No other Republican has done more damage to the United States than Mitch McConnell. In 2010, before he became Senate Majority Leader, he famously said his party's "top political priority should be to deny President Obama a second term." Once he became Majority Leader, he rammed ...read more
With the nuclear blast of more allegations of sexual assault by Brett Kavanaugh chronicled by Jane Mayer and Ronan Farrow, Republicans are, in a word, fucked. And they have no one but themselves to blame:The claim dates to the 1983-84 academic school year, when Kavanaugh was a ...read more
This weekend, Stanford Professor Christine Blasey Ford revealed that at 15, she was sexually assaulted by a then-17-year-old Brett Kavanaugh, who held her down and covered her mouth when she tried to scream. If there was ever a moment to end this farce of a hearing and yank his ...read more
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is a right-wing extremist who has a disgraceful judicial record when it comes to human, civil, worker’s and women’s rights. The White House and the Republican Party has also seen enough of his body of work to know that Kavanaugh, if appointed ...read more
August politics are like holiday politics. No one's really paying much attention so the "silly season" takes over. Today, for example, we're talking about Omarosa's tapes and Donald Trump's worsening dementia. About the latter, apparently during an event for Vietnam veterans in ...read more
With Justice Kennedy's retirement from the Supreme Court, conscientious Americans must now get ready to engage in massive acts of civil disobedience. It is a near certainty that Trump will appoint a radical conservative to the court, and Republicans will work night and day to ram ...read more
Sometimes I seriously believe the present-day Democratic Party is filled with the biggest conglomeration of pessimists and quitters in the history of American politics. Today, as many of us feared, another shoe dropped in the ongoing crisis of the Donald Trump presidency: Justice ...read more
Today, the Supreme Court voted to uphold Donald Trump's Muslim ban by a vote of 5-4,. Although Justices Sotomayor and Ginsburg argued that the ban was motivated not by law but by racism, the conservative wing of the court won. Earlier this week they won another 5-4 ruling over ...read more