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Feel the McMullinmentum. The big noise on tout les 'Toobz Monday morning was that this guy, Evan McMullin, a career spook who lives in Utah, announced that he would be running for president specifically as an anti-He, Trump candidate. This came at the same time as He, Trump was preparing to reset his campaign for the 400th time, this time before the Detroit Economic Club, selling out every sucker who thought of him even for a moment as a "populist," as we will see later in the day. Anyway, McMullin got some nice run on the morning cable news shows....

Establishment Republicans Voting For Hillary Surge As Obama Challenges Leaders To Disavow Trump by Tyler Durden Aug 2, 2016 2:59 PM 0 SHARES Donald Trump "is unfit to be President" according to President Obama who challenged congressional Republicans who have criticized their presidential nominee to disavow his candidacy. "The question I think they have to ask themselves is, if you are repeatedly having to say in very strong terms that what he has said is unacceptable, why are you still endorsing him?" Obama said Tuesday at a news conference at the White House following a meeting with Singapore Prime Minister...

House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) sent an urgent fundraising appeal Thursday evening that warned: “If we fail to protect our majority in Congress, we could be handing President Hillary Clinton a blank check.” Whether or not it was intentional, the phrase “blank check” has a political echo — one that suggests a deep fear by congressional Republicans that a sinking presidential candidate could take their majorities in the House and Senate with him, and that they are getting ready to desert him. It goes back 20 years, to an infamous chapter in internecine Republican politics. In the weeks before...

Wednesday on CNN’s “The Situation Room,” Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) said his “trust” in presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump “depends on the issue.” When asked if he trusted Donald Trump, Ryan said, “Look, I know the press likes these kinds of questions. We have a binary choice, a liberal progressive Democrat named Hillary Clinton, or a Republican named Donald Trump. I prefer the Republican over the liberal progressive Democrat. That’s the choice we’ve got, that’s the choice the voters in the primary gave us. That’s the choice in front of us. It is binary and obvious...

The specter of Donald Trump’s presidential nomination being ripped from under him in a nastily contested Republican National Convention next month is alive — again. Anti-Trump forces appeared to have been defeated after he ousted his remaining opponents from the race in early May and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, House Speaker Paul D. Ryan and Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus all signaled that Mr. Trump had sewn things up. But weeks of bad press stemming from Mr. Trump’s criticism of a federal judge and uneven handling in the aftermath of the Orlando, Florida, terrorist shooting have kick-started efforts...

Sources now indicate Paul Ryan wants Hillary Clinton to be America’s next president, and is doing everything in his power to secure that very outcome. If that allows Hillary to nominate up to three more Supreme Court Justices and thus tilt the balance of power of the Court so it represents far-left, progressive views, so be it. The forty-six-year-old Paul Ryan doesn’t care because he has already been promised, and wishes to make certain, that he is the GOP’s 2020 nominee for president. And it’s not just the 2020 election cycle that is currently on the table. Powerful Republican insiders...