LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Russ Read A Capitol policeman shot the man responsible for firing on a group of Republican Congressional members despite being shot himself, according to Congressional members at the scene. The exchange occurred on Wednesday morning as GOP members were practicing for an upcoming charity baseball game. One of the…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Michael Bastasch Atlantic Editor David Frum wasted no time using news that a Republican lawmaker was shot while at baseball practice to advocate for more gun control. Louisiana Republican Rep. Steve Scalise was shot at a GOP baseball practice Wednesday morning in Alexandria, Va., and Frum took the opportunity…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Phillip Stucky The majority of Republican voters now approve of former President Barack Obama’s open policy toward Cuba, according to a poll released Monday. Sixty-four percent of Republicans and 65 percent of all registered voters overall support an open trade policy with the Cuban government. Only 18 percent of…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Ted Goodman A group of Michigan business professionals is drafting 36-year-old Detroit businessman and Iraq War veteran John E. James to run as a Republican in Michigan’s 2018 U.S. Senate race. James, president of James Group International, the parent company for several chain management and logistics companies, is considering the 2018 bid…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield In an interview for Politico’s Off Message podcast, Conservative Republican Senator from Nebraska, Ben Sasse, explained that the Republican Party has a “big problem.” “Washington is just lame. Washington is incredibly ineffective,” Sasse said. “Washington is weak…Washington is populated by people who aren’t very interesting,” Sasse told Politico, and be…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Eric Lieberman The same hacker who released once-secret records from the Democratic National Committee (DNC) reportedly provided unique voter research to Aaron Nevins, a Republican political operative, according to an in-depth Thursday report from The Wall Street Journal. Nevins, who was working in Florida at the time, reached out to “Guccifer…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Phillip Stucky Three Montana-based newspapers officially rescinded their endorsement of Republican candidate Greg Gianforte in the Montana special election Thursday, after he allegedly choke-slammed a reporter at a campaign rally Wednesday evening. The Billings Gazette, The Helena Independent Record, and The Missoulian all announced they no longer endorse Gianforte last night after…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Phillip Stucky Democratic strategists are planning how to take the US House of Representatives in the 2018 midterms, according to a statement made by a former Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee aide Tuesday. “The storm clouds that normally hover above a wave election seem to be forming, which is incompetence,…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield Since the announcement from the New York Times, that a memo existed which documents a conversation in which President Donald Trump attempted to persuade the FBI Director James Comey to drop the FBI’s investigation into Trump’s former National Security Advisor Mike Flynn, Republicans has been awfully quiet in both the defense…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Thomas Phippen Democratic New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker wants to make it more difficult to remove government regulations through congressional review, Reuters reported Tuesday. President Donald Trump and the Republican controlled Congress have repealed 14 regulations through the Congressional Review Act (CRA) since Jan. 20, but that is too fast for Booker….