Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is making clear that he intends to hold President Joe Biden's nominees and legislative agenda hostage until Democrats agree to cede some of their power. His demand? That Democrats promise not to get rid of the filibuster later, which would lower the threshold from 60 votes to 51 to pass all legislation. read more
Trump has been consumed by the unraveling of his presidency during his last days in office, according to people around him, which included a casual discussion among advisers recently about a possible resignation. Trump shut the idea down almost immediately. During [another] passing mention of resigning this week, Trump told people he couldn't count on Vice President Mike Pence to pardon him like Gerald Ford did Nixon, anyway. read more
About one minute after [VP Mike] Pence was hustled out of the chamber, a group charged up the stairs to a second-floor landing in the Senate, chasing a Capitol Police officer who drew them away from the Senate. Pence and his family had just ducked into a hideaway less than 100 feet from that landing ... If the pro-Trump mob had arrived seconds earlier, they would have been in eyesight of the vice president as he was rushed across a reception hall into the office. read more
In the aftermath of last week's deadly assault on the Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump, members of Congress are expressing something once unthinkable: that some of their own colleagues may be endangering their lives. Not in a rhetorical sense, but in a direct and immediate way. There are particular concerns about some newly-elected members who have espoused extremist views, including comments supportive of the QAnon libel that accuses perceived enemies of Trump of being part of a child abusing cult. read more
Philip Rucker, Josh Dawsey, and Ashley Parker: He is angry that his allies have not mounted a more forceful defense of his incitement of the mob that stormed the Capitol last week, advisers and associates said. Trump has instructed aides not to pay Giuliani's legal fees, two officials said, and has demanded that he personally approve any reimbursements for the expenses Giuliani incurred while traveling on the president's behalf to challenge election results in key states. read more
Can't you imagine the Republicans doing this horrible thing!!!! I was so scared" move.
You really don't keep up with the news, do you?
House GOP lawmakers on Wednesday said that threats made toward them and their families could factor in to their decision whether to impeach President Trump.You were saying...?
Republicans voiced concerns about their safety after the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol, which left five dead including a Capitol Hill Police officer.
Peter Meijer, Republican who voted for impeachment, says he's buying body armor due to threats
Despite voting no on impeachment, Utah Rep. John Curtis receives death threat from Trump supporters
she is accusing the Capitol police of collision without any evidence whatsoever, and for that she is absolutely wrong.
Have you been avoiding the news before AOC even made her comments?
Two US Capitol police officers suspended, one arrested following Capitol riotAnd AOC was speaking as much about fearing certain Republican members of Congress as she was about the police who were supposed to protect her. The evidence on police complicity is on videotape and has been viewed by millions already.
Well, they didn't 'come for her'.
AOC says that indeed, they did come for her and that she feared for her life at that moment. You weren't there, she was.
Perhaps you're unable to read through your own hatred, but I've never seen any Democrat advertise themselves as "coming" for any Republican simply because they disagreed with their politics. And I have little doubt that when the investigations are over the very gun-toting, Q-loving freshmen will find themselves both expelled from the House and indicted on criminal charges linked to supporting the conspiracy insurrection - as is already being reported.
Tony an insult from your drunken mouth is a compliment so keep on FTFYing my statements for me and pour me one of what you've already had too many of.
I'd have to be drunk to write the ignorant drivel that you call commentary. The next time you're able to put coherent thoughts together and make an actual meaningful point will be the first.
And oh by the way, you're quite the snowflake at the same time you lob criticisms at those who actual try to serve others outside of themselves. Grow some thicker skin buttercup. Don't throw stones unless you want a boulder lobbed between your jaundiced eyes.
Easy one. Promise not to do it, then do it anyway. Mitch would understand.
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Of course he would. And at the same time the Democrats can blame the Republicans for forcing them to eliminate the filibuster because they refused to allow the passage of the very legislation that Biden promised and got 81 million votes from Americans to institute.
IOW, the Dems hate to break with tradition, but the recalcitrant GOP senators left them with no alternative because they refuse to be bipartisan.