Heard On The Hill · 119th Congress
Dirk Kempthorne, the creaky runner appreciation
With this year’s race scheduled for May 6, I’ll be thinking of Kempthorne.
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Opinion · 119th Congress
Why the aggrieved need a scapegoat and an excuse — anything but the truth
He and his followers started the year trying to cast the violent mob that attacked law enforcement and stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, as "patriots."
Congress · 119th Congress
Should Jan. 6 be a national holiday?
↵↵According to a new page posted on Jan. 6, 2026, about Jan. 6, 2021, on whitehouse.gov, "The Democrats masterfully reversed reality after January 6, branding peaceful patriotic protesters as 'insurrectionists
Opinion · 119th Congress
For one reporter, Jan. 6 evokes sad memories of a precious place
↵↵A few days after Jan. 6, 2021, I went back to the Capitol.
Congress · 119th Congress
Why a deal isn’t coming together on health care
↵↵In truth, the country will survive no matter what happens to tax credits that affect only 6 percent of the population.
Opinion · 119th Congress
There’s no sugarcoating inflation
After the election, another CBS national survey (Nov. 13-14) showed that the country overwhelmingly believed that Republicans succeeded in their handling of the shutdown over the Democrats by a 55-6 margin
Opinion · 119th Congress
This election was the wakeup call Republicans needed for 2026
↵↵In 2018, House Republicans lost women by 19 points (40-59) but made up ground during the Biden term, losing women by only 6 points nationally (46-52) in 2024, while Trump lost them by 8 (45-53).
Opinion · 118th Congress
On your mark. Get set. Yawn.
Unlike Hogan and Christie, former Vice President Mike Pence is a staunch conservative who served for years as an apologist for Trump until the attack on the Capitol of Jan. 6, 2021.
Opinion · 118th Congress
Is the American dream for everyone? Just ask Ilhan Omar
congressional audience Tuesday night who seemed to find it darn near impossible to stand and clap for Biden’s defense of democracy and condemnation of the true “mob,” who tried to undermine it on Jan. 6,
Opinion · 118th Congress
Is Joe Biden out of touch, or is he just cynical?
The speech only reaffirmed the growing suspicion that Joe Biden lives in his own reality, a bubble where losing the House is a win and so are 6 percent inflation, rising gas prices, falling home prices
Opinion · 118th Congress
The siren song of the California Senate race for out-of-state Democrats
Schiff, the grand inquisitor of Donald Trump’s first impeachment trial and a fierce prosecutor on the January 6 committee, announced for the Senate last week, just as Kevin McCarthy was booting him off
Opinion · 118th Congress
Pelosi started a war Jeffries has to finish
But Pelosi apparently learned nothing from Reid’s flagrant partisanship when, in her determination to control the Jan. 6 select committee’s scope and narrative, she egregiously broke precedent by
Opinion · 118th Congress
House Freedom Caucus goes full ‘swamp’
Matt Gaetz of Florida, boasted during a Jan. 6 Fox News appearance that he had run out of things to demand McCarthy give up in return for cooperation to secure the speakership.
Opinion · 118th Congress
Telling the truth, onstage and off, so history doesn’t repeat itself
When members of Congress gathered on the Capitol steps last week to remember the events of Jan. 6, 2021, and honor those who defended them and democracy itself, there were glaring gaps in the heartfelt
Opinion · 118th Congress
Meet 2023’s politics, even more dramatic than 2022’s
Many of McCarthy’s detractors are Trump loyalists, which should not be glossed over on this second anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, and they want to push harder to enact his “Make America
Opinion · 117th Congress
The year that the last congressional week has been
After all, the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot did not change most GOP minds about former President Donald Trump and his “Make America Great Again Movement.” They are an entrenched lot.
Opinion · 117th Congress
Sinema aligns with independents. Smart!
Biden doesn’t do much better with independents in his favorable/unfavorable nationally, going from +6 in 2020 (51 percent/45 percent) to -23 points this year (37 percent/60 percent).
Opinion · 117th Congress
Republicans have a very strange idea of self-interest
As some might recall, there was a bit of a contretemps on Jan. 6, 2021, over Vice President Mike Pence’s purported power to reject duly cast electoral votes.
Opinion · 117th Congress
It’s about more than one dinner and a man named Trump
But to ask anyone to ignore Trump’s well-documented history, his both-sides wink at the deadly Charlottesville, Va., “Unite the Right” rally and his involvement in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the
Opinion · 117th Congress
It’s time for a Christmas truce in the COVID wars
Can you grasp how small $9.25 billion is as part of a nearly $6 trillion federal budget? Or against the backdrop of the $31 trillion national debt?