Politics The Republican Freshman Class Is a Tribute to Our Nation’s Notorious Local Bozos A guide to the GOP’s ascendant congressional wing of bullshitters, cranks, zealots, and personal-life disasters. By Ben Mathis-Lilley THE SLATEST online March 11, 2021 From upper left, clockwise: Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert, North Carolina Rep. Madison Cawthorn, Georgia Rep. Marjorie […]
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The Atlantic: The Republican Party Isn’t Going Anywhere
The Republican Party Isn’t Going Anywhere In the contemporary American political system, the parties are always changing—but they don’t simply disappear. David A. Graham, Staff writer at The Atlantic The Atlantic March 10,2021 Paul Spella / The Atlantic After the 2002 midterm elections, in which Republicans defied history and added to their House […]
MICHIGAN SENATE SHOULD REJECT ELIZABETH HERTEL AS DHHS DIRECTOR, BUT WILL THEY?
If majority Republicans want to be taken seriously, they should, but they probably won’t. Question: Why should they, and, if they don’t, why not? Answer: They should because she is the face of Whitmer’s flawed lockdown policies of the past year that haven’t proven to work, have been contradictory and arbitrary, and have caused substantial […]
FREE PRESS: Redistricting Commission Hires ‘Outside’ Firm to Draw New Maps
‘Picasso’ of gerrymandering selected to draw new districts Clara Hendrickson Detroit Free Press March 5, 2021 Michigan’s first-ever, independent redistricting commission has made a rather interesting selection for the political consulting firm to draw the state’s new congressional and legislative districts — one led by a man once satirically referred to as the Picasso of gerrymandering. On […]
MICHIGAN TALK NETWORK: The Political Insider #144 — Interviews with Michigan Republican Party Executive Director Jason Roe & Freshman State Rep. Tim Beson (R-Bay City)
EPIC-MRA POLL: WHITMER’S NUMBERS ERODE
by Paul Egan DETROIT FREE PRESS March 2, 2021 LANSING – Gov. Gretchen Whitmer remains a popular leader, but her support has slipped over the last several months in what a pollster believes is a reflection of public frustration over the coronavirus pandemic, nearing its one-year anniversary in Michigan. In a new poll from EPIC-MRA […]
CUOMO, WHITMER COVID-19 POLICIES HAVEN’T WORKED, BUT FLORIDA’S HAVE
Florida and New York COVID Data Prove Lockdowns Made No Sense by Clay Travis OUTKICK March 2, 2021 Today is the first day of March, which means we now essentially have a full year of COVID data from the four largest states in the country: California, Texas, Florida and New York. Thanks to the fact […]
MICHIGAN TALK NETWORK: The Political Insider #143 — That Was the Week That Was, Interviews with state Rep. David LaGrand (D-Grand Rapids), and Political PR Mavens John Sellek & Dennis Darnoi
COULD HERSCHEL WALKER BE NEXT REPUBLICAN SENATOR FROM GEORGIA?
(Oliver Contreras/Getty Images) By John Gizzi NEWSMAX February 23, 2021 Not since Aug. 20, 1956, when former Sen. Millard Tydings, D-Md., suddenly withdrew from a bid for the seat he lost six years earlier, has the abandonment of a former U.S. senator from a comeback campaign had such an impact on his state’s politics as […]