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...
Mitch McConnell
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McConnell asks fellow GOP senators to vote against January 6 commission as a “personal favor”
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?
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
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
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?
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
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?
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.
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:
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
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
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?
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)
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...