What happens when you abuse your staff, run a criminally incompetent office, and embroil yourself in the biggest political scandal in 50 years? The answer, as president Trump has found out, is fairly simple: no one wants to work for you. Now that another vaguely sane member of ...read more
A very smart writer friend of mine suggested that I use my skills in dramaturgy to analyze the Trump presidency as an unfolding dramatic story. He argued that a weekly column analyzing events – “The Week in Trump-a-turgy,” perhaps – could make sense, from a writerly perspective, ...read more
One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician’s objective. Election and power are. –Cal Thomas. As a political writer, I’ve always found voluntary humiliation in the political world fascinating to witness. The men and women who enter politics are ...read more
The Mad King just fired his communications director after only 10 days on the job -- a communications director who may well have destroyed his own marriage in order to work for the Trump White House. This on top of the announcement that Russia is expelling 755 American diplomats ...read more
In an unhinged, profanity laced phone call to the The New Yorker, latest White House press secretary Anthony Scaramucci went at journalist Ryan Lizza and demanded he hand over the name of whoever leaked information that Scaramucci was having dinner President Trump, the First ...read more
As egomaniacs resting their fat, gilded asses on the seat of power are wont to do, Donald Trump waved his big boy pee-pee around last night by launching 50+ Tomahawk missiles into Syria in an effort to teach Syria a lesson about bombing Syrians that Donald Trump specifically and ...read more
In a careful staged display of pretend mutual admiration, Reince Priebus and Steve Bannon wanted to make clear that despite the leaks, there was no conflict between the two men. Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) yesterday, the two men showered each ...read more
It might be comforting to believe that Trump accidentally stumbled into a constitutional crisis his first week in office, but it's far more likely that this is a test. And if we as a country fail it, our system of checks and balances takes one enormous step closer to collapsing. ...read more
In a disturbing post by Axios' Mike Allen, the first week of the Trump Disaster suddenly comes into focus: White House and Hill GOP leaders are astonished by the unambiguous, far-reaching power of Steve Bannon and policy guru Stephen Miller over, well, just about everything. ...read more
On Christmas Day, while most Americans were enjoying their turkey and eggnog, Republican National Committee Chairman and incoming White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus sent out a holiday message to Americans. That message begins with this paragraph: Merry Christmas to all! ...read more
Elizabeth Warren laid bare Trump's hypocrisy and bigotry on Tuesday, slamming him for not only installing Steve Bannon as his new Chief Strategist, but also for having far too many lobbyists on his transition team. While speaking at The Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council event, ...read more
It was pretty slim pickings on the Sunday shows, as none of the presidential candidates made appearances, but thankfully, we at least had Reince Priebus to kick around. The RNC chair and Buster Bluth lookalike had a long day trying to defend Trump from the fake PR guy story, and ...read more
It should be abundantly clear by now that the Republicans have no interest in keeping their party on life support while the Trump cancer ravages their internal organs. With the convention rapidly approaching on July 18, there still doesn't appear to be a plan for how the RNC ...read more
Jesus Christ, the Republicans are a bunch of cowards. After supposedly being mistreated by the moderators of the last GOP presidential debate on that communist network CBNC -- one of whom was the guy credited with actually starting the tea party -- the Republican candidates ...read more
If you thought the Republican Party couldn't get any more tone-deaf when it comes to attracting female voters, think again. A report by two major Republican groups obtained by Politico shows that the GOP is aware of what everyone else has known for a long time: Republicans "fail ...read more
You don't have to watch SportsCenter or even ESPN to have seen quite a few of its classic ads over the years featuring athletes, network personalities, and team mascots in its Bristol, Conn. headquarters. Over the last 20 years or so they've become iconic reminders of who the ...read more
I was going to attach this to the end of my earlier post on this subject but I think it might deserve its own spot for the sake of posterity. You already know that MSNBC drew the wrath of Reince Priebus this morning, who threatened a Republican boycott against the network for a ...read more
Updated Below Maybe you've heard but MSNBC is once again taking crap for something it said. This morning, impossibly named RNC Chairman Reince Priebus announced that the GOP would begin a boycott of the network in response to a tweet fired off from its official Twitter account ...read more
Reince Priebus is clearly not taking his own advice and continues to use extremist, crackpot language. TPM: In an article published Wednesday on the conservative website RedState, Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus blasted Democrats for supporting Planned ...read more
I spent some time this morning familiarizing myself with the Republican Party's "Growth and Opportunity Project" document, or "GOP" for short. Get it? It's an unintentionally hilarious report that seeks to repair the demographic hemorrhaging at the federal level of the party -- ...read more
By Bob Cesca: Yesterday on MSNBC's Morning Joe, Chris Matthews was utterly relentless against Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus regarding Mitt Romney's unapologetic and obvious use of the Southern Strategy. Although Matthews didn't use the specific name of ...read more
By Bob Cesca: Something hilarious and weird happened yesterday. No sooner had I posted my column here about the Republican Medicare Scam, but Mitt Romney surrogate John Sununu returned to CNN, clipped on a microphone and shouted down Soledad O'Brien with the same ...read more
