That brings us to the other commodity with which Democrats need to fill the space left by the absent primary: derogatory information about Republicans. This is one area where Democrats simply don’t seem to be on the same page. As The New Republic’s Greg Sargent reported this week, Representative Jamie Raskin and his colleagues on […]
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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 […]
Read MoreThe GOP Is Dying. Time for a Whig Revival?
Today there is no slavery to avoid, of course, but the revived Whig Party would not likely lead the nation on matters related to race or diversity. But nor would it likely promote itself, as today’s Republican Party does, through the exploitation of racial animus. A revived Whig Party would also not likely promote taxation […]
Read MorePrimary Season? Please. With This GOP, It’s a Sham Like Everything Else.
Looked at in retrospect, 2008 turns out to have been a real hinge point, doesn’t it? If McCain had not allowed himself to be suckered into choosing Sarah Palin as his running mate and had trusted his instincts and taken someone with crossover appeal and won, we might have had a Republican Party that wouldn’t […]
Read MoreWe Are Sleepwalking Into a Dangerous Primary Season
Looked at in retrospect, 2008 turns out to have been a real hinge point, doesn’t it? If McCain had not allowed himself to be suckered into choosing Sarah Palin as his running mate and had trusted his instincts and taken someone with crossover appeal and won, we might have had a Republican Party that wouldn’t […]
Read MoreMitt Romney, Master of Self-Justification
Born in Detroit in 1947, Romney was the beloved youngest child and family “caboose,” spending more time with his father than his much-older siblings. He spent time with George at the offices of American Motors, where his father served as CEO, and had a front-row seat to the elder Romney’s political ascent. Despite his parents’ […]
Read MoreWhy Did Rich Mitt Romney Ever Bother With Politics?
When things inevitably got more heated—Romney did want to win, after all, and he was losing—Romney’s public remarks about Obama got sharper. He decided to say whatever he needed to say to get his fellow Republicans behind him. A trade of sorts: I’ll give lip service to your fixations, you vote for me. Not only […]
Read MoreWhy Did Rich Mitt Romney Ever Bother With Politics?
When things inevitably got more heated—Romney did want to win, after all, and he was losing—Romney’s public remarks about Obama got sharper. He decided to say whatever he needed to say to get his fellow Republicans behind him. A trade of sorts: I’ll give lip service to your fixations, you vote for me. Not only […]
Read MoreKyrsten Sinema’s Delusional Exit Interview
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 […]
Read MoreThe Shadowy Right-Wing Think Tank Pushing Transphobia
“They have been legitimate pioneers in this field, doing yeoman’s work to normalize deranged anti-trans rhetoric across all of conservative politics,” the pseudonymous Substacker and elections analyst Ettingermentum wrote in August. Its actual electoral track record, however, is less than impressive. “Across the years of time and tens of millions of dollars it has committed […]
Read MoreThe Next Big Trend for Republican Lawmakers: Quitting
“If Congress does not pass a debt commission this year to move the needle on the crushing national debt and inflation, at least at the next debt ceiling increase at the end of 2024, I will not continue sacrificing my children for this circus with a complete absence of leadership, vision, and spine,” she warned. […]
Read MoreOprah Winfrey Almost Joined Forces With Mitt Romney To Crush Trump During The 2020 Election
The 2020 election was a pretty chaotic affair, and it continues to be. After all, the guy who lost the presidency still insists, baselessly, that he won it (except when he blurts out that he didn’t). But what if we were spared a second Trump ticket? What if a very popular TV personality swooped in […]
Read MoreAre “Never Trump” Republicans Actually Just Democrats Now?
Then, in 2022, something changed. Incumbent Governor Brian Kemp managed to win over some of these voters, as every Republican running for state office went on to victory in what was a disappointing midterm election nationally for the GOP. Even so, at the federal level, Warnock further improved on past Democratic performance and beat Herschel […]
Read MoreKevin McCarthy Is Impeaching Biden Because He Can’t Afford Not to
This content comes from the latest installment of our weekly Breaking the Vote newsletter out of VICE News’ D.C. bureau, tracking the ongoing efforts to undermine the democratic process in America. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. The real stakes of impeachment Republicans are going to impeach Joe Biden, no […]
Read MoreMitt Romney Reveals Most Republicans Hate Trump, Laughed Behind His Back
BP CEO Bernard Looney has resigned. On Tuesday afternoon, the Financial Times reported that his departure was the result of his failure to disclose the “extent” of his “past personal relationships with colleagues,” per BP. “He did not provide details of all relationships and accepts he was obligated to make more complete disclosure,” the company […]
Read MoreMitt Romney Reveals That When It Comes to Trump, His Party Is Full of Cowards
BP CEO Bernard Looney has resigned. On Tuesday afternoon, the Financial Times reported that his departure was the result of his failure to disclose the “extent” of his “past personal relationships with colleagues,” per BP. “He did not provide details of all relationships and accepts he was obligated to make more complete disclosure,” the company […]
Read MoreMitt Romney Reveals Why Republicans Are So Two-Faced About Trump
BP CEO Bernard Looney has resigned. On Tuesday afternoon, the Financial Times reported that his departure was the result of his failure to disclose the “extent” of his “past personal relationships with colleagues,” per BP. “He did not provide details of all relationships and accepts he was obligated to make more complete disclosure,” the company […]
Read MoreMitt 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 […]
Read MoreMitt Romney Says Almost Every GOP Senator Laughed At Trump’s ‘Toddlerlike Psyche’ Behind His Back
With Mitt Romney headed out the door after officially announcing that he will not seek re-election in 2025, the Utah senator is apparently not holding back about what he saw during his time in Washington. Romney has been a vocal critic of Donald Trump, and according to a new book by McKay Coppins, his disdain […]
Read MoreAu Revoir to Mitt Romney and the Roughly One-Third of a Backbone He Had
BP CEO Bernard Looney has resigned. On Tuesday afternoon, the Financial Times reported that his departure was the result of his failure to disclose the “extent” of his “past personal relationships with colleagues,” per BP. “He did not provide details of all relationships and accepts he was obligated to make more complete disclosure,” the company […]
Read MoreMitt Romney, and His Roughly One-Third of a Backbone, Will Not Seek Reelection
BP CEO Bernard Looney has resigned. On Tuesday afternoon, the Financial Times reported that his departure was the result of his failure to disclose the “extent” of his “past personal relationships with colleagues,” per BP. “He did not provide details of all relationships and accepts he was obligated to make more complete disclosure,” the company […]
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