Yes, I called Republican Benghazi hunters ’9/11 truthers’
… because they are, Blanche. They AHRE in that chair. Here’s the clip from Wednesday’s Politics Nation, in which I appeared with Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton and the Rev. Visit NBCNews.com for breaking...
View ArticleThis week’s Herald column: Investigate the IRS? Sure! Let’s start with the...
Cartoon by Jim Morin (see Jim’s work here) This week, I agree with those on the right who want to investigate the IRS for abuse of Americans when it comes to how it treats tax exempt status for...
View ArticleA Washington ‘whodunit’: who fed bogus Benghazi ‘emails’ to the media?...
**UPDATE: Scroll to the bottom of the post (I know it’s long…) for a bit of TRR sleuthing… The revelation this week that emails provided to key congressional committees by the White House in response...
View ArticleThis week’s Herald column: Barack Obama’s summer of the shark
In this week’s column, I tackle Washington’s “scandal” season… A clip: We have officially entered the “summer of the shark” phase of the Obama administration — where nearly any political event is...
View ArticleThis week’s Herald column: Demographics and the Florida GOP
[Cartoons by Brian E. Crowley of the Crowley Report] What keeps the campaign oppo folks who work for Rick Scott and the 2016 tinkerers around Marco Rubio up at night? It’s the demographics, stupid....
View ArticleThis week’s Herald column: Rafael runs the shutdown, Rush rules the party
In this week’s column, the media-political convergence between El Rushbo and Rafael the Canadian (AKA Ted Cruz) explains the shutdown, and the small band of House kamikazes who won’t let our...
View ArticleThe alarm bells should be going off in GOPland right about now
A new set of data (yes, yes I know, they don’t “do” data…) offer bad, worse, and potentially catastrophic news for Republicans. Let’s start with the bad: The Washington Post/ABC News poll finds that...
View ArticleWhy they’re like this
Let’s do the time warp … again … There are three reasons Republicans can’t do the obvious (open the government, raise the debt ceiling) … 1. They think they’re always losing. Even the smart Republicans...
View ArticleI’m with Chait
… in this dustup with Douthat. And Sully nails it once again: I’m waiting for Ross to unload on the GOP, which he should, given the rationale of his post. But he appears to be rhetorically lying low –...
View ArticleThis week’s Herald column: Sorry, Boehner, it’s not over
This week’s column details the reasons why, in my opinion, the GOP’s civil war is just beginning. A clip: …there are big differences between the core left and the core right. One is that the left...
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