| Title | Author | Date | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trump's impeachment trial will have McConnell's 'somber,' 'serious' veneer, but will still be a sham Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, the Washington Post tells us, wants a "drama-free" impeachment trial, and got what he wanted out of the first day with "a Senate looking somber and serious […] A Senate that might, as he put it a day before, be... |
Joan McCarter | 01/17/2020 | 74 |
| What to expect next week as the Senate impeachment trial begins The Senate will take up Donald Trump's impeachment next week, essentially bringing a halt to the body's business. Given that Majority Mitch McConnell has shut down legislating anyway, that's not going to be much of a blow. What won't be happening,... |
Joan McCarter | 01/17/2020 | 64 |
| Susan Collins caught telling flat-out lies about donations from opioid manufacturers Maine Sen. Susan Collins is not having a good week. All eyes are on her over impeachment, where she's alternately trying to pretend she's all responsible for getting witnesses for the Senate ... |
Joan McCarter | 01/17/2020 | 106 |
| The Impeachment Trial has begun and the bombshells keep landing This week in the endless Trump Corruption Timeline we have the pomp and circumstance of the beginning of the Impeachment Trial in the Senate as the House Impeachment Managers delivered their articles to the Senate well, the Senators were sworn into... |
Frank Vyan Walton | 01/16/2020 | 74 |
| McConnell calls impeachment 'the gravest process in our Constitution,' then launches partisan attack Before Moscow Mitch McConnell got all official and statesmanlike in the impeachment swearing-in ceremony in the Senate, he was being his usual self and lobbying partisan attacks. "The speaker distributed souvenir pens to her own colleagues, emblazoned... |
Joan McCarter | 01/16/2020 | 13 |
| Lipinski resorts to Republican-style fearmongering in Democratic primary against Marie Newman Rep. Dan Lipinski, who calls himself an Illinois Democrat, is making turncoat former Democrat Jeff Van Drew look principled. At least Van Drew quit the party and joined the Republicans. Lipinski has decided to go full Republican in his Democratic... |
Joan McCarter | 01/16/2020 | 35 |
| Treasury opens investigation tax break for poor being exploited by rich, including Kushner family The Treasury Department's inspector general has opened an inquiry into the department's Opportunity Zone program, following the request for an investigation from Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, and Reps. Emanuel Cleaver of Missouri and Ron Kind of... |
Joan McCarter | 01/16/2020 | 42 |
| Collins' true partisan hack colors are showing when it comes to impeachment witnesses Sen. Susan Collins has never really had to face hard scrutiny in her reelection campaigns, and boy does it show. The lies and obfuscations that roll so easily off the tongues of her fellow Republicans sound absolutely idiotic, naive, and ham-handed... |
Joan McCarter | 01/16/2020 | 97 |
| Trump administration broke the law by withholding Ukraine aid, reports congressional watchdog The facts, with their well-known liberal bias, are going to make it much harder for Senate Republicans to willfully conduct a sham impeachment hearing. The latest development that they cannot ignore is the determination by the Government Accountability... |
Joan McCarter | 01/16/2020 | 80 |
| HUD will finally release $8 billion of the $18 billion illegally withheld Puerto Rico relief funds The Department of Housing (HUD) is going to release more than $8 billion in emergency disaster aid funding to Puerto Rico, sources tell Politico. There's nearly $18 billion that Congress has authorized since 2017's Hurricanes Maria and Irma that still... |
Joan McCarter | 01/15/2020 | 42 |
| Pelosi names effective, experienced team of impeachment managers Campaign Action House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the following members as impeachment managers to transmit the articles of impeachment to the Senate, and to prosecute the case there. Rep. Adam Schiff of California will serve as the lead manager. He... |
Joan McCarter | 01/15/2020 | 207 |
| House prepares to send impeachment articles to Senate House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will announce the members who will serve as impeachment managers Wednesday morning at 10 AM ET. Following that, the House is scheduled to vote on those managers in the early afternoon, from 12:30 to 1:30 PM ET. There will be... |
Joan McCarter | 01/15/2020 | 95 |
| Moscow Mitch blows off latest Russian hacking news, says we've done enough to protect 2020 election The news that Russian spies had hacked into Burisma, the Ukrainian gas company central to debunked conspiracy theories from Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani about Ukrainian election interference, has rocketed 2020 election protection to the top of the... |
Joan McCarter | 01/14/2020 | 70 |
| McConnell and his Republicans cooking up tricks to give gloss of legitimacy to impeachment trial Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell appears to have navigated his way out of an automatic motion to dismiss the House's impeachment. McConnell played along with the efforts of some of the conference's maniacs, signing onto a resolution to change the... |
Joan McCarter | 01/14/2020 | 95 |
| Kaine and Lee predict as many as 10 Republicans could support war powers resolution Sen. Tim Kaine, the Democratic sponsor of a war powers resolution, says there could be as many as 10 Republican senators willing to vote with Democrats to limit Donald Trump's ability to wage war in Iran. "Probably about 10" Republicans could side with... |
Joan McCarter | 01/14/2020 | 21 |
| Pelosi announces Wednesday vote on sending articles of impeachment to Senate Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that the House will likely vote Wednesday on sending articles of impeachment to the Senate. She made the announcement at a House Democratic caucus meeting Tuesday. The House managers, the lawmakers who will act as... |
Joan McCarter | 01/14/2020 | 43 |
| Trump, bored at pretending he's a real president, says reason for killing Soleimani 'doesn't matter' The White House has been scrambling for days now trying to keep up with Donald Trump's lies and shifting justifications for the assassination of Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, which is kind of a big deal. If you're going to go around killing... |
Joan McCarter | 01/14/2020 | 163 |
| Work requirements for food assistance led to more hunger, no additional jobs in West Virginia While the Trump administration continues to hack away at the safety net, one Trump state provides a preview of what the effects will be. Four years ago, West Virginia started imposing work requirements on food assistance in areas that it said were no... |
Joan McCarter | 01/14/2020 | 136 |
| Wisconsin judge finds commission in contempt for not following voter purge order A Wisconsin state judge who ordered a purge of 234,000 voter registrations has found the state Elections Commission in contempt of court Monday, because it has not yet acted on his ruling. That's despite the fact his ruling has been appealed in state... |
Joan McCarter | 01/13/2020 | 116 |
| 'Democrat' Lipinski attacks fellow Democrats using the worst abortion lies in weekend rally It was "March for Life" weekend in Chicago, in which a thousand or so activists declare they are so concerned about zygotes that they're perfectly willing to ruin or end the lives of millions of actual, existing people. Who else would be there but... |
Joan McCarter | 01/13/2020 | 64 |
| That savvy Moscow Mitch, tossing the Constitution on the garbage heap to keep his job That Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is prioritizing party over country, over the Constitution, and over duty isn't even a question at this point, for anyone. It's all about whether or not it's a savvy move on the part of this "master" of modern... |
Joan McCarter | 01/13/2020 | 70 |
| Cory Booker ends presidential bid Sen. Cory Booker is leaving the 2020 presidential race. "It's with a full heart that I share this news—I’m suspending my campaign for president," he tweeted. "To my team, supporters, and everyone who gave me a shot—thank you. I am so proud of what we... |
Joan McCarter | 01/13/2020 | 331 |
| Schumer calls Collins' bluff, will force Senate votes on impeachment witnesses Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has locked down every Republican senator in his plan to hold a sham impeachment trial for Donald Trump, even though he is allowing Sen. Susan Collins to pretend that she's working on a plan to secure witness... |
Joan McCarter | 01/13/2020 | 155 |
| In Trump's head, he's the one 'who saved Pre-Existing Conditions in your Healthcare' Donald Trump says, actually says, "I was the person who saved Pre-Existing Conditions in your Healthcare, you have it now." That's apparently after having seen one of Mike Bloomberg's ads attacking Trump's Obamacare sabotage blanketing the airwaves... |
Joan McCarter | 01/13/2020 | 76 |