It is impossible to make completely accurate predictions in politics. This is particularly true for Donald Trump, who is so predictably unpredictable that most pundits worth their salt have given up forecasting his political fortune. In recent times however, there have been ...read more
Looking back over the wreckage of the GOP from last month's midterm election, we should see a party reassessing itself and wondering what it can do to avoid an even greater pummeling in 2020. Not for nothing, midterms are where the Republican Party tends to shine and ...read more
Paul Ryan spent part of Thursday whining about the "bizarre" California elections that saw Republicans get kicked out of seven (seven!) House seats in just that one state. This whining is part of a pattern of Republicans all across the country calling into question the ...read more
The former Georgia Secretary of State, Brian Kemp, just pulled off one of the most comprehensively racist and anti-democratic campaigns in recent American history. Ari Berman, one of America’s leading writers in the country who monitors voter suppression, provided us with the ...read more
While Trump and the GOP have been busy pretending that they 'won' the midterm elections last week, reality appears to finally be settling in with the president. According to reports in both the LA Times and the Washington Post, Trump is angry and despondent over the loss of the ...read more
Donald Trump and his minions will never admit that the nation's most dominant producer of "fake news" is not CNN, and it's certainly not The New York Times or The Washington Post. The traditional press makes its fair share of mistakes, as any sector of every industry does every ...read more
(Image via Reuters) You might be surprised to learn that I've always kinda' liked former RNC chairman and current MSNBC analyst Michael Steele. He's a Never-Trumper and a seemingly reasonable guy regardless of his former political affiliations... To continue reading this ...read more
The day after Trump and the Republicans lost the House in the 2018 midterms, the president has moved quickly to undermine the greatest threat to his tenure in the White House: the Mueller probe. Today, Trump fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions (or "requested him to resign") ...read more
Fox News is reporting that the Democrats will take over the House in the 2018 midterm elections: Democrats will take control of the House of Representatives for the first time in eight years, Fox News projects, dealing a major setback to President Trump’s legislative agenda and ...read more
Now that the majority of voters have cast their vote in the 2018 Midterms, White House officials are apparently freaking out about Trump's reaction to huge losses across the country. While Trump has been upbeat and projected confidence, internal and external polling paints a ...read more
Let's just be clear about this. If you support Donald Trump or enable his agenda, you have no business talking about Jesus or Christianity. None whatsoever. The sexual predator turned political demagogue is about as far from Jesus Christ as Ted Cruz is to Miley Cyrus. Since ...read more
On the Alt Right troll farm otherwise known as Breitbart, there is a truly amazing piece of fiction being run today as an "exclusive" that attempts to intellectualize Trump's blatant fascism. Breitbart hired 89 year old Berkeley professor A. James Gregor to pen the ...read more
As a man of conscience, decency and a freedom fighter against racism, there is one group of Americans that I have low expectations for going into the midterms: A majority of white Americans. And when I see media fixated on trying to validate their dangerous allegiance to Trump, ...read more
Over the past few days, president Trump has threatened to repeal the 14th Amendment, run one of the most overtly racist, dishonest political ads in history, pledged to hold migrants at the border indefinitely, and accused the Democrats of wanting illegal immigrants to overrun ...read more
With the polls confirming that the GOP is almost certainly about to lose the House come November 6th, president Trump is trying every strategy he can think of to motivate his base. Predictably, this largely consists of vicious anti-immigrant rhetoric he knows his racist ...read more
I'm old enough to remember just a few months ago when the political media came to a screeching standstill because the left was rude to high profile people on the right. People yelling at Mitch McConnell, asking Sarah Sanders to leave their restaurant, flipping Steve Miller the ...read more
Fox News contributor Juan Williams has a very good piece out this week that spells out very clearly why Republicans are privately (and in some cases publicly) extremely worried about what is going to happen on November 6th during the midterms. Williams, a 40 year veteran ...read more
On Sunday, Trump threw more victims to his mob of soulless monsters that feed on the misery and suffering of others. He had his regime announce that they would be trying to erase transgender people from existence through legislation: WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is ...read more
In a brief interview with CNN today, Michael Cohen, president Trump's former attorney, urged people to vote Democrat in the midterms to prevent his former boss from wreaking more havoc on the nation. "Here's my recommendation," he told MJ Lee. "Grab your family, grab your ...read more
Despite having desperately tried to destroy Obamacare and replace it with, well, nothing, Republicans are now using President Obama's signature policy to try and win elections. NBC outlined today the breathtakingly hypocritical strategies of several Republicans running in close ...read more
Mitt Romney has been a firm critic of president Trump since the reality tv show host declared his candidacy for president. He was the danger Trump represented and did his best to speak out about it. "There's plenty of evidence that Mr. Trump is a con man, a fake," Romney said ...read more
Monday was the first day of early voting in Georgia and it's...not going well for Republicans. Voters across Georgia rushed to the polls on the first day of in-person early voting Monday, with 69,049 people casting their ballots.That’s a sharp increase from the last midterm ...read more
In less than four weeks, America will go to the polls and vote. By every imaginable indicator, unless something massive happens in between now and then, Republicans are going to be annihilated by an electorate so pissed off that all the gerrymandering and voter suppression the ...read more
With the battle over the Kavanaugh confirmation in the rearview mirror, we turn now to the midterms and the low frequency stress we're all experiencing in the face of another Election Day that could be hijacked by Russian military intelligence operatives. So far, there hasn't ...read more
Today, it appears as if the Kremlin will be installing yet another justice on the Supreme Court through its proxy in the Oval Office. This result comes as a key vote in support of Brett Kavanaugh, that of Susan Collins, was announced a short time ago. Conspicuous in its absence ...read more
Having endured some of the most harrowing downsides from the Great Recession, there's no reason I should ever give George W. Bush the benefit of the doubt, especially when we fold into the mix the disastrous Iraq War, his torture policy and all the rest of it. But I'll be the ...read more
Rock, meet hard place. President Trump’s disapproval rating has hit a high point of 60 percent, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll that also finds that clear majorities of Americans support the special counsel’s Russia investigation and say the president should not ...read more
You have to hand to the mainstream media, they will spin anything into a "the Democratic Party is at war with itself!" narrative. Last night, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez turfed out 10-term congressman Joe Crowley in New York's 14th District. Somehow, this portends doom for the ...read more
Trump and his white nationalist regime are having a grand ol' time tearing families apart at the border and stuffing brown children in kiddie concentration camps. We now know they've been planning to do this from the beginning, knowing that such cruelty would excite Trump's white ...read more
On Tuesday, Donald Trump was sucking up to the pro-birth crowd at the Susan B. Anthony List's "Campaign for Life" Gala. During his speech, he told the crowd of anti-woman zealots that if the Democrats take control of Congress, they're going to undo all of his work making America ...read more
Last night's primaries in Ohio, Indiana, North Carolina, and West Virginia garnered more attention for who lost rather than who won. In Ohio, Dennis Kucinich, the former Congressman and perennial Presidential candidate lost the nomination for governor this fall. Although his old ...read more
My personal rule for evaluating Donald Trump's presidency continues to be: Trump always makes things worse for Trump. No matter which way the president zigs or zags, every decision somehow worsens Trump's peril, be it legal or political or miscellaneous. It's kind of a miracle ...read more
