Gov. Brian Kemp is lustily booed at Georgia GOP convention

Ever since Gov. Brian Kemp allowed Donald Trump to go down in a haze of gory following the latter’s embarrassing loss in the once reliably red state of Georgia, he’s … Read More

Censure Those Who Say There Was no Insurrection

Politico reports that David Cicilline (D-R.I.) has found a new way to put pressure on Republicans who are pushing the lie that what happened on Jan. 6 was no insurrection: … Read More

Two Sides of the Same Con

If you take a moment and listen to the so-called moderate wing of the Republican party, they are as extreme as the rest. This weekend Utah Senator Mitt Romney was … Read More

With his “patio rant”, previous guy's Big Lie is the ultimate deep fake

Like any good con artist Trump now tries to call his losing a “big lie”, because he’s all about the disinformation as he does his lounge act in Florida and now … Read More

VA-Gov: GOP's Leading Candidate For Governor Says Derek Chauvin Verdict Makes Her “Sick”

Friendly reminder, there’s a big Governor’s race in Virginia this year: Virginia Republican state Sen. Amanda Chase is no stranger to making provocative statements, and comments she made this week … Read More

PA-Sen: Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (D) Rakes In $3.9 Million Q1 Fundraising Haul For U.S. Senate Bid

Here’s some big news today out of Pennsylvania: .@JohnFetterman announces he raised $3.9 million in the first quarter for his Pennsylvania U.S. Senate run, through 140,000 contributions. A big haul … Read More

Minerva @ Midnight: April Fools – Baylor U. conservatives think slavery was good

Change as a rising tide seems to be falling short as history’s stream is not as mighty. Apparently slavery is still “ordained by God for ultimate good” at Baylor University, as … Read More

time for '14th Amendment solutions' because containing COVID was yet another Trump disaster in 2020

Ron Johnson didn’t see an ‘armed insurrection’ because who could have foreseen that Trump would threaten violence. In August 2016, Trump called for “second amendment solutions” if Hillary Clinton was … Read More

GOP Sen. Cassidy on his vote to convict Trump: 'The Republican Party is more than just one person'

Yesterday we got a full accounting of the cowardice of the Republican Party. If even half of these craven cockwaffles had been around in 1941, we’d all be eating sushi … Read More

MI-Gov: GOP Senate Leader Busted On Video Saying He Wants To “Fistfight” Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D)

Wow: Michigan Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey (R) was caught on tape making cracks about physical violence against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D), who last year was the target of a … Read More

“…politics isn't about the weird worship of one dude.” even if there was nearly a coup

Ben Sasse is still a RW member of the GQP, but he can still afford to offend his state party. x Sen. Ben Sasse to the Nebraska GOP State Central … Read More

10,000 Republican Voters In Arizona Changed Their Party Registrations in January

Joe Biden won the state of Arizona by 10,457 votes in November, his closest victory in any state. Since the start of 2021, 10,174 registered Republican voters have dropped out … Read More

Trump's biggest advocate for election fraud refuses audit of her own election after major error

Not many people can name the chair of their state’s political party, much less the chair of another state’s. Yet Kelli Ward, a perennial losing Senate candidate, is well known across … Read More

They beat a policeman by using an American flag. Trump enjoyed watching the assault on the Capitol.

Trump’s passive assent to events like the kidnapping/assassination plot against Michigan Governor Whitmer signaled the path to the current DC crisis. He enjoyed watching the unfolding attack on the Capitol rather … Read More

GOP congressman wants to censure any Republican who accepts Biden's win

If I got a nightly DMT sponge bath from a celestial choir of self-transforming machine elves, things could not get much weirder than they are now. Everyone with a gossamer thread of … Read More

Trump wants to shut down Twitter and national economic forecasts … what a day!

Trump looks for another distraction using the Twitter fact-check of his misinformation, hunting for some lawfare disruption, even as he withholds economic forecasts. Can’t fact check anything like an economic … Read More

Ron DeSantis fires Florida's COVID-19 data researcher to censure science and eliminate transparency.

This is what Republican governance looks like. Vote them all out! “I think it’s been a team effort here in Florida,  we’ve got great public health people here at the … Read More

“Obamagate”? Bwahahahahaha

Desperate times bring desperate versions of “-gate” memes. Yesterday Trump refused to articulate what he thought Obamagate might be, because he knew it was stupid. Obstruction of justice continues in … Read More

GOP’s Cornyn repeatedly threatened judges; now demands Schumer apology

Senator Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on Thursday expressed regret that he “used the words I used yesterday” in warning Supreme Court Justices Kavanaugh and Gorsuch of the public backlash … Read More

Angeliina Lawson, Progressive fighting for accountability & transparency on Conservative board.

Angeliina Lawson proves an adage that is becoming real to most. Progressives are generally the ones that keep the house in order. She is the sole progressive on the Johnson County … Read More

banksters and gangsters: The Donald's mafia state squanders decency

There’s squandering decency and then there’s squandering democracy. Trump moves the US toward a post-Soviet satellite autocracy, currently in a HR reign of terror against impeachment witnesses. Expect a Senate … Read More

Two cheers for Mitt Romney’s Lincolnesque moment

One day after he cast his historic vote to remove President Donald Trump office, Utah Senator and former GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney has continued to receive accolades for his … Read More

#KremlinAnnex protest on Thursday cancelled – see you Saturday

Hard rain in DC. x Jane Fonda and Greenpeace announce Fire Drill Fridays in CA to demand leaders address the climate crisis. First rally at L.A.'s City Hall on Feb. … Read More

UPDATED: These House Democrats Are Wavering On Impeachment, They Need To Hear From You NOW

So here’s the latest news about impeachment: House Democratic leaders are bracing for some defections among a group of moderate Democrats in swing districts who are concerned a vote to … Read More

Trump continues to be damaged goods, will the GOP keep hanging on to him and his “drug deal”

They’re now trial ballooning damage control measures, perhaps there will be a wrist slap by the Senate where the vulnerable 2020 GOP senators will call for a censure. The GOP … Read More

Butt Licker Lindsey floats the idea of censuring Trump rather than impeachment.

Alan He of CBS News has written a tweet quoting Lindsey Graham. Lindsey is  attempting to hoodwink Democrats that censure might be an option to attract bipartisanship support rather than … Read More

WaPo: Risky loans are back thanks to GOP deregulation; will they crash the economy again?

The Washington Post published an alarming story yesterday on risky loans big banks are making to cash-poor companies and the devastating effects this mountain of corporate leverage could have if the economy … Read More

GOP Gaslighting Ilhan Omar, Meanwhile Steve King Retweets an Actual Anti Semite… Again.

As the GOP gaslights Rep. Omar for criticizing the state of Israel for it’s policy positions vis-a-vis its treatment of the Palestinian people, and democrats in the House apparently moving … Read More

Taking the “high road” is fine, but…

just remember one thing, the higher the road, the steeper the drop off at the edge of the shoulder. Everybody agrees, believing in God is a perfectly acceptable personal choice, … Read More

Gingrich: Fox News must punish me for comparing FBI to Gestapo and Stalin

By now, most Americans know not to take former House Speaker Newt Gingrich at his word. The Fox News regular and failed GOP presidential candidate, after all, is on his … Read More