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White House Response to Scandal Allegations: Let Them Eat Cupcakes

June 26, 2023 House, Response, White, them, scandal, Allegations, Cupcakes0 comment

Scandal allegations are piling up for President Joe Biden. What’s the White House response been? Let them eat “Pride” cupcakes. Instead of answering difficult questions, White House staff decided it’s time to ignore or outright mock journalists looking for answers. White House deputy press secretary Andrew Bates tweeted out a picture of “Pride” rainbow cupcakes directed at Fox News. Cupcakes in solidarity with @FOXCorp, which @FoxNews is attacking w/ a malicious, still-not-retracted digital article.@CNN: “The preposterous story failed to mention that Fox Corporation’s own logo had been wrapped in the very…

One Year Since Dobbs: 18 Vulnerable House Republicans Side With MAGA to Attack Abortion Access

June 26, 2023 abortion, attack, year, Access, House, Since, Side, Vulnerable, MAGA, Dobbs, Republicans0 comment

With this week marking the anniversary of the disastrous Dobbs decision, we wanted to share new research which documents the abortion stances of every Complicit Caucus member. Since last year, support for abortion rights has grown, even and especially in red states, which puts the Complicit Caucus’s collective stance on abortion even further out of step with a vast majority of Americans. Despite running as moderates, the entire Complicit Caucus positions itself among the extreme right on abortion. These members of Congress, who vote lockstep with Republican leadership, represent constituents…

Modi meets the press at the White House — and takes rare questions

June 22, 2023 Takes, House, Press, White, rare, questions, meets, Modi0 comment

Narendra Modi did something very unusual on Thursday at the White House – he took questions from journalists. The Washington Times stories: White House

One hundred new ways the government gets wrapped around its axle

June 22, 2023 government, around, gets, Ways, hundred, wrapped, axle0 comment

Fragmentation, duplication and overlap. There is too much of it in government programs. It degrades economy and efficiency. Each year the Government Accountability Office (GAO) details instances of multiple agencies doing the same thing. This year GAO found what if calls “100 new matters for congressional consideration.” For the highlights, Federal Drive with Tom Temin spoke with Jessica Lucas-Judy, the GAO’s Director of Strategic Issues. Interview Transcript: Tom Temin And just briefly, for people that may not be aware of this great list every year, fragmentation, duplication, overlap. Just give…

Why Not Whitmer?

June 22, 2023 Whitmer0 comment

Why doesn’t Gretchen Whitmer just run for president? Or at least humor the suggestion? Whitmer, the governor of Michigan, sat cross-legged on the couch of a darkened TV studio in East Lansing, where a local PBS program called Off the Record is taped—a weird name for an interview show watched by 100,000 people. “I know!” agreed Whitmer, who wore a camouflage sweatshirt with Michigangster scripted across the front. We met here on a recent evening for an interview in which I would ask her—on the record—several variants of the above…

North Carolina Court Corrects Flawed Ruling on Voter-ID Law Driven by Ideology, Not Law

June 22, 2023 Court, ruling, North, Carolina, Flawed, Driven, Ideology, Corrects, VoterID0 comment

In a decision that did not get the attention it deserved, the newly reconstituted North Carolina Supreme Court recently reinstated, as the court said, one of “least restrictive voter identification laws in the United States.” Liberal judges on that court—two of whom are no longer there after losing their 2022 re-election attempts—had previously thrown out the law, erroneously claiming that it was passed with discriminatory intent and that it violated the Equal Protection Clause of the North Carolina Constitution. In Holmes v. Harper, on April 28, the new court withdrew…