s image and reputation. Time and again, the...
by Walter Einenkel
163 comments
on Wed Mar 13, 2024 at 06:30 AM PDT
with 478 Recommends
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On Wednesday, Missouri’s Senate President Pro Tem Caleb Rowden announced that he was stripping several of his fellow Republican state senators of their committee chairmanships. After calling the start of the 2024 legislative session “nothing short of...
by Walter Einenkel
35 comments
on Wed Jan 24, 2024 at 01:54 PM PST
with 140 Recommends
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On Wednesday, Republican Rep. James Comer used his position as chair of the House Oversight Committee to hold a hearing with the ludicrous title “The Biden Administration’s Regulatory and Policymaking Efforts to Undermine U.S. Immigration Law.”...
by Walter Einenkel
92 comments
on Thu Jan 18, 2024 at 06:23 AM PST
with 338 Recommends
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The modern GOP loves their representatives to be empty-headed, self-righteous, vicious, angry, and corrupt. Wear it like a badge of honor even. When it comes to these wonderful characteristics, there are many GOP knuckleheads to choose from; however,...
by sepiasiren
18 comments
on Thu Nov 16, 2023 at 01:06 PM PST
with 19 Recommends
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Since spring 2022, New York City has seen more than 100,000 people arrive seeking asylum. Because our current immigration system has been gridlocked by Republican xenophobia and inaction for more ...
by Walter Einenkel
80 comments
on Tue Oct 03, 2023 at 07:37 AM PDT
with 192 Recommends
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Wednesday brought another circus hearing headed by House Judiciary Committee Chair Rep. Jim Jordan. The star witness for Republicans was former Special Counsel John Durham, assigned to investigate ...
by Walter Einenkel
59 comments
on Wed Jun 21, 2023 at 04:30 PM PDT
with 221 Recommends
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia continues to both embarrass herself and terrorize facts as a member of the United States House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability. On Tuesday, Greene brought her...
by Walter Einenkel
228 comments
on Wed May 17, 2023 at 03:20 PM PDT
with 420 Recommends
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House Oversight Committee chairman and Republican big dog James Comer attempted to prove on CNN last week that President Joe Biden and his children (including his late son, Beau) were a corrupt crime family. (Like the Trump family.) He did this by...
by Walter Einenkel
157 comments
on Tue Apr 25, 2023 at 01:14 PM PDT
with 292 Recommends
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The slim Republican majority in the House has given the do-nothing party of billionaire donors one thing they can do: spin the wheels of House oversight committees in political theater circles. Republican Rep. James Comer of Kentucky is doing his best...
by Walter Einenkel
46 comments
on Wed Mar 01, 2023 at 06:41 PM PST
with 268 Recommends
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The new House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government is ready to roll, and if this was actually a serious group – which it isn’t – I’ve got its first case. The New York Times recently ran an extensive piece about...
by RickElia
3 comments
on Thu Feb 09, 2023 at 02:04 PM PST
with 6 Recommends
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is still serving on House committees such as the Overisght and Accountability Committee that met on Feb. 1 to discuss Federal Pandemic Spending. The plan is to look into how federal money was spent, wasted, and used for...
by Walter Einenkel
53 comments
on Wed Feb 01, 2023 at 11:17 AM PST
with 214 Recommends
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Having handed over virtually all of his decision-making power to right-wing conspiracists like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and political theater major Matt Gaetz, Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy is left with little to do. In McCarthy’s defense, the...
by Walter Einenkel
79 comments
on Mon Jan 30, 2023 at 11:00 AM PST
with 264 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
40 comments
on Thu Jan 05, 2023 at 02:44 PM PST
with 24 Recommends
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The Jan. 6 committee interviewed former Secret Service Assistant Director Anthony “Tony” Ornato on Tuesday about Donald Trump’s actions on the day of the failed coup, including the allegation by former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson that Trump...
by Aysha Qamar
109 comments
on Wed Nov 30, 2022 at 11:48 AM PST
with 183 Recommends
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Bo Hines, running for (NC-13), wants to get creative in imagining ways to restrict a woman's right to choose. He’s had to back off a little from his more strident positions before the primary, that included this: Abortion should be made illegal...
by randallt
21 comments
on Wed Nov 02, 2022 at 02:27 PM PDT
with 35 Recommends
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Trump reacted to being subpoenaed by the Select Committee investigating the causes of the J6 insurrection with an ungrammatical, strangely capitalized, 14-page letter comprising three pages of screed and 11 pages of exhibits, including photoshopped...
by TheCriticalMind
288 comments
on Sat Oct 15, 2022 at 03:22 PM PDT
with 352 Recommends
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If you didn’t know it already, Thursday’s Jan. 6 committee hearing included a unanimous vote to subpoena Donald Trump to testify and supply documentation in service of the committee’s ongoing investigation into the events that led up to the assault on...
by Walter Einenkel
146 comments
on Thu Oct 13, 2022 at 03:00 PM PDT
with 347 Recommends
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Rep. Liz Cheney sat for an interview with ABC News this past weekend. She talked about losing her primary and gave the general vague answers one expects from a politician who is ambitious and is not ready to head off into retirement. One thing that has...
by Walter Einenkel
288 comments
on Mon Aug 22, 2022 at 09:02 AM PDT
with 500 Recommends
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During Tuesday’s public Jan. 6 committee hearing, former high-ranking Oath Keeper Jason Van Tatenhove testified to his experience with the extremist group. Headed by Elmer Rhodes, the Oath Keepers got their hooks into Tatenhove back when he was working...
by Walter Einenkel
56 comments
on Tue Jul 12, 2022 at 02:30 PM PDT
with 143 Recommends
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