Showing posts with label AXIOS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AXIOS. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Elon Musk and Scott Bessent got into a shouting match in the White House last Thursday which included Bessent loudly criticizing Musk for overpromising and under-delivering DOGE cuts

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The Treasury Secretary would know, of course, because he has to report income and outlays every month. One person who witnessed the dispute ...
Saturday, April 19, 2025

Supremes vote 7-2 to pause deportations of Venezuelans

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The Trump administration has been bragging that the Supremes let them deport Venezuelans under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, which of cours...
Friday, March 28, 2025

After 38 years, it's time to junk the bedrock idea undergirding conservative economic philosophy of low taxes because IT'S NOT TRUE

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  AXIOS today, here : A bedrock idea of conservative economic philosophy is [the] idea that low taxes fuel economic growth.   This idea is s...
Sunday, March 23, 2025

A new party of violence in the making?

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 "They hate us": Democrats confront their own Tea Party Various observations after Democrat town halls:  "Among the things I ...
Friday, March 14, 2025

Senator Schumer's surrender to Republicans inflames rank and file Democrats even in their homes

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The anger mirrors less visible Republican discontent with its supine leadership for failing to assert Congress' control over the power o...
Tuesday, March 11, 2025

Mad King Ludwig declares war on Representative Thomas Massie (KY-4), one of only two Republicans remaining with the gumption to oppose the proposed continuing spending resolution

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The other Republican opponent of the CR is Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky. He won his 2022 Senate race with 61.8% of the vote and won't n...
Wednesday, March 5, 2025

Defying every norm, Trump is negotiating directly with terrorists again (no, not the ones in Moscow)

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 US holding secret talks with Hamas on release of Gaza hostages, 'Post' confirms ... US special envoy for hostage affairs Adam Boehl...
Tuesday, March 4, 2025

Republican fantasies about using "current policy" to price the cost of extending the Trump tax cuts at $0 are illegal

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House GOP explores alternative math on Trump tax cuts  ... But the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 requires that Congress use "current...

Yeah, he didn't really though: It was a no apology apology

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 Zelensky expresses regret for Oval Office spat with Trump ... "Our meeting in Washington, at the White House on Friday, did not go the...

Dictator Trump threatens American students with expulsion for "illegal protests"

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Trump threatens federal funds for schools that allow "illegal protests"  . . . Trump also took aim at American students protesters...
Saturday, March 1, 2025

House Republicans everywhere are taking incoming at townhalls and district office protests over DOGE layoffs and cuts, budget bill is full of more of the same

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Republicans fear their big budget win is a 2026 time bomb ... Some Republicans already see signs that the backlash to the Trump administrati...
Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Congressional Republicans are unhappy with imprecise and rash spending cuts and personnel reductions, resulting in violations of the law, mistakes, and human carnage in their districts and states

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 Trump faces growing DOGE revolt from GOP lawmakers ... "We all want efficiencies, there is a way to do it, and the way these people h...
Sunday, November 24, 2024

Trump's European-style coalition cabinet is full of liberals and conservatism is dead LOL, says tormented son of a member of the John Birch Society

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   A pro-abortion RFK Jr. at HHS. A pro-union Chavez-DeRemer at Labor. Lefty Democrat Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence. An...
Sunday, November 3, 2024

75+ million votes already cast

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 Nearly half of 2020's electorate have already cast ballots in 2024 Around 100 million people voted early, either in person or via mail,...
Saturday, October 19, 2024

Democrat Senators (candidate) Baldwin, Casey, (Slotkin), Tester and Brown, who all voted to impeach Trump twice, now suck up to him in ads before election

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  Some of the most vulnerable Democratic senators in this election are using the closing stretch to boast about their ties to former Presid...
Sunday, October 6, 2024

The Harris-Biden messaging is in complete disarray: Kamala boasts right now about spending millions to aid Lebanon, which harbors Israel's enemies, while her own DHS Secretary is warning FEMA is running out of money for hurricanes

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 And Mayorkas couldn't care less about FEMA running out of money or the suffering in the Southeast. He went clothes shopping on Saturday...
Thursday, October 3, 2024

A year ago Axios blamed the migrant surge for making the US housing crisis worse, now that Vance agrees omg

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Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Harry Reid eliminating the filibuster for judicial appointments worked out poorly for Democrats, Kamala Harris tells Wisconsin Public Radio she'd eliminate the filibuster to get a national right to abortion back

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 It doesn't occur to these people that Republicans would retaliate in kind when they regain control of both chambers of Congress, passin...
Thursday, September 19, 2024

Kamala Harris is hiding from the press

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 The Harris-Walz media strategy: Hide from the press : Bottom line: Some of Harris' worst moments as vice president have come during in...
Friday, September 6, 2024

What do the AWFLs read first thing in the morning?

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  Axios , where a "deep read" takes 1 minute lol.