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Republicans Introduce Bill To Expel Palestinians From The United States
3Nov By adminNo Comments
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Republicans Introduce Bill To Expel Palestinians From The United States

WASHINGTON — Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-Mont.) introduced legislation on Thursday to ban Palestinians from the United States in an echo of former President Donald Trump’s infamous “Muslim ban.”The bill would pause visas for Palestinians and go a step further by revoking any visas issued since Oct. 1. Zinke claimed the policy would protect Americans from the threat of Palestinian terrorists abusing the immigration system in the wake of the Hamas attack on Israel last month and Israel’s invasion of Gaza.“I don’t trust the Biden Administration any more than I do the Palestinian Authority to screen who is allowed to come into the United States,” Zinke said in a release. “This is the most anti-Hamas immigration legislation I have seen and it’s well deserved.”Though the legislation specifically targets...
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Trump’s New Claim About Putin Has Critics Rushing To Mock Him
3Nov By adminNo Comments
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Trump’s New Claim About Putin Has Critics Rushing To Mock Him

Former President Donald Trump championed his administration’s approach to Russia before naming one leader as the inspiration behind his stance: Russian President Vladimir Putin.“They say ‘Trump wasn’t tough on Russia,’ I was so tough on Russia. Putin said ’If you’re not tough now, I’d hate like hell to see you if you weren’t tough,” Trump said at a rally in Houston, Texas on Thursday.Trump’s remarks arrived as he spoke of his administration’s response to the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline, a means of increasing export of natural gas from Russia to Germany in a project that he claimed to have “ended.”The former president has made the false claim before about the pipeline at the 2022 Conservative Political Action Conference, according to FactCheck.org, and “misleadingly” added that Pres...
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Not All of America’s National-Security Threats Are Overseas
3Nov By adminNo Comments
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Not All of America’s National-Security Threats Are Overseas

Nine days ago, the idea that an obscure 2020 election denier from Shreveport, Louisiana, with less than five thousand dollars in his household’s bank accounts, a literalist’s belief in the presence of dinosaurs on Noah’s Ark, and a dubious past as an advocate of “conversion” therapy for gay teens could single-handedly shape the fate of tens of billions of dollars in U.S. military assistance to key allies at war was even more preposterous than the notion that America might soon reëlect its four-times-indicted former President.But these are not normal times in our politics. As the new Republican Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson now wields outsized power over which bills get a vote in Congress, and he has decided to make the first major fight of his tenure a dispute with the White House an...
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Ken Buck Announces He Won’t Seek Reelection, Cites Election Fraud Lies
1Nov By adminNo Comments
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Ken Buck Announces He Won’t Seek Reelection, Cites Election Fraud Lies

WASHINGTON ― Colorado Republican Ken Buck announced Wednesday that he would not run for reelection partly because can’t stand his party’s lies about 2020. In recent weeks, Buck has broken from Republicans on the impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden and whether the Justice Department has been “weaponized” against Donald Trump. On Wednesday, Buck said he was disappointed Republicans have failed to tackle “major issues” like reforming federal social insurance programs. But that wasn’t all. “I’m also disappointed that the Republican Party continues to, you know, rely on this lie that the 2020 election was stolen,” Buck said in an interview on MSNBC, “and rely on the Jan. 6 narrative and the political prisoners from Jan. 6 and other things.” Buck said that if Republicans want to tac...
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GOP Account Attacks Joe Biden For (Checks Notes) Celebrating Halloween
1Nov By adminNo Comments
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GOP Account Attacks Joe Biden For (Checks Notes) Celebrating Halloween

Republicans love to falsely claim there’s a war on Christmas, but it looks like the GOP is waging war on Halloween.Or at least the way Joe Biden celebrates it.The president and first lady invited a group of children to go trick-or-treating at the White House on Monday night — and @RNCResearch, a social media page that targets various Democratic politicians, felt obliged to post clips of the Bidens handing out candy to kids.The people behind the GOP account, in their infinite wisdom, somehow thought the clips would make the president look bad.Instead, he looked human.The first clip went after Jill Biden for explaining she was dressed up as Willow, the White House cat.The second clip attempted to make Biden look out of touch for not answering a jokey question about his costume.The third cli...
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Whatever Happened To Ken Buck’s Election Integrity Stand?
29Oct By adminNo Comments
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Whatever Happened To Ken Buck’s Election Integrity Stand?

WASHINGTON ― Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) refused to support Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) for House speaker because of Jordan’s own refusal to acknowledge Joe Biden’s very obvious victory over Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election. But after Jordan dropped out, Buck gladly voted for Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.), even though Johnson had not disowned his past support of the former president’s election denialism ― and even played a key role in mainstreaming it within the GOP by organizing a legal brief seeking to throw out the results in key states.According to Buck, Jordan is “different than Mike Johnson” even though on this particular question, the differences seem subtle. Basically, Buck argues Johnson’s legal efforts were more righteous than Jordan’s political ones, even if many outside obs...
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Mike Pence Drops Out of 2024 Republican Presidential Race
28Oct By adminNo Comments
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Mike Pence Drops Out of 2024 Republican Presidential Race

Former Vice President Mike Pence withdrew from the Republican presidential race Saturday, saying “this is not my time” after he struggled to gain traction in a crowded field dominated by former President Donald Trump.“I’m leaving this campaign but let me promise you I will never leave the fight for conservative values,” Pence said during a speech before the Republican Jewish Coalition in Las Vegas.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Impeachment Inquiry Demands Joe Biden Prove He Loaned His Brother Money
27Oct By adminNo Comments
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Impeachment Inquiry Demands Joe Biden Prove He Loaned His Brother Money

WASHINGTON — House Republicans demanded Thursday that President Joe Biden prove he loaned his brother money five years ago, a display of how broad their impeachment inquiry has become and how little it’s found so far. Money transfers between James and Joe Biden have no obvious connection to the main corruption allegation Republicans have pursued this year about the president’s son Hunter Biden’s controversial work for the Ukrainian gas company Burisma.Republicans haven’t turned up any direct evidence of Joe Biden’s involvement in his son’s controversial business dealings, but the check allows them to say they have at last found a “direct payment” to Joe Biden, even if its relevance is unclear. After obtaining years of bank records through a subpoena, last week the House Oversight Committe...
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Speaker Who?: The Rise of a G.O.P. Nobody in Trump’s House
27Oct By adminNo Comments
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Speaker Who?: The Rise of a G.O.P. Nobody in Trump’s House

The new laws of American politics can sometimes seem to bear little resemblance to the old laws of American politics. It wasn’t so long ago, after all, that our politicians aimed to get a majority of the vote and conceded defeat when they did not get it, that running from the center rather than the extremes was seen as a winning strategy, and that lack of experience was viewed as a political liability which, if not exactly fatal, needed somehow to be addressed. Criminal indictments were generally considered career-ending. Governing was at least theoretically the goal of those who sought to run the government. But in the eighth year since Donald Trump took over the Republican Party, the G.O.P. continues to do things that would seem to defy logic.For more than three weeks, amid a brewing cr...
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Speaker Mike Johnson Is Much More Troubling Than His Benign Appearance Suggests
26Oct By adminNo Comments
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Speaker Mike Johnson Is Much More Troubling Than His Benign Appearance Suggests

Newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson’s path in Republican politics began with a yearslong role as the senior attorney and national spokesperson for a group on the religious right dedicated to dismantling LGBTQ+ freedoms and outlawing abortion.Johnson worked for that organization, Alliance Defending Freedom, for eight years, from 2002 to 2010, before serving a brief stint as a Louisiana state legislator and then heading to Congress in 2017. He first became a known entity in his state in the late 1990s when he and his wife went on national television as the face of Louisiana’s new marriage covenant laws, which made it harder to get a divorce.The social conservative causes that have fueled Johnson’s rise, many of which are deeply unpopular with the American public, are already worrisome ...
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