Posts by SteveKier

GOP Beavering Away to Immiserate American Lives

While we are all absorbed in the dance of the seven veils being done over at the White House WRT...

Trump Playing Games, Undermining Americans’ Health Care

Trump Playing Games, Undermining Americans’ Health Care

  …there is a powerful faction inside the White House, led by the president himself, that is rooting for the...

Trump and Paris: Spite as a Guiding Principle

Trump and Paris: Spite as a Guiding Principle

“Conservative politics is now less about ideas than about making the right enemies cry out in anguish.” https://t.co/iGTsVaZh6N — Charlie...

CBO Score for the Latest GOP Health Plan: “Devastating”

CBO Score for the Latest GOP Health Plan: “Devastating”

Devastating. CBO: Under GOP bill, “less healthy people would face extremely high premiums…more difficult for them to buy insurance” pic.twitter.com/RQQhNXpJa7...

Tribalism and Democracy

Jason Chaffetz, the GOP Congressman in charge of the House Oversight Committee had years of investigations ready to go when we...

The Comey Firing is Worse Than Watergate

This isn’t remotely like Watergate. During Watergate, honorable people in government resigned rather than be associated with improper acts. —...

A Moral Disgrace: House GOP Passes TrumpCare

They claim they have the votes to pass it today. (UPDATE: So apparently they’ve actually done it.  Shameful and monstrous.)...

What’s in the GOP Health Care Bill? Who Cares?

JOHN DICKERSON: So tell me what in the bill you’ve been negotiating to get– PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: But let me–...

Reminder: He’s Stuffing His Pockets

Reminder: He’s Stuffing His Pockets

Josh Marshall shines a light on another example of how DJT is breaking all the norms and using the position...

Trump Defining US in Tribal/Racial Terms

In addition to the ceaseless and tiresome lies that issue from his mouth (e.g., he did not do “very well” in...