Did you hear the one about the Presidential budget team who couldn’t do arithmetic? Not if you read the Republican blogs. While Donald Trump mutters…
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When I first heard the news about Montana’s Republican candidate for U.S. House, Greg Gianforte, assaulting U.K. Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs in his campaign office, I…
I suppose I can’t get too excited about Donald Trump’s base-whumping declaration to the Muslim princes and potentates yesterday that there is no war of…
Benjamin Wittes, principal source of yesterday’s NYT story about James Comey’s efforts to keep the FBI clear of Donald Trump’s bald attempts at influence, uses his Lawfare blog to share another…
One of the key components of the Republican health care bill (CBO score coming next week!) is funding for high-risk pools in states that choose…
When the director of the FBI decided not to bring charges against a Presidential candidate for transmitting classified information on a private server in a way that…
In the undercard to Donald Trump’s idiotic “prime the pump” interview, that man in the White House invents another expression to explain his health care policy… or…
The other day I noticed that Holabird political expert Nick Nemec claimed on Facebook that “contrary to recent reports,” he actually coined the term “priming the pump.” I didn’t…
Moving from impeachable to laughable, Donald Trump tells NBC’s Lester Holt that he, Donald Trump, impresario of beauty pageants, reality TV, and other splashy TV sensations,…