Yes. He was. But Marjorie Taylor Greene and Elise Stefanik don’t think so. No, really. They have introduced resolutions to “expunge” Trump’s impeachments from the historical record “as if such Articles of Impeachment had never passed the House of Representatives.”...
Over at The Atlantic, Tim Alberta has a fascinating piece on Peter Meijer‘s first year in the House. On the morning of the impeachment vote the newly elected Grand Rapids (Michigan’s 3rd District–Justin Amash‘s old seat) Republican received an encrypted...
The Partnership for Public Service recently hosted a conversation with Marie Yovanovitch, Fiona Hill, William Taylor Jr., and Alexander Vindman. All four of them testified during the first Trump impeachment hearings in the House of Representatives. All of them were...
South Dakota’s John Thune, the Senate’s second ranking Republican and former Biola University basketball star, thinks so. Here is the Associated Press: U.S. Sen. John Thune on Thursday criticized Republican activists and party leaders for engaging in “cancel culture” by...
Jamelle Bouie of The New York Times believes the war is over and Trump won. Here is a taste of his column at The New York Times: If there’s a conflict, it’s less a war and more a small skirmish...
Annie Thorn is senior history major from Kalamazoo, Michigan and our intern here at The Way of Improvement Leads Home. As part of her internship she is writing a weekly column titled “Out of the Zoo.” It focuses on life as a...
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...
Many of my fellow Pennsylvanians are not happy with Pat Toomey. Here is The Philadelphia Inquirer: Republican state party chairman Lawrence Tabas has advised committee members that he will soon call a meeting to “address and consider actions related to...
Yesterday, in commenting on the January 6, 2021 insurrection on the U.S. Capitol, Johnson said, “This didn’t seem like an armed insurrection to me.” Here is the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Two days after members of the U.S. Senate acquitted former...
Some members of the Utah GOP want g to censure Mitt Romney, the 2012 presidential nominee of the Republican Party. A lot can happen in a decade. Here is a draft of the censure that is circulated online (boldface is...
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...
Here is Catie Edmundson at The New York Times: …the senators were united by a common thread: Each of them, for their own reasons, was unafraid of political retribution from Mr. Trump or his supporters. “Two are retiring, and three...
South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham seems to think so. And, sadly, he may be right. If Marjorie Taylor Greene can get elected to Congress, why not Lara Trump? Both her and Greene embody GOP values right now. Here is Ray...
Yesterday I noted that Calvary Chapel-Chino Hills has emerged as a prominent site for Trump’s evangelical lost cause movement. Today I highlight (once again) the “think tank” associated with this movement: Liberty University’s Falkirk Center. It continues to baffle me...
Here is the stinger: Hawley’s mind is permanently closed, open only in the service of his ambition. He will say or do anything to further his prospects, whether it’s the White House or a bottle of wine from the top shelf. The...
Here is a taste of Senator Bill Cassidy’s op-ed in The Advocate, Louisiana’s largest newspaper: Rather than defending the Constitution, President Trump was actively subverting the peaceful transfer of power, which is a bedrock principle of the Constitution. I voted...
Funny and true:...
Yesterday we did a post on Jamie Herrera Beutler, the Washington congresswoman who was prepared to testify that House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy told her that Trump supported the insurrection of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Herrera did...
Marsha Blackburn (TN): Roy Blunt (MO): “I said before this trial started that I believe the constitutional purpose for presidential impeachment is to remove a president from office, not to punish a person after they have left office. None of...
Dana Milbank of The Washington Post gives it to us straight: Trump’s lawyers, in their slashing, largely fictitious defense, claimed that Trump was “horrified” by the violence, hadn’t known that Vice President Mike Pence was in danger and took “immediate steps” to...
