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    <title>Trump’s Fed threats meet a firewall: GOP lawmakers</title>
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    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[GOP lawmakers have given in to President Donald Trump on almost every contentious issue, but they're quietly breaking from him on one front that has drawn the president's repeated ire: the Federal Reserve.

Trump is pushing two celebrity Republicans and Fed critics — Herman Cain and Stephen Moore — to serve on the central bank's board in his bid to shake and shape the institution in Trumpian ways. He has called on the Fed to slash interest rates despite strong economic growth. And he has railed against the central bank for removing the extraordinary economic support put in place during the last recession.

It may force congressional Republicans into playing an unusual role: rebelling against Trump.

GOP lawmakers — who often showed little restraint in lambasting the Fed for near-zero interest rates in the Obama era — are signaling publicly and privately their intent to keep politics out of the central bank. They generally support Chairman Jerome Powell, and many have expressed opposition to serious political meddling in setting rates. The lawmakers plan to press Trump nominees about their allegiance to the Fed’s data-based approach, amid concern that the president wants the central bank to pursue policies that will goose the economy.

"The Fed generally has more information than we have," said Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), a key member of the Senate Banking Committee, which has jurisdiction over the Fed and would have to vet the nominations of Moore and Cain.

Appointments to the Fed are the president’s main avenue for molding the institution, and Trump’s selection of two overt political allies has raised alarms that he’s ramping up his efforts to influence monetary policy. Economists worry that Moore and Cain could erode the Fed’s political independence by focusing on the president’s reelection prospects rather than on what’s best for the long-term health of the economy.]]></description>
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    <title>Mnuchin reveals White House lawyers consulted Treasury on Trump tax returns, despite law meant to limit political involvement</title>
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    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. (Andy Wong/AP) Treasury Department lawyers consulted with the White House general counsel’s office about the potential…]]></description>
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    <title>Opinion | Trump’s Immigration Crisis</title>
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    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[There is a sense in which this crisis vindicates immigration hawks, who warned from the late-Obama era onward that the immigration decline wasn’t necessarily permanent, that there could easily be another wave, that United States policy — particularly the Obama precedent of a tacit amnesty for child migrants — created specific incentives for families and children to come north.

But those same hawks ended up electing a president whose signature immigration policy, more walls to deter border-crossers, has proved largely ineffective in dealing with an immigration crisis created by people surrendering to Border Patrol officers and asking for asylum.

Nor does that president have the capacity to devise a more effective response, it seems, since any policy solution would require two negotiations. First, negotiation with Congress, to change asylum law to override the court decisions currently tying up the Trump White House’s attempts at deterrence — like the attempt to make Central American asylum petitioners wait out the process in Mexico. Second, negotiation with the Mexican government, to get more help discouraging migration on its side of the border. For a different president these tasks would be challenging; for Trump, they seem impossible.

Hence the flailing on display this week, with the president purging his entire Homeland Security apparatus, in the hopes of finding somebody with the requisite toughness to succeed where the present staff has failed. Since “toughness” apparently means one of two things — returning to the cruelty of child separation or ordering Border Patrol agents to simply ignore asylum law themselves — it’s doubtful that this purge will produce anything except more unpopularity for Trump's policies, and more unsuccessful collisions with the courts.

The flailing also absolves the Democratic Party, currently torn between radicalism and evasion on immigration, from actually having to propose a coherent alternative to the White House’s approach. If this sort of crisis were happening on President Hillary Clinton’s watch, it would create all kinds of political problems for the Democrats; as it stands, they can point at the man who once boasted of Washington that “I alone can fix it” and say, well, why don’t you?]]></description>
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    <title>Republicans Warn Drug Companies Not To Cooperate With A Congressional Investigation</title>
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    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In an unusual move, House Republicans are warning drug companies against complying with a House investigation into drug prices.

Republicans on the House Oversight Committee sent letters to a dozen CEOs of major drug companies warning that information they provide to the committee could be leaked to the public by Democratic chair Elijah Cummings in an effort to tank their stock prices.]]></description>
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    <title>Five Revelations Reveal The Extent Of The Rot In The NC GOP Bribery Scandal</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-09T02:38:28+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[

Since last week’s bombshell indictment dropped implicating North Carolina Republican Party Chairman Robin Hayes and businessman Greg Lindberg in a sprawling bribery scheme, more details have come to light, revealing the depth of the rot.

Here’s what we know so far. Lindberg and Hayes were indicted on myriad charges, including bribery, by a federal prosecutor as part of an ongoing probe. Hayes was also smacked with three counts of lying to the FBI.

They were caught trying to bribe Insurance Commissioner Mark Causey with more than $1 million dollars in campaign contributions in exchange for him getting rid of a senior deputy official in charge of regulating Lindberg’s businesses and sticking a Lindberg staffer in his place.

The indictment papers say that Hayes aided and abetted Lindberg in his scheme; Hayes denies wrongdoing. Around the same time, Hayes said that he’d step down from his position in June due a recent hip surgery. ]]></description>
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    <title>Mick Mulvaney rewrites history, claims Trump never promised to release his tax returns</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-08T23:12:12+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The White House might want you to forget about it now, but before and during the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump repeatedly promised to release his tax returns.

In 2014, Trump said that if he “decide[s] to run for office, I’ll produce my tax returns. Absolutely. I would love to do that.” In 2015 — months before launching his presidential campaign — Trump told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt that “I would release tax returns ... I have no objection to certainly showing tax returns.”

Candidate Trump reiterated that vow during the first presidential debate with Hillary Clinton with a now-familiar caveat, saying, “I’m under a routine audit and it’ll be released, and as soon as the audit is finished, it will be released.”

Trump, of course, never followed through. He continues to cite an audit that seems poised to outlast any of our natural lifetimes as the reason he won’t release his tax returns. But now that House Ways and Means Committee Chair Rep. Richard Neal (D-MA) has formally asked the IRS to turn them over, the White House is pretending like Trump never said he’d release them at all.

During an interview on Fox News Sunday, acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney vowed that Democrats will “never” see Trump’s tax returns, and characterized the issue as one “that was already litigated during the election.”

“Voters knew Trump could’ve given his tax returns, they knew that he didn’t, and they elected him anyway,” Mulvaney said. ]]></description>
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    <title>Trump Demands Homeland Security Secretary Who Will Break the Law</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-08T18:26:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/04/trump-kirstjen-nielsen-fired-homeland-illegal.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Conservative elites have tried to convince themselves that what Republican voters really mean when they cheer for the wall and repeat lurid stories of Latino men committing horrific crimes is that they just want the law to be followed. Trump, as he has done so many times, has turned the rationalizations made on his own behalf into a joke.]]></description>
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    <title>Herman Cain Opens a New #MeToo Minefield for Republicans</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-08T01:50:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/05/business/herman-cain-federal-reserve.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Payments to women who complained of sexual harassment. Accusations of groping. Allegations of a 13-year extramarital affair.

As President Trump moves ahead with his plan to nominate Herman Cain, a 2012 Republican presidential candidate, for a seat on the Federal Reserve’s board of governors, Republican lawmakers are being forced to confront a fresh round of uncomfortable allegations of sexual misconduct against women as the 2020 campaign begins.

A day after Mr. Trump made the choice of Mr. Cain official, Senate Republicans expressed quiet anxiety over the prospect of another #MeToo minefield even as the White House exalted the decision.

“President Trump’s statement that Herman Cain is ‘a truly outstanding individual’ is a message that the president of the United States is willing to ignore the allegations of a number of women who alleged that Herman Cain either sexually harassed them or had an affair with them,” said Gloria Allred, a lawyer who represented two of Mr. Cain’s accusers. “This message is an insult to women and should be condemned by the Republican Party and all those who care about respect and dignity for women.”

The choice of Mr. Cain comes as Mr. Trump’s other pick to fill an open seat on the seven-member Fed board, the conservative economist Stephen Moore, has been under fire for ethical and financial lapses that emerged from his divorce records. In both cases, the White House has publicly backed Mr. Trump’s selections despite criticism that he was installing loyalists with questionable credentials in two of the country’s top economic policy jobs.

“I don’t buy it; we’re not trying to damage the Fed’s independence,” Larry Kudlow, the director of the National Economic Council, said on the Fox Business Network on Friday when asked about Mr. Cain.

But the questions surrounding Mr. Cain, who made his loyalty to the president clear with his creation of a political action committee to combat misinformation about Mr. Trump, go beyond cronyism.

The sexual misconduct accusations against him first emerged in 2011, when his long-shot campaign for the Republican presidential nomination was gaining traction and he was briefly propelled to the top of the polls. He denied the claims, denouncing them as a political hit job that were being circulated by opponents to sink his candidacy.]]></description>
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    <title>Senate Republicans can’t explain why they keep blocking a resolution calling for the release of the Mueller report</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-06T01:33:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/4/5/18295598/senate-republicans-resolution-mueller-report</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Senate Republicans say they want “transparency” around the Mueller report — but they keep rejecting a measure that would actually offer it.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) on Thursday, once again, blocked a resolution pushing for the public release of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report. It’s the fifth time Republicans have rejected Democratic efforts to consider the resolution — even as multiple news reports this week questioned how comprehensive Attorney General Bill Barr’s summary of the full report was. The resolution, which is nonbinding, simply urges the public release of the report and notes that it is not calling for the release of any content that is “expressly prohibited by law.”

As Vox’s Ella Nilsen has reported, this resolution overwhelmingly passed the House on a bipartisan basis, 420-0. (It’s worth noting that the House vote took place before Barr’s summary of the report was actually released.) In the Senate, however, multiple Republicans, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Judiciary Chair Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Paul have moved to bar it from consideration, while Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) has called for the report to be released.

Thus far, the only reasons Republicans have given for their position on the resolution haven’t been particularly convincing. While McConnell has said that he’s rejected the measure because he wants to give Barr time to coordinate with the special counsel’s office about how to release additional contents of the report, Democrats have argued that the resolution not only does nothing to prevent him from doing that, it also doesn’t set any deadline for him to follow through.

Meanwhile, both Graham and Paul have not been shy about noting that their objections are heavily “political.” Graham had said he was pushing back against the resolution because he wanted more information about the 2016 investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server. “I’m just making a political point,” he told the Charleston Post and Courier when he shot down the resolution in mid-March. Paul, meanwhile, called for a review of how the Russia investigation began and why law enforcement officials were looking into the Trump campaign in the first place. ]]></description>
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    <title>Trump’s Two Economies | National Review</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-05T22:37:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/donald-trumps-two-economies/</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[If we have a strong economy thanks to Trump’s policies, we shouldn’t need to have lower interest rates and quantitative easing to keep it going. If Trump’s policies have led to an increase in the economy’s potential growth rate, an increase that has already been showing up, then interest rates should go up and not down. (Higher expectations of economic growth should cause the neutral interest rate—the rate at which inflation stays on target—to rise.)

At many points in time, an economy will yield statistics that tell conflicting stories about its trajectory. The yield curve right now strikes many observers as a sign of impending recession. Job growth, on the other hand, is still strong. But wait! Job growth is slowing. Does that mean the economy is about to flatline, or is it a natural consequence of having reached a high level of employment? There is plenty of room to interpret the data in different ways, or to confess that the picture is unclear.

But some sets of arguments about the economy can’t simultaneously be true. What Republicans are saying, that Trump has given us an economy that’s stronger than ever but can’t thrive under the burden of a 2.5 percent interest rate, falls into that category.]]></description>
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    <title>New book details Trump’s topsy-turvy relationship with Congress</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-04T01:03:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/new-book-details-trumps-topsy-turvy-relationship-with-congress/2019/04/03/fe0725b0-54a8-11e9-814f-e2f46684196e_story.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[During a Republican retreat at Camp David last year, President Trump seemed particularly enthralled as Gary Cohn, then his chief economic adviser, delivered a briefing on infrastructure. The president impressed the assembled lawmakers with his apparent interest in the presentation, nodding along and scribbling furious notes.

But Trump’s notes “had nothing to do with infrastructure,” journalists Jake Sherman and Anna Palmer write in their new book, “The Hill to Die On.”

Instead, Trump had scrawled “Sloppy Steve” atop his index card, followed by “copious notes” criticizing Stephen K. Bannon, his former chief strategist whom he had fired several months earlier.

“As Cohn had detailed his plans to rebuild America’s roads, the president was writing down how he wanted to trash Steve Bannon the next time someone asked him about it,” the authors write, in one of buzzy scenes that pepper the book.

The 399-page tome — written by two longtime congressional reporters at Politico who also anchor the publication’s flagship newsletter, “Politico Playbook” — chronicles Congress in the age of Trump, largely beginning on Election Day 2016 and stretching through the end of 2018. The Washington Post obtained a copy of the book, which is scheduled to be released Tuesday.

According to a foreword, “A Hill to Die On” is the result of about 26 months of reporting, as well as interviews with White House aides and the president. The authors also write that they were reporting their book “contemporaneously with the daily news cycle” — and thus some scenes and details have already “appeared in news stories in Politico, The Washington Post, the New York Times, and elsewhere.”]]></description>
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    <title>Trump’s aides warn him border shutdown would be disastrous - POLITICO</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-03T15:53:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/02/trump-aides-border-shutdown-disaster-1249828</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Inside the White House, officials frantically spent the day searching for ways to limit the economic impact of shuttering the border, according to two senior administration officials and one Republican close to the White House. One possibility involved closing the border to cars but allowing commercial trucks to continue to pass through. Officials stressed, however, that no final decisions have been made.

Publicly, Republican leaders expressed their own dismay at the threats, which Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell called potentially “catastrophic.”]]></description>
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    <title>Trump abandons plan for pre-election vote on health care after talking to McConnell</title>
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    <title>Impasse Over Aid for Puerto Rico Stalls Billions in Federal Disaster Relief</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-02T22:12:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/01/us/politics/puerto-rico-aid.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Senate on Monday blocked billions of dollars in disaster aid for states across the country as Republicans and Democrats clashed over President Trump’s opposition to sending more food and infrastructure help to Puerto Rico.

Opposition came from both parties for different reasons. Most Republicans refused to endorse a recovery bill passed this year by the House. They cited Mr. Trump’s opposition to the bill’s Puerto Rico funding, as well as their own concerns that the bill lacked money for Midwestern states, like Iowa and Nebraska, that have since been devastated by flooding and tornadoes.

For their part, Democrats balked at a separate measure drafted by Senate Republicans that included the money for the Midwest, arguing that a proposed $600 million in nutritional assistance for Puerto Rico was not enough. The Republican legislation had no chance in the House.

The votes on both measures were procedural and needed support from 60 senators to advance to a full floor vote. Neither won the support required. It was unclear late Monday how lawmakers would overcome that impasse and end the delay in disbursing the disaster aid.

The effort begins anew on Tuesday, when Senate Democrats will propose a measure that would allocate billions of dollars that would help Iowa and Nebraska, as well as Puerto Rico, according to a Senate Democratic aide.

Mr. Trump has been pressuring Democrats to support a disaster relief measure that does not include the money they want for Puerto Rico, and he went on the attack late Monday on Twitter.]]></description>
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    <title>The President As Adolescent Bully</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-01T21:06:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/04/president-trump-is-an-adolescent-bully.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Trump’s use of bullying tactics against his rivals for the Republican nomination in 2015-2016 played a critical role in endearing him to the Republican base. Trump’s rollouts of new terms of abuse for his rivals have become mini-events celebrated by his fans. The Trump campaign capitalized on the new insult by hawking celebratory t-shirts. His continued use of these methods, and the delight it gives his supporters reveals something important about what binds them together.

Bullying is most closely associated with adolescence, because teenagers are most naturally prone to it. Children that age tend to lack empathy or well-developed moral worldviews, and they often gravitate toward peers who engage in displays of dominance and cruelty. It is also the age when people are most prone to judge themselves and others by their appearance, and when social relations tend to be the most hierarchical.

Like a teenage bully, Trump fixates on a superficial characteristic in his target. He mocks male targets (Marco Rubio, Schiff, Bob Corker) as short, and a variety of women as fat or ugly. When reporter Serge Kovaleski challenged one of his lies, Trump mimicked his disability. He mocked Senator Charles Schumer for tearing up over Trump’s Muslim ban, either disgusted or unable to comprehend that somebody would empathize with the plight of immigrants.]]></description>
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    <title>Trump pressures Dems to back massive disaster aid bill</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-01T21:02:56+00:00</dc:date>
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    <title>Senator Whose Company Defrauded Medicare to Lead GOP’s Health-Care Push</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-01T20:55:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/04/rick-scott-is-an-odd-choice-to-lead-gops-health-care-reform.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[If the Trump administration has a domestic policy doctrine at this point, it could be described as the following practice: the appointment of industry insiders to cabinet-level positions in order to deregulate or otherwise surgically dismantle the protections of a given department.

In this spirit comes the announcement that Florida Senator Rick Scott would deliver on President Trump’s promise that the GOP “will soon be known as the party of health care.” On Thursday, Trump told reporters that Scott, and fellow Republican Senators John Barrasso of Wyoming and Bill Cassidy of Louisiana would lead the party’s push on health care reform.
“They are going to come up with something really spectacular,” the president said.

If by spectacular, he means a candidate who was at the helm of a company that pleaded guilty to historic efforts to defraud Medicare, the president has found his man. In the 1990s, Scott was the CEO of Columbia/HCA, a company that, under his direction, owned more than 340 hospitals, 135 surgery centers, and 550 home health locations by the time Scott resigned in 1997. That year, federal agents announced an investigation into whether or not the company defrauded Medicare and Medicaid on a massive scale. Turns out, they did: according to Politifact’s summary of the settlement Columbia/HCA made with the Justice Department, the company took the following actions while Scott was CEO:]]></description>
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    <title>Opinion | The Mick Mulvaney Presidency</title>
    <dc:date>2019-04-01T04:26:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/30/opinion/trump-obamacare-mulvaney.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[You could describe the cut-the-Special-Olympics budgets and anti-Obamacare efforts as just classic Republican hypocrisy, the tribute that big-spending vice plays to small-government virtue. But Trump campaigned in 2016 as the guy who would get rid of this charade, who would actually identify as a free-spending populist rather than a movement conservative, who would enable the G.O.P. to be a “worker’s party” in its self-conception rather than just in its compromises with political reality.

Instead, thanks to his “people” and his own rhetorical shifts, he’s ended up in a weirder position. The Trump record would justify, within limits, campaigning in 2020 the way he did in 2016, claiming to have governed as a populist rather than a Ryanist — taking credit for reforming Obamacare rather than eliminating it, taking credit for Congress’s guns-and-butter budgets and all the popular spending they contain.

But right now Trump is letting the mostly-imaginary version of his presidency, the Mulvaney version, define his priorities and public rhetoric. Which makes him look like a guy who didn’t keep his promises, who promised to be a different kind of Republican and then kept trying to defund the Special Olympians and throw people off their health care coverage.

That’s the most unpopular version of Trumpism, which is saying something. And his chances in 2020 will turn, in part, on whether he realizes it. His real economic record, however haphazard and under-theorized, could still win him re-election. The Mulvaney fantasia guarantees defeat.]]></description>
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    <title>Nominee For No. 3 At Justice Department Withdraws After Backlash From GOP Senators</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-31T01:06:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.npr.org/2019/03/29/707938914/nominee-for-no-3-at-justice-department-withdraws-after-backlash-from-gop-senator</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[President Trump's pick to serve as third in command at the Justice Department, overseeing health care and immigration cases, withdrew her name from consideration Thursday evening amid backlash from conservative lawmakers on the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Jessie Liu leads more than 300 prosecutors as the U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., the nation's largest such office. As an Asian-American woman, she would have added a measure of diversity to the Justice Department's senior ranks — as well as serious prosecution chops. The Justice Department said Liu will remain in her current post and advise Attorney General William Barr as the head of a committee of other top federal prosecutors.

Two sources told NPR that the attorney general got into a "shouting match" with Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee, a key figure in opposing Liu's bid. A spokeswoman for Barr declined comment on the heated conversation with a lawmaker from his own political party. For his part, Barr issued a statement filled with praise for Liu and insisting, "We will all benefit from her universally-regarded expertise and dedication to public service" in her role as an adviser to him.

Four lawyers familiar with the matter said the stumbling block for Liu was a broader concern about her conservatism — specifically, her stance on women's reproductive rights. Interest groups had begun drafting letters to senators about their fears that Liu would not support restrictions on abortion. Another key factor: Earlier in her career, Liu had an affiliation with the National Association of Women Lawyers, which sent a letter opposing the nomination of Justice Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court. ]]></description>
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    <title>With social program fights, some Republicans fear being seen as the party of the 1 percent</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-31T01:03:56+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[President Trump boasted this week that the Republican Party will soon be known as “the party of great health care.”

But a growing number of Republicans fear that it risks being tagged as the party of the 1 percent instead — handing Democrats a potent political message as the GOP pushes to gut former president Barack Obama’s health-care law and other popular federal programs, including those that help the poor and people with disabilities.

A spate of policy moves in recent weeks by Republican lawmakers and Trump administration officials has driven the party’s agenda hard to the right, giving new fodder to Democratic presidential candidates eager to shift the national debate to such issues as health care and jobs ahead of the 2020 election.

The administration’s budget released this month, for example, includes massive rollbacks of programs including Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security Disability Insurance, as well as cuts to the Special Olympics, Meals on Wheels, and programs related to autism and other developmental disabilities.

Trump signaled his misgivings about some of those cuts in recent days — rescinding a proposal to zero out Special Olympics funding, which had sparked a bipartisan backlash, and promising to protect a cleanup program for the Great Lakes in states that could be crucial to his reelection.

Democrats said the broad efforts by Trump and Republicans to attack programs that aid lower-income and working-class Americans could help blunt the president’s populist appeal and provide voters with more reasons to consider supporting Democratic candidates. The debate bears echoes of Obama’s successful reelection effort in 2012, when Democrats attacked now-Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) as an out-of-touch GOP nominee beholden to the wealthiest Americans. ]]></description>
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    <title>“AOC sucks” is the new “Lock her up”</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-30T21:41:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/3/29/18287033/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-trump-rally-hillary-clinton</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[But at every turn, Republicans appear hell-bent on going after Ocasio-Cortez, much in the same way they did to Clinton for years.

Philip Bump at the Washington Post found that Fox News mentions Ocasio-Cortez more than any likely or already-declared 2020 presidential candidates besides Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA). From January 1 to February 16 of this year, Fox talked about Ocasio-Cortez more than it did Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/28/us/politics/adam-schiff-resign.html">
    <title>Demands for Adam Schiff’s Head Highlight Chasm That Only Widened With Mueller’s Conclusion</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-28T23:07:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/28/us/politics/adam-schiff-resign.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The House Intelligence Committee’s first hearing since Robert S. Mueller III completed his report had barely begun when the panel’s Republicans moved en masse to demand the resignation of the committee’s chairman.

It went downhill from there.

The acrimony on display as the intelligence committee tried to resume its work on Russia’s intervention in the 2016 presidential election laid bare the bitter divide that persists in Congress even after Mr. Mueller, the special counsel, completed his 22-month investigation of the subject. The Republican demand and the barbed response of the committee’s chairman, Representative Adam B. Schiff, echoed well outside the wood-paneled House hearing room.

Representative Kevin McCarthy, the House Republican leader, spent much of his weekly news conference comparing Mr. Schiff, a fellow Californian, to Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, who fueled fears in the 1950s that Communist spies had infiltrated the American government. Representative Michael R. Turner, Republican of Ohio, played the same card.

“With McCarthyism,” a senator was “chasing after Russian Communists,” Mr. Turner, an Intelligence Committee member, said. “Now we have Schiff chasing after Russian collusion.”

Undaunted, Mr. Schiff made clear he was not about to step down, nor was he about to absolve President Trump or his campaign from nefarious conduct with Moscow. The Justice Department revealed on Thursday that Mr. Mueller’s report came in at more than 300 pages, raising more questions about what information was behind the four-page summary released by William P. Barr, the attorney general.]]></description>
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    <title>A Hollowed-Out IRS Workforce Has Led to a 91 Percent Drop in Investigations of Non-Filing Businesses</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-28T22:12:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.govexec.com/management/2019/03/hollowed-out-irs-workforce-has-led-91-percent-drop-investigations-non-filing-businesses/155880/</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Nearly a decade of budget and workforce cuts has led to the Internal Revenue Service leaving billions of dollars in revenue uncollected each year, a new report has found.

IRS’ shedding of employees has centered disproportionately on tax collection, the Government Accountability Office said, leading to an agency capable of performing only a fraction of the work it did as recently as 2011. The reductions have been compounded by losses within its human resources office, leaving the agency without the capacity to engage in workforce planning or assessments of where it has the most needs.

The agency is ignoring even tax returns with obvious discrepancies because it no longer has the resources to follow up on them.]]></description>
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    <title>House Fails to Override Trump’s Veto, Preserving National Emergency Order</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-27T02:29:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/26/us/politics/national-emergency-vote.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The House on Tuesday failed to overturn President Trump’s first veto, leaving the declaration of a national emergency at the southwestern border intact despite bipartisan passage of a resolution nullifying the president’s circumvention of Congress to fund his border wall.

Despite concerns about the constitutional separation of powers and the impact of Mr. Trump’s move on local military projects, only 14 Republicans joined Democrats in voting to override the veto, one more Republican than the 13 who voted for the resolution of disapproval last month. The 248-181 vote fell short of the two-thirds majority needed to kill the national emergency declaration.]]></description>
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    <title>Opinion | Republicans Really Hate Healthcare</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-27T00:54:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/26/opinion/republicans-really-hate-healthcare.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As an aside, this latest Trump move completes his utter betrayal of the people who put him in office. Consider a place like West Virginia, where a lot of people gained health insurance thanks to Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion. The state went overwhelmingly for Trump anyway, because he promised not to cut health care, and also promised to bring back those good jobs in coal. So I made a little chart to show what he’s actually offering West Virginians:]]></description>
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    <title>Opinion | The Trump administration just handed Democrats their best 2020 issue</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-26T20:12:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/03/26/trump-administration-just-handed-democrats-their-best-issue/</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Which brings us to my theory about why such a thing could happen. When he ran for president, Trump made lots of noises that suggested he was something of a moderate, at least on a few issues. He’d claim that he’d protect Medicare and Social Security, and even promised that he’d provide “insurance for everybody.” But no one really took those statements seriously, because it was obvious that outside of trade and immigration, Trump has no particular beliefs about any issues, much less a coherent ideology that guides him.

But instead of producing moderation, Trump’s ideological blurriness led to a more conservative set of administration policies. His own beliefs provide no borders within which his aides are required to work. And since he is so corrupt and personally despicable, many of the more sensible Republican policy wonks who would have staffed a different Republican administration chose to stay away, leaving the administration to be filled either by people who shared Trump’s penchant for self-dealing or by extremist ideologues who correctly surmised that a president who didn’t care about policy would give them free rein to indulge their wildest fantasies.

Now add in the fact that unlike other Republican presidents, Trump sees no political advantage in expanding his support. He firmly believes that his political survival depends only on keeping his most ardent supporters satisfied with what he’s doing while also keeping them agitated and angry at his opponents. So there is never a moment when Trump will say, “Hold on, that’s going too far — moderate and independent voters will be angry if we do that.”

When you combine these two factors — Trump’s indifference to policy, and his desire to play to his base and only his base — the result is an administration that is in many ways more conservative than any in modern history.

For them, the thought of taking away health coverage from tens of millions of Americans and removing vital protections from tens of millions more isn’t an unfortunate consequence of their effort to destroy the Affordable Care Act; it’s the whole point. That’s what victory looks like to them.]]></description>
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    <title>Robert Jeffress: People Like Me Have “Deeper Convictions” Than Other Christians</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-25T01:27:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2019/03/24/robert-jeffress-people-like-me-have-deeper-convictions-than-other-christians/</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Pastor Robert Jeffress, one of Donald Trump‘s most vocal white evangelical supporters, was asked on FOX News Channel this morning what he thought about a recent survey that found significant drops in religious affiliation and growth for the “Nones.”

After trying to spin this as good news for the religious, Jeffress argued that more conservative churches like his were “growing furiously” (an apt phrase for more than one reason). He also said the recent religious trends wouldn’t be a problem for Donald Trump at the ballot box because evangelicals — by which he means conservative white evangelicals — have “deeper convictions” about their beliefs and vote accordingly.

It’s a complete slap in the face to every believer who doesn’t share his view that belief in Christ is aligned with the Republican Party’s platform.]]></description>
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    <title>Israel Lobby Convenes in Washington Amid Fraying Bipartisanship and Rising Tension</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-25T00:47:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/23/us/politics/aipac-israel-trump-democrats.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[More than 18,000 activists will converge in Washington on Sunday for the annual conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, as Democrats wrestle with the left’s rising criticism of Israel and as President Trump seeks to divide his political rivals while bolstering Israel’s embattled leader.

In some respects, the three-day Aipac conference will look much as it has in years past. American and Israeli luminaries will speak, including Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, Vice President Mike Pence, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Mr. Netanyahu’s main challenger in Israel’s election next month, Benny Gantz. It will wrap up on Tuesday with a “lobbying day,” when thousands of activists will flock to Capitol Hill to press Aipac’s legislative agenda.

But this year’s confab is playing out in a changed and charged Washington political environment. Mr. Trump and his fellow Republicans have spent weeks lobbing accusations of anti-Semitism at Democrats, although the party remains the home of the vast majority of American Jews. And Democrats are under mounting pressure from their left flank to distance themselves from Aipac, which aligns itself closely with Mr. Netanyahu’s far-right policies.

A string of Democratic presidential candidates — Senators Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Kamala Harris of California, as well as Beto O’Rourke and Julián Castro, among others — are skipping the conference. A group of freshman Democrats in the House, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, has emerged as forthright critics of Israel and the United States’ policy tilt toward the Israeli government.

Those trends will stand in stark contrast to Mr. Trump’s embrace of Mr. Netanyahu, who will meet the president for talks at the White House on Monday and at a dinner on Tuesday.

“I don’t know what happened to them, but they are totally anti-Israel,” Mr. Trump said on Friday of the Democrats. “Frankly, I think they’re anti-Jewish.”

The swirl around this year’s conference represents “two new realities,” said Aaron David Miller, an expert on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at the Wilson Center, a Washington-based foreign affairs research organization.

The first is the deepening generational divide in the Democratic Party, which will be reflected in protests by progressive Jews outside the conference while older Democrats like Ms. Pelosi and Representative Steny H. Hoyer, the majority leader, address delegates inside. Mr. Trump might call Democrats “anti-Jewish,” but Jewish Democrats hold the gavels of some of the most powerful committees in the House — Judiciary, Appropriations, Foreign Affairs, Intelligence, Budget and Ethics — as well as the post of Senate Democratic leader. But a younger generation of Democrats is clashing with that old guard.]]></description>
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    <title>Opinion | We Need More Sister Souljah Moments</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-24T04:04:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/22/opinion/trump-mccain-2020-republicans-democrats.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We Need More Sister Souljah Moments Where is the Republican — or Democrat — willing to break with the base? Opinion Columnist Sister Souljah in 1993. In 1992,…]]></description>
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    <title>Trump complains about John McCain funeral</title>
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    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I gave him the kind of funeral that he wanted, which as president I had to approve," he told workers at the factory.

"I don't care about this, I didn't get a thank you. That's OK."

Mr Trump approved the military flight of McCain's remains from Arizona to Washington, but it was Congress that accorded the late senator the honour of lying in state.

The US president said McCain "didn't get the job done for our great vets and the VA" by refusing to repeal Obamacare and attacked him for "a war in the Middle East", in reference to the senator's support for the Iraq War.

"Not my kind of guy," the president said. "But some people like him and I think that's great."]]></description>
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    <title>Analysis | Lindsey Graham’s remarkably tepid defense of John McCain after Trump’s attacks</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-19T03:21:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/03/18/lindsey-grahams-remarkably-tepid-defense-john-mccain-after-trumps-attacks/</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It would be one thing to stand up for McCain’s actual conduct or even to rebut specific allegations without mentioning Trump, but Graham does none of that here. It’s about as vanilla a defense as you could imagine. It’s the kind of thing you would expect from basically any senator who is forced into commenting on Trump’s controversies.

And to be clear, this isn’t just inside-baseball politics. This is the kind of thing that could affect McCain’s legacy inside the party whose nomination he won in 2008. Trump is accusing Graham’s friend of truly awful things: betrayal of the party and even a conspiracy to hijack an election. Graham says nothing about McCain’s “service will ever be changed or diminished,” but that’s what’s happening here.

Graham doesn’t seem willing to go there and risk a rift with Trump, given his own political considerations. But Trump is very much forcing him to choose between those two things. And the more Trump continues to attack a recently deceased war hero, the more difficult it would seem for Graham to continue playing this game. What happens when Trump accuses McCain of something even worse than conspiring with Democrats against him? Graham needs to ask how much he’s willing to turn a blind eye to.]]></description>
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    <title>Secular Democrats Are the New Normal</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-17T23:21:14+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/03/betos-announcement-shows-triumph-secular-democrats/585001/</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Today’s white liberals don’t only talk about faith less than their predecessors did. They talk about it in a strikingly different way. Earlier Democrats invoked religion as a source of national unity. Bill Clinton declared in his 1992 convention speech, “There is no them; there’s only us. One nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” In his 2004 convention keynote address, Obama famously announced, “We worship an awesome God in the blue states.” The implication was that religious observance was something Americans of both parties shared.

Today, by contrast, progressive white candidates more often cite religion as a source of division. In his announcement video, O’Rourke boasted that during his Senate campaign in Texas, “people allowed no difference, however great or however small, to stand between them and divide us. Whether it was religion or gender or geography or income, we put our labels and our differences aside.” The only reference to faith in Warren’s announcement speech was an acknowledgment that “we come from different backgrounds. Different religions.” The lone reference in Sanders’s was a call for “ending religious bigotry.” While white progressives once described religion as something that brought Americans together, they’re now more likely to describe it as something that drives them apart.

It’s not hard to understand why. For starters, the percentage of white Democrats who express no religious affiliation has skyrocketed. According to unpublished data tabulated for me last year by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI), 8 percent of white Democrats expressed no religious affiliation in 1990. By 2016, the figure was 33 percent. In 1990, white self-described liberals were 39 points more likely to describe themselves as Protestant than as religiously unaffiliated. By 2016, religiously unaffiliated beat Protestant by nine points.]]></description>
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    <title>Senate Republicans revolt against Trump over border - BBC News</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-16T18:37:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47569425</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Rebel members of President Donald Trump's party have helped pass a vote to reject his declaration of an emergency on the US-Mexico border.

Twelve Republican senators broke party ranks to side with Democrats, approving a proposal to revoke the proclamation by 59-41.

The Democratic-controlled House of Representatives last month backed the measure.

Following Thursday's vote, Mr Trump tweeted: "VETO!"

Congress needs a two-thirds majority of both chambers to override a presidential veto, which is viewed as unlikely in this case.

Nevertheless, the vote will be seen as an embarrassing loss for the president on his signature domestic issue.

On Twitter, Mr Trump slammed the vote, calling it a "Democrat inspired Resolution which would OPEN BORDERS while increasing Crime, Drugs and Trafficking in our Country".]]></description>
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    <title>House Votes, 420-to-0, to Demand Public Release of Mueller Report</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-15T16:37:47+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/14/us/politics/mueller-report-public.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[House Republicans joined Democrats on Thursday to overwhelmingly demand the Department of Justice release to Congress and the public the full findings of the special counsel’s investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election and the possible involvement of President Trump’s campaign.

Though the resolution is nonbinding and cannot force the Justice Department to take an particular action, Democrats who put it on the House floor are trying to build public pressure on Attorney General William P. Barr in advance of the investigation’s anticipated conclusion to share what Robert S. Mueller III produces. Far from standing in the way, Republicans joined Democrats en masse. On the 420-0 vote, four Republicans voted present.

“This report must see the light of day, must be available to the American public for a catharsis that will allow us to start with the facts, understand what happened and begin to rebuild the faith of the American people,” said Representative Jim Himes, Democrat of Connecticut and a senior member of the Intelligence Committee, which has undertaken its own Russia investigation.

Republicans called the resolution a waste of time, but they were unwilling to stand in its way. The four “present” votes were two libertarians who routinely oppose such resolutions, Representatives Justin Amash of Michigan and Thomas Massie of Kentucky, and two ardent Trump loyalists, Representatives Matt Gaetz of Florida and Paul Gosar of Arizona.]]></description>
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    <title>Congress Has a Breaking Point. This Week, Trump Might Have Found It.</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-15T16:01:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/14/us/politics/trump-congress-rebuke.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The rejection of Mr. Trump’s national emergency declaration could also give ammunition to a half-dozen legal cases challenging the president’s exercise of that power under the 1976 National Emergencies Act, said Jack L. Goldsmith, a Harvard law professor who led the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel under President George W. Bush.

“Some judges may count that as evidence of congressional intent,” Mr. Goldsmith said, though he added that he disagrees with that view.

Dror Ladin, a staff lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union, said Congress’s action would help convince federal judges that the president was acting illegally to fund his wall.

“This vote reinforces that the president has no right to that money,” Mr. Ladin said.

But as a political matter, Mr. Trump could use the congressional votes to his advantage on the 2020 campaign trail, portraying himself once again as the outsider candidate battling an unpopular Congress and the establishment in Washington.

Congress has for decades been what Ross K. Baker, a political scientist at Rutgers University, calls a “constitutional weakling” — excessively deferential to the president. But there have been moments in history where the legislative branch seeks to assert its power and relevance, particularly with respect to the military and foreign engagement.

That happened in the 1970s with the passage of the War Powers Act, which gave Congress the ability to compel the removal of military forces absent a formal declaration of war. Congress exerted its authority in 1991 and again in 2002, when it authorized the president to use military force in the run-up to both wars in Iraq.

In 2005, amid a public uproar over the torture of detainees, Congress tightened antitorture laws to ban the infliction of “cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment” on prisoners — including those held overseas by the C.I.A. — over the objections of President Bush.

Now the fight over wall funding may incite yet another round of congressional muscle-flexing. A number of Republicans are pushing legislation to claw back the powers that Congress gave the president in the National Emergencies Act, which Mr. Trump invoked to declare an emergency along the southwestern border.

“The Senate’s waking up a little bit to our responsibilities,” said Senator Lamar Alexander, Republican of Tennessee.]]></description>
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    <title>Senate Rejects Trump’s Border Emergency Declaration, Setting Up First Veto</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-15T02:14:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/14/us/politics/senate-vote-trump-national-emergency.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Senate on Thursday easily voted to overturn President Trump’s declaration of a national emergency at the southwestern border, delivering a bipartisan rebuke to what lawmakers in both parties deemed executive overreach by a president determined to build his border wall over Congress’s objections.

The 59-41 vote on the House-passed measures set up the first veto of Mr. Trump’s presidency. It was not overwhelming enough to override Mr. Trump’s promised veto, but Congress has now voted to block a presidential emergency declaration for the first time — and on one of the core promises that animated Mr. Trump’s political rise, the vow to build a wall between the United States and Mexico.

In an attempt to limit defections ahead of the vote, Mr. Trump had sought to frame the vote publicly as not only a declaration of support for his border security policies but a sign of personal loyalty.

“It’s pure and simple: it’s a vote for border security, it’s a vote for no crime,” Mr. Trump told reporters ahead of the vote, which he declared on Twitter to be “a vote for Nancy Pelosi, Crime and the Open Border Democrats!”

But he could not overcome concerns among Republican senators about the legality of redirecting $3.6 billion from military construction projects toward the border wall even after Congress explicitly rejected the funding request.

“I believe the use of emergency powers in this circumstance violates the Constitution,” said Senator Jerry Moran, Republican of Kansas, in a statement written on lined paper. “This continues our country down the path of all powerful executive — something those who wrote the Constitution were fearful of.”

Ultimately, about a dozen Republicans joined Senate Democrats in supporting the House-passed resolution of disapproval: Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, Roy Blunt of Missouri, Susan Collins of Maine, Mike Lee of Utah, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Rob Portman of Ohio, Mitt Romney of Utah, Marco Rubio of Florida, Patrick J. Toomey of Pennsylvania, Rand Paul of Kentucky, Roger Wicker of Mississippi, and Mr. Moran.

The vote marks an explicit rebuke of Mr. Trump’s effort to end-run the constitutional power of the purse given to Congress, and although supporters will not be able to overcome a veto, the action could bolster a number of lawsuits contesting the emergency declaration as a flagrant violation of the Constitution’s separation of powers.]]></description>
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    <title>Beto is playing to liberal fears about running a woman against Trump</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-15T02:13:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.vox.com/2019/3/14/18265398/beto-vanity-fair-born-to-run-remark-running-for-president</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The debate around how to defeat Trump has been largely about whether it’s better to run a man or a woman. But there’s more to it than gender. The question is about what Democrats expect from leaders.

O’Rourke can’t single-handedly change how Americans think about women and ambition. But he also doesn’t have to amplify the status quo in how he runs his campaign. He doesn’t have to talk about ambition as his right. Instead of making a slightly self-deprecating joke about leaving the parenting to his wife (while still being seen as a likable and decent person), he could try to address the underlying topic in an earnest and real way.

And as he gets into the race, he’ll have to decide how he challenges his female peers. Will he perpetuate stereotypes that hold women back? Or will he face them on issues and policy?

Even before several female Democratic candidates got into the race, they were the target of the same attack Clinton endured for years — that she’s only out for herself. And the attacks were coming from inside their own tent. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand has been accused of pressuring Sen. Al Franken to resign over allegations of sexual misconduct as a personal play. Sen. Kamala Harris was targeted by a Twitter campaign that started as a policy critique but took personal turns into her supposed secret motivations. Sen. Amy Klobuchar has faced criticism for how she supposedly treats her staff. While some of it was truly bad boss behavior, the critiques were rooted in the idea that she put herself and her ambition first.

If these old sexist lines continue, Democrats could leave a mark on their field of female stars heading into 2020. What does O’Rourke plan to do? ]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.vox.com/2019/3/14/18264306/senate-republicans-block-trump-emergency-resolution">
    <title>12 Senate Republicans just helped Democrats block Trump’s border wall national emergency</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-15T02:13:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.vox.com/2019/3/14/18264306/senate-republicans-block-trump-emergency-resolution</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A staggering 12 Senate Republicans have officially voted to block President Donald Trump’s declaration of national emergency, highlighting a marked split between GOP lawmakers and the White House on the president’s attempt to obtain more funding for his border wall.

Sens. Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Rand Paul, Mitt Romney, Mike Lee, Lamar Alexander, Jerry Moran, Pat Toomey, Rob Portman, Roger Wicker, Roy Blunt, and Marco Rubio ultimately joined with Democrats to vote for a resolution terminating the president’s national emergency. As many as 10 Republicans were reportedly considering breaking with Trump on the subject, and even more wound up actually doing so, leading to a final 59-41 vote.

It’s the second time in as many days that Senate Republicans have directly confronted the president: On Wednesday, seven Republican senators voted in favor of a resolution to end US involvement in Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen, a measure that Trump is also expected to veto.

Both chambers of Congress have now passed the national emergency resolution, which would end the emergency if the president decides to sign it. But Trump has said he won’t, and though a number of Republicans opposed the resolution, not enough did to get to a veto-proof threshold. It’s the first time in US history that Congress has voted to terminate a president’s national emergency, and Trump is very much set to shoot down the measure.

Trump’s anticipated vetoes on the national emergency resolution and the Yemen resolution would be the first of his presidency. The Senate’s votes on both highlight a Republican Party that’s suddenly more open to breaking with the Oval Office. ]]></description>
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    <title>Senate votes to end US support of Saudi-led Yemen war - BBC News</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-14T05:23:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47564274</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The US Republican-led Senate has approved a bill to end US support for the Saudi-led coalition war in Yemen.

The bipartisan vote was 54 to 46, and is a rebuke to President Donald Trump's support of Saudi Arabia and its leader despite recent tensions.

Mr Trump has vowed to veto the resolution should it pass through the Democrat-led Congress.

The war in Yemen started in 2015 and has left thousands of Yemenis dead and millions more starving.

The US sells weapons used by the Saudis and its military provides logistical and intelligence support to the coalition for drone strikes.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.vox.com/2019/3/13/18262057/who-is-bubba-the-love-sponge-tucker-carlson-hulk-hogan">
    <title>Bubba the Love Sponge, the shock radio host on the Tucker Carlson tapes, explained</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-14T05:16:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.vox.com/2019/3/13/18262057/who-is-bubba-the-love-sponge-tucker-carlson-hulk-hogan</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Between the Gawker episode, his various controversies, firings, and lawsuits over the years, Clem’s financial situation seems to have declined rapidly. Recent profiles have painted him as having fallen from national prominence, focusing on his dwindling finances and his difficulties staying on the air.

In 2011, Clem reportedly walked away from his Sirius hosting gig due to salary cuts by the network. Though he moved to another internet streaming site, he seems to have siloed himself from more mainstream radio hosting opportunities in the years since.

But it’s possible that staying out of the mainstream is paradoxically keeping him relevant to conservative America. Despite the profiles chronicling his decline, what’s remarkable about Clem is just how high-profile he still seems to be among certain listeners. He still has a daily radio show in Tampa, which also streams live on Twitch, where he has a respectable 2.2 million total views. Moreover, his particular blend of shock humor, reportedly licentious lifestyle, and a certain flavor of white American culture still seems to generate a striking collection of moments that intertwine with national American politics.

For instance, in 2007, Clem interviewed porn actress Stormy Daniels and openly spoke to her about her alleged sexual liaisons with Donald Trump. The details of that interview resurfaced last year. Clem’s on-air phone calls with Carlson may have ended years ago, but his friendship with the pundit hasn’t. And last month, he had a different guest caller who represents yet another facet of the interplay between conservative politics, white Americana, and the media: powerful, shadowy political consultant Roger Stone, days before special counsel Robert Mueller indicted Stone and arrested him on charges pertaining to Mueller’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

That Clem has managed to keep his fingers in so many political pies while drifting further afield of mainstream radio suggests that he is perhaps more in lockstep with a certain sort of national politics than with mainstream culture itself.

At this point, it’s possible we shouldn’t be asking who Bubba the Love Sponge is, but who and what else Bubba the Love Sponge knows.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/3/13/18263790/paid-family-leave-bill-cradle-act">
    <title>The GOP’s deeply flawed paid family leave plan, explained</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-14T00:10:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/3/13/18263790/paid-family-leave-bill-cradle-act</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[

Republicans in Congress are trying to revive a flawed plan to give working parents paid maternity and paternity leave.

Sens. Joni Ernst (R-IA) and Mike Lee (R-UT) announced details of their proposal Tuesday, called the Cradle Act, which they describe as the best option for paid leave because it doesn’t create “a massive mandated government program.”

But the truth is, it’s not paid leave at all. It’s another version of unpaid leave that working parents in the United States would have to fund themselves.

Here’s how it would work: The Cradle Act would let workers access some of their Social Security retirement income in advance to make up for some of the wages they would lose when taking parental leave. Workers would still bear the cost of taking time off — by delaying their retirement by twice as many months as they took off for parental leave. Someone who takes the maximum three months off, for example, would need to delay their Social Security retirement by six months.

The bill is nearly identical to a bill Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) proposed last year, called the Economic Security Act for New Parents, with support from White House adviser Ivanka Trump. They didn’t get enough bipartisan support for it, so it went nowhere.

Now the GOP is trying to resurrect a slightly different version of the same plan, hoping it will satisfy the growing public demand for a federal paid leave program.

The United States is the only industrialized country that doesn’t guarantee paid parental leave to working parents, and Republicans and Democratic voters overwhelmingly support the creation of such a program. The problem is that no one seems to agree on how to pay for it, and Republicans don’t want to make businesses chip in.

Instead, the Cradle Act would raid the Social Security Trust Fund, which is already at risk of being depleted. Ernst and Lee say their plan will address that by moving money from other parts of the budget to cover the borrowed Social Security funds until they are repaid — a move that would likely expand the already ballooning budget deficit.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/3/12/18260271/trump-medicaid-social-security-medicare-budget-cuts">
    <title>Trump said he wouldn’t cut Medicaid, Social Security, and Medicare. His 2020 budget cuts all 3.</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-13T02:28:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/3/12/18260271/trump-medicaid-social-security-medicare-budget-cuts</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump’s 2020 budget breaks one of his biggest campaign promises to voters: that he would leave Medicaid, Social Security, and Medicare untouched.

“I’m not going to cut Social Security like every other Republican and I’m not going to cut Medicare or Medicaid,” Trump told the Daily Signal, a conservative publication affiliated with the Heritage Foundation, in 2015.

Over the next 10 years, Trump’s 2020 budget proposal aims to spend $1.5 trillion less on Medicaid — instead allocating $1.2 trillion in a block-grant program to states — $25 billion less on Social Security, and $845 billion less on Medicare (some of that is reclassified to a different department). Their intentions are to cut benefits under Medicaid and Social Security. The impact on Medicare is more complicated, which I’ll get into a bit later.

Over time, the Trump administration tried to whittle down the president’s promise to just Social Security and Medicare. Office of Management and Budget Deputy Director Russ Vought said Monday, March 11, that Trump is “keeping his commitment to Americans by not making changes to Medicare and Social Security.” But even that is not true.

Like “every other Republican,” Trump has repeatedly proposed and supported cutting these programs. The White House did not respond to a request for comment. ]]></description>
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    <title>Defying Congress, Trump Plans to Renew Fight for Border Wall Funding</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-11T22:12:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/10/business/economy/trump-budget-wall.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[President Trump will ask Congress on Monday for additional funding to build a wall along the United States border with Mexico, a top administration official said on Sunday.

The request, which will come as part of Mr. Trump’s fiscal 2020 budget proposal, is certain to reignite a conflict with Democrats that led to a record-long government shutdown this year. Mr. Trump had previously requested $5.7 billion to build a wall but was rebuffed by both Democrats and Republicans, who approved a spending bill that did not include the funding.

That resulted in Mr. Trump declaring a national emergency on the border with Mexico to access billions of dollars that Congress refused to give him to build a wall there.]]></description>
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    <title>The bogus number at the center of the GOP’s Green New Deal attacks</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-11T17:27:52+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Republicans claim the Green New Deal would cost $93 trillion — a number that would dwarf the economic output of every nation on Earth.

The figure is bogus.

But that isn’t stopping the eye-popping total from turning up on the Senate floor, the Conservative Political Action Conference and even “Saturday Night Live” as the progressive Democrats’ sweeping-yet-vague vision statement amps up the political conversation around climate change.

The number originated with a report by a conservative think tank, American Action Forum, that made huge assumptions about how exactly Democrats would go about implementing their plan. But the $93 trillion figure does not appear anywhere in the think tank’s report — and AAF President Douglas Holtz-Eakin confessed he has no idea how much exactly the Green New Deal would cost.]]></description>
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    <title>Senate Has Votes to Overturn Trump’s Emergency Declaration</title>
    <dc:date>2019-03-10T23:07:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/04/us/politics/senate-emergency-declaration-trump.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[With Senator Rand Paul’s decision to support a resolution to block President Trump’s emergency declaration, Congress appears ready to deliver a stern rebuke to the president over his border wall and a clear statement that it will defend its ability to control federal spending.

Senator Paul, a libertarian-minded Kentuckian, said he will join fellow Republican Senators Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Thom Tillis of North Carolina, giving proponents of the resolution of disapproval the 51 votes they need, if Democrats remain united in their support.

On Monday, Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, confirmed that the measure has the votes to pass the Senate. Senate leadership, he said, has been conferring with the Senate parliamentarian to see if the House-passed resolution could be amended before the vote.

“It’s an interesting question,” Mr. McConnell said at a news conference in Kentucky. “It’s never been done before.”

The measure, outlined in the National Emergencies Act, is the simplest way for Congress to end a president’s national emergency declaration. Mr. Trump has said he will veto it, and neither chamber is likely to muster the two-thirds majority needed to overturn the veto. But the plaintiffs in multiple lawsuits will most likely seize upon a congressional repudiation as support for their argument that, in declaring a national emergency to take money for his wall that was not appropriated by Congress, Mr. Trump is subverting the Constitution, which grants Congress clear control over federal spending. ]]></description>
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    <title>Sen. Martha McSally coming forward about her rape could be a watershed moment for Republican women</title>
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    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Sen. Martha McSally (R-AZ), a former Air Force pilot who was the first American woman to fly in combat, said that she was sexually assaulted while in the military during a Senate hearing on Wednesday.

McSally said she was “preyed upon and raped by a superior officer” in a prepared statement during a Senate Armed Services subcommittee hearing on sexual assault in the military. She said at first she stayed silent about what happened, but once she came forward, she was “horrified” at how her situation was handled.

“Like many victims, I felt the system was raping me all over again,” she said.

The 26-year veteran said she almost separated from the Air Force but decided to stay in.

“I blamed myself. I was ashamed and confused. I thought I was strong but felt powerless,” McSally said. “The perpetrators abused their position of power in profound ways.”

She said the issue of sexual assault in the military is personal for her from two perspectives, “as a commander who led my airmen into combat, and as a survivor of rape and betrayal.”

“I share the disgust of the failures of the military system and many commanders who failed in their responsibilities,” she said. She called for commanders not to be removed “from the decision-making responsibility of preventing, detecting, and prosecuting military sexual assault.”]]></description>
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    <title>Democrats Reject Fox News as 2020 Debate Host, Citing Ties to Trump</title>
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    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Democratic National Committee said on Wednesday that it had barred Fox News from hosting or televising a candidate debate for the party’s 2020 primary election, an unusually pointed rebuke of a cable news channel whose star pundits are closely aligned with President Trump.

The committee’s chairman, Tom Perez, said in a statement that Fox News “is not in a position to host a fair and neutral debate for our candidates.” Mr. Perez cited an article published this week by The New Yorker that reported on ties between the president and the network, which he deemed an “inappropriate relationship.”

Televised debates are a relatively new innovation in the presidential primary process, but they have become sought-after events for networks eager to score high ratings and serve as gatekeepers in the early months of the nominating cycle, when viewers are forming their initial impressions of the candidates.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Republicans deny mocking victims with pearls Male Republican politicians in the New Hampshire House of Representatives have denied they were wearing pearl…]]></description>
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    <title>Homeland Security Chief Cites ‘Humanitarian Catastrophe’ on Border</title>
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    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Kirstjen Nielsen, the homeland security secretary, on Wednesday tersely defended a now-defunct Trump administration practice of separating migrant children from their families at the border, sidestepping whether she supported it as a way to deter illegal immigration.

In tense exchanges with House Democrats, Ms. Nielsen instead implored Congress to confront what she called a “humanitarian catastrophe” on the southern border by changing laws to crack down on illegal border crossings.]]></description>
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    <title>During GOP Day in WV Capitol, Vendor’s Poster Links Muslim Legislator to 9/11 | Hemant Mehta | Friendly Atheist | Patheos</title>
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    <title>Republicans can’t defend Trump against the substance of Cohen’s attacks</title>
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    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In most cases, people don’t just lie because they like making up stories. They lie because they have specific reasons to lie: It makes them look good, helps them get a job or money, or otherwise advances their interests.

Cohen’s argument, consistent throughout the testimony, is that he lied for these reasons in the past. He lied to protect Trump, his employer, and lied to enhance his own personal fortune. His lying was strategic, aimed at accomplishing personal and professional aims.

Lying in this hearing, by contrast, doesn’t help Cohen at all. In fact, it could seriously hurt him. Cohen is under oath, and lying to Congress would constitute perjury. Cohen knows how much trouble this could land him in, since he’s already been convicted of perjury. Lying now would expose Cohen to more criminal charges without benefitting him in any obvious way. So why on earth would he do it?

Republicans failed to answer that question in any persuasive way. The result is that their arguments have stuck to painting Cohen as a sort of pathological liar who lies compulsively and can’t be trusted because he has committed crimes in the past.]]></description>
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    <title>A Republican-backed bill to protect “abortion survivors” just failed. It still matters.</title>
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    <title>Trump has figured out Jeb Bush's greatest weakness as a candidate, and it's not his energy level - Vox</title>
    <dc:date>2015-10-19T00:10:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.vox.com/2015/10/18/9564267/donald-trump-jeb-bush-911</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I don't know if Donald Trump will win the Republican nomination. But even if he doesn't, it's increasingly clear he's going to destroy Jeb Bush before he loses.

Over the past week, Trump and Bush have been in an argument that basically boils down to the question of was George W. Bush president on 9/11/2001?

Trump insists that Bush was president both prior to and during the 9/11 attacks, and he was therefore at least partly responsible for the security failures that permitted the tragedy. And to Trump's credit, there is considerable evidence that George W. Bush was president on 9/11/2001.

Jeb Bush's position is harder to parse: he argues that his brother was only responsible for what happened after 9/11, suggesting, perhaps, that someone else bore the responsibilities of the presidency on 9/11/2001. Or, to be a bit kinder to his position, he argues that the measure of as president isn't whether something like 9/11 happens, but whether it happens again.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-pointless-cowardice-of-john-boehner">
    <title>The Pointless Cowardice of John Boehner - The New Yorker</title>
    <dc:date>2015-09-30T04:25:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-pointless-cowardice-of-john-boehner</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The mainstream reaction to the forced resignation of John Boehner as the Speaker of the House has been a kind of weary admiration. He fought the good fight against the extremists in his Republican caucus, the narrative goes, but his solid Midwestern virtues (he’s from Ohio) were ultimately no contest for the extremism of the Tea Party. This interpretation is far too generous to Boehner, whose failures, political and substantive, were due mostly to cowardice. The tragedy of Boehner is that he could have been a great Speaker, even on his own terms, but instead his legacy is one of almost complete failure.

Boehner long made it clear that he was a dedicated party man, who believed that what was good for the G.O.P. was good for the country as well. This is how the issue of comprehensive immigration reform came to be the true crucible of his speakership. Following President Obama’s reëlection, in 2012, it was clear that Republicans had to try to appeal to Hispanic voters. In March of 2013, Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, released a report saying that the Party “must embrace and champion comprehensive immigration reform.” In short order, many Republicans in the Senate, including such prominent figures as John McCain and Marco Rubio, did just that, and a bill which included a path to citizenship for a majority of undocumented immigrants passed by a vote of sixty-eight to thirty-two.

Boehner also supported immigration reform, at least in its broad outlines—because he correctly saw that it was good for both his party and his country. And there was no doubt that the reform bill could pass the House, with the support of most Democrats and a substantial number of Republicans as well. But Boehner’s Tea Party colleagues in the House opposed immigration reform. So the choice for Boehner, who controlled the House floor, was clear: pass a historic bill that would be good for the Republicans and for the republic, or appease the extremist elements in his party in hopes of hanging on to his position as Speaker.

Boehner caved, refusing to bring the bill to the floor for a vote, and he suffered the fate of all those who give in to bullies; he was bullied some more. This year, the fight was over the highway bill, another piece of popular legislation that Boehner himself and a majority of the House (as well as the Senate and the President) supported—as well they might, given that maintenance of roads and bridges represents some of the basic work of government. But again the Tea Party intimidated Boehner into keeping the bill off the floor, depriving the Speaker of another major accomplishment.

Boehner adopted an extreme version of the so-called Hastert rule, named for his predecessor as Speaker, Dennis Hastert, who is now under indictment for alleged financial crimes connected to blackmail payments (he has pleaded not guilty). The Hastert rule holds that the Speaker should never allow a vote on a bill unless it’s supported by a majority of the Republican caucus. But Boehner’s approach was to keep bills off the floor that were opposed by a minority of Republicans—the Tea Party caucus, which only numbers about fifty—effectively giving them a veto over the work of the House. Nothing came to the floor without their say-so, so that meant that nothing much came to the floor except for symbolic exercises like votes to repeal Obamacare or to defund Planned Parenthood.]]></description>
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    <title>Senate Backs Spending Measure to Avert Shutdown</title>
    <dc:date>2015-09-29T05:14:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/29/us/politics/senate-backs-spending-measure-to-avert-shutdown.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[After a brief trading of angry recriminations, Senate Republicans and Democrats voted Monday to advance a temporary spending measure that would avert a shutdown of the federal government on Wednesday night but also signals a battle in the weeks ahead.

The measure, which still requires final approval by the Senate and by the House, where some rank-and-file Republicans had pledged to block it, would keep agencies operating roughly at last year’s spending levels through Dec. 11.

The vote was 77 to 19, with 60 votes needed to proceed, and 31 Republicans joined 44 Democrats and two independents in favor. The bill does not include language cutting off federal financing for Planned Parenthood, a step that many Republicans had demanded while they investigate allegations surrounding the organization’s role in providing aborted fetuses for use in medical research.]]></description>
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    <title>John Boehner just sacrificed his career for the good of the Republican party</title>
    <dc:date>2015-09-26T02:44:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/09/25/john-boehner-just-sacrificed-his-career-for-the-good-of-the-republican-party/</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[That vicious cycle did two things: (1) It revealed to anyone paying attention — the White House, the Senate — that Boehner had no real control over his members, and (2) it emboldened conservatives to begin making bigger and grander demands to extract their support.

By the start of this year, it had become quite clear that Boehner’s ability to hold onto the speakership was in question. While he won the job in a floor vote in January, 25 of his GOP colleagues voted for someone else — the biggest rebellion against a sitting speaker in more than 100 years. That more than two dozen Republicans would vote against Boehner in an election in which there was no true alternative candidate was telling: They just weren’t afraid of him anymore.

Meanwhile, outside Congress, Donald Trump was on the rise — with a message that boils down to this: Everyone in politics is lying to you and is bad at their jobs. Republican leaders are the worst of all because they were elected to represent your views and have caved to President Obama and other Washington Democrats.

The prominence in the 2016 race of Trump, Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina — none of whom had ever held office before — speaks to the present mood coursing through the GOP electorate. Scott Walker’s candidacy fell victim to that anti-everything (or at least everything political) sentiment and others, including Jeb Bush, are struggling to deal with the deep distrust and, in many cases, dislike that the party’s grass roots have for the people elected to lead them.

That was the landscape facing Boehner with another possible (and probably likely) government shutdown looming amid threats from the party’s conservatives that they would shut down the government unless all federal funding for Planned Parenthood was totally stripped. And if it wasn’t Planned Parenthood funding, it might have been something else.

Faced with watching the same awful movie again, Boehner decided to offer himself as a sacrifice to conservatives who wanted him out: I will leave if you vote to keep the government open.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/09/23/republicans-are-blaming-hillary-clinton-for-the-birther-movement-thats-wishful-thinking/">
    <title>Republicans are blaming Hillary Clinton for the ‘birther’ movement. That’s wishful thinking. - The Washington Post</title>
    <dc:date>2015-09-24T05:54:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/09/23/republicans-are-blaming-hillary-clinton-for-the-birther-movement-thats-wishful-thinking/</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[But the Clinton campaign never pursued the idea that Obama was literally not American, and therefore ineligible for the presidency. A small group of hardcore Clinton supporters did. Specifically, anyone reading the fringe Web in the summer of 2008 could find the now-defunct blog called TexasDarlin, the now-defunct blog PUMAParty, and the now-conservative blog HillBuzz posting updates on the hunt for a birth certificate. It was a thin reed, and they knew it.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/18/opinion/paul-krugman-fantasies-and-fictions-at-gop-debate.html">
    <title>Fantasies and Fictions at G.O.P. Debate</title>
    <dc:date>2015-09-20T03:22:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/18/opinion/paul-krugman-fantasies-and-fictions-at-gop-debate.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I’ve been going over what was said at Wednesday’s Republican debate, and I’m terrified. You should be, too. After all, given the vagaries of elections, there’s a pretty good chance that one of these people will end up in the White House.

Why is that scary? I would argue that all of the G.O.P. candidates are calling for policies that would be deeply destructive at home, abroad, or both. But even if you like the broad thrust of modern Republican policies, it should worry you that the men and woman on that stage are clearly living in a world of fantasies and fictions. And some seem willing to advance their ambitions with outright lies.]]></description>
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    <title>Panic on Wall Street by Ed Kilgore | Political Animal | The Washington Monthly</title>
    <dc:date>2015-09-16T01:45:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2015_09/panic_on_wall_street057602.php</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I know it’s not fair or accurate to generalize too much about large, diverse sets of institutions like those which constitute the financial sector, but still: you know a lot of these birds have contributed lavishly over the years to campaigns and publications that batten on precisely the kind of white identity grievance politics that Donald Trump is exploiting so skillfully. Hell, you only have to go back four years, to a Romney campaign that practically invented the term “self-deportation” to explain a policy of deliberate immiseration of immigrants; that made up a racially-saturated fable of Obama “gutting” welfare reform; that constantly told older white folks that Democrats were stealing their Medicare benefits to give them to those people via Obamacare. Add in the relentless attacks on “Washington” and Big Government that have become sec on nature to GOP pols, and it becomes obvious they have been playing with matches for a long time, and a fire has finally broken out that doesn’t limit itself to the boundaries of respectable demagoguery.]]></description>
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    <title>Jim Tankersley on Tax Policy Differences Between Parties (with tweets) · ironyofhistory · Storify</title>
    <dc:date>2015-09-14T04:10:48+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Jim Tankersley on Tax Policy Differences Between Parties  This is good.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/09/gop-plot-to-destroy-climate-agreement.html">
    <title>The Republican Plot to Destroy an International Climate Agreement</title>
    <dc:date>2015-09-11T03:28:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/09/gop-plot-to-destroy-climate-agreement.html</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The answer is revealed by the more recent turn in Republican strategy toward subverting international negotiations. The GOP is not hiding its intentions here. Republican leaders are openly advertising their gambit. Andrew Restuccia reports, “[A] top policy aide to McConnell (R-Ky.) has had conversations with a select group of representatives from foreign embassies to make it clear that Republicans intend to fight Obama’s climate agenda at every turn.” If Republicans were genuinely concerned about the U.S. imposing costs on itself while letting other countries free ride, they would not be doing this. They would be happy to allow other countries to reduce their own emissions. If, as they say, they could reverse Obama’s commitments after suckering the rest of the world into going first, all the better!

Why would Republicans try to persuade the rest of the world to keep pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere? One reason is that, while other countries transitioning to low-emission fuels may not cost American consumers anything, it definitely costs American fossil-fuel companies. People who own large deposits of coal and oil want to sell it abroad. The Republican climate-change strategy has been hatched by a group of Republican politicians and fossil-fuel lobbyists so tightly intermingled there seems to be no distinction between the interests of the two. (“In the early months of 2014, a group of about 30 corporate lawyers, coal lobbyists and Republican political strategists began meeting regularly in the headquarters of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, often, according to some of the participants, in a conference room overlooking the White House. Their task was to start devising a legal strategy for dismantling the climate change regulations they feared were coming from President Obama.”) Beyond the straightforward self-interest of coal and oil companies, there is the ancient right-wing distrust of international agreements in general. Plus, of course, Republicans continue to follow a policy of across-the-board opposition to the whole Obama administration agenda. Destroying an international climate agreement means denying an Obama legacy; what more do they want?

In any case, the old conservative line, with its explicit or implicit promise that international agreement to reduce emissions might justify domestic emissions cuts, has suddenly become inoperative. The speed at which Republicans have changed from insisting other countries would never reduce their greenhouse-gas emissions to warning other countries not to do so — without a peep of protest from within the party or the conservative movement — says everything you need to know about the party’s stance on climate change.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.vox.com/2015/9/10/9303179/donald-trump-appeal-explained">
    <title>One quote that perfectly explains Donald Trump's appeal - Vox</title>
    <dc:date>2015-09-11T00:47:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.vox.com/2015/9/10/9303179/donald-trump-appeal-explained</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The list of Trump targets is long and growing by the day: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, House Speaker John Boehner, Bush, Carly Fiorina's face, the rest of the GOP presidential field, Megyn Kelly, Rosie O'Donnell, political correctness, American decline, hedge fund managers, China, Mexican immigrants, and the Iran deal.

What Trump has been able to do so effectively — and McCormack's remark makes this point succinctly — is paper over his differences with Republican base voters on orthodoxy and policy by galvanizing them around their disdain for anything that smacks of the political establishment. GOP voters can even reward Trump for straying from their own beliefs because it is his very independence from institutions and conventions that they appreciate about him.

For Bush, Sen. Marco Rubio, and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, the world has been turned on its head. There used to be one central question for Republican primary hopefuls: Can you govern as a conservative? They've spent their careers, and this campaign, trying to prove that they can, and, of course, that Trump has no record to run on and no rightful claim to conservative ideology. But Republican voters don't seem to care about that. In fact, the sought-after endorsements and blessings bestowed on other candidates by one faction of the party or another might actually hurt in this election. As long as no institutions are safe from the ire of the conservative base, Trump will do well by continuing to focus on antagonizing guardians of the establishment.]]></description>
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    <title>Donald Trump is now the first or second choice for half of GOP voters</title>
    <dc:date>2015-09-10T21:59:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/09/10/donald-trump-is-now-the-first-or-second-choice-for-half-of-gop-voters/</link>
    <dc:creator>jtyost2</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The amazing thing about new GOP presidential primary polling is that the big picture isn’t amazing. Oh, Donald Trump has a big lead? Ho-hum, what else is new? He was up 24-13 in CNN/ORC’s August poll; he’s up 32-19 in one published Thursday.

But the owner of second place has changed — and pretty dramatically. In August, it was still Jeb Bush, who’d been sliding downward but was still in position for the silver. Now, Bush is relegated to third, as Ben Carson comes on strong.]]></description>
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