Adam Kinzinger is the Republican congressman from Illinois' 16th congressional district and he's angry! He's rip-roaring mad about the GOP's humiliating Trumpcare defeat and he knows just who to blame: From my perspective, however, claiming that the party was in disarray is ...read more
A quick refresher on Mitch McConnell: This is the man who once said that his main goal as the leader of the Republican Senate was to make sure Obama was a one-term president. Not fix the economy. Not work on immigration reform. Not increase our standing on the world stage. None ...read more
With the presidential election just a week away and polls showing their nominee, Donald Trump losing bigly, GOP senators are walking back their promise to let the next president pick a new Supreme Court Justice. Shortly after Justice Antonin Scalia died early this year, ...read more
Right now, every electoral map has Hillary winning by a very comfortable margin. As of this writing, Fivethirtyeight, one of the more conservative forecasts, shows her winning the Electoral College by almost 140 points and the popular vote by a stunning 6.4 points. By way of ...read more
Republicans control the House and they're going to keep control of it for at least another decade. This is a cold, hard fact. The only way to deal with the promised obstructionism is to elect a leader that understands the system so thoroughly that she can make progress in spite ...read more
Now that he's losing again the in the polls, Donald Trump is flirting with the idea of not conceding the election to Hillary Clinton if (when) he loses. Dara Lind at Vox is worried that encouraging millions of voters to reject the results will lead to violence and destabilize ...read more
It really is infuriating when the media try desperately, in the name of supposedly achieving "balance," to draw equivalencies between the Republicans and the Democrats these days. What makes it so infuriating isn't just the fact that each side's sins aren't equal in the ...read more
