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He is talking about the fact that the House Republicans can't govern. "Give me one thing ..."

You don't have to believe me or the sources you cite. GOP House member Chip Roy nicely sums things up: "One thing. I want my Republican colleagues to give me one thing. One. That I can go campaign on and say we did. Anybody sitting in the complex, if you want to come down to the floor and come...

Two notable differences. Numerous Democrats immediately called for Menendez's resignation when his troubles broke into the open. Few Republicans called for Santos to resign. The other is House Democrats are able to govern. Republican House members, with the same thin majority the Democrats had...

Santo's use of the word "colleagues" may indeed refer to Dems and Republicans. But the practical effect is his lies and crimes stain Republicans. Democrats will try to paint Republicans with as much Santos paint as they can. Republicans do not have that can or brush because Santos is a...

No Democrat fought to get Santos into office or to keep him there. The Republicans who did are now tainted with a Santos stain. Santos' NY Republican House freshmen colleagues advocated for his ouster long ago. They saw Santos for who he was, and they saw the Santos-stain risk he posed to them...

More Republican Dysfunction; Santos Goes Off on His House Colleagues "I have colleagues who are more worried about getting drunk every night with the next lobbyist that they're gonna screw and pretend like none of us know what's going on, and sell off the American people, not show up to vote...

I think this Wall Street Journal piece sums things up nicely. Haley, a former South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador, has made progress in consolidating the anti-Trump vote. But that won’t be enough to win the nomination, surveys suggest, if she can’t figure out how to peel off...

With Nikki Haley now contending for second place in the Republican Party presidential primary, it seems right to start an EO thread about her. While I believe Trump has the nomination locked up no matter how strong or weak he is in the polls (the delegates are locked-in Trump loyalists), it is...

Cancer does not exist by itself. It develops in the cells of a body. Once cancer (authoritarianism/fascism in this analogy) develops, one of two things happen. The cancer is eradicated by the body's immune system and treatment, or it spreads to kill additional tissue and possibly the body...

Donald Trump is Not Well Normal people don't talk like this. Healthy people don't talk like this. Stable people do not talk like this.

The Benefits of Giving Thanks On this Thanksgiving Day, 2023, and in these days of high social stress and conflict, it can be helpful to think about Thanksgiving. At the risk of belaboring the obvious, Thanksgiving is about giving thanks. Of all the holidays, Thanksgiving is perhaps the most...

Andrew Weismann, Laurence Tribe, Neal Katyal, Michael Luttig (conservative retired judge), and others. I do not have exact quotes. It is my sense from listening to these experts' analyses over the last few days that the nine findings for the plaintiffs (chart above) will be upheld by the CO...

Trump filed suit against 20 media companies claiming defamation. He says the company did not lose $73 million as these news outlets reported. And he says (perhaps correctly) that the company suffered substantial harm because of the false reports. The company lost only $31 million during the...

Colorado 14th Amendment Rulings Appealed by BOTH Parties When Colorado state court judge Wallace ruled in Trump's favor and ordered the CO Secretary of State to include Trump on the ballot, Trump rightly said this was a major victory for him. And the plaintiffs said they would appeal. Now...

She is doing an excellent job keeping the documents trial out of the way of the DC election interference trial. I'll give her that much.

No dream. The judge was reversed by the higher court in the real world. Scathing reversal of a judge untethered by the law.

In this case, give how groundless her ruling was, that's exactly what it means.

Cannon did not rule in any way that was correct or appropriate. If she had, she would not have had her head handed to her by the Court of Appeals.

An Example Here's another example of how the abortion rights energy is placing Republican candidates and incumbents in an uphill battle. With the abortion-rights initiative now on the Colorado ballot, it's tough-sledding for Republicans. "Now, the next bomb to drop on Boebert's campaign is...

It surprises me that no such group has emerged. The work is not technically sophisticated. There are plenty of MAGA people who have the time to do this work and the ideological motivation (rioters should be brought to justice). I don't believe the FBI or local law enforcement would ignore any...