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18 Apr 2024, 11:39 am by Neil H. Buchanan
  And yet, even though McCarthy's position is unreasonable, to paraphrase Donald Rumsfeld, you don't negotiate with the House Speaker you wish you had but the one you have. [read post]
16 Apr 2024, 4:27 pm by Eugene Volokh
., told his X followers why he thought former President Donald Trump should be reelected. [read post]
17 May 2023, 5:21 pm by David Super
  It cost John Boehner the speakership eight years ago in a significantly less extreme Republican caucus. [read post]
8 Jan 2023, 9:01 pm by Laurence H. Tribe and Dennis Aftergut
Then-Freedom Caucus chair Mark Meadows (R-NC) had used the motion to vacate in 2015 to destabilize Speaker John Boehner (R-OH).Referring to last week’s congressional disarray, Rep. [read post]
15 Aug 2022, 3:23 pm by Anna Bower
Boehner, for the proposition that the party invoking jurisdiction must rebut an assertion of immunity under the Speech or Debate Clause. [read post]
23 Apr 2022, 1:28 pm by David Super
Dana Rohrabacher and Donald Trump and never raised a finger against either. [read post]
8 Jul 2021, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Now, we do not even have someone as minimally decent as Boehner, who was at least a realist. [read post]
13 May 2020, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
An aide to former House Speaker John Boehner and failed presidential candidate Jeb Bush put it this way: Concerns about federal deficits and debts are being swamped by the scale of the crisis right now, but when our economy rebounds, they will return as a serious issue for voters. [read post]
13 Jun 2019, 1:44 pm
Anybody who was hoping for a clear account of the differences between Sanders’s political ambitions and those of autocratic socialist regimes is a fellow traveler of Richard Nixon, Newt Gingrich, John Boehner, Donald Trump, and the Heritage Foundation....The speech Sanders gave was not serious.It's enough (and it's better) to say "not serious. [read post]
3 May 2018, 9:00 pm by Cookson Beecher
Also in April, President Donald Trump told a top Senate Republican that he would support efforts in Congress to protect states that have legalized marijuana. [read post]
18 Nov 2017, 7:34 am by Tom Smith
What does it mean to have a governing conservative majority these days in Washington, D.C.? [read post]
19 Apr 2017, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
In another bizarre attempt at an argument, former House Speaker John Boehner complained that a high-speed rail project in California and Nevada would not help his constituents in Ohio. [read post]
22 Mar 2017, 9:02 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Before this year, the few of us who had heard of Mick Mulvaney knew only that he was one of the Republican Party’s most extreme anti-government ideologues, a leading Tea Partier who helped to force out John Boehner as Speaker of the House and who was willing to hold the debt ceiling hostage as a means to advance his reactionary agenda.Now, Mulvaney has been installed as Donald Trump’s budget director, and his job is to try to explain to the American people why… [read post]
29 Jun 2016, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
That means that you almost certainly opposed Donald Trump, most likely in strident terms, at some point during the last year. [read post]
20 Jun 2016, 4:26 pm by Tom Smith
“If it signals that Donald Trump is taking his responsibility to pivot to a general election posture seriously, then it is good news,” said Michael Steel, a former advisor to Jeb Bush and John Boehner. [read post]
16 Mar 2016, 8:21 am by JB
He hopes that, faced with the choice of The Donald or him, delegates on the first ballot or thereafter will swallow hard and choose him. [read post]
13 Nov 2015, 6:35 am by Jim Sedor
He chooses this over the speaker’s official palatial suite in the Capitol, which Ryan has pointed out stinks thanks to smoke from its prior inhabitant, John Boehner. [read post]