Tag: Josh Hawley

Even Josh Hawley Has Had Enough of Republicans’ Shutdown Nonsense

“It’s real interesting when my colleagues on the other side talk about, ‘We need less government, we need less government overreach in our lives,’” Pearson told The Tennessean about Monday’s measure. “This exact bill, this very legislation, overreaches the Constitution of Tennessee.” Since their return to the state Capitol, tensions between Republicans and Jones and […]

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Is Washington Writing the Script for the Next Forever War?

Many Democrats support either eliminating Social Security’s cap on taxable wages, expanding the types of compensation subject to Social Security payroll taxes—fringe benefits like health insurance, for example—or increasing payroll taxes. “The problem has been that, over time, the amount of revenue that is subject to [Social Security payroll] tax has been declining, partially because […]

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Senate Republicans Are on a Major Ukraine Collision Course

Meanwhile, GOP senators who support fully funding Biden’s Ukraine request increasingly find their voices drowned out in what has largely been a closed-door debate about foreign aid. “We can’t have people starving, or they won’t be able to maintain their operations,” Senator Mitt Romney, a retiring Utah Republican and former GOP nominee for president, said […]

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Poor Josh Hawley Can’t Help Himself

Fortunately, in some quarters, wage theft is being treated with the seriousness it deserves. Just this week, ProPublica produced a blockbuster report on wage theft in New York City, finding that from 2017 to 2021, “more than $203 million in wages had been stolen from about 127,000 workers in New York.” And Documented, which partnered […]

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Josh Hawley Offers World’s Most Offensive Idea for How to Help Israel

“I don’t think there’s any way Israel can be expected to coexist or find some diplomatic off-ramp with these savages,” Rubio replied. “These are people, as you’ve been reporting and others have seen, that deliberately targeted teenage girls, women, and children, and the elderly…Just horrifying things. And I don’t think we know the full extent […]

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Good Luck With Your Pro-Life “Rebranding,” Dummies!

Let’s begin with the states; they are raring to go. Texas, for example, seems to regard Supreme Court decisions as mild suggestions. In 2021, its SB 8 abortion bill didn’t merely test the boundaries of Roe v. Wade but successfully negated it, even though the landmark 1973 ruling was affirmed by the Court as recently […]

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Who Said It: Josh Hawley or Ron Swanson?

Earlier this year, Missouri Senator Josh Hawley published Manhood: The Masculine Virtues America Needs, dedicated to curing what ails his countrymen (liberalism, mostly, but also “emasculating” work like teaching). Hawley thus joins a long line of mansplainers, from Jordan Peterson to Parks and Recreation’s Ron Swanson, the libertarian head of the TV show’s titular department. […]

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Mitt Romney Thinks JD Vance Is Utterly Vile, But Loves A Good Salmon And Ketchup Sandwich(?)

It wasn’t all that long ago that Mitt Romney was the face of the GOP. A lot has changed since 2012, when the outgoing senator was the party’s presidential candidate. Not only is it now ruled by a repeatedly indicted guy who can’t spell the word “rumor,” but it’s being devoured by MAGA extremists. In […]

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It’s a Tale of Two Chambers as House GOP Closes In on Impeachment

Other Republican senators were more circumspect in their reaction to the McCarthy’s move. GOP Senator Thom Tillis argued that House Republicans could not traverse the trail congressional Democrats blazed in their two impeachment proceedings, which he viewed as “accelerated” and partisan. As such, Tillis argued, House Republicans needed to “do the homework.” He raised concerns […]

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Senate Republicans Haven’t Caught Impeachment Mania—Yet

Other Republican senators were more circumspect in their reaction to McCarthy’s move. GOP Senator Thom Tillis argued that House Republicans could not traverse the trail congressional Democrats blazed in their two impeachment proceedings, which he viewed as “accelerated” and partisan. So Tillis argued that House Republicans needed to “do the homework.” He raised concerns about […]

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