The GOP House minority leader can’t be serious. Here is Paul Kane at The Washington Post: House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Wednesday took a head-spinning tour through Washington. First, he oversaw the roughly 20-minute meeting of House Republicans […]
2020 Election
Josh Hawley’s path to the insurrection
Josh Hawley, the Missouri senator who once had the support of liberal Republican John Danforth, is now the poster-boy for the far-right Republican Party. In this longform piece at The Washington Post, Michael Kranish chronicles how Hawley ascended to such […]
Evangelical conspiracy theorists Mike Lindell and Eric Metaxas at the Mitchell, South Dakota Corn Palace
They were at the South Dakota landmark to launch, for about the tenth time, Mike “MyPillow Guy” Lindell’s new social media platform “Frank.” Here is local coverage from the Mitchell (SD) Republic: A crowd of 1,650 was at the Corn […]
Liz Cheney: “Remaining silent and ignoring the lie emboldens the liar”
Her party empowers liars and removes truth-tellers from leadership positions. Here is Liz Cheney’s parting shot: The sound you hear are progressives cheering for one of the most conservative members of the House of Representatives:
Kinzinger: “Maybe” five members of the GOP actually believe in the “Big Lie”
Illinois congressman Adam Kinzinger, one of the few Republicans to vote to impeach Donald Trump for inciting the insurrection on the U.S. capitol on January 6, told CNN’s Jake Tapper that “maybe” five members of his party actually believe Donald […]
Kevin McCarthy is “proud to be a Christian.” He’ll now need to find a way to reconcile his faith with his willingness to lead a party united around a lie
The vote to remove Liz Cheney from her leadership position has not taken place yet and the House’s top two Republicans–Andrew McCarthy and Stave Scalise–have already thrown their support behind New York congresswoman Elise Stefanik to replace her. Here is […]
Noonan: “Liz Cheney Confronts a House of Cowards”
The Wall Street Journal columnist and former Reagan speechwriter pulls few punches in today’s column: It all comes back to the Capitol insurrection. It’s at the heart of the battle that is, four months later, tearing the House GOP apart. […]
Will bamboo change the election results in Maricopa County, Arizona?
Arizona is recounting the ballots from the 2020 presidential election. The audit is being conducted by an organization called Cyber Ninjas. This guy is part of the team that is overseeing the audit: What is going on here? Digby is […]
Cheney: “The GOP is at a turning point”
Here is Liz Cheney’s op-ed from las night’s Washington Post: In public statements again this week, former president Donald Trump has repeated his claims that the 2020 election was a fraud and was stolen. His message: I am still the rightful president, […]
Fox News is spreading the “Big Lie.” What will Paul Ryan do about it?
Paul Ryan, the GOP candidate for vice-president in 2012 and former Speaker of the House of Representatives, sits on the Fox Corporation’s board of directors. I’ll let Charlie Sykes takes it from here in a piece titled “Paul Ryan, It’s […]
The DNC is collecting opposition research on potential 2022 GOP candidates, including Mike “MyPillow Guy” Lindell
Yes, you read that title correctly. Here is Alex Thompson and Daniel Payne at the Politico West Wing playbook: The Democratic National Committee has quietly assembled a core team that is focused not just on the 2022 midterms but on […]
Change over time: A historical look at Liz Cheney’s years in the House of Representatives
It looks like Liz Cheney will lose her leadership position in the GOP caucus because she does not believe Joe Biden stole the 2020 presidential election from Donald Trump. The pro-Trump sharks are swarming. The GOP House leadership will not […]
What evangelicals are saying (and not saying) about Liz Cheney’s recent statements about the 2020 election
CNN gets us up to speed: Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, the No. 3 House Republican, said on Monday her party cannot accept the “poison” of the idea that the 2020 election was stolen and should not “whitewash” the January 6 […]
What happens in a two-party system when one of the parties is delusional?
According to Charles Pierce, “the whole system goes out of balance.” Here is a taste of his Esquire piece on the GOP’s new initiation rite: It appears that the cult driving modern conservatism—and the Republican Party, which is its outward […]
Eric Metaxas responds to Joe Biden’s claim that the January 6 insurrection was the “worst attack on democracy since the Civil War”
Was Biden right? It’s hard to say. Historians will have different opinions about where the January 6, 2021 insurrection fits on the “attacks on democracy” scale. For example, one might find Jim Crow, Pearl Harbor, or September 11th somewhere on […]
More than half of Republicans still believe Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential election
CNN’s Harry Enten reports on the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll: A new Reuters/Ipsos poll finds that 55% of Republicans falsely believe Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election was the result of illegal voting or rigging. Additionally, 60% of Republicans incorrectly agree […]
The New Republic gives Eric Metaxas a platform
The magazine is hosting a “conversation” between court evangelical Eric Metaxas and conservative writer Matt Labash titled, “An Epic Debate on Trump and True Evangelicalism.” The whole thing is pretty disgusting. Here is a taste of Metaxas’s side of the […]
Trying to get a vaccine appointment? Just google “places where Trump won in a landslide”
It worked for Jennifer Salzano of Columbus, Ohio. Here is Larrison Campbell’s piece from The Daily Beast: As soon as Ohio opened up its coronavirus vaccine eligibility to residents over 70, Jennifer Salzano threw herself into finding an appointment for her mom, […]
Which states are trying to restrict voting?
According to FiveThirtyEight, every state legislature in the union except Ohio, Louisiana, North Carolina, Delaware, and Vermont are considering bills to restrict voting based on the “Big Lie” that there was widespread fraud during the 2020 presidential election. The following […]
What happened at Tuesday’s “election integrity” conference at Regent University?
Former Minnesota congresswoman Michelle Bachmann hosted the event. She serves as Dean of the Robertson School of Government at Regent University. Learn more here. Jim Swift, a senior editor at the conservative website The Bulwark, watched the virtual event and […]