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Opinion: For the Republicans, Less Is (Roy) Moore
The Post highlighted the on-the-record account of Leigh Corfman, who said Moore allegedly had sexual contact with her when she was 14 years old.
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The Post highlighted the on-the-record account of Leigh Corfman, who said Moore allegedly had sexual contact with her when she was 14 years old.
tops Corker’s words in a CNN interview Tuesday morning about our first reality-show president: “I think at the end of the day, when his term is over, I think the debasing of our nation, the constant non-truth-telling
For the Republicans — with Trump in the White House — to portray the Democrats as uniquely solicitous of sexual predators assumes that the typical American voter is an amnesiac with the intellect of a
if Roy Moore, with his committed ideology — anti-LGBT, anti-Muslim, anti-everything except white, Christian and male — sets up shop in the Senate, despite his flouting of court orders and Washington Post
Tax cuts are the political equivalent of truth serum.
But there appears to be a dollop of truth embedded in Schumer’s hot-mic moment when he was overheard Thursday saying about Trump on the Senate floor, “He likes us. He likes me, anyway.”
But for all of McConnell’s glib words about wanting tax reform to be “revenue-neutral,” the truth is Republicans are likely to be faced with a choice of no tax bill or one that features more gimmicks than
But, in truth, the only indispensable people in this administration are the handful of generals (Kelly, national security adviser H.R.
In the driver’s seat All the truth-defying gyrations of the Trump White House cannot erase the burden on congressional Republicans to provide something more tangible than tweets to voters struggling
Or, in the case of Reince Priebus, as The Washington Post reported, the president ordered his hapless chief of staff to come to the Oval Office to swat flies.
The cynical rationale had been that the Republican health care push was, in truth, a camouflaged tax cut for the affluent.
This, as much as ideology, explains the surprising rise of Bernie Sanders and the shocking presidency of Donald Trump.
If the White House has chosen to traffic in hyperbole and mendacity, then Congress must be the repository of truth.
No crystal ball The truth is — and I would wager that no one on television Thursday night will dare say this — that we don’t know if the 2017 special elections are predictors of larger political
Comey as FBI director revealed an enduring truth about the next four years — there will never be a normal day as long as Donald Trump is in the White House.
And the only time Trump used the companion word “deficit” was in relation to trade.
In truth, these fears are probably overrated.