Nunes a Putin appointee? Congress likely hacked.
Many are wondering how a young guy raised on a dairy ranch whose educational qualification is a degree in Agricultural Science could be appointed by John Boehner to be the Chair of the United States...
View ArticleWhat does Paul Ryan do now? With a poll.
Yep, things are looking bleak for Eddie Munster. I won’t breathe easy until the final vote count is posted, but NBC News is reporting their whip count has 37 definite or leaning strongly “No’s”,...
View ArticleBoehner Called this Goat-Rodeo A Month Ago.
The original orange-man, former House Speaker John Boehner, was definitely a serial pain in our ass after his elevation to the Speaker-ship in wake of the teaparty slimewave election of 2010 (after...
View ArticleThe GOP dominates Congress and the White House . . . so what?
Republicans finally have what they’ve so rapaciously coveted for years . . . majorities in the House and Senate and a Republican in the White House.“Watch us transform America,” strutting conservatives...
View ArticleMy Respect for Boehner grows
It seems that once Boehner retired from Congress he is able to call them like he sees them. He is the one Republican who isn’t afraid to speak the truth.Now Everyone is going to jump on Boehner’s quote...
View ArticleUnprecedented spite: The American carnage of the GOP health care bill
In December 2003, Democrats in Congress overwhelmingly opposed President Bush’s Medicare Part D prescription drug program. With good reason. The new benefit included the infamous “donut hole,” a gap in...
View ArticleThe Austerity Gaslight
I can appreciate the concerns of centrist politicians, but if they really think that the Democratic Party is too far to the left, they should explain how a leftist party could have allowed themselves...
View ArticleJared Kushner, Kevin Spacey, John Boehner Updated with Spacey's statement
xICYMI: What my 18 months as Jared KushnerâÂÂs first editor taught me about the Trump family https://t.co/ASHxAODvwIpic.twitter.com/iIC6jmAboeâ CJR (@CJR) October 29, 2017xA big and carefully...
View ArticleHow could Trump not know who John Boehner is? Here's how
First of all, I want to extend a huge thank-you to all the Kossacks who helped launch my latest diary, “Dear F*cking Lunatic: An open letter to Donald Trump,” into a quasi-viral orbit. The post came...
View ArticleJohn Boehner's Revenge
We are Witnessing John Boehner’s RevengeRepresentative Devin Nunez (R. Califusion) is former Speaker John Boehner’s revenge on the ultra-conservative Tee Potty House Republican’s who...
View ArticleDemocrats proven right—again—on tax cut windfall for the rich
Campaign ActionDuring the run-up to the passage of the “Republican Tax Cuts and Jobs Act” late last year, one technical paper from the Treasury Department’s Office of Tax Analysis suddenly went...
View ArticleThe news of Ryan's demise as speaker is premature, say the last two guys the...
It's a blast from the past as two former Republican House leaders step up to try to squash the rumors about Paul Ryan being on his way out the door.“The idea that he’s going to walk out of there in the...
View ArticleFormer WH lawyer: 'people are starting to realize this administration has...
Richard Painter is a former ethics lawyer for George W. Bush between 2005-2007. This is a dubious distinction but it does put him outside of the more godawful Bush era ethics decisions of torturing...
View ArticleRetired Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner is now a Pot Dealer
John Boehner’s long held position of opposing legalization of weed has gone up in smoke. (NORML) had rated Boehner "hard on drugs" and given him a "zero percent" rating on legalization, meaning he was...
View ArticleWill Paul Ryan join John Boehner in the pot biz and lobby to expunge records...
Perhaps the tipping point that put Paul Ryan into the retirement column wasn’t one of Donald Trump’s latest eye-rollers or seeing the trickle of Republicans announcing they won’t be running for...
View ArticleMorning Digest: Paul Ryan announces retirement as GOP chances of keeping the...
The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, and Carolyn Fiddler, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, Daniel Donner, James...
View ArticleBoehner joining the crusade to decriminalize weed is a BFD
Since before Trump’s poorly-attended inauguration, it was a monumental task to envision or find much good about the prospects for America in the foreseeable future. It is true there has been a dearth...
View ArticleCartoon: Paul Ryan's retirement plans
Having gutted the safety net and transferred trillions to the wealthy, Paul Ryan won't seek reelection in order to spend more time with his donors.It was weird digging back into my archives to remember...
View ArticleDemocrats to introduce a bill to 'decriminalize marijuana from one end of the...
Campaign ActionSen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has 4/20 plans to introduce a bill that would legalize marijuana nationwide! From NPR:Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., plans to introduce...
View ArticleMorning Digest: On primary day, GOP's still fretting that Don Blankenship...
The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, and Carolyn Fiddler, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, Daniel Donner, James...
View Article'Club Gitmo' is now for children, too
During the 2016 presidential campaign, candidate Donald Trump gave full-throated support for resurrecting the Bush administration’s regime of torture for terror detainees. But Trump’s brand of...
View ArticleMedia focuses on speculative Democratic disarray over real Republican scandals
The Republican speaker of the House is retiring at age 48 three years after his predecessor resigned, unable to handle his caucus. One Republican House member has been arrested for insider trading but...
View ArticleGOP lawmaker tries to pin corruption scandal on his wife, but 30 tequila...
Rep. Duncan Hunter has tried to blame his wife for his use of $250,000 in campaign funds on personal and family expenses—and it’s true that Margaret Hunter appears to have done her share of sketchy...
View ArticleThe return of the spend-and-not-tax Republicans
Like a recurring biblical plague, they descend across the country. Despite the repeated warnings from both experts and lay persons of good faith and common sense, the media and tens of millions of...
View ArticleDeep thoughts, by Paul Ryan
In the future, historians and political scientists will speak of the “Ryan Gap.” That moniker will be used to measure the yawning chasm between the shining image a politician manufactures for him or...
View ArticleImmigration Reform Round Twol!
In June of 2013, the Senate, with support from both sides of the aisle, passed a sweeping Immigration Bill by 68 to 32 and for awhile it looked like we might finally get our immigration problem taken...
View ArticleNancy Pelosi is under pressure to fix Republican damage by giving Republicans...
The last two Republican speakers of the House have massively shut down votes on bipartisan amendments on the House floor over the last eight years. Now that Paul Ryan is on his way out and Nancy Pelosi...
View ArticleTrump escalates the GOP war on government workers
As the New Year begins, imagine that this is how your 2018 ended: You work at a company where the CEO and the management team are notoriously corrupt. They began the year by taking on $150 million in...
View ArticleFund the wall or we kill the economy: GOP debt ceiling extortion returns
“Both sides do it” may well be the most dangerous and deceitful phrase in U.S. politics. The lazy analyst’s substitute for actual journalism doesn’t merely misdiagnose what plagues the American body...
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The Ohio gerrymandering court case: 'A map that Speaker Boehner supports'
The trial to overturn the Ohio gerrymandering map continued this week in Cincinnati. The suit has been brought by Democratic organizations, the League of Women Voters of Ohio, and various citizens from...
View ArticlePaul Ryan sad about 'unfinished' immigration reform after blocking...
There he goes again. Former Republican Congressman Paul Ryan is still going on with his bullshit about regretting not getting more done on immigration, which, for the record, he had full control of as...
View ArticleWhen do the Democrats Get to be Democrats Again?
When do Democrats get to be Democrats again? Is the Democratic Party doomed to be stuck in a centrist mode, that any attempt to bring back the glory days of the party would inevitably elect...
View ArticleAfter GOP sabotaged Obama, Trump looks to scapegoat Democrats for slowing...
As Donald Trump’s bragging about the economy reached a crescendo last fall, former Obama White House communications director Jen Psaki provided a helpful reality check for the American people. “A...
View ArticleA look back at the impeachment and conviction of Barack Obama
As President Trump’s legal team wrapped up its impeachment defense on Tuesday, all eyes turned to the issue of witnesses. But whether or not the mounting revelations surrounding former National...
View ArticleExperts agree: Biden, who will actually fight right-wing terrorism, is the...
More than any other single individual, Daryl Johnson can speak to the failure of the Republican Party to keep America safe from right-wing and white supremacist terrorism over the past few years. Most...
View ArticleJohn Boehner to Ted Cruz: "go f--- yourself"
I knew there was no love loss between John Boehner and Ted Cruz, but, WOW, John really let Cruz know exactly how much he hates him in his recording of his audiobook, On The House: A Washington...
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John Boehner, in new book, unloads on the "Crazy Caucus" aka the GOP
John Boehner’s new book “On the House: A Washington Memoir” comes out on April 13, 2021. In the book, Boehner shines a spotlight on the GOP and the rise of the lunatics in the party, enabled by Fox and...
View ArticleBoehner let the vitriol fly during 'wine-soaked' recording of audiobook. One...
Former House Speaker John Boehner’s new memoir is set to be released later this month, and if the excerpts that have trickled out so far are any indication, he aims to settle scores. Not so much with...
View ArticleUS EAC Sued After Allowing Modems in Vote Systems Following Private Meets w/...
Guest: Susan Greenhalgh, Senior Election Security Advisor at Free Speech for PeopleAlso: Officer killed in new U.S. Capitol attackMLB pulls All-Star game out of GABoehner's message for Cruz...We've got...
View ArticleIn His Book, Boehner Insults Republicans, But He's Still Lying Like Crazy.
Former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives John Boehner has a new book coming out entitled “On The House: A Washington Memoir”. In an article Boehner put together for Politico.com, Boehner...
View ArticleOvercoming Trump's Sabotage to Restore the Landmark Iran Nuclear Deal:...
Guest: Dr. Trita Parsi of the Quincy Inst. for Responsible StatecraftAlso: 10 more Dem Reps join insurrection lawsuit against TrumpUpdate on Amazon unionization vote in Alabama...The long, necessary...
View ArticleJohn Boehner, unsparing about today's GOP, advises voters against electing...
John Boehner served as GOP House speaker from 2011 through late 2015, when he left Washington, D.C. altogether. Importantly to him, that was before Donald Trump had finished engineering his takeover of...
View ArticleGOP 'Legislative' Agenda Now Being Carried Out by Activist Supreme Court:...
Guest: SCOTUS expert, author Ian MillhiserAlso: Amazon unionization vote goes down in AL, union cries foulBiden creates commission to study SCOTUS reformEveryone loves hating on Cruz and Graham...On...
View ArticleJohn Boehner gets around to bashing fellow Ohioan Jim Jordan
Former House Speaker John Boehner has been on quite a roll lately as he plugs his book On the House: A Washington Memoir. In a clip from the audio version of his book, Boehner told Sen. Ted Cruz to go...
View ArticleIf Republicans Tell you They are Cowards…
Americans should listen to the rational Republicans willing to publicly lift the scales from their eyes, who say their brethren are cowardly. Current and former Republicans like the previous Republican...
View ArticleMSNBC's Chuck Todd fails to call out former Speaker John Boehner's...
Former Republican House Speaker John Boehner has been on television trying to sell more than his new book—he’s also trying to sell his own facts, claiming during an appearance on Meet the Press that he...
View ArticleKevin McCarthy promises to keep his district's undocumented farmworkers...
Kevin McCarthy is campaigning for speaker on a pro-mass deportation platform, vowing to refuse to take up any immigration legislation putting undocumented immigrants on a path to citizenship should...
View ArticleCan McCarthy lead the House Republicans? Can anyone?
Just a brief observation for all those depressed by the direction that the US House of Representatives election results appear to be taking.I just want to point out that the previous 2 Republican...
View ArticleFlashback to when Speaker Pelosi broke House floor speech records for young...
Nancy Pelosi announced this week that she’s stepping down from Democratic leadership, marking an end to the most consequential speakership of our time. Under her leadership, the U.S. House twice passed...
View ArticleMcCarthy and Freedom maniacs will play chicken over speaker's gavel, and it's...
It’s deja vu all over again in the House Republican caucus, which tends to be a pretty ungoverrnable bunch. Remember back in 2015 when they forced John Boehner out of the speakership and had no plan...
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