Conservatives & Republicans

“How small, of all that human hearts endure / That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.” Oliver Goldsmith’s lines — written 260 years ago, with help from his friend Samuel Johnson — are worth remembering in an election year. But it’s tough. Congress and the White House are both up for grabs this November. An already single-digit Republican majority in the House of Representatives…

On Morning Joe, when Mika Brzezinski refers to former Democrat Congressman Harold Ford, Jr. as the lone liberal co-host on the top Fox News program The Five, Joe Scarborough interrupts to deny that Ford is a liberal, branding him merely an "agreer." As a Congressman, Ford had a solidly liberal record. 

If you were to ask one of those A.I. bots to write out a typical MSNBC diatribe, it would look like Joy Reid on the Tuesday edition of The ReidOut. In her opening rant, Reid went after conservatives in elected office, out of office, and on the Supreme Court. She accused conservatives of not liking black people, brown people, women, gay and transgender people, immigrants, and Muslims…

On Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski urges Nikki Haley to "hang in there" -- to stay in the Republican primary race against Donald Trump.  Mika says Haley would be an "American candidate," in contrast with "Russian idiot" Trump, and set up an "American race."

CNN’s new documentary series, United States of Scandal, hosted by Jake Tapper, debuted on Sunday with two episodes. One detailed the extramarital affair of former Republican South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford and the other involved former Democratic Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s scheme to sell the Senate seat that would be vacated by Barack Obama. However, only Sanford got the party…

Speaking to President Biden on Monday morning over the loud hums of Marine One on the South Lawn, CNN White House correspondent M.J. Lee went full administration tool and lobbed a softball about whether House Republicans have deceased Russian dissident “Alexei Navalny’s blood...on” their “hands...right now” because they haven’t passed new aid for Ukraine.

The front page of Thursday’s New York Times featured a story by White House correspondent (and MSNBC contributor) Annie Karni, “Republicans Take After Trump With Bigoted Attacks on Foes.” Karni strung together partisan insults from the week to condemn the entire party as a historically racist menace. Given that the left and its media allies have labeled every Republican presidential…

Morning Joe mocks Speaker Mike Johnson for partially blaming the Republican loss in the NY-3rd special election on an Election Day snowstorm. But the show ignored the fact that Democrats enjoyed a major advantage over Republicans in early voting and mail-in voting, and thus were not as affected for same day voting by the snowstorm.

NBC’s Seth Meyers lamented on the Wednesday edition of Late Night that the Democratic Party is not further to the left on immigration, as he demanded the party stop “parroting GOP talking points” on the issue.

Claiming it was a "district Republicans should have won," Joe Scarborough blames Donald Trump for the Republican loss in the special election in NY's 3rd congressional district to replace the disgraced George Santos. This, despite Biden having won the district in 2020, voters surely wanting to punish Santos retroactively, and the Republican candidate is still a registered Democrat who…

Shame on the Republican Party! That was the message from Washington Week with The Atlantic panelist (and PBS NewsHour co-anchor) Amna Nawaz on Friday’s show. Nawaz, who doesn’t exactly hide her liberal leanings as anchor, was even more freewheeling from her novel perch around public television’s weekly political roundtable, using as anti-Republican ammunition the words of….…

The number of President Biden’s gaffes and flip-flops on issues would fill a book, but he combined several categories of verbal meanderings at last week’s National Prayer Breakfast. The gathering took place in the Capitol’s National Statuary Hall. Biden pronounced it “statutory hall.” He must have had son Hunter’s legal problems and the possibility of his own impeachment in mind. The annual…

There were still more than 10 months to go, but John Avlon had the early lead in the race for The Year's Most Inapt Analogy. Predictably, on Wednesday, CNN This Morning raked the House Republicans over the coals for their failure to get the necessary votes to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, or pass a stand-alone Israel aid bill

On MSNBC's Way Too Early, Mike Barnicle advises Biden that to "change the narrative" on the border, and "negate Republican strength" on the issue, he should go to the border and "sign something," and give more personnel to the Border Patrol.