Opinion · 116th Congress
A half-century after Selma, the ‘black friend’ defense is going strong
We have a president who’s a racist.”
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We have a president who’s a racist.”
Especially today, as the media becomes increasingly ideological and balkanized, Americans need to have people they can turn to for as objective a version of reality as possible.
“We’ll vote on it later today,” the California Democrat said of the fiscal 2019 appropriations package.
Klobuchar did not address the reports that she would demean her staff, detailed by HuffPost and Buzzfeed, in her announcement speech.
Trump’s speech does not seem to have changed the dynamic much at all when it comes to negotiating a House-Senate spending compromise that the president would like to include funding for a physical
“President Trump, no disrespect. Miss Nancy [Pelosi] is not going to give you the wall. You need to stop holding us hostage. That’s what you are doing. You’re worried about the wall?
Today I extended an invitation to President @RealDonaldTrump to deliver his second State of the Union address in the chambers of the North Carolina House of Representatives.
“Our focus today is educating members on the harmful provisions in these amendments and giving them reasons and cover to vote ‘no,’” said Alex Gudich, #cut50 deputy director.
Pepper, 88, pulled himself together to give a 30-minute acceptance speech about his career, and then died four days later. There wasn’t a dry eye in the room.
In a commencement speech at Yale University, Biden described watching Sen.
Murkowski said in her floor speech Friday evening that she hoped after the bitter debate over Kavanaugh, the Senate could take a few steps back toward a more respectful tone.
Ryan, who often describes himself as a Reagan conservative (or a Jack Kemp conservative), has drawn lessons from the former president he thinks should be replicated today.
“Bottom line was, I think John believed in us. I think he believed in the American people,” Biden said.
“We need to just have policy debates and not talk ugly about people that don’t look like us or talk like us.”
Two mainstay and false arguments of the climate debate — “It’s all a hoax” and “Renewable energy alone can save us” — are beginning to lose steam.
As Trump retrieved his prepared remarks from inside his suit jacket, a man appeared to ask about the rights to free speech of professional football players.
His White House speech included inaccurate statements and omissions of fact that reflect either misunderstanding of the accord or an effort to distort the historical record.
Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Bob Corker said he was pleased with the French president’s speech.
That is good news for both President Trump and the political process.
The hawks were like seat belts or a bicycle helmet — they took the fun out of some things, but at the end of the day, they kept us all safer. Chicken hawks?