The last quarter-century has witnessed three impeachments of two presidents, the greatest upset in presidential election history, parity unseen in Congress in almost a century, brinkmanship in the Senate that shifted the balance of the U.S. Supreme Court, the first…
You’re already well aware that the Republican Party is in a position of existential crisis, which is remarkable for one to say given that the GOP did manage to win a majority of seats in the House of Representatives in…
By the time you read this, Kevin McCarthy might be a political has-been. It’s a crucial moment in McCarthy’s career, as it is with respect to the Republican Party’s ascending House majority. The GOP has 222 votes out of 435…
In the first volume of her lengthy memoirs, Margaret Thatcher: The Downing Street Years, the woman who became famous as Britain’s “Iron Lady” prime minister made a very wise — and telling — observation about some of her fellow Conservative…
The Democrats and the Fourth Estate have finally found, in congressman-elect George Santos (R-N.Y.), a Republican who is genuinely guilty of lying to the voters. Having thus discovered themselves — for once — in possession of the moral high ground,…
After four years of legislative malfeasance by Nancy Pelosi and her Democratic myrmidons, the Republicans will soon have a 222–213 majority in the House of Representatives. It should be obvious to the meanest intelligence that, to accomplish anything useful with…
It is one of the most bitter and tragic ironies of our contemporary politics that the leadership of one of America’s two major political parties, the Republican Party, utterly despises that party’s very own voting base. The GOP elite’s scorn…
You’ve perhaps been following the unfolding drama around Kevin McCarthy’s attempt to wrangle 218 votes to become Speaker of the House when the next Congress convenes in January. That effort seems to be stalling short of its goal; it currently…
Kevin McCarthy might not ultimately manage to become the Speaker of the House. He has some 20 members of the Republican caucus who are firm opponents of his ascension to succeed Nancy Pelosi, and McCarthy’s allies are howling that if…
