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  • John Cornyn: America First Senator or MAGA Fraud?! (Is it possible to be "too hot"? Not sure...but Sara comes close)

    08/27/2025 7:05:08 AM PDT · by ma_che62 · 21 replies
    Sara Gonzales Unfiltered (Youtube) ^ | 8/26/2025 | Sara Gonzales
    On this week’s episode of “Come and Take It,” Sara examines the record of Texas Senator John Cornyn, who claims to be a close ally of President Donald Trump. Does he actually align with the Make America Great Again agenda, or is he a fraud trying to win in the primary against Texas AG Ken Paxton? (video)
  • Karl Rove warns crime is a ‘big problem’ for Democrats

    08/26/2025 3:37:16 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 18 replies
    The Hill ^ | 08/26/25 | Filip Timotija
    Longtime Republican operative Karl Rove said on Tuesday that crime is a “big problem” for the Democratic Party and warned that some within the party, including New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, don’t understand how their posture on the issue hurts the party’s “label.” “This is a big problem for the Democrats. The Democrats don’t seem to understand — certain Democrats, like the socialist running for mayor of New York — do not seem to understand the problems that this represents for their party, and their party’s label. They only need to look to recent history to see how...
  • John Cornyn learns not to mess with Texas

    08/24/2025 8:29:34 AM PDT · by DFG · 18 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 08/24/2025 | Mike McDaniel
    “Don’t mess with Texas” is a homespun aphorism that expresses a genuine sentiment. Texans, and to a slightly lesser degree, Wyomingites, are independent cusses. They’re proud of their states and their beliefs, and pushed too far don’t whine about why government isn’t making things right. They handle it themselves and vote the useless weasels out at the next electoral opportunity. One such weasel is long-serving Texas Senator John Cornyn. Once thought a reliable Republican, he forgot which state he represents and stepped on a known Texas land mine: gun control. In Texas, weakness on the Second Amendment and cruelty to...
  • Cornyn leans into Texas redistricting fight amid uphill reelection bid

    08/10/2025 11:57:30 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 18 replies
    The Hill ^ | 08/10/25 12:00 PM ET | Julia Manchester
    Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) is leaning into the Texas redistricting battle as he seeks to fend off a conservative primary challenge from state Attorney General Ken Paxton (R). On Tuesday, Cornyn publicly called for FBI Director Kash Patel to assist in tracking down Democrats who fled the state in protest. Two days later, the senator and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) separately confirmed that the FBI was assisting in the effort. The move to get out in front of the redistricting battle allows Cornyn to ingratiate himself with the state’s deeply conservative base, who have distanced themselves from the incumbent...
  • Cornyn takes swing at James, Schiff with new LETITIA Act targeting 'crooked politicians'

    08/04/2025 10:48:38 AM PDT · by The_Media_never_lie · 27 replies
    Fox News ^ | August 4, 2025 | Alex Miller
    FIRST ON FOX: A Senate Republican wants to crack down on public officials who use their position to grow their wealth. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, is set to introduce legislation that would create stiffer penalties for public officials who commit federal bank fraud, tax fraud, or loan or mortgage fraud. Cornyn’s bill comes on the heels of two such instances where top officials and lawmakers were hit with allegations of mortgage fraud.
  • BREAKING NEWS: Rand Paul Condemns 'Big, Not-So-Beautiful Bill' On The Senate Floor

    06/29/2025 4:19:58 PM PDT · by RandFan · 85 replies
    U.S. Senate ^ | June 29 | Senator Paul
    During debate on the Senate floor, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) rose in opposition to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, and warned of its impact on the national deficit.
  • Murkowski: ‘Many Questions’ About Success of Trump’s Strikes on Iran

    06/23/2025 7:20:33 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 45 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 06/23/2025 | Pam Key
    Monday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360,” Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) said she had “many questions” about the success of President Donald Trump’s military strike on three Iranian nuclear facilities. Cooper asked, “You’re somebody in Washington who’s, you know, people on both sides of the aisle consider a straight shooter. You have your what you believe in and you stand by it, sometimes it’s out of favor, sometimes it’s in favor with your own party. Do you think it was the right move by President Trump to order air strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities given what we have seen now as...
  • Senior House Republican opposes White House proposal to cut public media funding

    06/10/2025 10:52:24 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 26 replies
    Politico (Yeah, I know) ^ | June 09, 2025 | Staff
    But the lawmaker didn’t say whether he would vote against the rescissions package. A top House Republican appropriator opposes the Trump administration’s plans to claw back funding for public media — a potential problem for GOP leaders who need near-unity within their party to pass the White House’s request that Congress revoke billions of dollars it has already approved. Rep. Mark Amodei of Nevada, who leads the subcommittee with jurisdiction over the Department of Homeland Security, on Monday joined with Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) to urge the administration to reconsider its proposal to cut $1.1 billion from the Corporation for...
  • Trump wields little-used law to deploy National Guard to LA riots despite Gov. Newsom’s protests: ‘Unable to handle the task’

    06/08/2025 11:11:08 AM PDT · by thegagline · 49 replies
    The New York Post ^ | 06/08/2025 | Ryan King
    President Trump has ordered the California National Guard to secure Los Angeles from the anti-ICE rioters, despite the vocal objections of Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom and LA Mayor Karen Bass. It’s the first time in 60 years that the commander-in-chief deployed a state’s National Guard without the governor’s blessing, and members of the Trump administration are saying the move is justified because the protests represent a “violent insurrection” against the country. “This is a violent insurrection,” White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller posted Saturday night. Vice President JD Vance also used the word in describing the riots: “Insurrectionists carrying...
  • Scoop: Democrats probe whether Trump is in the Epstein files

    06/06/2025 9:59:54 AM PDT · by thegagline · 75 replies
    Axios ^ | 06/06/2025 | Andrew Solender
    *** Driving the news: In a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel first obtained by Axios, Reps. Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.) and Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) asked that they "immediately clarify whether this allegation is true." The lawmakers asked for a timeline of the DOJ's declassification and publication of the Epstein files, an explanation for why they haven't turned over any new documents since February. And they requested a description of Trump's role in reviewing the files, a list of personnel involved in their release and an answer for why files previously released to Congress contained "significant...
  • Elon Musk drops ‘really big bomb,’ accuses Trump of being in Epstein files as public brawl escalates

    06/05/2025 12:59:14 PM PDT · by thegagline · 133 replies
    The New York Post ^ | 06/05/2025 | Josh Christenson
    Elon Musk went nuclear on President Trump Thursday, accusing him of withholding information from the public about Jeffrey Epstein because it would implicate him. “Time to drop the really big bomb,” Musk posted on X after a multi-hour tirade against the president. “@realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files.” That is the real reason they have not been made public,” he claimed. “Have a nice day, DJT!” The disgraced financier’s association with Trump has been known for years as the two were videotaped and photographed together at parties in the 1990s.
  • Trump snaps at GOP Sen. Rand Paul for opposing ‘big beautiful’ bill: ‘His ideas are actually crazy’

    06/03/2025 10:45:40 AM PDT · by thegagline · 17 replies
    The New York Post ^ | 06/03/2025 | Ryan King
    President Trump rounded on Sen. Rand Paul Tuesday over the Republican lawmaker’s opposition to the House-passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act due to its impact on the debt. “Rand votes NO on everything, but never has any practical or constructive ideas,” Trump groused on Truth Social. “His ideas are actually crazy (losers!). The people of Kentucky can’t stand him. This is a BIG GROWTH BILL!” In an earlier post, Trump, 78, had complained that Paul “has very little understanding of the BBB, especially the tremendous GROWTH that is coming. He loves voting ‘NO’ on everything, he thinks it’s good politics,...
  • Johnson: We Have Enough GOP Senators to Stop Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill

    05/25/2025 7:05:00 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 125 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 05/25/2025 | Pam Key
    Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that there were “enough” Republican senators who would not vote for the so-called “big, beautiful” spending bill without significant changes. Host Jake Tapper said, “How determined are you to be that guy if it actually means telling President Trump you are going to vote against the bill and you’re going to try to get other Republican senators to join you, unless there are major, major changes?” Johnson said, “Well, in 2010, I sprang out of the Tea Party movement and as I did parades I would shout, this...
  • Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski Voted Against Nomination of Harmeet Dhillon

    04/04/2025 10:49:10 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 37 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 04/04/2025 | Hannah Knudsen
    A single Republican senator — Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) — voted against the nomination of Harmeet Dhillon to serve as assistant attorney general, veering away from the rest of her GOP colleagues who voted in favor. After her nomination in December, lawmakers finally held a formal vote Thursday and Dhillon was approved in a 52-45 vote. However, Murkowski opposed the nomination and sided with Democrats. President Donald Trump announced in December the nomination of Dhillon to work as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Justice. “Throughout her career, Harmeet has stood up consistently to protect our...
  • [Senate] Republicans want Musk to shut up about Social Security

    03/20/2025 7:26:15 AM PDT · by RandFan · 17 replies
    The Hill ^ | 03/20/25 6:00 AM ET | by Alexander Bolton
    Senate Republicans want Elon Musk to stop talking about Social Security, and the Department of Government Efficiency to leave it alone. Musk’s statement that Social Security is a “Ponzi scheme,” and his plans to cut up to 12 percent of the Social Security Administration’s workforce, are giving GOP lawmakers heartburn. They warn that Social Security reform is known as the “third rail” of politics for a reason: Any party that touches it is likely to get zapped come Election Day. And Republicans fear that reductions in staff and field offices will boomerang on them, predicting constituents will grow frustrated if...
  • Trump vows to "lead the charge" to unseat GOP Rep. Thomas Massie

    03/10/2025 9:06:06 PM PDT · by NoLibZone · 179 replies
    Axios ^ | Andrew Solender
    President Trump said Monday he will "lead the charge" to oust Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) for his refusal to support Republicans' government funding bill.
  • 🚨 SHOCKER: Sen. Susan Collins Opposes DOGE 🚨

    02/19/2025 2:23:28 PM PST · by E. Pluribus Unum · 37 replies
    X.com ^ | 10:35 AM · Feb 19, 2025 | Daily Caller✓@DailyCaller
    "I think many of these firings are indiscriminate."
  • Mike Pence emerges as one of the few Republicans willing to challenge Trump 2.0

    02/18/2025 5:29:41 AM PST · by Oldeconomybuyer · 100 replies
    The Associated Press ^ | February 17, 2025 | BY JILL COLVIN (D-AP)
    WASHINGTON (AP) — His group spent nearly $1 million on ads opposing Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump’s pick to lead the nation’s health agencies. He’s delivering speeches urging the president to stand with longstanding foreign allies and lobbying members of Congress while aides write letters and opinion columns. This weekend, he posted an article he penned more than a decade ago on the limits of presidential power after Trump claimed that, “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.” Mike Pence is emerging as one of the last Republicans in Washington willing to publicly criticize the new...
  • REPORT: Sen. Tom Cotton Allegedly Working Behind the Scenes to Block Trump’s Pick, Elbridge Colby, From Getting Confirmed at the DoD

    02/16/2025 6:32:22 PM PST · by Macho MAGA Man · 61 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | February 15, 2025 | Jim Hoft
    The effort to undermine President Trump continues in the US Senate @SenTomCotton is working behind the scenes to stop Trump’s pick, Elbridge Colby, from getting confirmed at DOD Colby is one of the most important pieces to stop the Bush/Cheney cabal at DOD Why is Tom Cotton… Show more
  • Kansas’ Moran, Davids sound alarm on delay of USAID food aid to starving people worldwide

    02/07/2025 8:04:11 PM PST · by hardspunned · 88 replies
    Kansas Reflector ^ | 2/7/25 | Tim Carpenter
    U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran, a Kansas Republican, said there was a moral imperative for the U.S. government to deliver international food aid to starving people. He also said it was important to not undermine market opportunities for U.S. commodities in wake of Trump administration maneuvering to close the U.S. Agency for International Development. (Kansas Reflector screen capture of U.S. Senate video) TOPEKA — U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran of Kansas said a freeze on federal funding and change at the U.S. Agency for International Development left $340 million in lifesaving food grown in the United States sitting at domestic ports awaiting...