Showing posts with label Thom Tillis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thom Tillis. Show all posts
Monday, June 30, 2025

Every Republican in the U.S. Senate drank the koolaid this morning and voted for the current policy baseline, including Thom Tillis, Rand Paul, Ron Johnson, you name 'em, they voted for it

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I'm speechless. The roll call vote is here .  Using their magic eraser, the Trump tax cuts will cost $0 going forward.   

Words have a meaning, and Real Clear Politics wants you to think Donald Trump intimidated Senator Thom Tillis to disappear

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NC GOP Senator Tillis Announces Resignation After Clash With Trump Fox News is almost as bad:   Thom Tillis announces retirement from Senate...
Sunday, June 29, 2025

Republican Senator Thom Tillis from North Carolina will not run again in 2026 after voting to stop Trump's reconciliation bill

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  Tillis won’t run for reelection in North Carolina  Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) on Sunday announced he will not seek reelection to the Senat...

Republican Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin folds like a house of cards, switches his Nay vote to Yea to advance reconciliation bill to the Senate floor for debate

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 Trump megabill narrowly advances in Senate despite two GOP defections Senate Republicans on Saturday narrowly voted to advance a sprawling ...
Tuesday, April 8, 2025

Ceding tariff authority to the executive was the Congress' way of escaping the political consequences of fulfilling their responsibilities under the constitution, but that may be changing

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 The phenomenon is mirrored in the states by the enthusiasm for referenda, aka ballot measures, which are promoted as democracy but are in f...
Friday, March 7, 2025

A few GOP senators are not happy with Trump on Ukraine

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 Republicans press Trump to resume military, intelligence aid to Ukraine   ... Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) ... ... Susan Collins (R-Maine) ......
Wednesday, January 29, 2020

The Republican Party is infested with 123 members of the House and Senate who want tens of thousands more foreign workers let in to take US jobs

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Story . Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) Sen. James Risch (R-ID) Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK)...
Thursday, November 29, 2018

VP Mike Pence overcomes Republican Jeff Flake alliance with Democrats to advance nomination of Thomas Farr to NC US District Court post vacant since 2005

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Trump judicial nominee clears hurdle after Pence breaks tie The judgeship is just one of 136 current federal court vacancies. Authoriz...
Tuesday, July 18, 2017

McConnell reportedly set to bring full repeal bill like HR 3762 to a vote in the Senate

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Here and here  for the story. There were 52 "Yeas" for the HR 3762 Obamacare repeal bill in the Senate on December 3, 2015 ...
Monday, February 22, 2016

Ex-Bush Establishment Republicans swarm to Marco Rubio like flies to a rotting corpse

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Lavishly reported here  about the candidate who so far is nothing but a loser: Throughout Monday, a string of ex-Bush backers from acr...
Wednesday, March 4, 2015

The Republicans' biggest traitors on immigration amnesty: Mike Enzi, Mitch McConnell, Thad Cochran, Shelley Capito

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The biggest traitors on immigration are Republicans Mike Enzi of Wyoming, who got an "A" grade from NumbersUSA for his anti-amne...
Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Americans elect 9 senators liberal on illegal immigration, but 14 for strong borders and against amnesty

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Americans elected the following Republicans last night who are for strong border security an...
Saturday, November 1, 2014

Republican control of the Senate may well mean immigration amnesty

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Most Republicans running for still-in-play US Senate seats are endorsed by the pro-immigration-amnesty US Chamber of Commerce. Consider th...