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Sure, there have been bursts of post-election GOP independence on Capitol Hill, such as the party’s refusal this week to (mixed metaphor alert) walk the plank over Trump’s wall.
Crisis actor Every post-war president before Trump, with the conspicuous exception of Bill Clinton, had to confront fearful times. From Harry Truman to George H.W.
In truth, the only legislative power the House Democrats will have in 2019 is the ability to say “no.”
On the day after the budget deal was announced in 1990, The New York Post headline screamed, “Read My Lips: I Lied,” while The Times-Picayune in New Orleans added, “Re-Read My Lips,” and the Allentown
But unshackling GOP legislators from Donald Trump is a lock trick that would have baffled Houdini.
The truth is that all the polling in the world cannot prepare you for a midterm election with this broad a terrain.
This latest installment of Clinton buckraking should remind Americans to appreciate the altruistic post-presidential example of Jimmy Carter.
From Fox News through CNN, from The Washington Post to The Wall Street Journal, the facts reported were that Trump had made a serious foreign policy blunder by deferring to the Russian autocrat over
The truth is, you can take a strong stand against Russian meddling while expressing skepticism toward yet unproven allegations of collusion.
Trump is right? The truth is (and I rarely type these words) Trump is right. No one — probably not even the baby-faced North Korean tyrant — knows how this is going to play out.
But, in truth, the defining characteristic of the Trump administration may be a pattern of corruption on a level unseen in American life since the Gilded Age.
It would be a typical Trump move, like, say, the always elusive Infrastructure Week.
Scenario: The Democrats Mostly Cave Details: Sometime during or even after the Senate debate, Democrats begin to recognize the inescapable truth — it is impossible to protect the Dreamers as long as
And, in truth, we will not have a clear sense of how it is playing politically until the yet-to-be-issued 2018 tax withholding schedules produce adjustments in the size of paychecks.
The unalterable truth — which should be recognized by congressional Republicans as well as Democrats — is that it doesn’t matter what Trump thinks.
But all the post-Alabama glib talk about a Democratic wave election makes it seem like we’re already in 2019 gleefully handicapping the Iowa caucuses.
In truth, the downfall of Harvey Weinstein encouraged women to publicly come forward who otherwise would have remained in the shadows.
But, in truth, there is so much that we don’t know about the sexual demons lurking beneath respectable male public facades.
Back then, black men were lynched because of the hysterical fear that they were lusting after white women, when in truth it was white men with all the power who were disrespecting, assaulting and