Nancy Pelosi Is The New Speaker of the House, BUT:
The news articles are already flowing about this Dem wanting to subpoena the president’s taxes. And that Dem wants to start impeachment proceedings. And this Dem wants to open over sight hearings on this and that Dem wants to open over sight hearings on that!
STOP IT ALL READY!!!
The government is shut down. The […]
Yes, the finger pointing on the current government shutdown falls elliptically in the oval office…but it can also be blamed on lame duck Speaker of the House Paul Ryan.
Initially the Senate passed a bipartisan continuing resolution on a voice vote with the expectation that the House would follow suit and the president would sign […]
#Trumpshutdown Twist and Shout!
From our email inbox tonight, another missive from the president about the shutdown. Redundant. Misguided. Totally asinine. But read it for yourself:
Ed,
Since the #SchumerShutdown, Nancy Pelosi has retreated to a Hawaiian resort for the holidays and Maxine Waters is vacationing in the Bahamas.
The Democrats […]
Today’s Oval Office Twitter tirade called Senate MINORITY Leader, Senator Chuck Schumer onto the carpet for holding up approvals for ambassadors. Of course many of the replies pointed out that if anyone in the Senate is to blame, that would Senate MAJORITY Leader Mitch McConnell’s problem. The second biggest response group pointed out that the […]
Or We Could Just Build A White Picket Fence!
I stole that from a friend…who suggests we should just convince President Trump to build a white picket fence…and it would be easy…we can just get the segments from the nearest Home Depot…and probably the laborers to put it up as well!!!
First Member of Congress Calls for Trump Resignation
Surprisingly it’s Milwaukee’s own Representative Gwen Moore:
On Christmas Eve, Rep. Gwen Moore became the first sitting member of Congress to demand that President Donald Trump resign.
She made her comments as the Dow dove 500 points on the worst Christmas Eve trading day ever. As of Christmas, the market […]
So 800,000 Americans Aren’t Getting Paid
According to most of the articles explaining the implications of the federal government shutdown on government employees quote these number: 420,000 essential employees are working without pay and 380,000 employees aren’t working and aren’t being paid.
But more recent articles have also talked about employees of contractors who work for the federal government. These contractors […]
Early in 2016, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia passed away unexpectedly. As would be expected, President Barack Obama nominated a qualified jurist, Judge Merrick Garland, to replace Scalia on the court. But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell wasn’t having any of that. Saying that the voters should have input on the selection of the next […]
Today’s Multiple Choice Trump Quiz
Let’s see how you do:
A: Trump claims ‘many’ furloughed or unpaid federal workers want wall, support gov’t shutdown
B: Trump now claims most furloughed workers ‘are Democrats’
C: Trump warns shutdown could last ‘very long time,’
D: All of the above
E: WTF?
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