Mitt Romney has never missed an opportunity to be an opportunist. Romney the leveraged buyout pioneer took advantage of the U.S. tax code to pocket tens of millions of dollars from investments in companies that […]
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What will it finally take for newspapers to demand Trump resign—the way they did Bill Clinton?
He's getting worse, there's no question about that. Freed from any remaining senior advisers who tried to keep Donald Trump's wild behavior in some sort of check, the president now spends his unfiltered days wallowing […]
Jake Tapper lays into Trump for spreading 'deranged' conspiracy theories
We are all Jake Tapper this morning. (Hey, it’s better than all of us being Chuck Todd. Though if I were, I’d shave off that fucking goatee posthaste, and advise you to do the same. […]
Trump official all but accuses the Clintons of killing Jeffrey Epstein
You may remember Lynne Patton from the Michael Cohen hearings, when she attempted to refute Cohen’s (rather obvious) assertion that Donald Trump is a racist. Well, now the regional HUD administrator for the Trump administration is […]
Trump retweeted supporter who accused the Clintons of harvesting kids' brain secretions
Donald Trump has elevated some real kooks since announcing his presidential bid, but earlier today he retweeted a serious nutter, proving once again that this bozo is to respectable humans what hot diarrhea is to $3,000 wedding […]
Heavy medal
Imagine you’re in a coffee shop when a man you don’t know sits down uninvited next to you. Scribbling on a napkin and spouting something about “tax cuts pay for themselves,” the man then confidently […]
Democratic Moderates Owning Their Mistakes? So E.J. Dionne Says.
E.J. Dionne Jr. wrote a recent column that covers the recent Third Way meeting in Charleston, SC. There is the usual blather from the attendees who describe themselves as “moderates” against leftists in the Democratic […]
The best argument I've heard for impeachment so far.
It seems to be an argument almost as fundamental as “Which came first, the chicken or the egg?”, and just about as insoluble. On the one hand you have activist progressives who argue that the […]
Trump and Barr bring three decades of GOP criminality full circle
Historical events occur twice, Karl Marx famously said, first as tragedy and then as farce. But when it comes to the rampant lawlessness of Republican presidential administrations, the record is a succession of national tragedies […]
Ken Starr says Mueller report may not be 'fair and balanced'
Yes, Ken Starr, who somehow turned an investigation into a failed real estate deal into the world’s longest Penthouse Forum letter. This guy is worried about the Mueller report appearing overly politicized. This guy. Talking […]
Mitt Romney deserves no credit and no apologies on Russia
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was back in the headlines this week—not for any particular wisdom regarding authoritarian regimes and movements she shared with the House Intelligence Committee, but for this: “I personally owe […]
To Republicans: Live by the Subpeona, Die by the Subpeona.
Mr. Bothsiderist — Chuck “Not My Job to Be a Referee” Todd – and several other talking heads have bemoaned the fact of the lack of “bipartisanship” by Democrats during the upcoming House hearings, but yesterday, the […]
All four living ex-presidents call Trump a liar over his B.S. wall story
Last week I wrote a diary arguing that Donald Trump, harebrained idiot, almost certainly lied when he said this during his speech in the Rose Garden on Friday: “This should have been done by all […]
So exactly which ex-presidents told Trump they should have built the wall?
Trump doesn’t just lie. He makes up entire conversations that never happened. And he does it all the time. The latest? He claimed today during his press conference/harrowing public mental breakdown that “some” former presidents have […]
Fed up: It’s time for Republicans to end their hypocrisy on interest rates
As 2018 draws to a close, there is growing concern about what the next year will bring for the American economy. President Trump’s twin self-inflicted wounds of an ongoing trade war with China and a […]
Cut and gut: How Republicans helped the rich raid the U.S. Treasury
And now for today’s thought exercise. Imagine you are a member of Congress. Recent assessments from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) warn that the budget deficit for fiscal year 2018, which ended on Sept. 30, jumped […]
Process crimes, perjury traps, and the criminalization of politics: The legacy of George H.W. Bush
The passing of President George H.W. Bush this week presented Americans with an opportunity to reflect on a life lived in service to the United States. A child of privilege, at age 18 Bush nevertheless […]
The Obama economic expansion keeps rolling on
During the 2012 presidential campaign, Republican nominee Mitt Romney made a not-so-bold promise about the stewardship he would provide for the American economy. “I can tell you,” he guaranteed, “after a period of four years, […]
The last time unemployment was this low, our Democratic president balanced the budget
Mitch McConnell probably thought he was being very clever, waiting almost a full year after the passage of the Republican tax scam to blame the resultant budget hole on an 83-year-old program. Yes, the public has […]
A 'Plumber' on the Supreme Court
In the wake of Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court, Americans will long debate whether he was the first (or, arguably, the second) member of the nation’s highest court to have engaged in sexual misconduct. But what […]
The return of the spend-and-not-tax Republicans
Like a recurring biblical plague, they descend across the country. Despite the repeated warnings from both experts and lay persons of good faith and common sense, the media and tens of millions of people are […]
Hey Democrats. Redefine the Manafort-Cohen-Trump narrative. NOW!
No Russians. No Collusion. No Russians. No Collusion. No Russians. No Collusion. Since the day that Robert Mueller was appointed, this has been the Tantric meditative chant for Trump and his nitwit cabal. […]
Pay-to-play in the press: A case study
If Donald Trump was a Marvel character, his name might be something like “DeceptiCon.” That is, the never-before-seen frequency and magnitude of Trump’s lies combine to create a Cloak of Confusion, a black hole-like force […]
Democrats proven right—again—on tax cut windfall for the rich
Campaign Action During the run-up to the passage of the “Republican Tax Cuts and Jobs Act” late last year, one technical paper from the Treasury Department’s Office of Tax Analysis suddenly went missing. Why “Distributing the […]
GOP turns to decades-old lies to sell new tax scam
“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and that’s our target market.” That perversion of Abraham Lincoln’s timeless adage might as well be the slogan of the modern Republican Party, especially […]
GOP tax plan is the worst jobs bill ever
With apologies to Benjamin Disraeli, there are three kinds of lies Republicans are telling about their tax plan: lies, damned lies, and f**king lies. Constraints of space and time preclude listing them all, but here […]
