Let’s begin with a premise from professional moderate Matthew Yglesias: “The debt ceiling standoff itself has, as the White House itself...

The Whole Party Has Been Tarred By The Freedom Caucus & QAnon According to the DCCC right now there are 31 Republican-held districts more...

Sure, McCarthy And Ricchetti Are Pieces Of Shit, But Biden's The Caitiff Default countdown— 8 days? Biden seems fine with caving to GOP...

Carefully choreographed, Hakeem Jeffries read his lines Monday: “As part of the effort to find common ground we’re willing to consider...

On Thursday, Bloomberg reported that Sinema is “more and more confident” of a deal to avert a US default. She told them that she’s...

Which conservative Democrats would actually vote to keep the speaker's gavel in Kevin McCarthy's hand? People in DC think they know who—...

British far rightists threw their economy over the cliff with Brexit. So don’t think for a moment that Tim Burchett (R-TN) is the only...

The Last Thing We Need Is Some Tin Pot Big Brother From Florida Yesterday we looked at what freedom means from the Democratic...

Many Of Them Are Starting To Realize DeSantis Is Too Extreme Let’s start with 2 important, loosely related questions— Why is the GOP...

First Victims Are Republicans Running For Senate Mike Gallagher is a shoe-in for reelection. The 8th district, in the northeast of the...

This morning, the House Freedom Caucus— both the most extreme edge of the House GOP and the party’s trend-setters— demanded about $130...

Corrupt Party Hack Hakeem Jeffries Backs Perry, Not America or Democracy I hope you’re not one of the people Salon referred to yesterday...

How About The Great Kitara? Yesterday, Ally Mutnick and Nick Wu noted that “Crypto-funded super PACs flooded the midterms with millions...

House Fascist Fringe Cashes In All that bad behavior on the part of the GOP’s fascist fringe… it sure paid off— in spades. A year ago,...

A couple of days ago— before the fascist fringe had wrung every last conceivable concession out of McCarthy— a progressive in the House...

Russell Berman’s column for The Atlantic yesterday, Speaker In Name Only, poses the question: what next? As you can probably guess, the...

Nathaniel Banks won a congressional seat from Massachusetts as a Democrat in 1852. By 1854 he was reelected as a Know Nothing and was...

Or Will Blue Dog Josh Gottheimer Be The King-Maker? Arizona fascist Andy Biggs knows he’s not going to be Speaker and he probably knows...

Matt Salmon is a lobbyist who served in Congress a couple of times and ran for higher office a couple of times, losing each time. His...

If The Republican Party Had A Soul, It Would Be Trump Geoff Duncan, Georgia’s very conservative Republican Lt. Gov, stood on line for an...