The following article by Ashley Parker and Philip Rucker was posted on the Washington Post website February 13, 2017:
With President Trump in his fourth full week in office, the upheaval inside the administration that West Wing officials had optimistically dismissed as growing pains is now embedding itself as standard operating procedure. Continue reading “Upheaval is now standard operating procedure inside the White House”
The following political cartoon was posted by the Star Tribune February 16, 2017:
The following article by Zoltan L. Hajnal, Nazita Lajevardi and Lindsay Nielson was posted on the Washington Post website February 15, 2017:
The Justice Department just got a new boss: Jeff Sessions. He is raising alarms in the civil rights community. The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights is concerned about his “record of hostility” toward the Voting Rights Act and the enforcement of civil rights. The NAACP-Legal Defense Fund lamented that it is “unimaginable that he could be entrusted to serve as the chief law enforcement officer for this nation’s civil rights laws.” No one knows for sure how Sessions will perform as attorney general — the former Republican senator from Alabama did, after all, once vote to renew the Voting Rights Act, in 2006 — but for many his record is deeply troubling. Continue reading “Do voter identification laws suppress minority voting? Yes. We did the research.”
The following article by Carl Hiaasen was posted on the National Memo website February 15, 2017:
Anonymously mass-mailed proposal for a blockbuster new book:
Dear [fill in name of editor],
As you devour the explosive details of this book manuscript, you’ll understand why I need to withhold my identity at this time. Continue reading “A ‘Spicy’ Memoir: How To Lie With A Straight Face”
The following article by Emma Brown was posted on the Washington Post website February 15, 2017:
A policy manifesto from an influential conservative group with ties to the Trump administration, including Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, urges the dismantling of the Education Department and bringing God into American classrooms.
The five-page document produced by the Council for National Policy calls for a “restoration of education in America” that would minimize the federal role, promote religious schools and home schooling and enshrine “historic Judeo-Christian principles” as a basis for instruction. Continue reading “Influential conservative group: Trump, DeVos should dismantle Education Department and bring God into classrooms”
The following article by Callum Borchers was posted on the Washington Post website February 15, 2017:
Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough, hosts of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” say they won’t invite White House counselor Kellyanne Conway on their show because she doesn’t provide reliable information. (Peter Stevenson/The Washington Post)
MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski said Wednesday that she refuses to book Kellyanne Conway on “Morning Joe” — and that wasn’t even the harshest thing Brzezinski and co-host Joe Scarborough said about the counselor to the president. Continue reading “‘Morning Joe’ has blacklisted Kellyanne Conway. And that’s not all.”
The following article by Alan Rappeport was posted on the New York Times website February 15, 2017:
The fast-food executive Andrew F. Puzder withdrew his nomination to be labor secretary on Wednesday as Republican senators turned sharply against him, the latest defeat for a White House besieged by infighting and struggling for traction even with a Republican-controlled Congress. Continue reading “Andrew Puzder Withdraws From Consideration as Labor Secretary”
The following article by Ashley Parker was posted on the Washington Post website February 15, 2017:
President Trump criticized the intelligence community and the media Wednesday for the news reports that ultimately led to national security adviser Michael Flynn’s resignation Monday night, less than four weeks into his White House tenure. Continue reading “Trump says Flynn was treated unfairly, a day after Spicer said he was fired because of a lack of trust”
The following article by Robert Costa and Ashley Parker was posted on the Washington Post website February 14, 2017:
For nearly two full weeks, nobody told Vice President Pence that he had been misled by national security adviser Michael Flynn.
After privately being assured by Flynn that he had never had any discussions about Russian sanctions with that country’s ambassador, Pence went on TV in mid-January and publicly parroted Flynn’s denial. But on Jan. 26, President Trump and a small group of senior aides learned that the Justice Department had evidence that Flynn had, in fact, discussed sanctions and misled the vice president. Continue reading “Pence remains above the fray, but is he outside the inner circle?”
The following article was posted on the TrumpAccountable.org website February 15, 2017:
In 2015 Republicans in Congress overwhelmingly passed a measure to repeal Obamacare. The repeal package, embedded in a budget reconciliation bill, never had a chance to become law as long as President Obama was in office and could veto it.
Now that Republicans have both chambers of the legislative branch and the executive branch, why don’t they simply roll out the same repeal package, that also defunded Planned Parenthood, and vote on it? It seems easy, doesn’t it? Continue reading “Obamacare”
