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Mitch McConnell

Why didn’t we impeach and remove this guy from office when we had the chance?

John Fea   |  October 1, 2022

The latest from Trump’s social media platform: This post is inspired by Digby and David French. Here’s French: Of course not everyone agrees with me, Digby, or French....

Senate passes bipartisan gun bill

John Fea   |  June 24, 2022

Here is NBC News: The Senate on Thursday night passed the most sweeping gun bill designed to prevent gun violence in decades, a major victory for advocates and a rare defeat for the National Rifle Association. The vote was 65 to 33, with all...

Have you heard about the new State of the Union sitcom?

John Fea   |  March 4, 2022

It’s brought to you by Trevor Noah and the Daily Show:...

McConnell asks fellow GOP senators to vote against January 6 commission as a “personal favor”

John Fea   |  May 27, 2021

Remember when Mitch McConnell condemned the January 6, 2021 insurrection on the U.S. Capitol and said Trump was to blame? Yeah, those where the good old days. Here is Jamie Gangel at CNN: The Washington Post reports on the testimony...

What did anti-1619 Project U.S. senators learn about race from their school textbooks?

John Fea   |  May 13, 2021

The Root just published excerpts of U.S. history textbooks used in schools attended by the thirty-eight Republican senators, including majority leader Mitch McConnell, who recently signed a letter criticizing the New York Times 1619 Project and critical race theory. Here...

Mitch McConnell petitions Education Secretary to remove the 1619 Project from federal grant programs

John Fea   |  April 30, 2021

The 1619 Project is in the news again. Here is Ryan Nobles at CNN: In a letter obtained by CNN, the Republican leader asks Education Secretary Miguel Cardona to abandon curriculum in American schools that McConnell argues tells a revisionist history of America’s...

The longest filibusters in U.S. history were launched to stop the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1964

John Fea   |  March 28, 2021

Here is Gillian Brockell at The Washington Post: At his first White House news conference Thursday, President Biden said he agreed with former president Barack Obama that the filibuster is “a relic of the Jim Crow era.” This follows a Tuesday statement...

Can the GOP run against a recovery in 2022?

John Fea   |  March 18, 2021

Over at Politico, Michael Grunwald describes running against a recovery as a “political nightmare” for the Republican Party. Here is a taste: Democrats are relentlessly hyping President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill, while Republicans are trying to change...

Mitch McConnell says he will vote for Trump if the former president is the GOP nominee in 2024

John Fea   |  February 25, 2021

Here is Fox News: If Trump is the GOP nominee in 2024 and McConnell supports him, the Kentucky senator will need to reconcile his support with this:...

Donald, why don’t you tell us what you REALLY think about Mitch McConnell?

John Fea   |  February 16, 2021

Trump released this statement today through his political action committee “Save America”: The Republican Party can never again be respected or strong with political “leaders” like Sen. Mitch McConnell at its helm. McConnell’s dedication to business as usual, status quo...

Mitch McConnell clarifies his vote to acquit Trump in a *Wall Street Journal* op-ed.

John Fea   |  February 16, 2021

Mitch McConnell is a weasel. He is also a very crafty politician. In his mind, moral conviction always takes a back seat to his quest for political power. This was on display Saturday when he voted to acquit Donald Trump...

Why did the GOP Senators voted to acquit Trump? Here is a cheat sheet:

John Fea   |  February 15, 2021

Over the weekend we posted the statements of most of the U.S. senators (all Republicans) who voted to acquit Donald Trump on Saturday. You can read that post here. It is a long post, so we created a cheat sheet:...

Iowa senator Joni Ernst explains her pro-Trump vote today

John Fea   |  February 13, 2021

Here she is: Ernst, like many other GOP Senators, is hiding behind a contested interpretation of Article I, section 2 of the U.S. Constitution, an interpretation that the Senate rejected four days ago. Mitch McConnell did the same thing today....

Trump evangelicals respond to his impeachment acquittal

John Fea   |  February 13, 2021

If Mitch McConnell is right, the Democratic House managers proved that Donald Trump committed high crimes and misdemeanors. The former president survived his impeachment trial because forty-three senators, all Republicans, voted to acquit. Several of these senators, including Ted Cruz,...

What did Mitch McConnell just say?

John Fea   |  February 13, 2021

As I just posted, the U.S. Senate just acquitted Donald Trump by a vote of 57-43. Watch Mitch McConnell: A few things: McConnell believes that Donald Trump is guilty of inciting the riot on the United States Capitol. He believes...

Tony Perkins finds “cancel culture” in the Bible (and other Trump evangelical news, including Eric Metaxas’s book launch)

John Fea   |  February 3, 2021

In the last several days we have seen the Republican Party get closer to the breaking point. Trumpism in the form of Marjorie Greene and her enablers is pitted in a war for control of the party against the likes...

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