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2 Jan 2017, 2:30 pm by Heather K. Gerken
 Progressives would point to the efforts of North Carolina’s GOP-controlled legislature to disempower their newly elected Democratic governor and the Senate’s refusal to grant Merrick Garland a hearing. [read post]
2 Jan 2017, 4:27 am
One of them is Eric Hovde, who came very close to being the GOP nominee in 2012, but got edged out by the former governor, Tommy Thompson, who went on to run a terrible, lackluster campaign. [read post]
31 Dec 2016, 8:17 am by Gritsforbreakfast
In a different time and place, this traditional-conservative Latina Republican judge married to a former Houston police officer would be on a GOP short list for the US Supreme Court. [read post]
31 Dec 2016, 3:17 am
In a rapid demonstration of digital glasnost, within minutes the Russian Embassy in Washington had retweeted it....And, like the Obama White House, many [in the GOP establishment] see Mr. [read post]
31 Dec 2016, 12:03 am by Paul Caron
MSNBC The MaddowBlog, Congress Holds IRS Impeachment Vote as Trump Eyes New Commissioner: The 114th Congress is, mercifully, nearly over, but as we saw yesterday, lawmakers aren’t quite done considering ridiculous ideas. [read post]
30 Dec 2016, 8:33 am
"From his dramatic and disastrous change of US policy on Israel to his executive order restricting 1.65 million acres of land from development despite local objections, Obama is trying to make it impossible for Donald Trump and a GOP-controlled Congress to govern. [read post]
27 Dec 2016, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
The even bigger story is the state GOP’s effort to override the popular will.In November, North Carolina voters chose Democrat Roy Cooper to replace incumbent Republican Pat McCrory as their governor. [read post]
26 Dec 2016, 3:12 am
WaPo attributes the high number to the GOP Senate's "unprecedented level of obstruction. [read post]
26 Dec 2016, 12:10 am by Paul Caron
Washington Post, It’s Mostly Kumbaya So Far for Trump and GOP in Congress: President-elect Donald Trump is signaling a cease-fire in his battle with the Republican leadership in Congress, which he repeatedly skewered during his election-season attacks on the Washington establishment. [read post]
23 Dec 2016, 2:11 pm by Angelo A. Paparelli
Despite the few modest immigration improvements he can rightly claim, future historians will likely rue his most despicable actions – his uncharacteristic heartlessness and intransigence on strict immigration enforcement against asylum-seeking moms and kids, and his Guinness-worthy record of deporting mostly low-level immigration violators, while these anti-immigrant measures had been fueled by his naive and ultimately unfounded hope that the GOP would therefore engage with him on… [read post]
23 Dec 2016, 6:47 am by Jim Sedor
But they are now collaborating with the fundraising efforts of their new GOP colleagues, Reps. [read post]
22 Dec 2016, 3:47 pm
After today, he only has options 2 and 3 left.Of those options, clearly a Congressional act would become enshrined in the law, and thereby become very difficult to reverse, especially in a GOP-controlled House.Now is the time for the real advocacy to begin, to your congressmen and women. [read post]
22 Dec 2016, 7:50 am by Ilya Somin
A GOP-controlled Congress may well be reluctant to impose constraints on a president of their own party. [read post]
21 Dec 2016, 7:57 am by Jonathan H. Adler
Pat McCrory took office in 2013, the GOP legislature expanded the number of positions exempt from civil service protections from 400 under Democratic Gov. [read post]
20 Dec 2016, 2:12 pm by Tom Smith
Elections are won by the marginal voter, the swing voter, the guy right at 50 percent. [read post]
20 Dec 2016, 3:17 am by Broc Romanek
He can work with the GOP-controlled Congress to nullify recently completed regulations and restrict funding to certain parts of departments as a de facto way to hamstring a rule’s force. [read post]
19 Dec 2016, 10:00 am by Paul Caron
Bloomberg (Carol Hymowitz & Alicia Ritcey), CEOs’ Retirement Stashes Seen Flourishing Under Trump Tax Cuts Bloomberg (Lynnley Browning), House Republicans’ Plan for a Tax Revolution Bloomberg BNA (Colleen Murphy), Anti-Union Drumbeat of Trump, Congress Spells Trouble for IRS Bloomberg BNA (Colleen Murphy), GOP Blueprint, Trump Leave Open Questions for IRS... [read post]
19 Dec 2016, 12:30 am by Paul Caron
Conservative Review, How the GOP Establishment Teamed With Nancy Pelosi to Save the Corrupt IRS Chief: The last nail in the coffin went in handily. [read post]