Newt Gingrich has suggested that Donald Trump can turn his campaign around by adopting Richard Nixon’s 1972 election strategy. That was the year of the Watergate break-in. In an extensive new report, Politico outlines how the President’s usual tactics don’t seem to be working against former Vice President Joe Biden. The article explains Gingrich’s thinking. He was…
The Lincoln Project republicans came out in full force last December, declaring in a New York Times op-ed their mission of defeating both Trump this November as well as Trumpism, meaning they are seeking to erase the republican majority in the senate. This majority, in their view, has enabled Trump and promises similarly damaging leadership….
Joe Biden wouldn’t pardon Donald Trump for any crimes relating to his presidency. The presumptive Democratic nominee has dismissed the idea out of hand. The former Vice President spoke to NBC News on Thursday. Asked about pardoning Trump in the same way former President Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon, Biden was firm a “no”. Biden…
The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments today about Donald Trump’s tax returns. It’s not clear how the justices will vote, but Democrat Hakeem Jeffries has made his position clear. The New York Congressman tweeted as the justices began grilling lawyers for Congress and the President on Tuesday. “Every single President since Richard Nixon…
President Donald Trump reflected on his approach to the Russia investigation during a phone interview with the hosts of “Fox and Friends,” saying he “learned a lot” from studying history and the administration of former President Richard Nixon. “I learned a lot from Richard Nixon. Don’t fire people,” he said. “I learned a lot. I…
Joe Scarborough, former Republican but still self-proclaimed conservative host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, has hoisted himself into media and political limelights of late with his popularizing of the moniker “Moscow Mitch†for senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, who has refused to bring to the senate floor for a vote a bill to fund measures to…
Roger Stone still idolizes disgraced former President Richard Nixon and even has Nixon’s head tattooed on his back. But last night, after Stone was indicted by special counsel Robert Mueller and arrested by the FBI, the Nixon Foundation issued a statement saying they wanted nothing to do with Donald Trump’s oldest friend and adviser. The…
Ever since President Donald Trump said he had an “absolute right” to pardon himself legal scholars and the media have been debating the subject nonstop. But President Trump’s television attorney, Rudy Giuliani, should clearly warn his client to avoid even the idea of pardoning himself. A little-known U.S. Supreme Court case from 1915, Burdick v….
Donald Trump’s NBC interview appears to open him up to allegations listed in the charges of impeachment against Nixon, President Obama’s deputy Secretary of Labor Chris Lu pointed out early Friday morning. There are two specifically that Trump basically confessed to Thursday evening.
Donald Trump is pulling straight from the Nixon playbook. In 1968, Nixon tried to explain that when he said “law and order”, it wasn’t a code for racism. In other words, even in 1968 people saw through the dog whistle.
Now, every Republican and related conservative is under the illusion that providing for the general welfare means providing for the fossil fuel industry, corporations, the wealthy, Christian clergy, and financial sector’s general welfare, but that is not what the Founding Fathers or the first four American presidents believed; neither does President Barack Obama.
In a blog post written Friday for NH Insider, Republican New Hampshire State Rep. Steve Vaillancourt disparaged Rep. Ann Kuster (D-NH) over her looks, claiming that she is “ugly as sin” and that she “looks more like a drag queen than most men in drag.”
Wheel of Fortune host, and hard-core conservative firebrand, Pat Sajak has frequently used his Twitter account to comment about politics and climate change. On Monday, he sent out a truly outrageous tweet.
Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) and Doc Hastings (R-WA) are spearheading an effort in the US House to try to weaken the Endangered Species Act.
An implicit goal of the War on Poverty was to make the US a true meritocracy, and in this sense, it missed its target.
The Republican Party is spiraling out of control, and now Rush Limbaugh is hallucinating crimes being committed by President Obama in support of the ACA.
Grover Norquist tried to defend his pet congressmen and women while simultaneously branding President Obama as an enemy of liberty
The Republican Party is not the party of Abraham Lincoln, Dwight Eisenhower, Ricard Nixon or arguably, Ronald Reagan. It has morphed into some evil entity that even Richard Nixon would shudder.
When red states ran by Republican governors cut social programs, California’s Gov. Jerry Brown is doing just the opposite…much to the chagrin of the state’s Republicans.
