Tag: GOP
GOP senator: Republicans have a “responsibility” to repeal the affordable care...
"Republicans campaigned on this so often that you have a responsibility to carry out what you said in the campaign."
GOP Congressman adds amendment to kill funding for Mueller investigation
The Republican legislator slipped his amendment into a massive federal funding bill that the House of Representatives is expected to consider after returning next week from recess.
Self-made minefields doom GOP scams – what doesn’t boomerang?
Scanning ahead, what major talking points or legislative agendas won’t end badly for Republicans, whether passed or not? Doubling-down, the reflexive GOP way, now invites double-jeopardy, especially as the Trump/Rightwing keeps marching into its own self-made political mine field.
Real, intact ‘walls’ impede the reactionary Trump/GOP in their tracks
Happy news. What the first six months show us, both about Trump and Senate leadership, is they remain their own worst enemies.
China has it, America doesn’t; a vision, a strategic plan for...
Is there any plan of any kind that this Trump-led government is following?
GOP Health care bill dies once again after two more Republicans...
Senators Jerry Moran and Mike Lee just put the nail in the coffin.
How repealing the ACA will hurt rural communities
The GOP health care bill would drastically reduce rural Americans’ insurance coverage and significantly threaten the ability of many rural hospitals and clinics to stay open.
Two questions about Trump and Republicans that stump progressives
At a time when the country is tearing itself apart, when progressives and conservatives each see the other as immoral and un-American, we must begin to understand why this is happening.
Medicare for all: It’s a matter of life and death
Just 17 percent of people support the current Senate health care bill.
Of Caesar, guns and trolls: The evil that men do
The GOP and right wing will use any diversion to distract us from an agenda of cruelty and madness.
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Pentagon seeks $200 billion for Iran war as costs surge and Congress pushes back
Lawmakers question the scale, legality, and strategy of a massive funding request as troop deployments expand and the conflict shows signs of escalation.
Balanced budget amendment would put Social Security, Medicare, and core public services on the...
The proposal would make revenue increases extraordinarily difficult while allowing tax cuts to pass more easily, shifting pressure onto widely used federal programs.
Scale raises the ceiling, but fiscal foundations determine whether autocracy or democracy prevails
The implication is stark: democracy is not only a constitutional or ideological arrangement; it is fundamentally a fiscal one.
State Department purge left US exposed as Iran war sent energy prices soaring
Internal layoffs removed the very officials who would have modeled oil supply disruptions, coordinated with Gulf energy partners, and prepared for retaliatory strikes as war with Iran drove gas and crude prices sharply higher.
The Paris Prelude: Why the US and China are moving toward a Cold Peace
Nuanced engagement is an improvement over chaotic confrontation.