by Jonathan | Oct 4, 2023 | Short Takes
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2023/10/03/congress/mccarthy-out-speaker-conservatives-oust-boot-00119732 I feel for him, a little bit, although I shouldn’t at all. If you want to keep this job, you have to not want it. Long term this might help him: give...
by Jonathan | Oct 1, 2023 | Politics
Edit: Sep 30 2023 Update McCarthy made a shocking decision today, governing over keeping the gavel: But McCarthy shocked his party — and most on the Hill — by deciding to put a “clean” bill on the floor that could be enough to doom his speakership. The...
by Jonathan | Sep 28, 2023 | Short Takes
I didn’t need a headline to tell me that.
by Jonathan | Sep 25, 2023 | Politics
Regarding the impending shutdown drama: Rep. Garret Graves (R-La.)… “We’re in a situation right now … where the arsonists are out there, number one, whining that their house is on fire. Number two, are going to want credit that they put the fire out. And then number...