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16 May 2011, 2:11 pm
Once the government has defaulted on any legal obligation, everything changes for the worse.In a speech earlier this week, Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) told a New York business audience that the Republicans would demand trillions of dollars in spending cuts (and, of course, no tax increases) to buy their consent to a debt limit increase. [read post]
15 Jun 2017, 9:01 pm
Sometimes, they will also mention tax cuts signed by John F. [read post]
22 May 2013, 9:01 pm
(Given that this was a specific dirty trick of the Nixon Administration, John Dean’s opinion that the current situation is completely different really ought to dispose of such claims.) [read post]
7 Oct 2015, 9:01 pm
In the lead-up to the 2016 Republican presidential primaries, the surprise story has of course been the emergence and staying power (thus far) of Donald Trump. [read post]
16 Dec 2015, 9:01 pm
Nominally Democratic former Senator Joe Lieberman campaigned enthusiastically for his Republican friend John McCain in 2008. [read post]
21 May 2014, 9:01 pm
Here on Verdict, John Dean (who has some familiarity with Watergate, to say the least) declared the scandal “all smoke and no fire. [read post]
8 Feb 2021, 9:00 pm
Faced with a blizzard of illogical, strange, bad-faith arguments coming from Senate Republicans in advance of Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial, one might think that there has to be at least something to their arguments. [read post]
25 Jan 2018, 9:01 pm
Four Republican senators voted nay, and John McCain did not vote for medical reasons (but very likely would have been another negative vote, if only because of his stated concerns for Senate procedure). [read post]
1 Feb 2017, 9:01 pm
Ever since the election results came in on November 8, the ritual on the center and left has been to say that we need to reach out to some of the non-majority of voters who voted for Trump, in order to reestablish credibility with the hurting people who, in their desperation, abandoned the Democratic Party to vote for a dangerous demagogue.Part of that conversation has involved gingerly stepping around the question of racism and other bigotries that might have been motivating some of Trump’s… [read post]
29 Jan 2010, 3:24 pm
I ventured into a pocket of San Francisco conservatism last night to hear Berkeley Law Professor John Yoo address the local Federalist Society chapter. [read post]
9 Jan 2018, 8:36 am
As we begin the second session of the 115th Congress, let’s take a moment to look back at the highs and lows from the first session. [read post]
14 Oct 2020, 9:01 pm
Buchanan, With all due respect to your accomplishments… No, Sir. [read post]
9 Oct 2015, 6:00 am
This would not be possible without the hard work of our multi-state team composed of Marshall Cohen, Roberta Cooper, Bruce Buchanan and myself, John Gihon. [read post]
9 Nov 2022, 6:26 am
Governor John Fetterman. [read post]
25 Jan 2017, 9:01 pm
Ohio Governor John Kasich, for example, announced that he wrote in John McCain’s name on his ballot (in a state where that vote would quite literally not be counted).It continues to be a mystery to me that people do not understand the simple logic of voting. [read post]
12 Mar 2020, 6:44 am
Yet as University of Florida law professor Neil Buchanan has explained, that accounting is deeply flawed. [read post]
12 Oct 2015, 6:00 am
This would not be possible without the hard work of our multi-state team composed of Marshall Cohen, Roberta Cooper, Bruce Buchanan and myself, John Gihon. [read post]
14 Aug 2013, 9:01 pm
” When those supposed scandals were making headlines, John Dean wrote a column here on Verdict, finding all three to be “all smoke and no fire,” and predicting that they would come to nothing. [read post]
20 Mar 2013, 9:01 pm
” House Speaker John Boehner has said that Republicans’ duty is “to continue to fight for our principles as a party. [read post]
4 Nov 2018, 9:01 pm
Yet as the months passed, even respected figures like the late Senator John McCain talked about “regular order” in the Senate but still voted to rubberstamp nearly everything that Trump wanted (from tax cuts to extremist judicial appointees) without giving more than lip service to proper process.More than merely doing Trump’s bidding, however, the even more worrisome surprise was that Republicans uniformly refused to engage in anything to rein in Trump’s worst… [read post]
