President Obama is relishing his role as campaigner-in-chief, and at a Hillary Clinton rally in Miami on Thursday, he showed why he is so good at it. Many people have spent the last year trying to make the point that Donald Trump is the distillation of, not a departure from, Republican politics. But no one has […]

Maggie Hassan, the Democratic governor of New Hampshire, has made equal pay for women a focus of both her governorship and her campaign for the U.S. Senate. She signed into New Hampshire law the Paycheck Fairness Act, and has pledged to push for the federal version of the law if elected to the Senate. But […]

You see the donor community starting to come around to their fellow billionaire. They want to help as well. There’s also a generational split here. You see some of the Grand Wizards…the Grand Poohbahs of the party coming over and saying, “I support Donald Trump now.” At the time, it just seemed like a rather […]

Even though John McCain has pulled his support for Donald Trump, what he is now promising to do if Hillary Clinton is elected is every bit as dangerous, undemocratic, and unconstitutional as anything Trump has proposed. But it is nothing new for the Republican Party. Congressional Republicans famously met in secret on the night of Barack […]

In an astonishing Morning Joe interview, the normally mild-mannered Dr. Ben Carson lost his cool with BBC journalist Katty Kay while trying to explain that the sexual assault accusations against Donald Trump just don’t matter right now. Earlier in the interview, Carson repeated the absurd talking point that Trump could not possibly have groped a […]

While some Republicans have denounced Donald Trump in the wake of his repugnant comments about groping women, others, like RNC Communications Director Sean Spicer, have refused to back down. Senator Jeff Sessions told The Weekly Standard that he wasn’t sure the conduct Trump described constituted sexual assault, and when asked the same question, Spicer responded in similar fashion: https://twitter.com/senatorshoshana/status/785478719062376452 According to […]

Donald Trump repeated some demonstrably false statements about Obamacare in the most recent debate. He asserted that health care costs were going up “by numbers that are astronomical — 68 percent, 71 percent.” They are not: Premium increases range from 9 to 25 percent. Both he and Hillary Clinton agreed that premium increases are too […]

This is your regular reminder that Mike Pence is just Donald Trump without the theatrics: As Trump disgorges broadsides about how “this whole thing is rigged” at campaign events, Pence is doing the same thing via his preferred subtler route. “Look, you know, it’s the old cliché, the only poll that really matters, they finish […]

During an interview with WBEZ’s Jennifer White, Senator Mark Kirk, currently locked in a tight battle with his opponent, Rep. Tammy Duckworth, was asked why Trump’s talk about sexually assaulting women was a line in the sand for him: White: You know Senator Kirk, Donald Trump has been criticized for comments he’s made about other […]

In 2010, “prescription drugs were involved in more than half of the 38,300 overdose deaths that year, and opioid pain relievers were involved in over 16,600 of these deaths. There were about 3,000 drug poisoning deaths related to heroin.” Indiana has been hit particularly hard. The Indianapolis Star’s Matthew Tully described the problem as “one […]

Dozens of Republicans have condemned Donald Trump’s sickening comments about assaulting women, and a number have also rescinded their endorsements. Others have called for Trump to drop out of the race and allow Mike Pence to assume the top of the GOP presidential ticket. Rep. Jason Chaffetz, for example, called into CNN to haughtily express […]

One of the limitations of a predominantly two-party system in a vastly diverse nation, comprised of many demographics with competing desires and needs, is that parties have to form their base by building coalitions. There are challenges for both parties in bringing together disparate groups who share enough in common to work in concert to […]

New Jersey Governor and Donald Trump surrogate Chris Christie has not been on the campaign trail much since the “Bridgegate” trial began, and a new development in that story could make Christie’s position even more precarious. NBC4 is reporting Thursday that a judge has found probable cause to advance a criminal complaint against Christie over his involvement […]

Donald Trump’s campaign has triggered a GOP civil war. Republican strategist Steve Schmidt captured the essence of the meltdown on Meet The Press, slamming Republican lawmakers who have “repeatedly put their party ahead of their country.” The weeks ahead will likely determine the fate of the modern Republican Party.

Over the course of his business career and during his 2016 campaign, Donald Trump has spewed a steady stream of abominations, virtually any of which would disqualify him for the presidency. None of these offensive words and actions have stopped Republican leaders and their allies in the corporate media from backing his candidacy. That is, until a lewd audio recording […]

It has now been over two hundred days since President Barack Obama nominated Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court to fill the vacancy left by the late Antonin Scalia. This is the longest vacancy in the history of the Court. Senate Republicans have refused to hold hearings for Garland despite the fact that many of […]

During Tuesday’s Senate session, Sen. Cory Booker took to the floor to fight for the nominations of Judge Julien Neals to the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, and of Judge Edward L. Stanton III to the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee, both of whom were […]

The memo issued by the DCCC’s Policy Department, recapping the 114th Congress, is brutal in its stark assessment of the failures of the Republican leadership to accomplish meaningful change on behalf of the American people. After setting a light schedule which “has the House on track to work the least number of days since 2007,” […]

Chris Christie was told about the bridge scheme during a 9/11 ceremony, and he laughed about it, a witness testified https://t.co/nPl4wa8XDR — The New York Times (@nytimes) September 27, 2016 In 2014, Chris Christie said he “unequivocally” had no knowledge of the lane closure plan, nor its intent as retaliation against the mayor of Fort […]

This is what Hillary Clinton means when she refers to an “implacable wall of hostility” to Obama’s agenda from the Republicans: During a press briefing on Capitol Hill, Vice President Joe Biden bluntly admonished Republicans to yield on their unprecedented inaction on Merrick Garland’s Supreme Court nomination: "Give Merrick Garland a vote.Don't set this dangerous […]

The people of Flint, Michigan made a fine political backdrop for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump when he needed to convince white voters that he’s not an uncaring bigot, but when it comes to actually helping the folks who have been suffering through a GOP-caused water crisis, the party’s lawmakers are prepared to let the […]

The lane closure scandal known as “Bridgegate” has led to years-long investigations, with United States Attorney for New Jersey, Paul J. Fishman, having explained during the announcement of indictments that: [T]he conspirators “callously victimized” the citizens of Fort Lee, N.J., purposely scheduling the lane-closing plan to coincide with the first day of school. Then, he said, […]

Watch as a reporter begins to ask about Ryan’s criticisms of Trump, and Ryan interrupts with a joke, prompting a huge round of uproarious laughter: When everyone finally settles down, Pence finally gives a punt of an answer about how much he and his running mate respect Ryan and how there are always differences in […]

Speaking to Sean Hannity in 2015, Donald Trump said this: The problem we have right now—we have a society that sits back and says we don’t have to do anything. Eventually, the 50 percent cannot carry—and it’s unfair to them—but cannot carry the other 50 percent. Trump echoed the same sentiment in an interview with MSNBC’s Kasie Hunt: […]

After a bitter legislative battle, Obamacare passed by a hair. I followed the news closely. I knew it was was a landmark day for millions without coverage.  Then Obamacare became personal to me because along with millions of others, I lost a good job during the Great Recession. I managed to pay my very expensive […]

John McCain has some Trump Trouble. Trump is not the sort of candidate a war hero like McCain wants to support, given Trump’s willingness to refer to the U.S. military as “the gang that couldn’t shoot straight” and attack a Gold Star family. Trump even attacked McCain himself, saying, in reference to McCain having been a […]

Last week, the Senate voted 95-3 to approve funding for Flint’s water crisis, allocating $270 million to aid residents. That total includes $20 million to develop a national lead exposure registry. There is a catch. Supporters in the House will have to attach the allocation to some kind of must-pass spending bill to get it to President […]

Below, a graphic showing the various possible paths for Democrats to reclaim the Senate majority: [media-credit id=5 align=”aligncenter” width=”1024″][/media-credit] If Hillary Clinton wins, Democrats need a minimum of five seats to control the Senate, with Vice President Tim Kaine’s vote as the tiebreaker. This includes defending Harry Reid’s Nevada seat. If Trump wins, Democrats need a […]

And the heat goes on. July was the hottest month since instrumental records began. H/t @ClimateOfGavin #climate pic.twitter.com/h1HZnGFgKg — Peter Gleick (@PeterGleick) August 16, 2016 The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) says we’ve had 14 months of record-breaking temperatures. That means global warming is closer to the point where scientists predict devastating, irreversible consequences. […]