Wednesday, September 23, 2026

Tag: Republicans

GOP health repeal is an immoral affront to the American people

The 49 Republican Senators still lined up to vote for the bill exposing their contempt for the American people.

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."

‘Red alert’ sounded: Trumpcare is back, more brutal and deadly than...

Sen. Bernie Sanders called the new Obamacare repeal plan “yet another disastrous Republican proposal to throw millions of people off health insurance.”

Everything you’ve always wanted to know about the Trump-Republican tax plan

Say no to trickle-down tax cuts, and say no to mindless deficit reduction.

Trump’s tax plan is a confidence scam

The only question is whether Americans are gullible enough to buy what Trump, House Speaker Paul Ryan and Republicans are selling.

Republicans, on the ropes, ready to go down; can Democrats deliver...

The people want to see specifics about what Democrats will do differently than has been the case in recent times.

Trump’s running out of friends, and it’s his own fault

Seems like the only one still standing by him is David Duke. They deserve each other.

Introduction: The party to (literally) end all parties

Introducing the “Indispensable” party.

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.

Sniping at his own party ‘losers,’ Trump should jump the shark...

Will Trump realize Democrats’ ‘better deal’ could deliver better PR?

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Hogs in a confinement barn. Hog operations account for nearly 60 percent of the manure produced by Iowa's mapped livestock facilities, Sentient Media found. Photo: public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

We Mapped All 11,000 Factory Farms in Iowa. Here Are Five Things We Learned.

Here’s what the data reveal about the country’s factory farm hotbed.
A polling place on election day. Photo: Tony Webster

NAACP sues Trump administration over armed agents at the polls

The suit cites a fatal Minneapolis shooting by federal agents as evidence of the fear such deployments can create.
The Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education Building in Washington, D.C. Photo: Farragutful / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Democratic attorneys general say Education Department is hiding 1,300 documents on its layoffs

A privilege log lists nearly 1,300 records the agency says are too sensitive to hand over.
The General James M. Gavin coal-fired power plant in Cheshire, Ohio, one of the largest in the country. Photo: Analogue Kid / CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons

EPA says repealing power plant emissions rules will save billions – but its estimate...

Keeping aging coal plants open, building new gas plants and choices about pollution controls affect electricity bills. Pollution adds health costs and climate damage that may not appear on those bills.
A guided bomb unit JDAM kit, the same guidance kit at the center of the proposed Saudi sale, is assembled by U.S. partner-nation forces in the Middle East. Photo: U.S. Air Force AFCENT by Staff Sgt. Jovante Johnson (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

Senators move to block $5 billion bomb sale to Saudi Arabia

The bombs would arm Saudi jets as senators also demand to see classified side letters on a separate nuclear deal.