Obama lost 63 House seats in the middle of his first term. Trump lost 40. Biden keeping his losses in single digits during a meh economy is a huge embarrassment for Republicans.
Trump: I want to launch against Iran now.
Pence: Your fiery boldness inspires us all, sir.
Trump: Hold on, I've had second thoughts.
Pence: Sir, no president has ever had your sense of prudence and restraint. Let us all kneel in gratitude.
Military options in Iran were pushed by Bolton and Pompeo, but Pompeo was more understanding of reservations expressed by DoD, according to administration officials. Pence supported the strikes & also agreed with the president’s decision to abort them.
What does Donald Trump have to hide in his tax records, business records, White House visitor logs, notes from conversations with Vladimir Putin, subpoenaed documents....should I go on?
The office of Sen. Tommy Tuberville says he isn’t backing down on his monthslong blockade on hundreds of military promotions, even amid the Israel-Hamas conflict.
This statement, ironically, coming on a day when Trump said farmers can get their income from the government since his protectionist policies are taking away their markets.
The fact that Tom Emmer has an 82% score with conservative Heritage Action and the MAGA crowd is describing him as a George Soros acolyte tells you why Republicans can't find a Speaker.
I’ve voted in 12 presidential elections and, until this year, have never seen repeated arguments that we need to give special understanding to fans of the loser.
I remain confounded by the logic that Congress shouldn't do the right thing on impeachment because it might anger the people who wanted to hang Mike Pence.
Brit Hume says that even if John Bolton testifies that Trump withheld military aid to Ukraine to pressure them into investigating Biden, it doesn’t add anything because most Republicans already believe that’s what happened even though they won’t say that
So if Rudy Giuliani is implicitly conceding that a presidential nominee's campaign was conspiring with a foreign adversary, how exactly is the Mueller investigation a witch hunt?
Playing games? From giving Tucker Carlson exclusive access to the J6 tapes to attempting to place the execrable Jim Jordan on the J6 committee, McCarthy persistently acted in bad faith and earned those Democratic votes to boot him yesterday.
Kevin McCarthy: "Do I regret the Democrats playing games with Jan. 6? Yes. They played so many politics. What they did to this institution, what they did to this building, was so wrong."
Trump on Kim Jong Un: "We have a fantastic chemistry. We have had tremendous correspondence that some people have seen and can't even believe it. They think it's historic."
It should be noted that it would be a major news story if Biden threatened retaliation against a news network that gave him perceived negative coverage.
Trump gets a pass on it because he does it on every day ending in “y”.
In a year defined by President Biden’s self-inflicted crises, House Republicans remain focused on delivering for the American people more than ever. Here are 21 photos from 2021.
Barr severely distorted the Mueller Report, interfered in the Flynn and Stone prosecutions, gave highly partisan speeches and interviews unbecoming of an attorney general, and tried to have DOJ engage as Trump’s personal lawyer against his rape accuser. Otherwise, great point.
Bill Barr is a man of great integrity. Strangely, it is a good sign to be criticized by progressives if you are protecting executive powers and by the President if you aren’t intervening in the election process. I appreciate his misunderstood leadership.
I am so goddamn sick and tired of this insistence that being true to the team takes precedence over questions of right vs. wrong, integrity vs. corruption, leadership vs demagoguery.
Mitt was talking about the importance of truth and values. No wonder Newt doesn't get it.
Mitt Romney is a freshman Senator. He can't take on President
@realDonaldTrump
and win. He should be focused on solving problems for our country — not trying to create conflicts within his own party.
After Turkey call I will be heading over to Trump National Golf Club, Jupiter, to play golf (quickly) with Tiger Woods and Dustin Johnson. Then back to Mar-a-Lago for talks on bringing even more jobs and companies back to the USA!
I truly believe Sandy Hook was a Rubicon point in this country. Once it was established that we could accept the mass slaughter of small children and still do nothing, then no subsequent horror would ever matter.
It should be noted that the people he calls “moderate” Republicans, like Mitt Romney, were conservatives before conservatism was redefined as worship of a criminally-inclined reality show entertainer.
EXCLUSIVE: Omarosa secretly recorded conversations with Trump while working in The White House, and she has played them for people while pushing her new book "UNHINGED," sources tell The Daily Beast
The president assured me that all talk of Covid would disappear on November 4, but it seems that what actually vanished are mentions of Hunter Biden’s laptop. Odd, that.
Fauci can’t cancel anything. He gives advice. If you want to ignore it and worsen a public health crisis, you do you. As former college wrestlers have attested, the well-being of others is not high on the Jim Jordan priority list.
After years of passive silence during an insurrection, theft of documents, Charlottesville, Helsinki, mocking disabilities, smearing war heroes, offending Gold Star families, s***hole countries and more, we've found the one thing that can enrage Republicans -- a Biden speech.
I’m not going to join those comparing Donald Trump to a mob boss. No self-respecting mobster would have found a way to lose money in the gambling business.
Senator, you know how dishonest this is. No one has argued that there should not be conditions placed on foreign aid. The issue is using foreign aid to shake down an ally for personal gain.
Be better than this.
The party that scoured Barack Obama's life for evidence of teenage drug use wants a forgive-and-forget approach to adult Herschel threatening to kill his wife.
Herschel is asked about domestic violence allegations from 2001-2008 that at different times he held a gun to his wife’s head and straight razor to her throat: “You know, he without sin cast the first stone .. He’s talking about something I was a part of over 15 years ago.”
Chris Wallace to Gov. Greg Abbott: "There were thousands of complaints of sexual abuse at migrant shelters during the Trump years. Not to say what's going on now is right, but we couldn't find one instance of you complaining & calling that out when President Trump was president."
NEWS: Ohio Republican J.D. Vance pollster Tony Fabrizio warned in recent memo that Vance “needs a course correction ASAP” because he's losing the support of the Trump base
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Trump degraded and belittled John McCain’s service, a journalist with a physical disability, and Gold Star families, but apparently insulting Kayleigh McEnany was a bridge too far for some people.
Kayleigh is the kindest person and was the best press secretary to ever step foot in the White House. There is ZERO excuse for degrading or belittling her to this degree over a few points. I am upset, and at a loss for words. This erratic behavior is concerning.
Vindman has served with honor and was wounded in battle.
Kerik did time in prison for tax fraud.
Trumpists never hold up well on side-to-side comparisons.
Every enlisted service member in the United States military just looked at this guy and said, what a dick! That arrogance is why he believed he could dictate foreign policy over President
@realDonaldTrump
.
It's no coincidence that Dr. Fauci just announced that he will resign from the government in December, which is right after Republicans will take back the House and immediately plan oversight into our pandemic response and his funding of gain of function research at the Wuhan Lab
If he does this for every company that leaves the US because of his ridiculous trade wars, he won't have time to attack local restaurants or Jimmy Fallon.
A Harley-Davidson should never be built in another country-never! Their employees and customers are already very angry at them. If they move, watch, it will be the beginning of the end - they surrendered, they quit! The Aura will be gone and they will be taxed like never before!
Vivek says Mike Pence dropping out of the presidential race is a “service to the American people” and a decision that “certain others in this race should also consider”
💀😂
Never forget that former Senator John Danforth, one of the most decent men to ever serve in the Senate and Hawley's mentor, called supporting Hawley "the worst mistake of my life."
Josh Hawley was asked to give his take on yesterday’s J6 hearing: “I haven’t watched a minute, I’m proud to say. It’s state propaganda … We’re gonna have to have a conversation about the future of the FBI. I think our constitutional order is not secure.”
This is the current Republican Party, where an ultra-liberal voting record is hunky dory as long as you’re willing to kneel before the reality show king.
The MAGA crowd scorned Jeff Flake as a commie RINO disloyal to their god. They spit on John McCain's memory. They blasted Doug Ducey for not overturning the election. Now, Arizona has two Democratic senators and a Democratic governor. Nice job, team.
This year's GOP Senate candidate stable -- with Greitens, Oz, Herschel Walker, Mo Brooks, Vance and incumbents like Ron Johnson -- is quite the collection of frauds, psychos, and simply terrible people.
Oregon Public Broadcasting confirms tweets today that federal officers in camouflage but no agency identification or badges, driving unmarked non-government rental cars, are grabbing protestors off streets in Portland and not talking w local authorities
“Red-state Donald Trump voters are now more likely to say they’d be personally ‘better off’ (33%) than ‘worse off” (29%) if their state seceded from the U.S. and ‘became an independent country.’”
Trump: I said “How tough is this test Ronny? Because these people are calling me bad names. They calling me stupid. They’re stupid Ronny and we gotta end this bullshit”
People I once thought could be admirable future leaders of the Republican Party — Tim Scott, Marco Rubio, Scott Walker — proved me wrong by selling their souls at Dollar Store prices.
In normal times, this is the kind of comment — saying our country is on the same moral plane as a murderous dictatorial regime — that would end a campaign.
On Navalny, Trump says: “It’s happening in our country, too.”
No, it isn’t. The US is better than Putin’s Russia—and if you can’t see that, you don’t really understand America. Infuriating. I don’t get how any red-blooded American can sit & nod to this.
In one tweet, Donald makes Justin Amash’s point, that “loyalty” means more in today’s Trumpist GOP than allegiance to the constitution, rule of law, or the American people.
Great news for the Republican Party as one of the dumbest & most disloyal men in Congress is “quitting” the Party. No Collusion, No Obstruction! Knew he couldn’t get the nomination to run again in the Great State of Michigan. Already being challenged for his seat. A total loser!
A fundamental lesson of the pandemic has been the crushing reminder that a large portion of humanity- perhaps even a majority- has a deep, enduring desire to be controlled, and will put up with almost anything under false promises of safety and belonging
Congratulations to President
@realDonaldTrump
and his team for securing the Republican nomination for President for a third time. This is historic in so many ways, and was one of the best run campaigns in political history.
On to victory in the General Election in November!
99.99 percent of the country doesn’t give a damn if there are fireworks at Mount Rushmore. There is one person playing divisive politics with this and it isn’t Biden.
Once again, President Biden has denied our request to celebrate our nation’s independence at Mount Rushmore.
At a time when our nation is so divided, you’d think Biden would want to unite Americans.
Instead, he plays politics.
A new CBS News poll finds 71% of Alabama Republicans say the allegations against Roy Moore are false, and those who believe this also overwhelmingly believe Democrats and the media are behind those allegations.
“Do you believe your father’s [sexual misconduct] accusers?” -
@PeterAlexander
“I think it’s a pretty inappropriate question to ask a daughter if she believes the accusers of her father when he’s affirmatively stated there’s no truth to it.” -
@IvankaTrump
Raskin: I don’t even know why you stick with him. He was a Democrat longer than he was a Republican. You guys have been taken over by an absolute conman and now you’re acting like members of a religious cult who don’t even remember how you got in in the first place
So have we completely abandoned (1) the FBI planted the documents and (2) someone else packed the boxes and he didn’t know what was in them, in order to go with (3) he knew they were top secret documents and thought they should be secured in a Florida social club?
Once you get past his ritual, oft-repeated denunciations of Trump and the Republicans,
@BretStephensNYT
writes a good column on how far out in left field the Democrats are. via
@NYTOpinion
There is NO GOING BACK. We aren't going to be the party of the Romneys and Cheneys.
We need to look for leaders outside the swamp. Nobody turns to DC for the solutions.
We need to promote Freedom, slam our foot on the gas, and elect
@realDonaldTrump
.
....The Fake News Media builds Bob Mueller up as a Saint, when in actuality he is the exact opposite. He is doing TREMENDOUS damage to our Criminal Justice System, where he is only looking at one side and not the other. Heroes will come of this, and it won’t be Mueller and his...
“Forty lobbyists with ties to President Donald Trump helped clients secure more than $10 billion in federal coronavirus aid, among them five former administration officials whose work potentially violates Trump’s own ethics policy”
@BrianSlodysko
"It’s hard to explain how detached from reality this is, to think that the country can spend another $1.6 trillion when it doesn’t have the means." -- Congressman Mick Mulvaney, on the Obama budget proposal in 2011.
Trump told supporters 40-50% of speech will be about foreign policy. When asked if the deficit will be mentioned in
#SOTU
speech, chief of staff Mulvaney said “nobody cares,” per attendee
The Police Officers Association of Michigan endorses a man found liable of sexual assault who is facing 88 felony charges to be the president of the United States.
So, essentially, Republican senators argued that they couldn't convict Trump because the courts were the appropriate venue to judge him. And now Trump's lawyers are saying the courts can't judge him because senators didn't convict.
Worth remembering that
@GOPLeader
openly admitted that the Benghazi hearings were a political exercise to damage Hillary Clinton, but the Democrats didn't walk away from it.
How Trump described meeting Kim Jong Un (per Woodward):
“You meet a woman. In one second, you know whether or not it’s all going to happen. It doesn’t take you 10 minutes, and it doesn’t take you six weeks. It’s like, whoa. Okay. You know? It takes somewhat less than a second.”
Stephen Miller, who crafted
@realDonaldTrump
immigration policy at the southern border, including separating families and caging children, is preparing a
@WhiteHouse
speech on race relations.
@aurnonline
#AURN
report
Just started enjoying
@TheRickWilson
’s Everything Trump Touches Dies, particularly the passage that affirms my disdain for Reince Priebus as the invertebrate who helped enable Trump’s ascension.
“Accusations that Romney was a ‘traitor’ or ‘communist’ flew from the crowd like so many poison darts.”
Sen. Mitt Romney gets booed at raucous Utah GOP convention
Trump: One of the presidents of a big country stood up and said, Well, sir, if we don't pay and were attacked by Russia, will you protect us? I said.. No I would not protect you. In fact, I would encourage them to do whatever the hell they want.
Ivanka Trump predicted that the Korean peninsula would enjoy a “golden era” if Kim Jong Un closes a deal with her father to relinquish his nuclear weapons