February 9, 2024, Letters from an American
…infirm, and losing his marbles and even that “[h]e did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died” (p. 208). As television host and former Republican representative…
…infirm, and losing his marbles and even that “[h]e did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died” (p. 208). As television host and former Republican representative…
…penalty. The litigation did enable the Trump administration, 20 Republican attorneys general, and 126 House Republicans who signed an amicus brief in support of the plaintiffs to display root-and-branch opposition to the…
…and his now-deceased brother David, spent nearly $8 million in the past year lobbying against the legislation. They also donated $1.4 million to Republican lawmakers who helped stall the legislation….
For once and rather than say, Dems blew it again with Republicans; Dems demonstrated they can be crafty too! House Democrats and Joe Biden turned the tables on Republicans and…
…Another Republican representative, Jake LaTurner of Kansas, announced today he will not run for reelection. He joins more than 20 other Republican representatives heading for the exits. After all the…
…Biden administration has been scrupulous about making sure that money from the funds appropriated to rebuild the nation’s infrastructure and manufacturing base has gone to Republican-dominated districts; indeed, Republican-dominated states…
…months. That shift apparently flummoxed the Republicans, who briefly talked about suing to make sure that Biden, rather than Harris, was at the head of the Democratic ticket, even though…
…length and scope it recalls the 1980 Republican platform that launched the Reagan Revolution and the modern Republican Party. Unlike that platform, which laid out what the Republicans hoped to…
…dividing the world into people of wealth and workers, and asking for government intervention, this time on the side of workers. Republicans began to redefine their older, broad concept of…
…worse by the fact that the Republican party has degenerated into a Trump personality cult, so that whatever nonsense Trump happens to babble forth becomes sacred dogma which few Republicans…