Personal Lord and Savior Manchin is a tricky personality, to say the least. He has an ego far larger than the state of West Virginia. He's not that bright either. The combination of these two things make him very difficult to handle. In a sense,...
Mitch McConnell
The Republican Party consists of two interlocking factions at this point. The first is those aping Trump and moving toward fascism at a record pace. The second is Mitch McConnell.
I was on the treasure that is the Rick Smith Show, the talk radio show for the labor movement, the other day, speaking on the return of Lochner through McConnell's.
When I said the Republican Party was dedicated to killing workers, I wasn't kidding. And of course, it's when people's access to endless meat is threatened that Republicans act to force people to work, rather than, say, massive mask or ventilator production efforts. BREAKING NEWS:...
Michael Hiltzik had a really good piece the other day on Mitch McConnell attempting to bust public sector unions by not bailing out the states and wanting them to create.
For Mitch McConnell, COVID-19 is an opportunity to destroy any positive services that states and cities provide. It's also an opportunity to destroy public sector unions. He has the perfect.
Lots of Americans have slaveholding ancestors. The question for the present is what do you do to make up for that fact. In the case of Mitch McConnell, you double down on your family past. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who said recently he opposes...
Nothing to even say here. Our Democratic colleagues cry wolf whenever a Republican president nominates anyone to the Supreme Court. No matter their qualifications. No matter their record. No matter.
You almost have to give McConnell credit for being arguably the single most cynical politician in American history. He makes Gingrich look like a piker. In recent decades, I suppose.
Mitch McConnell has no concept of the word "shame." McConnell: "The American people simply will not tolerate" Democrats blocking Trump's SCOTUS nominee https://t.co/9b6sqFrQTM— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) January 4, 2017
In 2009, Mitch McConnell and John Boehner decided their strategy to deal with Obama and the Democrats would be uncompromising obstructionism. This was a nearly unprecedented.
Thirty years ago, environmentalism was a strong enough political force that Mitch McConnell had to pretend to care about coal's impact upon the planet. Times have really changed.