Mary Rose Corkery on April 22, 2021 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi showed a photo of her father with former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt while explaining that supporting D.C. “statehood is in my DNA” on Thursday. “I said this District of Columbia statehood is in my DNA,” Pelosi said while bringing out the framed photo. The…
Why should we be surprised that the Covid-19 pandemic is the perfect situation for viewing political hypocrisy? It allows politicians to order us around using language couched in protecting our safety while hoping our actions keep the public space safe for them to do whatever they want “safely.” Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, is the…
Nancy Pelosi was caught having her hair done indoors at a salon in violation of California’s COVID-19 lockdown mandate. BREAKING: Nancy Pelosi's office has confirmed the speaker got her hair cut indoors in a San Francisco salon, but released a statement claiming she didn't know she'd done anything wrong. https://t.co/cEEr1p074r — KTVU (@KTVU) September 1,…
As if Ben & Jerry’s naming an ice cream flavor after Senator Bernie Sanders wasn’t enough, there’s more intermingling between the sweet frozen dairy treat we all love and our politics. But this time it comes in the form of one man and his desire for Jeni’s Splendid Ice Cream. That’s right. From the word…
“You never let a serious crisis go to waste,” Obama adviser Rahm Emanuel said during the country’s last major emergency. Now, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is bringing this noxious idea back as she uses the coronavirus pandemic to permanently stamp identity politics on corporate America. Pelosi’s coronavirus relief bill is a veritable pork barrel for programs that…
Chris White Sen. Michael Bennet lit into the Democratic National Committee Christmas Eve for supposedly engaging in “pay-to-play politics” after the party posted a video excluding him and other third-tier candidates. The Democratic Colorado senator criticized the DNC for posting a video that included only candidates “who ponied up six figures.” The video includes former…
Mary Margaret Olohan Democrats expressed concerns that voters might be affected by GOP anti-impeachment ads over Thanksgiving break, lawmakers and aides said. Groups supporting the GOP purchased almost $8 million in television ads targeting pivotal districts, Politico reported. Most of these ads will focus on criticizing Democrats about impeachment, and Democrats expressed concerns to party leaders that voters…
On October 31 st , Nancy Pelosi moved forward with a formal impeachment inquiry, adding a layer of formality to the so-called “soviet-style” impeachment inquiry. However, rather than analyzing the institution of impeachment on legal grounds, as many lawyers are wont to do, impeachment should, as is intended, be analyzed on political grounds. As Alexander…
Over the summer, Michigan Representative Justin Amash proved that he knew how to get the attention of the national media. First, he announced that he supported impeaching President Donald Trump over the findings of the Mueller Report. That dominated headlines for quite a while, especially since Amash was a Republican at the time. It was…
Jason Hopkins on February 19, 2019 A young Texas boy faced both praise and ridicule from adults after he opened a hot chocolate stand to raise money for President Donald Trumps’ border wall. Benton Stevens — a seven-year-old from Austin, Texas — wanted to help help raise funds for a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border after…