buy contrasting previous Presidents with Trump on their reaction to crises Clinton on OK City bombing, Olympic Park bombing G...
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This pretty much says it all, doesn’t it? From today’s New York Daily News cover story: One by one, former Presidents...
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As we all binge watch TV and YouTube, I came across this great clip of Elvis Costello interviewing fmr. President Bill...
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Oh, what a difference 21 years and a million Fox News lies make. Here was President Bill Clinton following his...
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I sense a disturbance in the Media’s Force, and according to Jehdi Mind Trick Master Mark Penn, Speaker Pelosi should...
December 22, 2019 The Honorable Nancy Pelosi Speaker of the House of Representatives Washington, D.C. 20515 Dear Madam Speaker: I...
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Firmly adopting Republican spin as the best way to view the House impeachment of Donald Trump, The New York Times...
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Mitt Romney has never missed an opportunity to be an opportunist. Romney the leveraged buyout pioneer took advantage of the...
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He's getting worse, there's no question about that. Freed from any remaining senior advisers who tried to keep Donald Trump's...
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We are all Jake Tapper this morning. (Hey, it’s better than all of us being Chuck Todd. Though if I...
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You may remember Lynne Patton from the Michael Cohen hearings, when she attempted to refute Cohen’s (rather obvious) assertion that Donald...
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Donald Trump has elevated some real kooks since announcing his presidential bid, but earlier today he retweeted a serious nutter, proving...
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Imagine you’re in a coffee shop when a man you don’t know sits down uninvited next to you. Scribbling on...
E.J. Dionne Jr. wrote a recent column that covers the recent Third Way meeting in Charleston, SC. There is the...
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It seems to be an argument almost as fundamental as “Which came first, the chicken or the egg?”, and just...
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Historical events occur twice, Karl Marx famously said, first as tragedy and then as farce. But when it comes to...
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Yes, Ken Starr, who somehow turned an investigation into a failed real estate deal into the world’s longest Penthouse Forum...
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was back in the headlines this week—not for any particular wisdom regarding authoritarian regimes...
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Mr. Bothsiderist — Chuck “Not My Job to Be a Referee” Todd - and several other talking heads have bemoaned the fact...
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Last week I wrote a diary arguing that Donald Trump, harebrained idiot, almost certainly lied when he said this during...
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Trump doesn’t just lie. He makes up entire conversations that never happened. And he does it all the time. The latest?...
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As 2018 draws to a close, there is growing concern about what the next year will bring for the American...
And now for today’s thought exercise. Imagine you are a member of Congress. Recent assessments from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget...
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The passing of President George H.W. Bush this week presented Americans with an opportunity to reflect on a life lived...
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During the 2012 presidential campaign, Republican nominee Mitt Romney made a not-so-bold promise about the stewardship he would provide for...
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Mitch McConnell probably thought he was being very clever, waiting almost a full year after the passage of the Republican...
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In the wake of Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court, Americans will long debate whether he was the first (or, arguably,...
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Like a recurring biblical plague, they descend across the country. Despite the repeated warnings from both experts and lay persons...
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No Russians. No Collusion. No Russians. No Collusion. No Russians. No Collusion. Since the day that Robert Mueller...
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If Donald Trump was a Marvel character, his name might be something like “DeceptiCon.” That is, the never-before-seen frequency and...
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Campaign Action During the run-up to the passage of the “Republican Tax Cuts and Jobs Act” late last year, one technical...
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“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and that’s our target market.” That perversion of Abraham...
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With apologies to Benjamin Disraeli, there are three kinds of lies Republicans are telling about their tax plan: lies, damned...
