House Republicans are “giddy” about their chances of winning back control of the House in the 2022 elections, in part because they believe House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is unpopular and they can run against her again in next November’s midterms, Politico reported. According to the report, Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN), who chairs the National Republican Congressional Committee that works...
GOP lawmakers are furious that kids are wearing masks to curb COVID-19
Rep. Jason Smith (R-MO) and several of his fellow congressional Republicans are very upset that kids are being encouraged to wear face masks to curb the spread of the coronavirus. But actual medical experts say they are vital to keeping families safe. “Forcing children to wear masks does not make any sense. The CDC should follow the science and not politics,” Smith tweeted on Monday...
Republicans want to make voting harder even in states they won in 2020
Since Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election, Republican state lawmakers across the country have introduced legislation aimed at making it harder to vote. Much of the legislation has been introduced in states President Joe Biden flipped from Republican to Democratic, such as Arizona, Georgia, and Michigan. But it’s not just states that flipped blue that are seeing an influx of...
White supremacists rally behind Ron DeSantis’ crusade against Twitter
White supremacists are rallying behind Florida legislation that would punish social media companies for banning the accounts of political candidates. Legislation is currently under consideration in Florida’s Senate alongside a companion bill in the Florida House of Representatives that seeks to punish companies like Twitter and Facebook for “deplatforming” politicians during an...
Republicans pretend Joe Biden wants to ban hamburgers
Republicans are angrily denouncing a nonexistent plan by President Joe Biden to get rid of hamburgers and other meat products. Over the weekend, several prominent GOP politicians and operatives strongly denounced what they asserted was a provision in Biden’s plan to combat climate change that would somehow limit meat consumption to just four pounds per person per year. Larry Kudlow, who...
Pro-Trump firm leading Arizona election audit fights to keep its process a secret
The firm running an audit of election results in Arizona’s largest county is refusing to make public the procedures it is using in its review of more than 2 million ballots cast in the state in the 2020 election — even though a judge ordered it to do so because of concerns raised over the legality of its process. Cyber Ninjas — which is run by a Donald Trump-supporting conspiracy theorist...
Madison Cawthorn’s solution to mass shootings: Learn how to make a tourniquet
Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) said in an interview posted online April 22 that people should have “maybe a tourniquet or some kind of bandages” handy to deal with mass shootings when they happen. Cawthorn has repeatedly opposed measures aimed at reducing gun violence, and told a reporter with WLOS-TV in Asheville, North Carolina, that his position is the same after the recent shooting...
The GOP’s failed arguments for the border wall keep stacking up
On Jan. 20, President Joe Biden signed an executive order that halted construction of the U.S.-Mexico border wall, Donald Trump’s longtime pet project, calling it a waste of time and resources. “Building a massive wall that spans the entire southern border is not a serious policy solution. It is a waste of money that diverts attention from genuine threats to our homeland...
GOP senator: Our jobs plan is just like Biden’s except we took everything out
Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) defended the Senate GOP’s $568 billion counterproposal to President Joe Biden’s $2.25 trillion American Jobs Plan on Friday during an appearance on Fox News, arguing that if you ignore all of the things the Republicans’ plan leaves out, it’s very close to Biden’s. Capito said that the plan, unveiled Thursday by Capito, John Barrasso...
Arkansas law forces doctors to choose between helping trans kids or keeping a job
An Arkansas law banning gender-affirming care for transgender minors, including hormone treatments and puberty blockers, is putting physicians in a difficult position. The Arkansas Legislature passed H.B. 1570, the Save Adolescents from Experimentation (SAFE) Act, over the veto of Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson on April 6. The law, which goes into effect this summer, will not only prohibit...