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- Biden to Create Library Honoring John McCain
Thursday - 09/28/2023 - 06:22 AM“President Biden plans to announce on Thursday that he will devote federal money to create a new library and museum dedicated to his old friend and adversary, Senator John McCain, seeking to embrace a Republican who stood against former President Donald Trump,” the New York Times reports.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Hunter Biden’s Business Dealings Draw More Scrutiny
Thursday - 09/28/2023 - 06:33 AM“Republican members of the House Ways and Means Committee released more than 700 pages of IRS whistleblower documents Wednesday, providing ample fodder for the newly launched House GOP impeachment inquiry,” Politico reports.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Trump Leads the Entire GOP Field Combined
Thursday - 09/28/2023 - 07:16 AMThe seven candidates on the Republican presidential debate stage last night are collectively polling at around 37% — a full 16 points below Donald Trump, Axios reports.
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“Trump has paid no price for skipping the debates — his polling share has actually increased from 52% to 54% since the August affair — and he looks set to steamroll his way to the GOP nomination absent a political earthquake or consolidation of the field.” - Trump Spoke to Fake ‘Union Members’
Thursday - 09/28/2023 - 07:40 AMSome attendees at Donald Trump’s speech last night about the autoworkers’ strike carried signs falsely identifying them as union members, the Detroit News reports.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - A Debate in Trump’s Shadow
Thursday - 09/28/2023 - 09:53 AMNicholas Grossman: “It was surreal, how the debate moderators avoided the profound, historical question of nominating a man who will be on trial for federal felonies during the campaign. And it was ridiculous that no candidate mentioned that the man they trail in the polls makes anti-democracy assertions on a regular basis…”
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - ‘Something Terrible Is Going to Happen’
Thursday - 09/28/2023 - 10:12 AMFormer federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann told MSNBC he’s worried that someone targeted by Donald Trump will face actual violence.
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Said Weissmann: “It is so unreal that we’re sitting at a table discussing that the former leader of the free world is making statements knowing darn well the sort of call and response affect he has… something terrible is going to happen.” - Biden Slept Well
Thursday - 09/28/2023 - 10:56 AMMark Penn: “President Joe Biden went to sleep after the second Republican debate on Wednesday night knowing that the big event in Simi Valley, California left the GOP no closer to consolidating around a candidate against Donald Trump.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Extra Bonus Quote of the Day
Wednesday - 09/27/2023 - 11:21 PM“Honestly, every time I hear you, I feel a little bit dumber for what you say.”
— Nikki Haley, at the Republican presidential debate, to Vivek Ramaswamy.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Federal Judge Won’t Recuse Herself in Trump Case
Wednesday - 09/27/2023 - 05:56 PM“U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan said Wednesday she won’t recuse herself from Donald Trump’s 2020 election interference case in Washington, rejecting the former president’s claims that her past comments raise doubts about whether she can be fair,” the AP reports.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Patty Murray Calls on Menendez to Step Down
Wednesday - 09/27/2023 - 01:26 PMSen. Patty Murray (D-WA) told The Messenger that indicted Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) should resign his seat.
Said Murray: “I believe he should step down and focus on his legal defense.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Shutdown Won’t Halt Criminal Cases Against Trump
Thursday - 09/28/2023 - 06:31 AM“A government shutdown could disrupt some of the highest-profile litigation in the country in October — though not the federal criminal cases against former President Donald Trump,” Roll Call reports.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - GOP Lawmaker Won’t Discuss Affair Allegations
Thursday - 09/28/2023 - 06:39 AMRep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC) won’t comment on his wife’s divorce-papers claim that he’s had an affair with a lobbyist.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Second Trump Term Would Bring ‘Constitutional Crisis’
Thursday - 09/28/2023 - 07:33 AMFormer national security adviser John Bolton said that he fears a second Donald Trump presidency would bring “constitutional crisis,” The Hill reports.
Said Bolton: “I think it’s almost certain that the top level of the second Trump term will be the bottom level on Jan.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Republican Math
Thursday - 09/28/2023 - 08:19 AMLast night’s Republican presidential debate ended with an amazingly stupid attempt by moderator Dana Perino to get the candidates to “vote someone off the island.”
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The candidates refused to take part. - House Votes to Strip Defense Secretary of Salary
Thursday - 09/28/2023 - 10:08 AM“The Republican-led House voted on Wednesday to reduce the salary of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to $1, as right-wing lawmakers tried to transform a Pentagon spending bill and a series of other funding measures into weapons to take aim at President Biden, his agenda and his top officials,” the New York Times reports.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Exchange of the Day
Thursday - 09/28/2023 - 10:49 AMSpeaker Kevin McCarthy told the House Republican caucus that he was donating $5 million to the party’s national campaign effort.
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL): “How much of that is from FTX or Sam Bankman Fried?”
Rep.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Reaction to the Second Republican Debate
Wednesday - 09/27/2023 - 11:03 PMI’ve probably watched more than a hundred presidential primary debates over the years.
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Tonight’s debate was the worst I’ve ever seen. - Cassidy Hutchinson Says Liz Cheney Inspired Her
Wednesday - 09/27/2023 - 05:19 PMCassidy Hutchinson told MSNBC that former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) inspired her to speak up about what she witnessed during the final days of the Trump administration.
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Said Hutchinson: “Liz Cheney has a spine of steel, and she also cares deeply about this country.” - McCarthy Won’t Allow Vote on Senate Stopgap
Wednesday - 09/27/2023 - 01:23 PM“Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) told members of the House GOP conference Wednesday morning that he will not bring the Senate’s bipartisan continuing resolution to the floor for a vote,”
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Sheriff Issued Illegal Subpoenas to Spy on His Girlfriend
Wednesday - 09/27/2023 - 01:30 PMA Mississippi sheriff “tapped into the power of a grand jury at least eight times over a year to spy on his married girlfriend and the school employee with whom she was also ‘unfaithful,'” Mississippi Today reports.
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- Shutdown Near Certain This Weekend
Thursday - 09/28/2023 - 06:29 AM“A federal government shutdown this weekend looks increasingly likely, as House Republicans indicated Wednesday they would not consider a bipartisan Senate plan to fund the government past the weekend deadline,” the Washington Post reports.
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Thursday - 09/28/2023 - 07:13 AMThe looming federal government shutdown barely got a mention in last night’s Republican presidential debate, the Washington Post reports.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Quote of the Day
Thursday - 09/28/2023 - 07:19 AM“I think we would be better served as a Republican Party if we’re not sitting here hurling personal insults and actually have a legitimate debate about policy following Reagan’s Eleventh Commandment in his honor.”
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— Vivek Ramaswamy, quoted by McClatchy. - Majority Oppose Biden Impeachment Hearings
Thursday - 09/28/2023 - 08:39 AMA new NBC News poll finds that 56% of registered voters say Congress should not hold impeachment hearings to start the process of removing President Biden from office, while 39% say it should.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Bonus Quote of the Day
Thursday - 09/28/2023 - 09:58 AM“Look, I’m a soldier. I’ve been faithful and loyal to the Constitution of the United States for 44 and a half years, and my family and I have sacrificed greatly for this country, and my mother and father before them.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Extra Bonus Quote of the Day
Thursday - 09/28/2023 - 10:55 AM“If you really want to get to Donald, the way to do it is through his bankbook. That’s what really gets to him.”
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— Former Trump fixer Michael Cohen, on CNN. - Trump Says RNC Should ‘Stop the Debates’
Thursday - 09/28/2023 - 10:57 AMDonald Trump told the Daily Caller that the Republican National Committee should call off any future presidential debates.
Said Trump: “They have to stop the debates. Because it is just bad for the Republican Party.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Yellen Goes to Georgia to Tout $1 Billion for Infrastructure
Wednesday - 09/27/2023 - 05:22 PM“Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will travel to the battleground state of Georgia this week to show off infrastructure investments funded by the Biden administration that she’ll say are benefiting residents of the Peach State,” Bloomberg reports.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The Second Republican Debate
Wednesday - 09/27/2023 - 08:45 PMThe second Republican presidential debate will air on Fox Business Network and Univision at 9 p.m. ET from the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California.
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More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The McConnell-McCarthy Split
Wednesday - 09/27/2023 - 01:45 PM“Sometimes this week you may wonder if Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell are even in the same party anymore,” Punchbowl News reports.
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