Washington Post: Politics
- SNL imagined a world without Trump as president. Trump was not amused.
Sunday - 12/16/2018 - 02:20 PMTrump called the show a "Democratic spin machine."
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Health-care law ruling puts Republicans on the defensive after campaign promises
Saturday - 12/15/2018 - 07:09 PMDemocrats are seizing on a Texas judge’s decision to amplify their argument that the GOP wants to deny protection for millions of Americans with preexisting medical conditions.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Mounting legal threats surround Trump as nearly every organization he has led is under investigation
Saturday - 12/15/2018 - 01:43 PMThe cascade of inquiries threaten to dominate his third year in the White House.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - After the DNA debacle, Elizabeth Warren’s outreach to minority communities makes a pivot
Saturday - 12/15/2018 - 07:30 AMAfter enduring criticism for her DNA announcement, Warren seeks to communicate awareness of minority issues.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - ‘Stop,’ ‘I wasn’t there,’ ‘I don’t know anything about that’: Republicans dodge or dismiss Trump’s legal woes
Saturday - 12/15/2018 - 06:00 AMSenate Republicans struggled to account for Trump’s behavior and not-so-consistent statements after his lawyer, Michael Cohen, was sentenced to three years in prison.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Republican congressional candidate admits he hired aide at center of N.C. election fraud inquiry
Friday - 12/14/2018 - 10:00 PMIn his first interview since the fraud allegations emerged, Mark Harris said that the man, Leslie McCrae Dowless, had been recommended to him.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The media consumers most likely to believe Trump’s falsehoods? Fox News watchers.
Friday - 12/14/2018 - 02:35 PMThose most likely to believe untrue Democratic claims? MSNBC fans.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - California’s chief justice leaves GOP, says she was ‘greatly disturbed’ by Kavanaugh hearing
Friday - 12/14/2018 - 04:05 PM"I saw the hearings not as a chief justice, but I saw it as a mother of two young women," California Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye said. "And I was greatly disturbed by the process."
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Trump names Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney as acting White House chief of staff
Friday - 12/14/2018 - 05:24 PMMulvaney will replace John F. Kelly, who Trump announced last weekend would be stepping down as chief of staff. “I look forward to working with him in this new capacity as we continue to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” Trump said of Mulvaney in a tweet.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- The Women’s March rolls out a political platform before its third Washington rally
Friday - 12/14/2018 - 11:30 AMThe embattled organization will also update its guiding document to explicitly include support for Jewish women amid accusations of anti-Semitism.
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- Sen. Susan Collins on GOP primary in 2020: “I see nothing wrong with challengers"
Sunday - 12/16/2018 - 11:27 AMThe Maine senator declined to endorse the president's 2020 re-election bid.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Trump makes unannounced visit to Arlington National Cemetery
Saturday - 12/15/2018 - 04:53 PMThe president has faced criticism since skipping a visit to a cemetery in France where American military are buried and not going to Arlington on Veterans Day.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - With ACA in peril, Republicans get to show if they really want to protect people with preexisting conditions
Saturday - 12/15/2018 - 06:30 AMA federal judge ruling to strike down the Affordable Care Act means everything in the law, including protections for people with preexisting conditions, would come down with it.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Ryan Zinke to resign as interior secretary, Trump says; Zinke had faced allegations of misconduct involving a land development d
Saturday - 12/15/2018 - 09:20 AMThe president said in a tweet Saturday that Zinke would leave the administration at the end of the year. Zinke’s personal conduct and management decisions have spurred at least 15 investigations, several of which have been closed.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Any chief of staff for President Trump is set up to fail
Saturday - 12/15/2018 - 04:31 AMNo one believes anyone speaks for Trump but Trump.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Schiff says House Intelligence panel will examine possible foreign funding of Trump’s inaugural committee
Friday - 12/14/2018 - 07:35 PMThe incoming Democratic chairman said the topic remains “a matter of interest and concern.”
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Let’s hope Scott Walker’s next job doesn’t require chart-making
Friday - 12/14/2018 - 03:27 PMThe outgoing Wisconsin governor tried to downplay his party's push to strip powers from his successor with a terrible graph.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Is the Weekly Standard’s end proof there’s no room for Never Trumpers in today’s conservative media?
Friday - 12/14/2018 - 03:42 PMThe possible closing of the Weekly Standard is a reminder that the GOP is Trump's party.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Lawmakers push review of new member events after complaints over lobbyists at Harvard orientation
Friday - 12/14/2018 - 10:41 AMHarvard’s decades-long orientation program is now facing scrutiny on Capitol Hill, as lawmakers say they are planning to review House ethics rules for incoming members.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Three reasons you should be startled by how the Senate rebuked Trump
Friday - 12/14/2018 - 12:03 PMFor the first time, the Senate used its authority under the 1973 War Powers Resolution to order a president to end U.S. military operations abroad — in Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen.
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- ‘Over my dead body’: Giuliani dismisses prospect of Trump interview with Mueller
Sunday - 12/16/2018 - 11:24 AMGiuliani also criticized former Trump attorney Michael Cohen, calling him a “serial liar.”
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Legal experts rip judge’s rationale for declaring Obamacare law invalid
Saturday - 12/15/2018 - 03:39 PMThe decision by a federal judge in Texas sparked criticism but will not immediately change anything.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - As Trump prepares for his holiday respite in Florida, he is more isolated than ever
Saturday - 12/15/2018 - 10:29 AMHis business allies have become a weapon for prosecutors and his White House has thinned out. Meanwhile, Democrats in Congress ready for a year of investigations.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Domestic problems leave leaders in Britain, France and Germany on weaker ground with Trump
Saturday - 12/15/2018 - 06:00 AMEurope’s ‘Big Three’ have tried to rein in Trump’s nationalist impulses, but are now weakened by the same forces.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Pelosi’s next challenge is governing liberals in an era of divided government
Saturday - 12/15/2018 - 06:00 AMWith Trump in charge and Republicans in control of the Senate, compromise is the operable word, but that may not please the energized newcomers in the House.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Wisconsin Gov. Walker signs lame-duck legislation to weaken incoming Democratic governor, attorney general
Friday - 12/14/2018 - 02:20 PMThe outgoing GOP governor said the impact of the measures has been overstated, accusing the national media of “hysteria.”
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - No ‘level of clarity or epiphany at this point’: Beto O’Rourke no closer to deciding on White House bid
Friday - 12/14/2018 - 02:43 PMThe Texas congressman told constituents Friday that he hopes to give more thought to his future after he is done serving in Congress.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - How money flowed into -- and out of -- Trump’s inaugural committee
Friday - 12/14/2018 - 05:24 PMA look at the $100 million-plus the committee raised.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Trump names budget director Mick Mulvaney as acting White House chief of staff
Friday - 12/14/2018 - 05:33 PMThe announcement came after nearly a week of jockeying in which several possible picks turned down the job.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Kellyanne Conway’s ironic demand that CNN’s Chris Cuomo not focus on ‘the truth as you want it to be’
Friday - 12/14/2018 - 12:20 PMA debate riddled with irony.
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