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Republicans Wake Up to an Electoral Bloodbath

'Lawyer Up': Democrats Declare War on Trump Administration

2026 Midterms Results: Democrats Win the House and Senate

https://twitter.com/SteveKrak/status/1221988232528826369

CNN Panel Mocking Trump Supporters Now an RNC Ad

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on January 29, 2020 16 Comments

Tuesday, Professor Jacobson blogged about one of THE most tone-deaf cable news segments I've ever seen. A CNN panel hosted by Don Lemon, billing Rick Wilson, (a former Republican political consultant who sold his soul to the NeverTrump brigade and now poses as a token "Republican" on CNN and MSNBC to trash actual Republicans and right-leaning folk) were overcome with fits of laughter while mocking Trump and Trump supporters as bassackwards hillbillies, ignoramuses, and simpletons.

Trump Impeachment Defender Doug Collins to Primary Georgia Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler

Posted by Mary Chastain on January 29, 2020 31 Comments

As if 2020 isn't already exciting. Georgia Republican Rep. Doug Collins confirmed on Fox & Friends this morning he will challenge incumbent Sen. Kelly Loeffler for her seat. Loeffler took over the seat after Sen. Jonny Isakson retired. She was sworn in on January 6.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPpkZZjBrAE

Trump’s Middle East Peace Deal: What Does It Mean?

Posted by David Gerstman on January 29, 2020 15 Comments

Yesterday, standing next to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Donald Trump unveiled his long-awaited peace plan for Israel and the Palestinians.

https://twitter.com/cbszak/status/1218971964443893760

Poll: Elizabeth Warren Sinks to Fourth Place Behind Amy Klobuchar in Iowa

Posted by Stacey Matthews on January 28, 2020 18 Comments

With the Iowa Democratic caucuses now less than a week away, candidates for president and their campaign staffers are scrambling to win over undecideds and others who are not fully committed to their first candidate of choice.

With several Republicans apparently succumbing on impeachment witnesses, Mitch McConnell may need to go ‘nuclear’

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 28, 2020 102 Comments

The Wall Street Journal reports that Mitch McConnell has told Republican Senators that he does not have the votes to block witnesses:

Iranian Refugee Warns America That Universities are Becoming Radicalized

Africana Studies Department at Oberlin College Offers Courses on Marxism

Northwestern Food Fest Cancels Event After Pro-Israel Group Registers

Member of Largest Teachers Union Says They Abandoned Education in Pursuit of Political Power

Columbia to Host Discussion of American Genocide, Colonialism, and Racial Oppression

LGBT Student Group at Florida State U. Requests $58K for Drag Shows

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-HsoCsVVaU

Avenatti Allegedly Googled “Insider Trading” Before Attempts to Extort Nike

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on January 28, 2020 17 Comments

Things keep getting worse for Michael Avenatti, the fame lusting porn lawyer who was once the Democrat party's greatest hope.

https://twitter.com/thejcoop/status/1123676951573561345

Report: FBI Reviewing Claims Ilhan Omar Married Her Brother

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on January 28, 2020 50 Comments

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is a member of the AOC plus three "Squad" and has been embroiled in numerous controversies regarding her anti-Semitism and staunch support for the BDS movement. Additionally, there have been questions about whether or not she has committed tax and/or immigration fraud.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVxzkK1qqIo

Trump’s Defense Team Wrap Up Opening Arguments

Posted by Mary Chastain on January 28, 2020 8 Comments

President Donald Trump's defense team wrapped up their opening arguments in his impeachment trial in front of the Senate.

https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1222210027987050496

Sen. Graham: ‘I’ll Make a Prediction: They’ll be 51 Republican Votes to Call Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, the Whistleblower, and the DNC Staffer’

Posted by Mary Chastain on January 28, 2020 33 Comments

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) threw some cold water on the Democrats just moments before day eight of the impeachment trial. The Democrats desperately want witnesses in the trial, but they seem to forget the Senate has two sides.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyWovtG_YaA

LIVE: Trump Announces Middle East Peace Plan Alongside Netanyahu

Posted by Mary Chastain on January 28, 2020 13 Comments

President Donald Trump will announce his Middle East peace plan alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. It will take place at 12 p.m. ET in the White House East Room.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl8hVWoXID8

Lawrence O’Donnell: Trump may have killed Soleimani “to influence Bolton not to testify to the Senate”

Posted by Mary Chastain on January 28, 2020 31 Comments

I'm laughing. Legit laughing because MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell thinks President Donald Trump killed Iranian terrorist Qasam Soleimani to influence former National Security Advisor John Bolton not to testify.

CNN panel mocks Trump supporters as uneducated, ignorant hillbillies

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 28, 2020 59 Comments

Can we all just agree, Trump Derangement Syndrome has turned CNN into a total trash network? Like the proverbial broken clock, a couple of times a day they do actual journalism, but the rest of the time it is a broken network hemorrhaging viewers while devolving into self-parody.

https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1221979929082056704

Dershowitz: “Nothing in the Bolton revelations … would rise to the level of … an impeachable offense”

Posted by Mary Chastain on January 28, 2020 17 Comments

President Donald Trump's lawyer Alan Dershowitz tore apart the allegations in former National Security Advisor John Bolton's new book that Trump told him to withhold aid to Ukraine in exchange for political favors.

Democrats Enter Panic Zone Over the Rise of Bernie Sanders In Iowa and New Hampshire

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 28, 2020 36 Comments

Bernie Sanders is having his moment. With a week to go until the Iowa caucuses, Sanders is leading the Democrat field, according to a Siena/New York Times poll. The Real Clear Politics average of polls shows Sanders way out in front in New Hampshire. Some Democrats are starting to get nervous.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxoyzfZB2Ec

Democrats ‘Kavanaughing’ Impeachment Trial As Predicted – John Bolton Leak Came as House Case Was Collapsing

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 27, 2020 40 Comments

It has been clear for weeks that the Democrats were seeking to 'Kavanaugh' the Senate impeachment trial -- to roll out with media help a well-timed series of supposed bombshell accusations whose main purpose was to create a media hysteria to pressure Republican Senators to extend the process. The process for the nominee, or in the impeachment framework the president, becomes the punishment and the Democrat campaign strategy.

SCOTUS: Trump’s Immigration “Public Charge” Rule is Good to Go Pending Appeals

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on January 27, 2020 23 Comments

Monday, the Supreme Court issued an order allowing the Trump administration's "public charge" rule to proceed, pending further appeals. The rule issued by the Department of Homeland Security would make it more difficult for immigrants to obtain immigration benefits if they are likely to use public assistance. The decision was 5-4 and split neatly down party lines.

https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1221601124622401536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1221601124622401536&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftownhall.com%2Ftipsheet%2Fbethbaumann%2F2020%2F01%2F26%2Fwatch-buttigieg-has-a-disgusting-response-to-a-pro-life-democratic-woman-n2560145

Looks Like Buttigieg Won’t Support Changing Democratic Platform on Abortion

Posted by Mary Chastain on January 27, 2020 26 Comments

A pro-life Democrat asked 2020 Democratic presidential candidate former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg if he would support changing the abortion language in the Democratic Party platform. Buttigieg did the politician thing where he answered, but don't answer.