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| House impeachment managers: Bolton 'directly contradicts the heart' of Trump's defense The team of House managers presenting the case for impeachment in the Senate trial of Donald Trump have released their first statement responding to the news that John Bolton asserts Trump personally told him he was freezing congressionally-approved... |
Hunter | 01/26/2020 | 73 |
| John Bolton: Trump explicitly said Ukraine aid freeze was tied to investigations into Democrats Former national security adviser John Bolton has refused House demands that he testify on the events surrounding the freezing of military aid to Ukraine and the efforts by Donald Trump’s allies and administration officials to pressure the Ukrainian... |
Hunter | 01/26/2020 | 119 |
| On the Sunday shows, Trump's Senate bootlickers show how low they can go Before this evening’s blockbuster John Bolton news, we’d already seen that the level to which Republicans will sink to defend Donald Trump on anything and, literally, everything has no bottom. There seems no cutoff point beyond which now... |
Hunter | 01/26/2020 | 26 |
| Evangelical scammers praise Trump for hastening the end of the world. Well, they're not wrong... Mother Jones reporter Stephanie Mencimer has produced a good read on the "End Times" evangelicals who support Donald Trump because they believe, truly and sincerely, that Donald Trump will bring ... |
Hunter | 01/25/2020 | 298 |
| Pompeo responds to reports of rage-filled tirade against reporter with lie-filled statement The non-impeachment bombshell of the week was NPR reporter Mary Louise Kelly's interview with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the interview in which he blustered and lied to the unflappable Kelly; the interview that so enraged him that he followed up... |
Joan McCarter | 01/25/2020 | 384 |
| Cheers and Jeers: Rum and Resistance FRIDAY! From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE… Late Night Snark: The Pettifoggery Stops Here Edition "It is a pivotal day in the history of the republic. Soon we’ll find out if breaking the law is illegal. Gotta say, so far I don’t like the odds." —Stephen Colbert... |
Bill in Portland Maine | 01/24/2020 | 111 |
| Is Moscow Mitch the messenger of the 'heads on pikes' threat from Trump to Republicans? Moscow Mitch McConnell has a team working overtime to work the refs, and getting the traditional press to spin out stories about his masterful control of the Senate. Like this one quoting people from his inner sphere, in which he is credited with... |
Joan McCarter | 01/24/2020 | 98 |
| Pentagon: 34 suffered traumatic brain injuries in Iran airstrike. Trump: They're 'headaches' The Pentagon has disclosed that 34 U.S. service members have been diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries due to the Iranian missile strike on U.S. forces in Iraq in early January. That's more than triple the number acknowledged earlier this week. On... |
Joan McCarter | 01/24/2020 | 106 |
| Texas Republicans are running scared. Let's help Eliz Markowitz keep them that way Texas Republicans are eyeing 2020 with no small amount of panic. They are in such a panic that they are plotting even now how to change the rules when Democrats gain seats in the legislature. The Dallas Morning News reports on Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick's... |
Joan McCarter | 01/24/2020 | 13 |
| Trump's 'best people' in HHS forgot to renew public health emergency declaration on opioids For the past two years, the nation's opioid crisis has been deemed a national public health emergency. That ended last week, temporarily, because no one in Health and Human Services bothered to renew it when it lapsed. They're calling it a "clerical... |
Joan McCarter | 01/24/2020 | 33 |
| Republican senators sure are selective in what they find offensive in Trump's impeachment trial The third day of Donald Trump's impeachment trial once again featured Republican senators competing with each other to see who could show the most disdain for the idea of their constitutional duty and the oath they took to provide impartial justice.... |
Joan McCarter | 01/24/2020 | 49 |
| Susan Collins finds a principle to stand behind: Tattling on 'both sides' in the name of civility Just when you thought Maine Sen. Susan Collins couldn't get any worse, you find out she's a tattle-tale. Yes, the one thing that woke Chief Justice John Roberts out of his stupor during the ongoing impeachment trial was a note from Collins tattling on... |
Joan McCarter | 01/23/2020 | 70 |
| Trump defender Matt Gaetz publicly sulking after he didn't get picked for Dear Leader's B-team One of the problems with being a professional political suck-up is that there is always someone willing to be more of a suck-up than you. Grovel all you like: Lindsey Graham will have you beat. Praise Dear Leader day and night: Nikki Haley will write a... |
Hunter | 01/23/2020 | 84 |
| Trump is abusing his power and obstructing Congress right now while impeachment trial continues In the middle of an impeachment trial in which Donald Trump is accused of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, the Trump administration is brazenly abusing its power, flouting a court order, and ignoring Congress. Just this week, the... |
Joan McCarter | 01/23/2020 | 37 |
| Trump celebrates impeachment for abuse of power by bilking the taxpayers even more Smack dab in the middle of his impeachment trial for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, Donald Trump is shamelessly grifting off the taxpayer, spiking room rates at his Doral Resort just ahead of a Republican National Committee meeting there,... |
Joan McCarter | 01/23/2020 | 22 |
| Chief Justice Roberts lets Senate Republicans show blatant disdain for impeachment proceedings Senate Republicans are united again in saying they've heard absolutely nothing new in the House impeachment managers presentation against Donald Trump. That's after they voted en masse, as a unified bloc, against 10 amendments from Democrats to provide... |
Joan McCarter | 01/23/2020 | 302 |
| Cheers and Jeers: Thursday From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE… Voting Day All I can say is, thank god for NASA. While the rest of the government flies off the rails in a Republican-fueled orgy of incompetence and Russia-approved chaos, NASA just keeps expanding our horizons and... |
Bill in Portland Maine | 01/23/2020 | 138 |
| Tulsi Gabbard sues Hillary Clinton in an apparent bid for new public attention There is not a snowball's chance in hell that outgoing Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard will ever be elected president, and it is equally unlikely she will ever again touch any nationwide office, ... |
Hunter | 01/22/2020 | 635 |
| Schiff shines bright light on Moscow Mitch's dangerous negligence in protecting our elections Rep. Adam Schiff, in his role as impeachment manager, both distilled the import of this trial and put Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell under a harsh light, without ever mentioning McConnell's name. In his opening argument, as prepared and... |
Joan McCarter | 01/22/2020 | 25 |
| McConnell is also covering up the bad behavior of Republican senators during this impeachment trial The D.C. press corps is filling in where the cameras that Mitch McConnell refused to allow into the impeachment trial are absent. So we know just what a farce Republicans consider this exercise to be. And precisely why McConnell made sure the American... |
Joan McCarter | 01/22/2020 | 142 |
| Majority of Maine voters say Collins is 'driven by political self-interest, not principle' Susan Collins is damned if she does stick with Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump on impeachment and damned if she doesn't. The filing deadline for the primary for her Senate seat is March 16, and while she's got the backing of the state's rabid... |
Joan McCarter | 01/22/2020 | 57 |
| Jay Sekulow makes a fool of himself in the Senate, so of course the Trump team doubles down One of the more baffling moments of the frequently baffling defense offered up by Trump's impeachment team was an extended rant on "lawyer lawsuits" delivered by Trump personal lawyer and co-conspirator to crimes Jay Sekulow. Nobody could figure out... |
Hunter | 01/22/2020 | 215 |
| Trump says cutting social insurance programs in his second term would be 'the easiest of all things' Hanging out with all the international obscenely rich at Davos this week most have rubbed off on Donald Trump, making him think he's invincible. Trump told CNBC's Joe Kernen that cutting social insurance programs (entitlements, in CNBC-speak) is... |
Joan McCarter | 01/22/2020 | 137 |
| DNC invests early and big to build presence in presidential battleground states The Democratic National Committee is ready to go with millions of dollars in presidential battleground states Donald Trump won in 2016—Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Florida, North Carolina, and Arizona—CNN reports. Two of those states, North... |
Joan McCarter | 01/22/2020 | 37 |
| Warren's new plan shows she gets how much damage Trump has wrought and how critical it is to undo it "We cannot assume that everything will be fine once Donald Trump leaves office," writes Elizabeth Warren. "The next president will need to have the energy, expertise, and vision to safeguard our ... |
Joan McCarter | 01/22/2020 | 119 |
| Cheers and Jeers: Wednesday From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE As the Impeachment Trial Rolls Into Day 2 ...a reminder from The Daily Show that the defendant—mercifully starting his fourth and last year in office this week—should’ve been 25th Amendmented a long time ago and then... |
Bill in Portland Maine | 01/22/2020 | 75 |
| Before he was Moscow Mitch, McConnell wanted to hear all the impeachment witnesses Oh, Moscow Mitch. I mean, it’s clear he thrives on being a blatant hypocrite. Normal people’s anger at his total commitment to his complete lack of principle and wanton destruction of our republic seems to be his fuel. So, here we go again. Here’s what... |
Joan McCarter | 01/21/2020 | 24 |
| Impeachment managers are ready to present our case, says Schiff. But 'Will the Senate let us?' Aside from the brazen lying and their own co-conspirator status, one of the reasons the Trump defense team's rhetoric has seemed to fall flat during today's Senate impeachment opening moves, is that they seem to have been prewritten with little care... |
Hunter | 01/21/2020 | 26 |
| McConnell and Republicans kill first attempt by Democrats to get records in Trump impeachment trial Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's first cover-up vote in Donald Trump's impeachment trial occurred Tuesday afternoon, when he moved to kill Sen. Chuck Schumer's amendment to the organizing resolution to subpoena certain documents and White House... |
Joan McCarter | 01/21/2020 | 107 |
| Trump administration reportedly moving ahead with plan that could destroy Medicaid in red states The Trump administration appears ready to resurrect one of its most destructive plans for Medicaid, an idea it had floated but apparently rejected in November of last year to allow states to turn their Medicaid money into block grants. The Wall Street... |
Joan McCarter | 01/21/2020 | 31 |
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