Abbreviated pundit roundup: Attacking a Gold Star widow, tax reform lies and...
We begin today’s roundup with the continued attacks on Myeshia Johnson, the widow of Sergeant La David Johnson. First up, Amy Davidson Sorkin at The New Yorker:There were two moments during her...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: GOP will do anything to get tax cuts for the wealthy
We begin today’s roundup with The New York Times and its editorial on the Trump enablers in the Republican Party:It’s less striking that a few Republican congressmen have publicly denounced President...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: No real action on opioid crisis, deflecting from...
We begin today’s roundup with an editorial from The Los Angeles Times which puts recent news stories about the Trump dossier into perspective:Who paid for the 35-page report compiled by former British...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Two indictments, one guilty plea, and a very bad...
We begin today’s roundup with The New York Times and its editorial on the indictments of former Trump campaign officials and the guilty plea of one of Trump’s former top foreign policy advisors, George...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: The GOP's plan to make the rich richer
We begin today’s roundup with The New York Times and its editorial on the new GOP tax plan:With their new bill that would slash taxes on the wealthy and blow up the federal budget deficit, House...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: The urgent need for gun safety laws, Carter...
We begin today’s roundup with The Washington Post and its editorial on the need for common sense gun laws to end America’s gun violence epidemic:Mass shootings have become commonplace, and shootings...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: GOP's latest scandal, a tax reform bill for the...
We begin today’s roundup with Callum Borchers at The Fix and his analysis of the latest scandal involving Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore:Minutes before The Post published its report, Breitbart...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Roy Moore is unfit for office, Don Jr. and...
We begin today’s roundup with an editorial from The Birmingham News calling Roy Moore unfit for office:Roy Moore simply cannot be a U.S. Senator. Even if his party and many of its adherents still think...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: A tax bill for the rich
We begin today’s roundup with The New York Times and its analysis of the Republican tax bill, calling it a bill that would make Scrooge McDuck proud:The Republican tax proposals were bad from the...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: The White House embraces Moore for the sake of...
We begin today’s roundup with Catherine Rampell at The Washington Post and her analysis of the GOP talking points in the Alabama Senate race:Fun fact: Under U.S. law, sexual assault allegations are now...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: New developments on the Flynn front
From Michael Schmidt, Matt Apuzzo and Maggie Haberman at The New York Times provide a key update in the Russia investigation:Lawyers for Michael T. Flynn, President Trump’s former national security...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: The Republican tax bill gets worse, chaos at the...
We begin today’s roundup with this piece on how — surprise, surprise — Republicans are adding more giveaways to the rich to ram their tax bill through:The Republican tax bill hurtling through Congress...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Path to passage of GOP tax bill built with lies...
We begin today’s roundup with Paul Krugman’s analysis of how much the Trump administration and Republicans are lying to push their tax bill through:Mnuchin has repeatedly claimed the existence of a...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: The president is not above the law
The President is claiming that he is incapable of obstructing justice and editorial boards and pundits across the country, along with legal experts, are calling him and his legal team out on that...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: New record low poll numbers for Trump as he...
Cristina Silva at Newsweek:Donald Trump's approval rating has reached the lowest point of his 11-month-long presidency, dropping to 32 percent this week as his embattled White House administration has...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Election day in Alabama
We begin today’s roundup with Paul Waldman’s analysis of the election in Alabama over at The Week:Anyone who tells you they know what is going to happen in the Alabama special election today is lying,...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: GOP tax bill gets even worse, net neutrality...
Alan Rappeport and Thomas Kaplan at The New York Times bring us the latest analysis of the Republican tax bill:Republicans, who reached agreement Wednesday on a merged version of the House and Senate...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: The great Republican tax scam
We begin today’s roundup with The New York Times and its editorial against the Republican tax scam:To understand the cynicism and mendacity underlying the Republican tax bill, look no further than a...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: The GOP tax scam is unpopular and will become...
We begin today’s roundup with Catherine Rampell’s excellent analysis of the albatross of a tax bill the Republican Party just embraced:Right now the public hates, hates, hates the tax bill. It’s less...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: A year of lies, corruption and vacations for Trump
We begin today's roundup with Paul Krugman’s analysis of 2017:Many of us came into 2017 expecting the worst. And in many ways, the worst is what we got.Donald Trump has been every bit as horrible as...
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