POLITICOU.S. Politics Biden rides a Keep It Simple, Stupid strategy to early success verified_publisherPOLITICO - Natasha KoreckiThe president’s Covid-relief bill passed the Senate on Saturday. It was a remarkably drama-free milestone for a $1.9 trillion bill. From the day Joe Biden stepped into the White House, his top priority...
The New Republicflipped into The New RepublicLiberal View The Cult of the Thuggish Democratic Politician newrepublic.com - Walter Shapiro Obsessed with looking tough, the party has elevated bullies like Andrew Cuomo for years. Is that changing? Less than a decade ago, it wouldn’t have …
Daily Kosflipped into Daily Kos TrendingLiberal View Rahm Emanuel slams Christie on Republican racism: You will not lecture me on anti-Semitism dailykos.com - Egberto Willies Rahm Emanuel did not allow Chris Christie to avoid sugarcoating Republican racism, anti-Semitism, and lack of principles. Rahm Emanuel calls out …
CNNU.S. Politics Analysis: Why Biden's next legislative push might be much harder than Covid relief verified_publisherCNN - By John Harwood(CNN) — President Joe Biden and fellow Democrats are racing to prove a counterintuitive lesson: with congressional majorities, sometimes less can be more. The new President holds a slim House advantage...
Chicago Tribuneflipped into Chicago-area newsMichael Madigan How Michael Madigan’s departure accelerates a shift in Chicago politics from old-school machine to new-era progressives Chicago Tribune - Bill RuthhartLong before he became a congressman, federal judge or presidential adviser, a young Abner Mikva walked into the 8th Ward committeeman’s storefront office to volunteer for the 1948 election. When Mikva...
Washington Examinerflipped into OpinionOpinion & Analysis The Democratic Left's presentism is harming the whole country washingtonexaminer.com - by Jeremy Beaman Rahm Emanuel, the former Democratic mayor of Chicago, regrets in a Wall Street Journal op-ed that progressive Democrats’ “bad habit of disrespecting …