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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.
And border guards killed nearly 200 East Germans as they tried to flee to freedom in the West. In contrast, the U.S.-Mexican border is more than 1,900 miles long.
“In our anger and emotion, our fellow Americans must treat each other with respect.” That was the kind of leadership in a national crisis that only a president could offer.
cannot be directly blamed, of course, for Trump’s well-documented ignorance, his obsession with Fox News, his vicious attacks on the FBI, his constant belittling of his own attorney general and his obtuse refusal
Nothing better symbolizes the cruel vulgarity of the Trump administration than the president’s refusal to offer a public comment for 48 hours on McCain’s death beyond a barebones tweet combined with
bad faith” and deserves a special place in hell.
John McCain’s refusal to support President Donald Trump’s pick for CIA director won’t matter because “he’s dying anyway.”
If McMaster has indeed joined Rex Tillerson in the ever-growing Trump Alumni Association, it should put to rest the glib theory that the so-called “adults in the room” could constrain a petulant president
In his place was Tantrum Trump, a divisive figure who lashes out at his enemies with a level of vitriol unseen in American politics since Roy Cohn (a Trump mentor) was advising Joe McCarthy in the
the speaker’s gavel after eight years in the minority.”
Moore has twice been ousted from his chief justice perch at the Alabama Supreme Court, the first time for his refusal to move a granite monument inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the state
But there is no explanation for the refusal of congressional leaders to wake up to the sexual harassment that has been embedded in the culture of Capitol Hill for decades, if not longer, and to insist
term in the next election.
Two more weeks in the swamp? Great! But McConnell was also facing the annual July chorus of demands to stay in town through the August recess to pass “something important.”
Equally baffling (unless you believe that Trump’s blimp-like ego explains everything) is the president’s refusal to accept the intelligence community’s verdict that Russia deliberately intervened in the
Not only are we poised to re-enact Watergate in Washington, but we are also getting a whiff of Cold War brinksmanship in Syria.
Buoyed by Trump’s rising poll numbers (he crossed the 50-percent threshold in the Gallup Poll in July), Republicans in Congress rallied to pass a $1.8 trillion tax cut and a complete rewrite of Barack
The Senate’s refusal to join the League of Nations ushered in two decades of isolationism culminating in an America First movement that argued that Hitler’s takeover of Europe was of no concern to
members, and aided far-right anti-immigrant political parties in Europe.