The Senate finally got their act together late Tuesday and came to a compromise on the human-trafficking bill that had been stalled in the chamber for a month, blocking the confirmation of Loretta Lynch as attorney general along the way. Dana Milbank of The Washington Post handed the Senate their collective asses-on-a-plate in an outstanding […]
Last Thursday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) appeared on The Daily Show and talked with Jon Stewart about the ongoing problem of corruption in Washington, D.C. noting that the system works “”to make sure that the tender fannies of the rich and the powerful are always carefully protected.” Warren went on to detail what Vox called […]
In 1981, the legendarily brutal campaign consultant Lee Atwater, after a decade as South Carolina’s most effective Republican operative, was working in Ronald Reagan’s White House when he was interviewed by Alexander Lamis, a political scientist at Case Western Reserve University. In this audio, made public for the first time ever in 2012, Atwater lays […]
Come senators, congressmen Please heed the call Don’t stand in the doorway Don’t block up the hall For he that gets hurt Will be he who has stalled There’s a battle outside and it is ragin’ It’ll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls For the times they are a-changin’ ~ Bob Dylan, The […]
Actor, two time Oscar winner, entrepreneur and Democrat Robert De Niro recently sat down with Marlow Stern from The Daily Beast. Stern asked the American icon if he’d be endorsing Hillary Clinton for President. As you can see, De Niro not only endorses Clinton, he takes it a step farther and suggests that it’s time […]